thenervoussurgeon

WeLL the wife and i went in today at lunch time and had a look with a view to getting food ,but i must be honest ime not a cheap charlie but do i really want to spend 300 baht plus to eat in a food court ? the answer was no ,so icant comment on the food but i think its to expensive for where it is .

Repairs have started now ,so when i go in 2.5 months bet there will still be no parking , or when we go 3 months after that ,then there will be the repairs to the repairs once it rains.

They redo entire soi 5 inluding new sewers. I'll guess they will be finshed on time when high season ends.

you forget that once its all over and the new roads and drains are in place ,they will have to start again when it all collapses

I can only speak for my wife and her familly ,also girlfriends i had in the past ,they seemed to dislike muslims ,so any race that was from a muslim country was looked down on.

Repairs have started now ,so when i go in 2.5 months bet there will still be no parking , or when we go 3 months after that ,then there will be the repairs to the repairs once it rains.

if a girl goes out with you for money, she is really just a bargirl with one customer

Is it difficult?

talking out of your arse?

so going out with a man for money is fine then yes.

whatever floats their boats ,none of our buisness.

there is a notice on our front door that it being increased by 1 baht per unit.

Then to my utter disgust my favourite breakfast cereal has just gone up

from 145 baht to 268 in one leap

If thats the case that would make our bill about right.

sorry about the cereal

if a girl goes out with you for money, she is really just a bargirl with one customer

Is it difficult?

talking out of your arse?

The PEA is charging for the months May - August an extra charge (Ft Charge) of 0.3 THB per Unit to compensate for increasing fuel cost maybe that is the increased cost you notice.

Residential usage.

Normally, Electricity rates are difference depend on Meter size. I would like to describe in details following the contents below:

- January – May 2012 Ft rate = 0.0 Baht

- Normally, Ft rate will be changing every 4 months so since May to August 2012 Ft rate is 0.30 Baht per unit.

Because of high manufacturing costs so we changed fuel cost from after June – August 2012.

That would put my bill up very little ,but not having an air con on 5 nights a week for 4/5 hours should have brought our bill down ,instead it was up a little.

All this is getting a bit boreing ,money talks bullshit walks ,i know two guys that have wives the same age as them and they have been ripped off ,i know another guy in his 80's and his wife is in her 40's they have been married 20 odd years and she adores him , sometimes people are attracted to the money and then fallin love with the other person,God look at Bernie Ecclestien ,i bet his model wife wouldnt have P----ed on him if he was on fire if he had been a car cleaner when she met him instead of the boss of f1 motor racing.

its the way of the world,people go out with each other for different reasons ,then fall in love ,dont confuse the guys in walking street 60 odd years old with a 20 something hottie on their arm with married couples those guys have just hired "love" for the night.

It has gone up, not sure how much but i noticed i used less but paid more then last time.

Oh thanks for that i thought i was seeing things or someone using our lecy

Just got our electricity bill and our son is off to university so only 1 aircon on half the night and our bill has gone up 100 baht ,has lecy gone up and by how much?

Had a similar apartment in ratchada. 2 aircons all the time never broke 2k.

2 air cons on all the time and a bill of less than 2k a month ? when did you live there in 1980? ,

Every couple where the farang bloke is 20 years + older than his Thai wife/gf that i know, the younger Thai gf/wife has been playing around with younger Thai/farang men behind her older farang partners back.

Ime 24 years older than my wife ,we have an 18 year old son ,if she has been playing around it must be in breaks between cleaning the house ,looking after her garden ,she never seems to stop ,add to that she very rarely goes out alone if she is playing around behind my back i can only assume its with the guy who comes to fix our car occasionally ,but then he is older than me

Never had a problem at Jomtien immigration.

Me neither.

nor me

many years ago i was in property in the uk ,when we came here to retire as soon as agents found out that i had spent many years in the property game i was offered a job,i still years later get asked to work . luckily i dont need to.

Been in big c today, sat across tacos for 30 minutes. No business at all. Lunch time, food court packed, anna kebab wrapping kebabs like there are no tomorow, but sunrise didnt have any single visitor. Too pricy for this area

Yesterday was our opening day. Yes, it was quiet. Today however, we did more business by 2pm than all of yesterday. Give us a chance. Today, we did at least 10 takeaway orders by 1pm. We are now speaking with Big C about a dedicated seating area, with wait staff also to try to get away from the food court mentality.

Gil

I wish you the best of luck in your new location. However, I think you would be better off forgetting the idea of a wait staff in a food court and just use the money you would have spent on extra staff to lower the prices!

Fair comment. What we are thinking is, a dedicated area, railings, umbrellas, a cool floor, some decor, etc.

We already offer set packages at Baht 165 which includes a soft drink, generous portion of chips, and a main. Had such a customer today come up and say he was full to the brim when I tried to sell him a pie slie.

Best,

Gil

Ok dont go on ,me and the wife will give you a try.

Must admit if the wife and i were out to enjoy a mexican meal it wouldnt be at big c food court ,but in a restaurant.

ps ,the kebabs there are good value ,but tend to eat thai food in a food court.

Oh boy

To the poster who mentioned

A mass cull of soi dogs?

where do i sign up?

Just looked at the menu ,it all looks very nice but sorry to say far to expensive for the Big C food court,truly hope you make a go of it but very much doubt it .

sorry.

you people really expect to be ever integrated in the thai society?

how many real Thai Friends do you have?

is your Relation with your Thai Spouse a non financial one?

You can always tell a newbie ,same old hackneyd bullshit, i have quite a few thai friends so have many other westerners i know and not one has "baught" his wife , just get out more and stay away from the bars.

God this news is weeks old and already had a piece about it on here.

I first came here 24 years ago and was lucky enough to meet a resident who owned a bar ,he gave me advice that i always followed ,he said look in the mirror ,your not a hansom man and bar girls would much prefere a young fit Thai boy ,but you have one thing they dont have --money,so dont lose your head. i took his advice to heart and although i did have a relationship which didnt last , i too had a buisness here and met my wife through it( i ran it with a partner ,i lived in the uk) and have been happily married for many years ,but i made sure that we didnt come here to live permanantly untill i had enough money to cover myself .

its almost immposible to live here under pension age unless you have a good income .

hope you get to come back sometime.

No hope ,i dont think you have much chance of finding God in Pattaya .

Oh, sorry cod!