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1 hour ago, CygnusX1 said:
If you don’t mind living at Jomtien, easy to find condo at Jomtien Beach Condos for less than a million. Close to beach, big swimming pools. Also View Talay 1, right on main baht bus route to Pattaya, huge pool, not too far from beach, many available for a bit more than a million, but with today’s buyers’ market could probably bargain at least one of them down to less than a million. Both well maintained complexes.
Spot on and next to the bus station for a 1.75hr 150 baht bus ride from the airport and a 10 baht bus ride away from Central Pattaya or up Theppraya Road from Tesco Lotus and the outlet mall. Not for me but there are a number of bar beers on the ground floor if you get very lazy. The studios I think are around 32sqm and very low balconies though. These listed prices are very ambitious - if you are sharking and have the cash I would go in around 850-900 and see if any need to sell. Also look up the listings on the estate agents website to see how long they have been listed for.
Also the area round the lifts may have bargains put up. I would also say why not rent a condo for a month when you finally home in on your preferred block if you decide to buy. That will give you a much better idea if you could actually live there. The hipflat link above has one on at 850 which is priced to sell if the listing is real. Some listings are fake or old and sold and are used by agents to get you to ring up and drag you in.
https://www.thailand-property.com/condo/2899/view-talay-residence-1
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The REAL Johnson - why any working class person would ever vote for a party led by him is beyond my understanding.
And here's the alternative - choose LOVE. ????????
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Go Ann go......
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She is not Buddhist which requires as a minimum observing the 5 precepts. This is the case for most 'Thai Buddhists'. I suspect her religion may be to show face to her friends , family , community , monks she is a 'good person' and/or has a belief in supernatural powers that praying to the Buddha could give such as luck and good fortune. Unfortunately when offered temptation she fell back to the default religion of most Thais which is a love of money. You haven't said what is your relationship is with her but I would forget the religious element of her hypocrisy - she may be in real need so her theft may be her way to surviving. What has been your dialogue with her to date and her response if you don't mind me asking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_precepts
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Here you go - but as the last poster said why not rent - you are really spoilt for choice.
https://www.thailand-property.com/condos-for-sale/chonburi/pattaya/jomtien?max_price=1000000
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2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:
I’m not sure why you are asking your nonsense question, based as it is on assumptions with no verifiable facts.
Regardless, you were at pains to tell us how great your ‘Gloat Dance’ was going to be, and it didn’t happen.
I’m sure even though you are the subject of the laugh out loud moment you you yourself created, you can see why your failed ‘Gloat’ is so amusing and why it draws into question any other predictions you might want us to buy into.
eva I'll gloat dance for you - enjoy the youthful vitality.
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17 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:
But you were adamant October 31st was Brexit day.
Do I take it your ‘Gloat Dance’ never happened?
Like Malagateddy's bet all just a lot of hot air.....he's probably back on these threads under an assumed name !
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20 minutes ago, evadgib said:
MSM won't touch this but i'm pleased someone uploaded this 31 Oct protest:
I think history will remember this moment as peak 'gammon'. The geordie says we should be more like the French. Sacre bleu. A lot of them wouldn't need a costume change to go trick or treating later on the evening. Thanks for sharing eva as the MSM will have made sure true patriots couldn't find that by normal search methods. It's called the 'Soros effect'. I've had a chat with the black feller - he's still UKIP BTW - nice guy but as mad as a march hare.
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Apparently Boris has offered a peerage twice to Farage and Richard Tice was offered the safe seat of Rutland (Alan Duncan's old seat if he would defect to the Tories) . St Nigel has announced he won't be standing so he can concentrate on the national campaign !
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50280848
Despite a bitter rift emerging with his own closest allies, Mr Farage branded the package a 'Remainer's Brexit' and a 'massive con', saying it was '95 per cent the same' as Theresa May's.
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This is a balanced report albeit 2 years old about JC.
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6 hours ago, Nyezhov said:
yeah dude, I joke a lot about it, but in truth, I have lost interest in nightlife, simply becasue I cant burn the candles on both ends. Look, lets be real, I have no problem going to Mixx by cab (at midnight) for 125 baht, paying 350 baht or so for an entry, then having two drinks at 700 baht for the pair, then dragging out some Rosskie or Uzbek for a 5000 baht good time, cab back 150 baht, and its 4am when done for almost 7K.
But I wake up, no exceptions, at like 5-6. So now Im hung over, tired and the entire day is shot. Better to just feed the need some afternoon, or wank, and devote my time to all the stuff to do here during the day.
The best things in life are free.....thank god for a goo vpn and broadband.
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7 hours ago, BestB said:
Because I can
what's the point of being a "whingeing pom" if we can't whinge.
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10 hours ago, Isaan sailor said:
Hotels now one of the few bargains left in Thailand. And that’s due to a tremendous oversupply. But the’ll need a whole lot more than cheap rooms to entice back western tourists. Meanwhile we’ll just enjoy the solitude at beach areas.
Rent , property and the Pattaya baht buses are also damn cheap compared to the UK and errr that's it. Oh and I forget life in as 'life is cheap''.
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7 hours ago, dimitriv said:
Nobody goes on holiday to buy drinks at the 7-11 and drink in their hotel room.
Fact is that prices of drinks in Thailand are now almost double than what you would pay in a comparable location in Europe.
My brother has just come back from Kiev with a side trip to Chernobyl. Great place , miserable people, but 500ml lager 80p in the cafe/bars. He's married with kinds but the eye candy he says was something else !
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14 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:
coincidentally my first trip to the LOS was 15 years ago in 2004. And in my view the place went downhill every year since then. I was enamored with the place in 2004, went twice that year. I immediately starting making plans to semi retire there, changed my investment strategy to yield income, i.e. dividends and interest. That decision has worked out fine so no regrets. But as far as retiring to Thailand, well that is now very unlikely. At the moment can only see two 60 day SETVs with one extension each for a total of 180 days give or take in Thailand. And after each of those first 88 days, a trip to a neighboring country for some tourism that I wanted to do anyway, thereby avoiding the 90 day reports.
The second trip in 2004 we had reservations for Phuket that would have put us there the days of the Tsunami but fortunately my buddy changed our reservations the night before to go to Ko Samet. So Saturday AM woke up on Ko Samet and saw the news on TV
Same here I was with my then gf (now wife) in Pai wondering where to go next I wanted to go to Phuket and book a hotel by the beach my missus used to have a souvenir shop there and said it was the rainy season. We went to Ko Samed instead for Christmas and left the island on boxing day. The text messages from family and friends took hours to come through as we learnt in horror at what had just happened. Unwittingly she saved our lives. You may remember the big bar on White Sands with the all bands it was quite a night and a german baldie being buried in the sand who had brought his 'teerak' from Pattaya. I think it was 70 odd baht to the pound lived like a king....
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10 hours ago, Sujo said:Not true. I am a genuine tourist and was refused because only allowed 2 land border xings in a year.
I went in january and april for about 4 days each time. Tried to go 1 september and refused.
Im sure the 3 xings a year rule was not meant to stop people like me but it did. My fault for not knowing that rule but it put me off even flying in, add that to the high baht and junta rule and i will wait until things improve and feel wanted.
I would get ready for a long wait.
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10 hours ago, Guderian said:
They're obviously going to have to introduce a serious new crime called "lese tourisme". Anybody saying bad things about the official tourist numbers (up 10% month on month, every month, of course) will face immediate arrest and 20 years in the monkey house without trial. That'll fix things for sure.
And in the past 'lese tourisme' wasn't even needed because people truly loved the place.????
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11 hours ago, smedly said:you are talking rubbish, max spend is sub 20k a week, in fact some of them are not coming as often because it cost so much, as already mentioned on this thread - Thailand ain't cheap any more - there are no more 2 week millionaires, guys are coming here and being thrifty many complaining about how expensive it is and the price gouging everywhere - Thailand needs to waken up and smell the cheese, only reason many come here at all is because they know people living here - go figure
Don't forget 1000GBP hardly gets much more than 35k baht, add in hotel room and flights and you're looking at a 2-3 week holiday costing 3-4000 GBP - you think that is cheap ???????? - I don't and neither do they and they are not spending anything like that
If you forget the women you could have a last minute booked all inclusive (if that's your thing) on a Spanish island for 300 quid in a reasonable hotel and that includes flights. If I didn't have a Thai wife In would long ago have given up on the place and spend my money at home or in Europe. IMHO Spain has the best tourism offer in the world at every level of spend.
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One wonders how many uber loons are in the BP - answer probably all of them. Should rename themselves the Monster Raving Brexit Party.
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4 hours ago, Nigel Garvie said:
That was brilliant about Farage, The Daily Mash at its best. Here's another, amusing but also we hope not too close to the truth.
Actually it is all about tactical voting, vote Lib Dem where they could defeat the Tory, or a Labour leaver (I won't say traitor I'll leave that word to the TV loonies). Otherwise vote Green, SNP, Labour, anything but Tory. Hopefully Farage is getting well fired up by Johnson's dismissal, and will put up a fight. The "Labour party is fighting every seat to win it" is just standard LP bs. Fortunately the public have in the past have shown themselves to be not that mind numbingly stupid, and are voting tactically in greater numbers all the time, PR may not be a dream forever.
I like that I will be voting for the 'Anything but Tory Party'.
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3 hours ago, RuamRudy said:
The UK has only sunk this low because of those corrupt, terrorist loving creationists in the DUP.
DUP chief Arlene Foster met UDA boss days after loyalist murder in Bangor
DUP defends Arlene Foster's 'astonishing' meetings with senior loyalists
Loyalists claim more victims than IRA
And of course Johnson et al would be well briefed by the security services of the DUP links to criminal terrorists - yet May / Johnson very happy to bung them a billion to keep the insane Brexit on the road. Any thoughts transam since you obviously care about terrorist links in this coming election ? And while we're at it let's get this report out in the open as Johnson will of course have nothing to hide.
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11 minutes ago, Nigel Garvie said:
You appear to be confused here. The main exporters and funders of terrorism are Sunni nations not Shia ones. Saudi Arabia has been exporting it's foul Salafi doctrines for decades, the theology at the heart of 9/11 and ISIS. The West never fussed about the radicalization of young Muslims in their own country because SA had all that lovely oil, and bought our weapons. Suicide bombs - almost entirely Sunni, not supported by Shia doctrine. Iran fights WITHIN the Middle East to support other Shias who are in the minority in many countries like Syria, and are themselves the subject of Sunni terrorist attacks (Pakistan, Afghanistan etc). Outside the ME I have read of no Shia activity, the terrorist activity appears to be all Sunni inspired and funded.
Does Corbyn have good judgement - no. Is he smart and crafty - no. He is an idealist (Ideologue probably) and the wrong man to lead the LP, but not a twisted graceless philandering liar like Boris Johnson.
Thanks for your fulsome and eloquent rebuttal couldn't have pit it better myself. I wish we had somebody other than Jeremy but we are where we are and vote Lib Dem get Johnson I fear. ????
Shock news about Farage.
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13 minutes ago, transam said:
Farage is not my pal....
Fair enough.
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Johnson obviously taken the line it is better not to campaign as he seems to be increasing his ratings by doing nothing.
Panelbase: CON: 40% (+4) LAB: 29% (+2) LDEM 14% (-3) BREX: 9% (-2)
PaddyPower Majority Odds:
Tories: 5/6
No overall: 10/11
Labour: 14/1
Lib Dems: 66/1
Doi Inthanon National Park: no Thai price with pink ID card anymore
in Chiang Mai
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Just back from a quick visit to the Science Museum after getting my 2 month visa at the Thai embassy. They have a desk and staff right across the entrance and ask everyone entering to pay an optional donation of at least 5 pounds to get in. I just said I'm retired and on a low income and got a cheery smile and fair enough and sailed through.