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I think if your children go to the best school you can find and prove to be bright then they can always go to one of the top universities and shine.

I think you've exagerated its good qualities and flat ignored some of its drawbacks

I mentioned no good qualities,i just posted a size and a phone number.

Quite often on tv chaps are looking for a decent size bit of land and i happened to notice some boards appear aroung Nong Khai and i am sure it says 100 rai for sale,call 042 408147.

Here in Nong Khai it rains nearly everyday and is always too wet to cut the grass.

I have noticed there appears to be a lot of fallow land this year with maybe thirty percent not under rice.

udon,it would appear that in the 20,000 odd tv members there are bugger all gardeners.

Cheers udon,i will check that link out.

The palms had been in the garden for five years and planted in the garden when about a foot tall.Plenty of year round water and sheltered so would imagine it's an insect thing.

The salaries out here are lower but then so is the cost of living.

I think any new international flights might be a way off as the airlines are getting their <deleted> slapped by the oil price as it is.

Mr Thaksin says there is no water crisis and then Deputy PM Mr Somkid orders an investigation into who is at fault for the lack of water.

The locals today are hacking the ###### out of the bushes at the side of the village roads,i guess to make the place more beautiful.

maestro,you could use those three years to good effect by learning to speak and read Thai which i believe is part of the residency process.Only trouble is it took me seven years to learn.

Handbags at ten paces.

Local money lenders here charge 10 % a month with no security or 5 % with land title deeds.

Are they not considering a law banning foreign waste being sent here after lots of containers of old batteries turned up from Japan?

In these parts a months laundry for five persons is a thousand Baht.

All the Indian palms in the garden are dieing one by one but all the other palms are fine.It's raining everyday so it's not due to a lack of water but visibly you would say so as each leaf in turn goes brown and dies.Any clues?

Love bulldogs,but Thailand has to be one of the worst places to keep one unless you have an air con kennel.

Strange to hear all the drought stories when it has been raining here practically every day for a month now.Must be the Laos mountains.

Maybe a compulsory search lesson or two could be included in the process of signing up to the forum .

If you go the company route one thing you may not think much to is the VAT man, but he can be as mean a bastard here as he is in the UK.If you don't file they use estimates which can be enormous and give you grief for years to come.

A common signal up-country is for trucks in the opposite, oncoming, lane (on the Highways) to flash their lights - this is a warning to cars on your side of the road that there is a police checkpoint up ahead.

Yep,they use that in Udon and Nong Khai to warn of speed traps.

RDN,Mike,just what i was after,cheers.

Friend in Ubon says it has all you need to live a good expat life.

Also heard Udon is to put on some short haul destinations like Singapore.

The collective word for bag is "bai",for sheets of paper is "pen"Does a definitive list exist?