Braddockrd

Someone Needs to they'll the US this is none of their business

Coming back from Australia via Changi Airport requiring an O/N stay.

Transit hotel within the airport seems quite expensive,with ad ons each hour, or maybe I am looking at the wrong one.

If we chose to stay outside what is the visa situation ? on arrival ?.....24 hour visa available ?any suggestions would be appreciated

When you arrive to the airport go to the Hotel Reservations Desk. You will get rates discounted down to 50%. All the hotels put their unused capacity in that network. Ask for the Changi Village Hotel. It is a good recommendation since you are with your wife. I would think around SGD 150. Free airport shuttle. Lots of restaurants, bars and small shops open late. In the morning you can catch the bumboat to Pulau Ubin. No MRT. If thst is too expensive, take MRT to Aljunied, exit on left, lots of budget hotels in the area. Check them on Booking.com. Around 60 sgd

aren't we becoming too dam_n sensitive? We allow the Chinese to live in all our countries, because they do not like staying put in their own place, they come, installl themselves, isolate themselves and start creating communities where they do not even speak the local language, we have to support them with our taxes, and then we are not allowed to make a joke about them? In our own country? Give me a break!!!

Below is a picture taken as a joke by the Spanish basketball team before their match againts China. Racist? I do not think so. Funny? Hell yeah

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Racist? nope. Funny? Yes very funny indeed. As well as stupid, childish and showing off their level of IQ.

Isn't that the sort of thing that 5 year old do?

And so, what?

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aren't we becoming too dam_n sensitive? We allow the Chinese to live in all our countries, because they do not like staying put in their own place, they come, installl themselves, isolate themselves and start creating communities where they do not even speak the local language, we have to support them with our taxes, and then we are not allowed to make a joke about them? In our own country? Give me a break!!!

Below is a picture taken as a joke by the Spanish basketball team before their match againts China. Racist? I do not think so. Funny? Hell yeah

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Actually Chinese immigrant populations in most cases rise to the top in economic terms within 2 generations.

That is an overstatement. A few of them do rise. Certainly not all. They do not have any magic traits othen than hard work, and nobody gets rich with just hard work. Even if this was the case, we in our countries are the ones that would have contributed to their rise, by allowing them to settle in, by not pursuing their common tax avoidance, by providing with infrastructure and an education system they are not paying for. Eventually, 50 years later, it all gets even, but let us not forget the origins

aren't we becoming too damn sensitive? We allow the Chinese to live in all our countries, because they do not like staying put in their own place, they come, installl themselves, isolate themselves and start creating communities where they do not even speak the local language, we have to support them with our taxes, and then we are not allowed to make a joke about them? In our own country? Give me a break!!!

Below is a picture taken as a joke by the Spanish basketball team before their match againts China. Racist? I do not think so. Funny? Hell yeah

He is just a pathetic drunk, useless in any way to regular society

if you are american write up a simple loan contract with one year pay back with interest have your wife sign it. she is not paying you back bad loans are a tax deduction against income. becomes a tax loss. forget about it.

Please don't listen to bitcoinbob. He has no idea about US tax laws. There is no personal income tax itemized deduction for bad loans under any circumstances

Please don't listen to bitcoinbob. He has no idea about US tax laws. There is no personal income tax itemized deduction for bad loans under any circumstances

Sorry if I am missing something guys but the usufruct does not entitle you to the original value if the property, right? So what if you want to get the proceeds from sale? Wouldn't it be better to enter into a loan with her, use the loan as a lien, and then enter into renewable lease with lease payments waived in exchange for interest foregone on the loan? You could also modify the interest component to make it cumulative and payable upon repayment of the loan, to somehow protect your rights to capital appreciation, and make the loan call-able at your discretion.... How does this sound?

Sorry if I am missing something guys but the usufruct does not entitle you to the original value if the property, right? So what if you want to get the proceeds from sale? Wouldn't it be better to enter into a loan with her, use the loan as a lien, and then enter into renewable lease with lease payments waived in exchange for interest foregone on the loan? You could also modify the interest component to make it cumulative and payable upon repayment of the loan, to somehow protect your rights to capital appreciation, and make the loan call-able at your discretion.... How does this sound?

555 I thought Thailand did not allow dual citizenship....

I love the replies of this flurry of makeshift lawyers that spring out of a boring Sunday watching TV in the outskirts of some Thai city. Don't waste time posting questions here. You should go to an international lawyer in Bangkok. What you are trying to do is ask for a ruling on equitable grounds (doctrine of laches) which is common in The Commonwealth. But Thailand does not adhere to the Common Law. Nonetheless, it is not impossible. Basically, you will be asking a judge to step out of the principle of law to consider a series of factors that may point at the conclusion that the property should belong to you, and this is very much up to the judge. A good lawyer will know the bench and try to steer your complaint to a judge that is known to be more reasonable. That, however, is no guarantee, because you will have to prove that the purchase was not a gift, as she will most likely claim. I assume all you have is verbal evidence of this agreement, which does not help. In order to get a judgement in equity in Thailand you must have very good documentation and a favorable judge. The Frade Trade Agreement between AU and Thailand may have some protection for investors. Not sure you can get much from this, unless you claim you have been duped. In my view, the law, in most countries is something you pay for.

She spent the whole night at the supermarket???

It ain't that much. He can buy her a new golden necklace. Oh, and the iPad...

Does anyone know any schools on this area for a 3 year old mixed kid? Information regarding fees would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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I lived in Bangkok 3 years for work. I live now in Singapore. I could not go back to Bangkok or probably Thailsnd for that matter. Nice for short vacation but it's dirty, polluted, broken sidewalks ( if any), traffic, and the people are too provincial, even the educated ones. Everyone has their preferences I guess. I could not imagine how boring life could be in a village!

I have not read all the replies but my advise is get the job outside of Thailand. Why would anyone want to apply for a job in Thailand? That seriously lessens your chances of being paid a foreign salary. You don't want to work in Thailand for a Thai salary. Depending on the field, your credentials, the availability of people with the same skills and so on, a job based in Thailand but obtained abroad can pay 20 times more than the same job found in Thailand.

Beachproperty, you should try to learn how to write and communicate in proper English before you continue to botch the Thai Language. It would also help you avoid all the confusion you created in your opening question....

That's stupid. The lowest "total " tax rate cannot not be defined in absolute terms, it depends in the particular taxpayer. Dubai and other countries have 0% corporate tax rates.

I hope the OP can actually say something or type it. We are waiting.

I know that there are a growing number of people living in Thailand who can speak and read Thai. As another poster suggested, my topic was not correctly stated. I should have said "some foreigners". But in my experience the majority, including professionals, do not bother to learn the language because it is just easy to get by. I was just curious as to what reasons people would allege as to not be willing to learn the language. I think that the answer overall to the question is "it depends". Clearly for some people the effort is too big. Many evidently find Thai people uninteresting to talk to. Many find them unwilling to accept foreigners. Many are in Thailand because it is cheap and cannot afford living elsewhere and therefore do not care about the place or the langugage as long as they can point out at a noodle cart and get a meal for 25 baht. Many do not feel their stay is permanent and, let's face it, you are unlikely to use Thai outside of Thailand. I wonder how many of these people would be able to survive in say, Germany, without learning to speak German. When I lived in Thailand I knew my stay would not be permanent. I learned rather quickly that common Thais are not too interesting and that they are not accepting of "foreigners". Yet, I felt that living in a place for a number of years where I could not read any signage or be able to express myself would put me at a disadvantage and I made a considerable effort to learn the language only if out of respect for myself. Whether you want it or not, Thais, possibly in their close-mindedness, see foreigners who cannot speak Thai as mentally deficient. Thanks to all for their responses, including the off-topic ones.

Very interesting responses. It shows the character of the people living in Thailand, most of which would probably cringe at the sight of foreigners living in their country unwilling to learn their language. I guess that once you abandon yourself there is no bottom. The only reason I learned to read Thai while living in Thailand was because the feeling of being illiterate, not being able to understand anything written around you is something that I was only willing to bear as a tourist on a short time stay. To me, working in Thailand demanded that l learned at least the basics of the language, if only to be able to be treated different than a white buffalo by common Thais. But as the saying goes, to each it's own... Thanks for the feedback.

Those monks are lazy. You see them around with IPhones and nice watches. And then they are begging for alms? Let them work and support themselves. Thai people waste too much money in temples and religion

Disgusting Russians. They are uncivilized and unfit to travel. Thailand should ban them. Every country should ban them