theblether

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.

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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.

Another right of way issue. Motorcyclists should not be hogging the main carriageway. They are obliged to keep to the left. You'll see Thais crack up with foreigners who think they are entitled to dominate the carriageway on their Honda Click.

I like your "boat" analogy. One thing that used to drive me nuts was why it took Thais so long to turn left. So I did a bizarre thing - I asked a Thai............. "Why do you take so long to turn left?" And I received and answer so logical that I was embarrassed I hadn't thought of it myself. "Every Thai person knows that a stupid motorcyclist will try to undertake you when you slow to turn left, because at some time in the past we have been that stupid motorcyclist. So we are cautious as we expect a collision on the passenger side." Logical, and it is a common sight on Thai roads.

There are rules of right of way. Too many foreigners don't know what they are and crack up when they infringe the rules, even though they are in the wrong.

"assuming right of way" What are the rules of right of way in Thailand? The vast majority of farangs don't know what they are.

Be careful with mothballs, the smell can permeate the house.

Good thinking re the 59 days. I always book for at least one day less than my coverage. The simple reason being it allows for flight delays. Another issue is I always leave one day before my visa expires. I was caught out years ago with a flight delay ( CNX - HAT YAI ) and when I did the border run I was given a one day overstay fine. Irritating as it was out of my control.

I'll add. Those of you that have insurance via your bank account or credit card benefits, be aware that they are particularly sensitive to this issue. I told a friend of this issue and he notified AMEX of his intention to travel for 12 days longer than standard coverage. He was informed that he had zero coverage for any part of his trip.

Correct. The gist of my OP is to.ensure people realise that insurance companies won't accept you taking the risk for a few days. You are either covered for the entire trip or you are not covered at all.