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I have had similar problems. Left to my own devices (as I am now again when the wife goes back home for the weekend) I go straight back to it and always regret it. Spend too much, drink way too much (especially once I get on the whisky), get into scrapes with women I shouldn't, and feel like complete shit. Also deeply regret it when wife comes back.

 

Can't speak for you, but I've worked out that half of my problems are boredom and half are purely mental. If I get bored on my own I start drinking and am less able to be mentally strong and so 'no'. If I don't drink at all (or just a beer or two), being mentally strong enough to say 'no' is much much easier. It's why I dread being on my own for too long! No will power!

 

Anyway, best of luck. I understand what it's like.

Wiser, mature? You're having a laugh... I've dated Thai girls aged from 17 to 40. All immature and jealous and stupid and silly and completely unlike farang women. That's why I love em!!!

My wife, then my girlfriend, used to have another F at the top of her list..... When she worked in the bars of course. Not now though!

girls

I've had an X-Trail for five years. It has been - and is - used for school trips, shopping trips in BKK, holidays to Hua Hin and further, trips up country to see the family, a bit of work up country (in the fields of Petchabhun), and pretty much everything else.

Depends what you want your SUV for... but I wouldn't change our X-Trail for a CRV.

I will add here that the CRV is seen as a more beautiful car in BKK, especially for wives doing school trips. But, for me, while the X-Trail is more boxy and less sexy, it's a bloody good all-rounder while the CRV is seen more (at least my eyes and wife's) as more of a school-run kind of car that we wouldn't be so sure about regular trips up to Petchabhun and all the work we've done up there with our X-Trail... Hope all this helps...

I'm 50. As much as I would like options, I won't have the money to live in two places. If I can keep healthy, strong and keep money coming in, then Thailand (with occasional visits back home to the UK) will be my home until I kick the bucket!

My favourite thing about Thailand has, is, and always will be the girls. 

Absolutely lovely. Been here 20 years and love em all.

“The Thai government practices the rule of law. As an administration, we can not intervene in the judgment of the court." Brilliant!

2 hours ago, LannaGuy said:

The whole point, of it all, is nothing to do with Yingluck or rice it's ALL about politics.

Absolutely. And every every single Thai person I know agrees with this.

And yet somehow there are some deranged TV posters on here who actually believe it is about corruption!

They do make me laugh.

I know from senior sources that the whole thing was planned several weeks in advance. Indeed, Prayut and Yingluck were key instigators, knowing the latter fleeing leaves Thailand in the best position. Red shirts and yellow shirts on even ground so to speak, and the likelihood of any major unrest is slim. 

And this news makes in the national "newspaper". Of course, only tedious issues now only allowed to be reported in Thailand. 

Well if someone have a visacard or mastercard from a foreign bank should be enogh if the income is at least 40k bath.

I doubt whether the embassy would approve that. It does have to be legitimate income as far as I understand. C


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4 hours ago, DGS1244 said:

I find it strange that the British Embassy issued a statement of income which included 'casual work income' normally it has to be a guaranteed regular income such as pension, rental income etc.

In my understanding, the requirement is not to show "regular income" just "income" - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-to-obtain-a-pensionincome-letter-for-thai-immigration

This will be calculated over the year to show whether you have sufficient funds to apply to the THB40,000 route.

6 minutes ago, drb said:

Can I ask please 

you state uk embassy is that the embassy in Bangkok ?? If yes what papers did you take to them in order for them to write a letter 

did they accept print outs from online bank statements or in my case print out of pensions from 2 private and also uk pension as I'm 65

if applying when get to Thailand do I take print outs from my computer 

thanks in advanced 

I am the OP. I sent to the UK embassy in Bangkok some invoices I had received over the past year, along with a credit card payment. It was about THB2,400.

Details are here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-to-obtain-a-pensionincome-letter-for-thai-immigration

 

I received the letter back from the embassy within a week. Very efficient.

 

 

Thanks for the responses folks. Very helpful. Next year will certainly save the required funds, seems much less stressful. Cheers. C

So, yes, with Tax. I work freelance around the region (not Thailand but pretty much all around Asia) but live in Thailand. I have previously asked a lawyer about my tax situation: their response was you don't pay tax in Thailand! So I'm not clear on that!

Cheers. C

Thank you. Funds from the work I do in Indonesia and Singapore go into a Bangkok Bank account. Does that matter or would it be better showing funds into a foreign bank?

 

Or, as my wife reckons (because I already have the UK embassy letter) am I worrying too much??

 

Thanks!!

C

Hello, I am aged 49, from the UK and married with family in Thailand.

 

Next week I will apply for a one-year visa extension based on THB40,000 a month. And I already have a letter from the UK Embassy, showing these funds. (I will apply at Chaengwattana)

 

The thing is, these funds come from several places, mainly from some occasional work around the region (Indonesia and Singapore) and from a house in the UK, which I rent out.

 

When I apply for the visa and show my UK Embassy letter do I also need to provide all invoices etc evidencing these funds? Or just the Embassy letter itself? Or the Embassy letter and a bank book?

 

Any thoughts or comments would be really helpful. Thank you so much!

 

C  

 

 

For info (here are some facts for those that don't know).

These new aircraft are not fighters they are 'lead-in trainer aircraft', which means they are used to train pilots for fighter aircraft, probably Thailand's F-16s and JAS 39 Gripens. Also, it can be argued that these trainer aircraft are very much needed due to the state of the existing trainer aircraft (from the Czech Republic) and the high costs of maintaining this dwindling fleet. It should also be noted that the newly announced purchase is rather modest. Thailand's existing fleet of Czech trainer aircraft comprised of nearly 40 units, and the Thais have replaced them with just 12 so far and probably another four in the pipeline. Doesn't sound exuberant to me. 

I just can't believe the way TV members are so gullible. Do you really believe the corruption allegations led to her downfall? Even now? LOL! 

"live in harmony with nature" ???? Then why do they treat nature like s*&% and leave litter all over the place. I don't call that respecting nature.

I have a friend (former colleague) who works at the embassy. She says it's down to the bare bones there. Barely enough staff to cover the basic diplomatic and business areas that are its priority. Help for expats (whatever their predicament) is very much a secondary priority, I'm afraid. Wasn't always thus but the U.K. is no longer in the Premier League of Nations. Sad indeed.


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I'm serious. What's the point of elections. The politicians are corrupt and useless, the military is equally inept. Why bother with elections??


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I actually think Thailand shouldn't have elections. Not for at least two decades. The army should retain control of the state and all its agencies.


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Just having a beer I've never seen in Bangkok. Beer U. Don't know much about it but it's OK. Anyone know anything about this beer?

 

 

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