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The link is broken, however, I found them on Facebook. I wasn't aware of that business at all, thanks very much. Also, there are some other good tips on this thread. Thanks very much.

Your making things up in your head. I said "village bike" not hooker. And where did I say it was deserved or a good thing? This is the problem with the internet, far too many people lack basic comprehension of the written word. It's really quite concerning.

"Thai woman works 10 hours a day and sleeps in a house with 12 strangers to fund feckless husband. Village gossips go into overdrive about his lowlife gik. Her sister or best pal tells her of the gossip, that he's spending her hard earned money on the village bike so she travels to Thailand to blade both of them." I swear to gawd, farangs think they get the rough end of the stick in Thailand. All they get is a tase of what life is really like for Thai women in particular.

I have several, ranging in age from around 30 to 60 plus. Among other useful things they look after my house when I'm away, cutting grass, etc. They ensure the place is immaculate when I return. They have been known to travel to meet me in places such as Hua Hin and BKK when I'm in country. They also have been known to extract me from days-long drinking sessions in Chiang Mai and transport me back to the village. We go to a lot of events, such as drag racing, festivals etc and have spend weekends away in the mountains with their families. I commend the OP for thinking about this. Thai men will warn you and protect you from the vagaries of life in Thailand. Contrary to the received wisdom that "Thai men are no good" there are plenty who live in long and successful marriages. They'll point out that the women you see in places like Pattaya are the village bikes, the bipolar headcases, the yabba heads and the drama queens that literally leave blood in their wake. There is no one more expert on Thai women than Thai men - if you believe the "Thai men no good" trope I have a bridge to sell you.

Wild, absolutely wild. And taking a trophy photo of the policeman too? Thais will be rightfully outraged by this. a truly shocking incident, appalling.

Do you like cheese? where do you buy your favoured cheese in Chiang Mai?

Yup, I got banned for ten years which seemed a bit harsh 555 Onwards and upwards.

It was clarified around seven years ago. There's no such things as a 30+30 lease in Thailand. That was a common marketing tactic by scam real estate agents at one time. Bizarrely some even claimed that 30+30+30 was possible. You are at the mercy of the landowner when your lease expires after 30 years. A guy I know took on a 30 year lease which would have expired when he was 76. 9 years later he negotiated a new 30 year lease. His reasoning was that there was a good chance he'd live to 76 but he reckoned he'd be dead by 85. In reality, 2 years after the new lease was signed he took a brainstorm and left the property. The number of people who subject themselves to delusional property deals is off the scale.

The opposite of love is indifference. Far too many people of both sexes spend years growling about long-gone exes. You know you're cured when you don't care.

Post the exit stamp he has in his passport, that should indicate if he has been subjected to a re-entry bar.

Nobody mentioned the location of the villa.

Hello Khun Kinok, did I hit a sore point?

@Mike Lister To be pedantic I believe the period is one year and one day. Hence why I mentioned on point three that the guy involved sold at a fire sale price to irritate the family who showed up in a truck literally a day after the funeral demanding that he vacates the property. This is Thailand. When families move against you, you have a serious problem. However, my primary point is that while considering Usufruct, consider the emotional reality of being isolated in the event of your wife dying. Rural Thailand is covered in "dream" houses that turned to nightmares.

If you celebrate reducing population, you won't mind drastic cuts in all public services as there's no one to work in crucial areas. Literally no one - as they are not born. You are seeing this happen already - in twenty years time it will be catastrophic.

Dictionary definitions are available on Google.

Which part is hilarious - the fact that many forum members live hand to mouth? Or the fact that if he is content to risk the money he should go for it? By the way, luxuriating is Schadenfreude is a low-class way to spend your life.

Things to be aware of: 1. A high profile farang in Chiang Mai put the house in his daughters name and when she reached maturity she moved the bitch ex-wife into the house ( her mother ) and kicked out her dad. He'd built his dream home and wasn't even allowed in the garden. 2. The Usufruct is effectively worthless if your wife dies and you lose the will to live in the remote village alone. This is overlooked by too many expats. 3. The Usufruct is worthless if her family, after her demise, set out to intimidate you out of the house. A famous example years ago was the wife's family showing up the day after the funeral and ordering the guy out. He stood his ground ( miracle in itself ) and managed to sell the house at a fire-sale price just to p*ss the family off. Living there long term in the midst of animosity was never going to work. Too many people regard the Usufruct as a solution without considering the emotional reality of being isolated after your partners death, or family issues coming the fore.

The problem you have with many forum members is that they can't comprehend why someone would risk $10,000. That's because they are living hand-to-mouth. If you are content to risk the money - as you appear to be - then go for it. All the better if you can obtain some sort of legal guarantee but it's clear the loss of $10,000 wouldn't be a fatal blow - plus, there's always the idea of having a new purpose to your life, a new project. All the best.

I lay short odds not a single individual sent a cheque to help out their favourite airline. Anyway, the real problem.now is the drop in quality employee candidates for all airlines. Many airlines lost a high percentage of experienced people due to the pandemic, mainly to them changing careers.

All those that sent AirAsia or any airline a donation to offset losses during the pandemic put you hand up. No one? Then don't complain when they recover the losses and refill their coffers. ps - among other inflationary costs there's severe disruption to new aircraft deliveries ( Boeing are having a meltdown ) and new staff bottlenecks across the worldwide airline industry. People don't realise that the worldwide pool of qualified people and high quality candidates is running dry.

You've lived a peripatetic lifestyle for decades, what makes you think this will be your forever house? You'll need to get a watertight lifetime lease on the land. As a Thai once told me when a similar deal was proposed "you can live here forever, but if I die, my brother might not have the same opinion."

There's been a surge of recent arrival farangs who have post-covid syndrome. They've lost the plot, unnecessarily, bizarrely aggressive and argumentative. At the risk of inflaming the forum I knocked one out last year, a raving lunatic who the Thais detested. The guy chose to pull me up for nothing and after trying to mollify the situation I saw red. Also, I couldn't believe the level of passive aggressive nonsense in Hua Hin of all places. Hua Hin!!! Guys were cracking up over nothing. In my opinion those of us who lived in Thailand during the covid period were the luckiest people on earth. We didn't endure being locked away for months on end. Rural Thailand got away effectively unscathed, urban Thailand found it tougher. There's no doubt that Western covid lockdowns have caused immense behavioural problems across many age groups. Added to that people are getting superheated over stuff they can't control. Expats are bad for that, sitting all day on internet forums arguing about stuff thousands of miles away.

It's astonishing that you have been driving in Thailand for 12 years ( 16 in my case ) and you are unaware of right of way regulations.

This was your earlier reply "AFAIK there are no rules." Utter drivel. You'll be in a hospital bed a long time before me as you don't know the driving laws in Thailand.

No it's not. It's experienced people taking into account the high risk of accident.