HannibalLecter

Work from home (programmer).

Is that what fleabayers call themselves now.

It is not that hard really to claim one mingles with wealthy Chinese Thai families and are accepted when one is a nobody from nowheresville with a PhD in BS

and an internet connection.

It's funny that you think a perfectly ordinary lifestyle is so fantastic that it must be a fabrication

Say's a lot about your situation here in Thailand

Sunday is family day, so far you've spent all Sunday defending your Chinese Thai family relationship on the internet to strangers. Say's a lot about your situation with that family.

330 pages of drivel when the answer is up and down

you know the answer?

Apparently my multilingual gardener does.

It is not that hard really to claim one mingles with wealthy Chinese Thai families and are accepted when one is a nobody from nowheresville with a PhD in BS

and an internet connection.

I guess you are one of those sad people who think every Thai woman is a prostitute up for sale?

I am not Tom Cruise, but I a have a good social circle of friends my age (Thai and Western). All educated, all with good backgrounds.

We go out to eat, go to movies, go on trips together.

My life is very similar to my life back home.

Why is this such a difficult thing to comprehend?

Even the dregs that work without a WP here can impress the locals with their bs backgrounds, it don't take much pal get over yourself.

many men here meet g/f /wife at bar, i really don't understand how you can call a prostitute your g/f / wife because she is up for sale to anybody who has money for pay short time,,, can any one tell the truth to your family that your new wife, g/f is a prostitute and i was customer number 4 that night?

So how many ladies have you had your way with for no payment ?

Did all these ladies you fooled with tell their future hubby and family what you//they got up too.?

Perhaps you think working girls have a previous employment tattoo on their butt.

The truth is that many men living in Thailand and posting on this thread have never known a woman who wasn't a prostitute, hence all this crazy talk of buying women houses, etc.

I am currently dating a normal Thai girl. She is a lawyer and her family are independently wealthy. It's going on 2 months now and there has been no sexual contact. (I am in my late 20's, she in her early 20's).

There has also been absolutely no talk of money or any sort of thing. Whenever we go out to eat or to the movies I of course pay, but she does not like this, generally resulting in her buying me some small gift, I guess her way of keeping everything balanced.

If I was to buy her something that cost more than a couple of hundred dollars she would be embarrassed by this. In the "Thailand" away from the prostitutes and scammers, a gift is generally returned by one of equal value or meaning.

Of the girls I know here and associate with, none would ever allow a man to buy a house and put in in their name. This idea that is commonly talked about on TV is just ridiculous.

If your wife or GF asks you to buy a house in her name or is eager for you to do this, then alarm bells should be ringing in your head. I say this because it is the opposite of what I know Thai women to be like.

I also do not think it is a good idea for either party if the woman is wholly dependent on the man financially, at least initially.

Some here may have married the "poor village girl" and had a successful relationship, but for the most part I beleive that this is not the "best" way to go.

It's not a question of Thai people being bad (before anyone accuses myself of Thai bashing). It's more of a case that poor people in any country will do what they have to do to not be poor. If that means fleecing some old farang for his house and assets regardless of how nice and kind he is, then that's what will probably happen.

Some other posters have said that they have no problem with "gifting" their wife and her poor family with a house in the case of separation. That's fine if you realize that this is the likely outcome.

I wouldn't buy anything in this country that I was not willing to lose.

You must be green these are pro's that are on the long term blag. Wake up and stop living in lah lah land thinking your Tom Cruise.

330 pages of drivel when the answer is up and down

If we are talking about improving Thailand as the op suggest there is one thing standing high over everything: Nr 4

I really don't thing learning the average Thai speaking English will improve Thailand a lot, it is a higher education need.

To make it easier for foreigners to by land will obviously not help Thailand! And the Visa rules are quite liberal as is, a lot

of people can go here and stay a month for an ordinary vacation without any paperwork. If you want to live in a country

that is not your home country it is definitely in the interest of the host country to ask questions and put certain demands

on you for the benefit of the people. Is there any country or Union that do not comply to this?

I can not comprehend what your saying without getting lost or gasping for air.

deluded expats with wives that were magically found at just about anywhere other then a bar

to eat