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How does Essex girl turn the lights out at nighttime? Shuts the car door.

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For going back 25 years now learning Thai I had a copy of the Fundamentals of the Thai language it does help, but I used it more after learning to speak the basic's and a bit more, as I think the book says You cannot learn Thai by cook and book, cook meaning the person doing the cooking in the house, this book goes back must be 50 years now still relevant, someone on here said a while ago it is available on line. Why does the Op's wife not help ,one tip: buy a Thia /English, English/Thai dictionary. If you want to know a word, look the English up and get your wife to tell you the Thai, then as said write it down, that will help you remember it.

I came over in January 1997 and got 81 baht to the pound, a few weeks before a friend of mine living here, for one day, got 100 baht to the pound. Re oil price, Thailand has gashole, which basically a bio fuel made from fermented molasses, from sugarcane, and cassava, this year both the selling price of these crops are down cane now 800 baht/ton ,last year 1000 baht /ton, cassava this year about 2 baht/kg last year 2.50-2.90 baht/kg, a lot of cane fields are being ploughed up,not a lot of money to be made with a second hand cane harvester costing up 5 million baht, no burning in my area now, costs are high, especially fuel( up to press our local sugar cane mill ha received 2 million ton so far this year), more than last year. So, why doesn't the government help? It is in their interest: the more locally produced fuel, the less reliance on imported crude oil. Next year, they will be less cane, and cassava acreage will be up, some farmers grow cassava instead of cane.

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In my rural area, a lot of farm work, cutting sugarcane, and harvesting cassava, is done by immigrant workers. The employers say they cannot get Thai labour because they are too lazy. ( more than likely, they will not pay them enough) I know a dairy farm, they have two Lao workers, very good, they are too, they have 2 kids, one7-8 other one 3 ish, they get 9000 baht/month each, free accommodation/electric, and a bag 15kg rice/month. They are not alone, there are thousands more like them around the country, as they are helping the Thai economy they children should get free education, at least up to secondary school age, as most/all come from Lao, Burma, Cambodia. These being Buddhist countries, they should fit straight into the Thai school systems. Most of the problem goes back years, to the Vietnam war, when refugees were living on the Thai border in camps, the Thai government did support them, then, as you would suspect, no children went to Thai school, and since then it has been the same. I cannot see it changing. This has come up before, but all governments are the same; they will not change. Is it Thailand for the Thais only ??, unless they want some laboring work done.

I would say Europe/NATO is putting 2 fingers up to him. You went in feet first; your mess, you sort it out. After the way you treated Europe, with tariffs, Europe supported Greenland against you so you just threatened to put more tariffs on the supporting countries. Europe like most countries, knows this is going to go on a while they electret do not want it. You might have forgotten Ukraine. Europe has not, letting Russia sell more oil, hoping it will keep world oil prices down, and more importantly, keeping the cost of living down in the USA, so they can make /buy more arms to use against Ukraine, a smart move, not. another reason not to support you., you have got ,as said, the USA airbases in the UK. They know your support is dwindling; they are thinking of your mid-term elections in November, when you will have your wings servile clipped, probably losing both houses.

Modern-day cremation, our temples in our rural area still use charcoal, it takes 3 bags to cremate a person, one bag is about 300 baht

In Lopburi, a small petrol station had a queue of 30 vehicles, mainly pickups looking for diesel. My local Bangjak ran out of diesel yeterday, more due today, this afternoon, so they said, diesel seems more of a problem than petrol/gasohol.

The whole housing market in Thailand is in a mess, with about 50% of the 2-3 story lock-ups built and unsold some units for a few years now, and this is just in my area. Or a few that are just rented out, not enough income for the owner to pay back the borrowed money to build them. Now,as the Op is saying up to condos in big cities, I blame the banks, do they not have a property manager that knows the market and says that when our Somchie wants a loan to build an X-story block condominium, and says no, the market is saturated with unsold units, why build some more? Somchie says, I know I can sell mine and make a good profit, not looking 2km down the road at the unsold units. And of course, Somchai's mate, who has built the condominiums, cannot sell them but will not reduce the price to shift them, probably puts the price up as inflation and spiraling interest rates take hold,a catch22. No answer to the problem, will it be history repeating itself?, Time will tell.

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We did when we bought our piece of land, it was 15 years ago, we paid cash, went to the bank and got 800k out and gave it to the land seller he asked for cash, even took us in his own car. We are far from the only ones paying cash.

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It killed 3 cows with the state of Thai beef cattle roaming the countryside, it probably killed 3 to try and get some meat from them, for 1or 2 feeds. Thai beef cattle are hardly ever fat .

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If you shop around, you can find 3-core cable. I have some, but as has been said, it helps if you have good RCDs.

I wish any Thai farmer trying to grow spuds here in Thailand a lot of luck I have tried, so has a few other members on here, no luck, will not grow. Maybe on top of a mountain in CM a bit cooler, they might work. What I have been told a lot are imported from China. As for onion seed, that will not be a big market, might be good get some more new varieties into the country, as for dried onions, only ever seen small packs in Big C, imported not a Thai thing, cannot see that doing any harm to the local market.

I have been here for 20 years now, what stress, never have used an agent and never will, visa is quite simple, give the IO all the right paperwork job done, lean to speak Thai, that will make the job even easier. Those who do not have the requirements for they extension use an agent, but do not come on here when it goes pear-shaped and complain.

The vets doing the job will be the top 1% in the country, in my rural area, most Thai "vets "would not become nurses in a UK vet surgery. My area is big dairy cow one, trying to find a good vet to do an operation on a cow ,i.e., C-Section, displaced Abomasum, not easy/impossible. I Have heard of one very good cow vet but he is 80 km away, not always able to come to this area.