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11 hours ago, Khaeng Mak said:

Building smuilding. What about the world class natural attractions that Thai greed has relentlessly destroyed. Phuket, Maya, Similans, Phi Phi...the list is endless.

And that relates to the OP how exactly? ????

Try to focus for a minute chief. This isn't the islands forum. This is the Bangkok forum. 

There must be at least a dozen threads that you can fire onto there and discuss the over development of the aforementioned islands. 

7 hours ago, puchooay said:

What is considered "proof" of a salary of 18600?

 

I have been in Thailand for a fair few years now. I have income in excess of the required amount but it is not paid into a UK bank and is not earned in UK, hence I also have no income tax statements from UK.

 

Do I consider going back to UK for a year and getting a job that pays in UK and is tax liable? Would one year do it? Say I have 1 year of tax returns and a guarantee of work for the next year?

 

Thanks

It depends on the type of work you are doing, how it is earned and how you present your case. 

A sea fairer for example, who spends a lot of time in the ocean and a small amount of time in Thailand visiting his wife and family may be eligible to bring them to the UK without a job offer back in the UK and also without paying UK tax (because he isn't spending more than 92 days per tax year on UK soil).

Also keen to hear on official progress reports. 

Srinakarin continues striding along at a decent pace from what I have seen.

Read Allen Caar's easyway to stop smoking

That will sort you right out. After that you only have yourself to blame

What do you want to know?

In for a penny.

Looks like reasonably decent progress being made all along srinakarin now with actual structural columns starting to reach for the sky.

Those renders make it look nice and soulless. Doubt it will be anything like the old gaff. Shame

On 10/29/2018 at 4:07 PM, Freddy Krueger said:

I'm staying near Khao San right now. It's true Khao San is a shell of it's former self and has lost a great deal of it's life and charm. During the day there are few people there, no stalls or cheap shopping to speak of. It was pretty sad to see, the first day I got here.  My favorite used book store was even gone, and I planned to get a lot of reading done. Peachy Guesthouse was no more. That one was hard to swallow. I used to live there when I taught English in Bangkok in my early 20's, and I was quite fond of the place and the staff, who were very generous with their time and advice. All that being said, I am still having a great time here. I've foound a cheap guesthouse for 250 baht a night and its OK. Khao San is still really wild after midnight and sometimes it can be hard to navigate your way through the drunken crowds. Thier are actually far more hookers and ladyboys and even African Hookers than any yime ive been. It's true there are less backpackers and there are more Chinese and Japanese tourists here than before. The crowd on Khao San seems to be an all around wealthier crowd. There are definitely more families. People are bringing the kids along and walking about during the day. The area is cleaner and more 'upscale', I guess you could say. One positive is I'm not relentlessly harrassed to buy something now that the vendors got kicked out. Some of those guys could get very aggressive and annoying with their high pressure sales pitches. The Indian tailors are still here and still annoying, unless you are suit shopping on your holiday I suppose. I'm hoping that eventually the military won't be running the goverment and more of the life and soul and character will reemerge, but for now it's not all bad, it's still here and it's better than nothing.

 

Strange because I was there a couple of weeks ago for a night out on a Saturday and it was just as raucous as it's always been. Day time is bliss being able to walk down the road without fear of getting run over by a tuk tuk or taxi. 

The tat is still there being sold later on if it REALLY is what you define the area as being. Personally, I don't. It's just tat and bad food. The rest is exactly like it's always been. Everyone in my group agreed. 1 thai, 1 other farang. 

Are you sure you were in the right area? ????

3 hours ago, possum1931 said:

Beauty is only skin deep.

Aye and ugliness goes right to the fkn bone....

On 10/25/2018 at 11:04 PM, utalkin2me said:

YEah, it really connects the area south of udom suk near bang na trat highway with bts. There have got to be some big plans for that area near bitec. Of coursr there is the seemingly stagnant "largest shopping mall in asia". And plans for a new bus station maybe? Then you got bitec. I see this area as growing quite a bit in the next ten years.

I can foresee big plans for a few of the connected areas around this neck if the woods also as the sky train extends and more people relocate from downtown to more affordable condos and houses. 

Interesting times lay ahead 

54 minutes ago, thaiguzzi said:

The guy knows more about dual sport bikes and off road trail riding than me.

His main concern/gripe are the ridiculous high maintenance schedules and the price.

As he states, for that money, you can buy a Beta 480 and have change, and the Beta will whoop the Honda's arse in EVERY DEPT.

He was expecting a Honda, ie a Jap bike that will do 50k kms minimum with nothing but 5k kms oil changes and valves looked at every 25k kms. NOT a KTM/Husky with race service intervals which will throw a hissy fit (or a rod..) if the thing is not checked according to specs.

 He has a valid point.

Most of his points being made are moot because he hasn't even see the thing with his own eyes, let alone ridden it. 

Servicing isn't imo OTT for an engine that derives from a 450cc moto-x bike. Oil/Filter changes aren't difficult. Not to mention the fact that Honda always leans on the pessimistic side of maintenance schedules anyway. So much fixation on service internals when even KTM exc's (for example) have LOADS of reports online that they can go well over and above their servicing internals without major work - yes, KTM's - those extremely high strung/high maintenance bikes don't actually require valve adjustments or rebuilds when the manual says they will (a lot of the time) because the bike isn't being ridden by a pro racer. So I can only imagine how good the longevity is on the 3 piston ring 450L that they have geared and built the motor for low to mid range tractor grunt rather than red line balls out like the R.

The price is the only gripe to have is far as I can see - I do agree, it's not a cheap bike. However, yerman missed something there - brand loyalty. Honda tends to have nailed this pretty well in years gone by and I very much doubt those who have the means to buy this bike will be considering buying a Euro enduro bike as an alternative - it's a different (perceived) market segment. 

I would bet large $ on these bikes selling like hot cakes.

18 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

Just seen EveRide's latest episode on his YouTube Channel. He is one of the larger, better dual sport m/c channels out there if you guys have not heard of him. 100k subscribers etc...

You can guess what this episode is about...........????

If only he had held off posting his opinion/video until he actually rode the ruddy thing.... 

Really hope they make it to Thailand. Could well be the perfect bike for south east Asia 

12 hours ago, mickyboy said:

samsean the place to go now take it back to the old hippie days

It has been for the last 5 years I reckon. 

Loads of decent food places and pubs dotted all over the place. The blues bar is especially good and the scene now surrounding it. 

To me it's perfectly fine the way it is now and I like the area the way it was prior. I was down that way around 2pm 2 weeks ago and you know what? It was a joy to be able to walk normally down the street without the tat for sale on the sidewalks. 

Who in their right mind buys any food at those stalls on the street anyway? It's worse than McDonalds. 

Still loads of people in pubs and wandering around. It may well appear there are less people at that time of the day because, well, there is a massive wide street available for everyone to walk down now, not just some gauntlet of stalls, bikes, taxis, tuktuks and pad thai (it really isn't pad thai...)

This is change for the better imho. 

what a truly bizarre thread.... 

1 hour ago, BBJ said:

If they price it at 450K plus.  Husqvarna Fe350 or 450 here I come!

New ones are now up to 600k...... (shocked face)

I would love it if they sell for around the 350k range but I just don't see it happening unfortunately.

To be perfectly honest, I seriously doubt they will be offered through big wing. Hope I'm wrong though!

I'll go with 420K - Can't see them coming in plated and green book for less when requiring import. 

On 6/30/2018 at 9:04 AM, Xonax said:

I would rather be dead, than having to spend 20 years in a Thai prison.

His life was effectively over as soon as he spotted the police. 

RIP to the guy. Live by the sword, die by the sword

Howdy

I am trying to get a hold of a light weight lithium battery to replace the stock one in my CRF250l.

Does anyone have info on any sites online I can order from?

JTM Sunny no longer sell lithium in the correct size, only lead unfortunately or so they tell me.... mai meeeee - which is a shame because they were decent enough for the price

Who is the guy that I've seen on TV very early mornings sometimes? 

Mrs DDBKK was very impressed by his command of the "old" language and thought his intent to be gen.

Must be a known guy?