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After a little more investigation it seems that there is no letter.It also is found that the "old"woman that wishes to sell the land is not selling it but transfering title to a 30 yr old relitive girl.So it now looks like they know that the land will be worth more with the direct access to the main road.The wife now understands what is going on.No way no how will we now allow them to use our land as access!!!!!!!!!!!!!The life and times of living in Thailand.

I always at least slow down and look both ways first before crossing.No matter what!

We have a piece of land with a red chanot in my wifes name next to the main road thru the village.There is a peice of property behind ours that the owner does not have direct access to from the main road.There is nothing in the chanot that grants them access across our proerty to theirs.They do have a signed letter from the previous owner to allow them access across our land to get to theirs from the main road.They can access their land by a round about way from the main road along a clong to their land without crossing ours.

So the question is.Do we have to allow them to cross our land or not? They wanted to sell their land to us,at an inflated price,after they found out we had bought the land next to the main road.So now they come up with this letter.The letter is real because the previous owner is my wifes sister and forgot to tell us about the letter.The letter is about 30 years old.It was not noterized or recorded with the chanot.

We are thinking about letting them have a small area 2 meters wide at the edge of our property to use as a road to access their land.It seems to me to be the best way to save face for everyone.But then again it will allow them direct access to the main road.Which will make their property worth more to a buyer.The buyer could be the local bus repair guy or pig farmer who knows. What do you think?

Not meant to stir up a heated conversation. But may I humbly ask you the following questions.

1--Did you or any of your family members ever live in any of these cities?

2--Just how long did you spend in each of these cities?

3--Do you have any close relatives living in these cities?

4--What do you think the terminology "deep south" means and particularly how many cities does it include?

5--Do you personally know any local Thai who lives and works in YaLa, NaRaTheVard and PartTaNee?

6--Or do you receive your input on deep south from news media, especially from farang news media?

#1--No

#2--None

#3--No

#4--Deep south?Not sure

#5--No

#6--Some/None.It comes from MANY friends and close relatives (Thai)that have lived and or know much of what goes on in the south.The wife tells me that the "southern"Thais are much more "hot".What does that mean?They are much more likely to do violence if they feel you have wronged them.If you happen to be around and are not involved,oh well tough luck.That in it self would make me think to live some where else.

To many other places in Thailand,or the world for that to live,to ask yourself,why the south of Thailand if you hear these problems.

On the other hand I am told that many Thais with money do live in the south of Thailand.But they also send their children to Bangkok/north to live and go to school.I wonder why they would do that ?Send their children to live and study away from were their parents live.

I am no expert and only have my own opinion.Yes it is true it is based on only second hand information.But is not much of what we get in this life from the experiences of others?

Oh on the thought of language.I speak english,spanish and thai.The wife thai,mandarin and english.The kids english,thai,spanish and mandarin.What else do you need?All depends right?

Looking into were to live in Thailand is subjective.I would never ever settle my family in the far south of the Thailand.HatYai no way!Trang,Nakhon Si Thammarat are also in the south and to close to Hat Yai for me.They are absolutely beautiful areas to see, but too dangerous for us to live.Look at the amount of shootings and bombings that take place in the south.The people doing the violence do not seem to care if children and people that have nothing to do with the government are victims of it.Just like in the Middel East.

Back to the question at hand.Chaing Mai,Korat,Udonthani,Rayong all sutable ares to settle a family.Have things to do for the kids.As to the music tutoring not sure but would imagine Chaing Mai or Korat to be your best bet other then Bangkok.It really is what you are into.If you can take a trip,drive the areas you are thinking of, outside of the tourist areas.That is a way to get a feel of the area.

So is the fryed food actually healthy? I think that the Thai people stay thin, because they don't eat snacks, mostly just their food. Instead of the western people.

I really do not see that much fried food in Thailand.I do see ,at least in Issan, an over use of oil in cooking foods in the pan.As to the Thais not snacking.That is what they do all day unless they are working.Most of the adult snacks are peanuts,crickets,dried fish,bbq meat/fish balls, things of that nature.Anymore the kids are eating potato/corn chips,candy, icecream, creaps filled with candy and sweetend condenced milk(sounds like a kid to me).Just a number of snacks.The powers to be are seeing this also and are worried that Thai children are incresingly getting heavyer and more unhealthy because of all the "western"snaking that is going on.The powers to be are blaming the unhealthy eating habits of Thai children on the western influences they see on TV,or partly from.One of my favorit snacks in the middle of the day,photo below.

Here is a photo that I took as they were enclosing the bottom floor.

Some of our neighbours house's.

Now I have lived over here several years my favourite is the wooden one on stilts and I wished I had gone down that road.

My wife has a little bit of farming land down in Sa Kaew province so maybe one day.

PS;- luckily for me our local charcoal burners house is some distance away!!

Howdy phutoie2,We must be neighbours because the house on stilts is right down the soi from ours.Do not remember seeing the other homes in our village though.I took that photo in Sep.2004 by 2005 they had inclosed the bottom with block.I have a photo of that but can not find it at the moment.Here is a better quality photo of it.Also a photo of the wifes old home and a photo of the new home we built after we tore down the old one.

The new home was built from a home we bought in Roeit took apart and trucked to 17km outside of Phi Mai.We had all the wood refinished and then used it to build our house.We did have to buy some new wood because we did not have enough.It was built in 2005 and the total cost for everything was right at 300k.

This is Thailand and not some western country.It has some dogooders(real word or not)that want to save Thailand from what they see as bad.I see all the time some westerners that comes to Thailand that wish to force their own ideas on the Thai people.Get a life.This is not your country go home and fix your own country that is probably a lot more "broken" then Thailand will ever be.Looking at the videos and the news clips that I have been able to find on this type of incident it seems to be the making of the westerner that caused the problem to begin with.I guess you could say, som nam nay.

Not sure what you mean.You have to a sponsor (fiance) to get the K1 visa.

Gee wiz.It's not like you are going to eat it everyday.A little coconut milk never killed anyone.Unless you are allergic to it.

This may just help everyone out as to just what Chaing Mai noodels are.I have made this recipe and have found it to be very good.

http://www.thaifoodandtravel.com/recipes/kaosoi.pdf

As to the op,it is the baking soda that will make any cut of beef tender.No need to add anything else.It will do it without waiting more then a few minutes.If you wait to long it will become "mushy".This is something that Chinese resturants have been doing for a long time.Adding baking soda to their sliced beef just before stire frying.

It was rumored that Paul the Octopus had a gambling problem.He owed to much quid and the loan sharks got to him.

To start with the exchange rates with most western countries is crap.The price of air fare is UP the price of a room in Thailand is UP.The perception that Thailand is in turmoil and dangerous is true.People are now really starting to belive that the Thais are out to rip all of the tourists off.True or not does not matter it is the perception.

Legal or not should really not matter if you are paying attention to the Thai people or should I say the people of the country that you are visiting.If they are not walking around with a beer in their hand (and they are not)does that not tell you something?OK lets say it is not illegal to do but as you can see the people of the country that you are visiting are not doing it.Why do it?I really see no differance walking with a beer or water or soda or whatever but many people do look down on it.So why?To prove a point or what?This would be one of the things that I see as "allowing" Thai people to have another item to say "look at the farang being a sh_t"

Most Thai people never see westerners except when they are here as two week millionaires.Alittle off the topic but...............Think about it.

Is it legal or not ?I really do not know,but what I do know is that I will try my best to fit in with the country that I am living in at the time.The best way to do that is to observe what the local population is doing.And as th OP has done is to ask.

What I have heard is that he works for the "Thai Mafia".He is a look out to watch and report what is going on in the area.Not kidding.

After seeing the photo I am inclined to say they are yuca chips.They look exactly the same.We like them with salt and garlic on them.The wife says that they could be some type of squash ,since you say they are buttery tasting.

Mine would be monstera.Taste like a pinapple with a bit of bannana mixed in.Grows all year long.

Sounds like they may be tarro chips.Have photo would help.

Not a real fan of steamed fish but I really like red curry.That looks good. Love your photos by the way.

ThaisGood,Yes you can use the one in your photo.I was at the Wat the other day and saw the exact same burner except it was silver and the regulator was red.I did not have my camera with me so no photo for you.The following photos are of other "Thai" burners in use in the USA using the same propan tanks that is used on the BBQ's in the USA.

Good quality corn is sweet and makes a great addition to most dessert recipes.I like corn in coconut milk with sugar and a dash of salt warmed up.As to peanut butter,try peanut butter and mustard sandwichs on white bread.

The interesting thing here is that you can screw the regulator that is on it into the tank.But i am not sure that you will want to.If you look close to my photo you can see that it is threaded to do that.But it is the regulator that you have that I am not sure about.Yes propane will work with it no problem.This I know becuse I know some Thai pepole that use it but the regulator is different.

Yes you will be able to use the burner with the tanks in the US.But you will have to change the pressure regulator.As you can see in the attached photo the US has changed the type of thread on the regulator to one that is only used in the US.