georgey

I really do believe if Thailand would be more easy with foreign ownership off houses and residences this would boost the economy and increase cofidence from foreigners in Thailand. The current laws make it to risky for many to investment. Laws who prevent huge landpieces who can endanger food supply within Thailand I can understand, but all the rest is not fair. Thais can buy abroad. Farangs and expats here have to deal with risky and expensive loopholes. Neighboring countries are more easy and become more and more attractive. Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia and Birma are inviting retires and second house owners. Even in China a foreigner can buy. The houses and properties I talk about are not affordable for the average Thai. Only for the wealthy ones and with the current legislation Thailand only helps them, to become more wealthy. This is not at all beneficial to majority off Thais only to the happy few. The happy few can buy cheaply small plots from less fortunate Thais. Creating this way from several small plots one big one and sell it in a expensive and overpriced way as "freehold". There is no fair deal or competition for the small land or house owner. The market is exclusive for wealthy Thais.

Unless Burma has made changes in the last few weeks you are still only allowed 30 days visa. Because of the slow opening up of politics in Burma people think it has went fron closed off society to full open in only a few months. Hate too bust your bubble but not much has changed and retirees are not being welcomed with open arms. With all of it faults Thailand is still the best place too retire.Canbodia still abackwater 30 years behind thailand, Philippines lousy food and lots of crime, Laos communist, malaysia to many muslims, and Burma 30 years behind and military dictatorship.

It couldn't have been explained in a better way

as far as I am concerned, the Chinese in the region (& I have lived in several countries in the region), have only added to the well-being of the countries they have effectively taken over at the expense of the indigenous population.....& they have undermined & done their best to ruin local culture & manners -but they've got away with huge amounts of cash....

any idea why they were so scared to be in Indo in 98/99?

bad self-centred people IMO (informed)

as for the comments abt the crash, & the racism thereof, there was one stupid comment abt it being an instance of "Thai-bashing" - totally stupid, whoever posted it - all people here are saying is they don't want to be killed by moronic Thais driving in a moronic manner - maybe it's "fearism" - i know I'm concerned whenever I have to drive a decent distance.

as for the crap about "if u don't like it here - why don't u go somewhere else" - to me that's just a feeble comment from someone who is prepared to accept things as they are - pathetic - there is nothing wrong with making constructive &/or critical comments about things in the country you choose to live in, hoping eventually things may improve.....

was my job for 30 yrs......

both of those economies are in serious trouble.....UK not coz of the govt, but coz of the state of Europe

Thai coz of everything that everyone here acknowledges (& complains about, rightly) (especially corruption) but mostly coz of an element we're not at liberty to doscuss......

things are going to get v bad here when the people realise just how badly they've been treated by the few who have cash gained thru corruption, but who have absolutely nothing to recommend themselves.....for as long as anyone can remember

relatively few people (relative to the total population )trying to maintain an unmaintainable poverty gap

have a look at what happened in Egypt, Libya, Syria, now the Malays are having a go.....

it's going to happen here, for sure - it's not possible to keep this degree of repression going much longer.....

so, my forecast for GBP/THB - much higher - but no idea when.....

Is anyone really surprised by this, lets face it the majority of the Brit teachers here aren,t qualified to teach anything and couldn,t hold down a job back home. The reason they are here is its the only place that will take them.Many off them to fond off the bottle aswell. I think we need more stringent checks on these people after all they are being left in charge of children. Does anyone know what school this unsavoury character passed himself off as a teacher at.

If you are going to put down english teachers in Thailand surely you would make sure your post was correct english, wouldn't you?"Many off them to fond off the bottle aswell" Mmmm

And read the OP again, it states the school.

I don't think so. But I do think Thai Visa has a rule about correcting grammer that most English teachers should be educated enough to have read.

It's very simple : Thai drivers are ignorant , selfish, aggressive and for most downright moronic ..

If you randomly picked 10 Thai drivers , and got them to take a proper European style driving test, the failure rate would be 100 %.

They simply have no idea what to drive responsibly and safely means.

ur so right.....

of course drunk driving adds to the accident rate (as does speeding), but blaming that as the main cause is totally wrong.....

the main cause is lunatic driving = overtaking on the wrong side then squeezing into the tiniest space in the outside lane before repeating the manoeuvre - crazy, stupid, insane

driving right up the backside of the car in front - doing that at any speed & sober or not is the worst, particularly when such a high %age of vehicles are high (pickups, buses, minibuses trucks), which makes it impossible for the following (stupid) driver to see the brake lights of those in front.....

it's a personal thing of course, but i used to go to players, & think hustlers is infinitely better. the girls who work there are much more pleasant, less pushy, better players, & there is no smoking....but tables outside for those who want to (smoke). went to players the other day just to see if anything had changed for the better, & left after one beer....

standard is high with a few outstanding players

normally no need to q for table - they're in process of adding 2 more tables now anyway

best place of all is Hustlers, Times Square (next Sheraton Grande, Suk 14)

full-sized tables in good nick, nice staff, if I remember right runs comp every other Sunday

try atninter

35,835 for ur dates (promotion #23 for LHR)

I've used him a few times - he'll want cash, & is a bit eccentric, but I've nvr had any issues

surely, if anyone had even half a brain, they'd increase tolls by 10 Baht, but ONLY for those who pay in cash. The toll for those who use E-Z Pass should remain unchanged. That way nearly everyone would get an E-Z Pass, & queues at the toll-gates would become a thing of the past....

I bet a typical Thai Mor 6 (US Grade 12 or UK Year 13) student can beat Mr. Blair in English grammar (multiple choice) test.

However, sadly he/she cannot utter a resonable sentence verbally.

With the 1 day a week Speak English Campaign, things will change in Thai school. In 3 years, Thai student will get pass the Malaysian, and in 5, pass the Philippinos, and hopefully in 7 years out speak thoses who speak Singlish.

but you don't actually speak English

I don't think the Thais will be too worried by the stench of rotting and decaying garbage, it never seems to bother them eating that shit Pla Rah - they tend to worry more about the smell of fresh paint and a truck spewing Diesel - three months of festering shit probably smells quite appetizing!

what a miserable piece of shit u are......