Squeegee

Thanks all, it got sorted.

So there's no business for the Nigerians now I guess because the Thais themselves are selling.

Actually, I hadn't thought of Line.

I just don't want to use websites and banking, etc.

If I can reach someone on Line and they deliver I would go for that!

I used to buy off the Nigerians on Sukhumvit. I would get their number and tip them for meeting me at an unrelated Skytrain station to do the business away from trouble.

I left Thailand some years ago but I am currently back on a trip and things have obviously changed.

Last week I went into a place on Sukhumvit 22 and they had all these designer imports for 450THB to 800THB per gram. I bought a gram and smoked it all that evening.

Actually, I am not into the commercialised side of things, I don't care for all these fancy strains, I prefer to have something that will last me a few days that simply gets the job done and isn't so expensive.

Are the Nigerians still selling the brick weed on Sukhumvit these days?

Anyone know where I can get a few days supply for 1000THB?

P.S. No ordering online. I want to go physically.

Cheers

For longer stay there's a yearly option as well as 1 or 3 months for business visa which is also extendable more or less indefinitely, albeit increasing in price the more times you do extend.

As far as I know the tourist visa was tightened up a little last year, so it's less easy and more expensive to extend (ie. still possible depending on which side of the bed someone got out of, who your service provider's contacts are and how much is being paid, etc).

However, it's easier to get initially from outside VN and cheaper (for the paperwork).

If you want to be a short term tourist get a tourist visa, seems to be the word from the Vietnamese, it will be a little cheaper for you.

I believe the business visa is more expensive to get the initial invitation letter, but it offers longer term stay, especially for those who may want to do a little business or a bit of work for someone: better to pay a little more initially for the business visa, then you can stay longer term more conveniently and cheaply with extensions without having to leave town.

Of course, in SE Asia the best advice is have all your ducks in a row, but it seems at the moment the Vietnamese are happy to have foreigners come in and try to be on more or less the right visa with everything looking good (=total whatever cost paid/everyone has face) and it's otherwise pretty relaxed.

Still, always the best advice would be if you intend to work then do your paperwork properly through your employer with a real invitation letter and all that...

You could probably just enter any old how initially, it doesn't matter because staying long term in Viet Nam is better done from inside. The Vietnamese are not like the Thais and they prefer to do as much as possible themselves. They always have their own best advice and can use their contacts so everything goes swimmingly for you.

Who? Research a good travel agent for the local expats. There's info for online services too but I never used them with VN.

Ultimately tourist is cheaper for short stay only, business is better for pretty much anything else.

Specifics are best answered at source. There are many grey areas. Be as legal as possible.

13 hours ago, PJPom said:

once again a very thorough scrutiny and a lot of punching computer keys and consultations before I was given stamp and allowed to enter.

 

[...]

 

seems like all is OK 

Past tense. All was OK. Enjoy your time. Be Prepared.

17 minutes ago, freedomnow said:

"Looks like Vientiane now the only 'hassle free' embassy/consulate for TV left in region"

 

Not for long with such a 'now in the cross-hairs' title......like a MEGAPHONE ?

4 hours ago, newatthis said:

"She's never met the dude. He contacted her on FB. She cannot speak English. Yet she is convinced he's about to send her a wedge of $$$ for this house. She sees this as a windfall and is planning to pocket the cash.

Now a really, really small part of me thinks this is legit, that I shouldn't help her 'cause she's planning to steal the money."

 

As others have posted it's probably a scam, but she's no different.

OP why would you protect a thief against a thief?

Let her learn her own lessons from her thieving ways, it's nothing less than she deserves.

On 12/31/2016 at 9:30 AM, Caracena said:

looks like the immigration here only fines foreigners for not having a house registration and not submitting TM28. They are not interested to enforce any rules on the house owners.

If that is true, then there's an answer for the OP.

Why is flying not an option?

On 12/23/2016 at 7:45 PM, JustAnotherFarang said:

picking there way

Beach vendor, you were encroaching.

8 hours ago, lungnorm said:

She works in a larger type hospital and although she is only a cleaner her vast network of Thai friends come to her to try and gain employment. So much is she respected at work the H.R dept always contact her first when a new employee is required. At last count she had secured employment for over 60 Thai friends. You obviously cannot envision someone with soooo many friends. I have no reason to lie about this so its not hyperbole.

I could not envision it, but I can now.

Your specifying brings a lot more to the thread than your generalizing, though I suspect for every Thai lady looking the other way, maybe there's one with a rovin' eye if the spice is right, and maybe a couple of others who'd scream-the-place-down or cut-your-balls-off, other common varieties of Thai lady.

1 hour ago, lungnorm said:

I would not have posted it if I was not sure of my facts. My ex had hundreds of Thai friends in Australia they all used to confess their problems to her.

Although there may be some truth in some Asian women turning a blind eye to their husband's infidelities, your gross generalization about it being customary for Thai women is nothing but just that... a gross generalization.

Faith in your words about what is a custom for Thai women is further undermined by yourself with your own hyperbole. You have literally claimed that there are at least 200 ("hundreds") Thais in Australia who are "all" confessing their problems to your wife.

I wonder, with such a lifestyle to be listening to the problems of at least TWO HUNDRED people in Australia, how your amazing wife finds time to breathe and put the cat out.

So maybe your wife could make a fortune charging for this clearly much-needed service by people who - according to you - "all" keep a custom and then complain to your wife about it.

What you say has truth in it, but generalizations and hyperbole remove a lot of that truth and tend to replace it with silliness.

3 hours ago, AlexRich said:

I much prefer the Toffee Crisp!

Actually I love Toffee Crisp too. Those and Topic are probably amongst my top 5 with - in no possible particular order - Kit Kat Chunky (plain is best, milk will do), Bounty (plain is best, milk will do) and Twix.

1 each of those 5 or you could give me 2.

Why grow trees when you can grow flesh-eating microbes?

Anyway, the best topics come in 4 packs....

5 hours ago, joeyg said:

Actually I'm simply asking a question. And it's "whining", which I'm simply not doing.  Here we go with the sad responses I guess. 

Indeed it is a sad response to claim you are "simply asking a question" when really you are a whiner, whining about "so much" - your expression, sir - criticism.

This topic is nothing but a negativity-fest, where whiners hypocritical whiners and deluded whiners can come and whine. In actual fact, the topic isn't particularly for the basic whiners (about issues), but is really for the hypocritical and deluded whiners.

So you guessed right and the glass is half full, despite your negative topic.

9 hours ago, nikmar said:

Are you whingeing about whingers or ragging on whingers?? 

Ragging on.

They are whingers whinging about issues, unlike you who are a whinger whinging about whingers.

On 9/27/2016 at 10:08 AM, JingerBen said:

Exceptionally good post, Berkshire.

Concise and to the point.

You really plugged his hole.

Yeah but they don't cure their rat meat, though

16 minutes ago, chiang mai said:

You got drunk, said something to a man but you can't remember what and he punched you, now you're complaining! Get real!!!

Harsh but true.

The issue here is the OP assumes the world works like he thinks it does, and not like the sort of person who will punch you off the back of a baht bus:

1 hour ago, Smudge said:

really didnt matter what I said

Yes it did, clearly, therefore.. yes it does matter what you say in life.

16 hours ago, georgemandm said:

It has been happening here for years one thai opens something good then you see 10 more of the same , it is just thailand 

No, it is not just Thailand.

On 8/23/2016 at 1:23 PM, Franky Bear said:

I'm in the same boat kind of. I've been here 11 years and although i have had a great time, an amazing family and memories of a lifetime. It's time to move on. There's an "event" and the domino effect of that that will happen soon that could make it harder to live here. Then again it may not be as dramatic as many think.

For me it's about my daughter and wife. I want to give them a better way of life here, esp my 8 year old. The schools here are terrible, despite what people try and tell you.

I was going to take them back to Scotland to live which is a way better way of life than Thailand. My wife and kid have been back and loved it and wanted to move there. Then an amazing opportunity popped up out of nowhere where i have now secured a job with full family relocation to Hong Kong.

I don;t need to go too deep with HK, but it offers a great education for the kid, it's safe, the expat community are all professionals with good jobs and it offers a great mix of east and west.

We will be keeping our house in Thailand and i'd be a fool to say we will never live here again. But that will be once my kid finishes her education.

Before i get called a hater etc i want to highlight again i love the country and all it's given me, at 42 years old, and the opportunity i now have, the timing is perfect.

Called a hater?

Man, that is one of the best snapshots of an expat who is making a life that I have seen, with real thought, good judgement and in a very decent manner. On top of that there's always that bit of luck, but as they say in football "We make our own luck" and you have described a great life as well.

I hope Hong Kong works out for you, and I'm sure your daughter will grow up as a strong, well rounded human being!

Indeed, the picture isn't juicy in detail.

On 8/19/2016 at 6:12 AM, glegolo said:

I promise you, the sun will continue to shine and the booze will still be there, even if you open up your eyes....

 

Good luck..

 

Glegolo

Nice.

29 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

That's right, and, it's one thing for the Samui Immigration folks to blatantly depart from the standard Immigration rules nationwide. But obviously, they apparently have no concern about doing so, since instead of keeping their stuff under the table, they've helpfully printed out a document to show everyone just exactly how they're flouting the rules.

 

Also, have to wonder, why they're wanting some kind of proof of residence when, presumably, everyone doing extensions of stay with them is already having to do reporting of their address every 90 days anyway.

 

Maybe this is a test of their latest upcoming Foreigner Jumping Hoops idea from one of their committee meetings, and they're using Samui as their petri dish for pushing out their prototype creation....

15 hours ago, jvs said:

Well i was responding to the op's first post and there was no mention of a certified psychotic person and where did you see she was throwing poo at the op?

I kind of hinted the op's wife had an issue but i had no intention to offend anyone,i hope the op was not but you seem to be?You used rather strong language which you edited later.

I do feel the op's wife makes herself a victim,the real victim is the mentally challenged lady.

Sticks and stones?

Mister Squeegee you can take this to the bank,if my wife would ever suggest to me to get a gun and hire a hitman to do the dirty work i would be out of that relationship one minute later!

However i do feel for the op and his wife,it must be really difficult to deal with a situation like that,Squeegee did you offer any ideas?Like the op asked for?

I will leave it at that,have a nice evening.

"there was no mention of a certified psychotic person"

[...]

"...and if she really is mental [sic] unstable she is not to blame."

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"where did you see she was throwing poo at the op?"

You are seriously asking that in a topic where it specifies 'insults' in the title and goes into detail about abusive behaviour from a neighbour?

Actually, I agree with you that the OP's wife is making herself a victim, to an extent at least, however she is recieving abuse from another person, that makes her the primary victim no matter what her attitude is.

You are deeply incorrect to posit that if someone behaves anti-socially or not normal/healthy as considered by society then they are blameless.

"if my wife would ever suggest to me to get a gun and hire a hitman to do the dirty work i would be out of that relationship one minute later!"

You seem to lack basic life experience. As I said, decent people are driven to distraction by problem neighbours and you obviously cannot put yourself in their shoes, because it is not about rationalism. "I'll kill that little kid of he's rude to my mother again" does not mean someone is a potential murderer.

If someone drives your wife so crazy she says she wants to buy a gun you'll leave her. Lovely. It's called venting and if your wife is already down you'll just quit on her for that?

You make the abuser completely blameless by some fake politically correct notion yet point your finger at a man, his wife and their marriage. I find that offensive. Stick a 'not normal' tag on someone and say they are blameless. How patronizing. Then go after the victim....

The truth is almost certainly somewhere in between.

You can make some serious cash from this situation.

Find out her name (LETS SAY ITS PORN) and start a blog called THE ANTICS OF LADY PORN

Do a short intro on her and keep updating it with videos daily.its guaranteed to go viral.

Then the media might show up to do an interview or a variety show.

Treat this as a fun hobby.revenge tastes better when you do it slowly and on your terms.

Dont dabble in anything illegal or you will lose the people's sympathy.

I promise you she will stop once the abuse starts pouring in online.

Seriously the best advice to date.

Guys of the OP and myself don't recognize social media for the great tool it can be.

You already have the CCTV so build a "Best Of" compilation.

And a second lesson I just learned is to not get on JHolmesJR's bad side.

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