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Work permit no worries if your only knocking up the drawings but selling them elsewhere. You can get all the healthy food you want delivered to your place at alloted times. Thail food among the healthiest and tastiest in the world. Hardly anyone cooks in the home. Just abvoid the over-priced foreign owned restraunts, normally the food is poor in my experience. The problem is a lot of the crusters with businesses still think they should be making western level money........
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I would take what *some* of the crusty old sexpats and expats say on here with more than a touch of sodium chloride. A lot of these old hounds live in a bubble as to the real costs of Thailand, with the majority swimming in the same dirty gold fish bowl.
You say you have a $1500 a month ? thats around 47,000 baht a month which is a kings ransom if you know the ropes and are not an inveterate whore monger and booze hound.
as far as renting a place goes I think you could easily find something in the 5000-7000 bht a month range, Many will say finding a place at that price is impossible but if yout willing to really look its findable. I stay in a 3 bedroom furnished house 1km from the centre of Songkhla which costs 4500 bht per month, a mate has a 2 bedroom town house in Bangkok 1 BTS stop from Sukhumvit and pays 5000 bht a month.
The idea of having a part time maid is the best
Would you not like solitude and nature for your doodling ?? perhaps getting further out into the sticks is the idea.
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And the women really aint nothing special. there are a few stunners *as anywhere* but once over twenty most get fat fast, probably due to all the cakes, which contrary to belief are no longer danish specialities but all come from the same massive factory, and are multi national made junk.
Any swordsman knows the top notch minge is found in the easter block, try the czech republic, unless humping a robot is what make you tick,
In the mid-70s I enjoyed going to the sex cabarets in Copenhagen. Pretty amazing. Wonder if they still exist?
nothing like that around these days, out the back of copenhagen railway station is where the sleeze is, but your in for a poor show.
Fat wads of cash required to get a look at a second rate sour faced russian topless russian barmaid, nearer forty than mid thirties with a ciggarette hanging out her mouth. There are a couple of low class knocking shops and strip joint *again with real scrubbers inside*
However the chances of successfully running the gauntlet of heroin addicts and making it to any of these places with your belongings intact is slim.
These scourge bang up and toot smack virtually unmolested by the police due to the fact that they are so busy fining otherwise law abiding citizens for such heinous crimes as , *having no reflecors on you bike* or *crossing an empty road with no green man showing*
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And the women really aint nothing special. there are a few stunners *as anywhere* but once over twenty most get fat fast, probably due to all the cakes, which contrary to belief are no longer danish specialities but all come from the same massive factory, and are multi national made junk.
Any swordsman knows the top notch minge is found in the easter block, try the czech republic, unless humping a robot is what make you tick,
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Medicineman, why don't you come back to Thailand then?
Lived here for 10 years, haven't been back in Denmark for 7 years and I am getting along just fine, thank you very much.
I have a relatively well paid job in the oil offshore industrie working worldwide 6 month pr year so I am only here 1/2 time.
Sorry, but you are not the typical case. You would have been out of Denmark 1/2 the time as well had you lived there.
I wonder how any man would not want to be in Denmark, a country with the happiest people on earth (that's what the surveys say) and that IMO has the lowest ugly people per capita than any other nation, but that's my bias, and only because I have a fondness for Denmark and people that are so pleasing to the eye.
Yea, yea, I know, taxes & cost of living are tough in Denmark. However, I think you have the ideal situation. The time you spend in Thailand is "off time" so there are other reasons for enjoying Thailand. If you had to work at an oil refinery in Thailand 6 days a week and under unsafe working conditions you might have a different perspective. Your set up works well for you, and that's good, but please understand you are part of a small minority.
Not trying to be rude here, but maybe you need your eyes examined. Naked Dansk vs naked locals? I know who wins in my book.
I'd much rather be anywhere in Denmark in the summer surrounded by people that ooze sexiness and desirability than stuck in hot, sticky Phuket with locals picking their noses and driving like madmen. At least I can drink the tap water in Denmark and when I flush the toilet the water in the toiler bowl is cleaner than what I dumped in it. And btw, no Danish cop or government official ever tried to shake me down or ask for a bribe. When I get in a Danish taxi, no one tries to rip me off. Jeez, I am so worked up I want to hop on a plane, fly to Denmark and get busy with the locals.........
thailand may well be a corrupt, murderous dump but even that is better than turgid Denmark. A country with so many ludicrous rules its almost impossible not to break them. Walking across the road when the traffic light is red even if no car coming, 500 kr fine. Forced to spend 2000 kr on a TV licence even if you do not have a telly.
A country where the facist party gets 30% of the vote, a country where, for every one person who served in the resistence during world war two twenty people served in the waffen SS.
A country where the exessive tax system tries to control every facet of life. The latest proposal to make people pay tax if a neighbour or friend who is a skilled tradesman gives them a hand, IE, a painter doing a room, or plumber mate fixing a broken toilet
A place which abuses eastern european labour more than any other in Europe, Ukranians for example working for 40 kr an hour and having to give half back for rent in some abandoned farm house.
The most bland tasteless food in the word and a population of even blander humourless neanderthals.
I could actually go on all night, Denmark !! I would rather live in Iraq
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No doubt you,ll be hounded for being alarmist by both those who have vested interests in maintaining the facade of Thailand as a dream holidat destination and those who prefer to keep there heads burried in the sand.
Phuket truly is a wretched place, I was beaten unconcious by two Thais outside 7*11 around 3 years ago myself, all for the grand sum of around 600 bht.
check this link http://www.thephuketnews.com/aussie-beaten-left-for-dead-say-family-31469.php
The fact is the veil is really being lifted oh Thailand these days as the crooks and skum become ever bolder, with scams and deciets getting taken to a whole new level.
Just last week I had a Thai guy come up to outside the mall in Siam square and demand 20 bht, I politely said mai pen rai cap and moved away. The nutter started screaming and frothing at the mouth calling me everything under the sun. I do not doubt he was on the point of attacking me until the mall security overheard and started coming in my direction. He walked away pretending to shoot me with his finger.
These stories are everywhere everyday and soon people will start turning there backs on the place en masse.
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The 91 deaths is representative of what goes on every day so why make a big deal of it? It was just a worse than average day but not too far from the average. Call it a spike in gun murders - that's all it was.
Thank you, and truly pathetic.
Whats pathetic about the truth ? 91. The average daily gun homocide rates were 55 per day last year. it is as the guy says, a big, a substantial spike but nothing extra ordinary
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stop eating junk and exercise, eat little and often, do not eat after 6.00 pm, give up beer.
God its so simple, all these *experts* little more than con artists,
Im down from 110 kg to 85 kg in around 6 months, all by doing the obvious above
No carbs, juice only, cabbage, bla bla bla
Its all <deleted>. willpower and follow the above.
P.S *The idea it get harder every time is a pre-concieved misconception*
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Hello, your problems in many ways mirror my own. I am 34 now and have been off it for 6 months. It is only now I can look back and see what the life I have lead has cost me.
I come from a rural Island in the far north of Scotland, its the type of place where if you aint a heavy drinker your viewed as being odd. I often think booze might have come out of my mothers teet.
From the age of 13 i was into drugs and by 15 every fri-sun was a drug and booze fest, this continued until my early 20s at which stage for my own sanity I began cutting out the narcotics, it took me until my late twenties to be free of them but the booze remained a constant.
i have had periods of severe destrucive alchohol cycles right up until stopping 6 months ago. My ability to consume booze used to be a great source of pride for me, when I started coming to Thailand in my mid 20s for two months a time, I would drink upwards of 30 beers every day, I seem to have something inside me that makes alchhol have a very different effect than in most people. It affects me almost like amphetamine, on occasions I have drank 48 hrs non stop, yet when people speak to me I can *appear almost sober* The truth however is that a world of shit is going on, often resulting in fights, periods in jail, stolen cars, lost possessions, pissing myself, coming round in hospital, massive unaccounted spending, missed flights, hurt loved ones, dangerous liasons with the worst scrubbers in Thailand, etc etc etc.
During my life I have know close to a dozen people deceased through drinking and drugs all under the age of 30, several of whom I counted amogst my best friends. It was actually the death of one of my oldest mates that made me determined to bring down the curtain on my drinking. This guy died at 26, a destroyed alchoholic, he fell down in a ditch in the heart of winter and froze to death.
The hardest part of a life of sobriety on is the empytiness. when drinking my life cycle went like this, work 60 hr jobs live like a hermit save around 5k, fly to Thailand, start drinking, normally for two months by which time the finances were destroyed, I would only stop when I had exausted every resource back home that would loan me money. At the end of these binges I would pretty much have to lie in a dark room going through the withdrawls for a week to 10 days, normally consuming disgusting amounts of 10mg valium in the proccess. Only when i felt I looked good enough that the wife back home would not suspect anything would i crawl home.
The most important first step is remove yourself from the enviroments, peer pressure has always played a massive part with me because I was brought up to believe that heavy drinking was the norm and people who passed were, pussies. It is true what several posters here have said about other drinkers thinking you can just slow down, or have a few, get a grip, etc etc. These people are the worst to associated with. It can be hard cutting them out if you consider them mates but it is a vital step to remaining sober.
The long empty hours can be hard to fill for me and bouts of depression are quite frequent. I try to fill my time with bike trips, reaing and, fishing. I have even started boxing training, but I have severe difficulty in socialising without the lubricant of alchohol, and generally spend far to much time alone. This void I believe will take years to fill and might in fact never be filled. One other major problem I had was the caring what other people though, you do feel a pillock sitting in a bar drinking *poof juice* as they call it. I just dont feel there is a point being in bars or out if not drinking because it has been ingrained in me that, there is no other reason for going.
I still dream of the tasted of it, and probably always will however I have now conditioned my mind to think of the most negative things which have happened on it, as soon as the urge hits me.
Another thing i do often is think to myself, in the past i would go out and drink up 10,000 baht today, instead I am going to go buy that new, camera, mp3, computer game, or whatever else. I do this often and in my mind think of all these things as rewards for my continuing sobriety. I will often look at all the nice gear i own when the urges come, and think, *I have all this because i do not drink anymore, I have a nice place to stay, i have cash in the bank, i owe no one anything, then I will visualise the time in Phuket when I got involved in a dispute and was kicked near to death, requiring 40,000 baht on hospital fees, and later plastic surgery..
You should do this all the time, think about the positives of sober life the think about the worst times drinking. One example, now I weigh 86 kg and am only smoking 15-20 a day, im looking better than ever,, when I was drinking I was 110 kg, smoked from 2-5 packs a night, felt disgusted with myself all the time. Thinks things like this all the time, it really can be anything from having a top class meal to staying in a nicer than usual hotel.
Another thing i do is look at the old photos of myself when i was 100kg plus lump of lard, I have some real bad snaps, including ones of me in hospital after my Phuket mauling, i often look at that then switch to a more recent one where a 86kg handsome beast is kicking the shit out of a muay thai pad....... Thats me now, thats how I am and thats how I want to stay I think.
For me there is no doubt its about gaining control of your own mind. In the past i would scoff and some of the things i think now and the idea of reading any self help book i would find absurd. Even now i think the majority of them are full of shit but despite this you can get a few true nuggets of wisdom out of them.
I have a long way to go to be able to say i am happy in my sober life. Often it seems there is little or no joy and i do consider saying <deleted> it quite often and holding it going until the end, yet i know that now at my age my body would never hold out, generally since past 30 a two day binges leaves me destroyed for the best part of a week, my behaviou during the drinking also is worse than when i was younger and the high is no where near the same. Thats the main point for me, I know now i can never re-capture the highs of my earlier years no matter how hard i try.
I have had problems with most things i used to enjoy and struggle to do anything in moderation, I often wonder if i might have some undiagnosed mental condition. It was the same with gambling and narcotics either abstain or to digusting exess. Even with eating, internet, fishing and every thing else in life i find it difficult to walk the middle ground.
I realise i have rambled on quite a bit but feel there might be one or two things that will be of some use to you. I would also be very interested to hear about your opinions on the AA or any other programmes you try. I have so far never sought any proffesional help but I know deep down i have to start talking and get out more, and also try to lift my depressive cycles.
Good luck and stay srong.
Dave
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Been using
http://bit.ly/Transferwise_Account
in combination with CIMB bank for years. CIMB will give an account even on a tourist visa, just need deposit 10k . I opened mine in Chiang Mai branch with nothing else than a passport. This combination saved me a fortune compared to the rape fees my Danish bank took. + As I'm in 20+ airports a year the card is extremely useful. IMO a good addition to any wallet and it's available to most of the planet.
Cannon