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good job, i'm sure you feel better.

curious: how much did you save (including all the traveling, food, motels, etc....)? no way to know exactly.

AND i'm sure the mental anguish was extreme and outweighed the cost savings....still curious

i know it can't be replicated

100 replies of DON'T DO IT....and the OP does it!!

UPDATE: OP's bank account frozen, computer turned over to authorities, found bad stuff, fine is 100 million baht, in prison, and will soon post thread....ANYONE KNOW A GOOD LAWYER???

asking question = gut feeling says NO.

have him send the money to a site like paypal, but NOT paypal......i wouldn't give him any information

then find out when it clears....then wait a little longer (what's he going to do, get mad?)......then after one last call to bank, send

but i would NOT do this transaction.

but, whatever....not my money

life is short.....but expensive. so get a TENT, live outside with cash in safe.......do this for like 4 months.....bang, save big money

then move in with farang...tell them you are broke...another 2 months

then thai gf...another 2 months

repeat.

do this JUST ONE YEAR and you will have saved a lot.....

odds of dying....maybe 4 percent. so not bad

i might ask the same question with 9 million baht when i'm 50........

working is not living!! you must be one with people who sell cheap mango shakes

when thailand gets expensive.....well, we are all doomed

This happened to me. Bought 600,000 carbon pedal bike (priorities) and then crashed coming down doi suthep around 70 kph. dog ran in road, and it was raining.

hip shattered, elbow destroyed, hit head...no helmet

i went into the caves...(this is where you stop reading)...

rescued by monks, learned thai, and found the all-healing amulet

now english is very difficult for me.....

drug king pin stole my bike...i will fight him soon!!! well, not me, i'm a monk

once i was an idiot and read my visa wrong and got hit with 5 days i think....was bad. maybe 5 years ago. you feel so stupid.

but time flies when things are bad.....days, weeks, months, and you are in "survival" mode and your brain shuts down. maybe you try to get a job, but you know you are doomed....you are like a convict on the run......you entire point of living is to hide...not fun, i'm sure...

this is why friends and family exist.....but my feeling the guy(s) would be doomed anywhere in the world.....

7 billion people in the world?? sure, there will be a lot, including us, who have some bad moments....some worse

luckily i understand every language in the world, but there are a few countries that couldn't write any history on WW2. they are all dead. and 89 publishers rejected other important parts, i spoke with everyone there. and 76 books got it wrong on a few subjects, since new information surfaced later. and in 100-years i will know every single bullet fired!!!!

Perhaps, if you read your post you can answer the question yourself ?

Remember you were not present at the interview and so only have a single sided view of the whole picture.

I don't really understand what you mean...I have no reason not to believe her report of how the interview went, if that's what you're implying. She said was never given a chance to explain her situation...this is not the first time I've heard this about visa interviews, I was just hoping it wouldn't happen to her.

I was "implying" nothing,

I am sure your g/f speaks/understands perfect American English and can instantly and without error translate Thai to English.

I am also sure the lady relaid, verbatim, exactly what occurred during the interview.

Best you lodge a formal complaint with the US authorities.

Maybe YOU should read my post. The interview was entirely in Thai. And I speak with her only in Lao and Thai...we've never spoken English.

you have NEVER spoken English with her?????? hi, bye, hello, thanks......never said from her to you or you to her????

Since I think this is wrong, I cannot believe anything else

It's a cobra thailand only has cobras ...

The coloration shows that it a King Cobra and what a stupid statement to say that Thailand only has cobras.

They don't have humor in your home country. No?

Humor has no place on such serious subjects!!!!! A cat might have been hurt!!! This might hurt the Darwinist ability to keep cats domesticated!!!!!

i am from east germany......born in 1935.......i have never smiled........the wall actually hit me when it came down!!!!!

it speaks volumes that everyone "likes" this misery

it is great!!!! LOS!!!!! 555555555

you act surprised, but i know you are not surprised nobody said, 'thanks'.

here is a part i wanted to read;

"cop spikes bride's drink then arrests her for being on drugs." "all gifts taken, smashed, and all guests were asked to give each cop 500 baht so they could get a nice meal." "everyone given a ticket for not bringing food, then arrested, then thrown into a pit with crocodiles."

ok, i got a little.....just a little....carried away

good news....I have talked to the Sun God.....i can PROMISE it will get warmer in the future!!!

it will also get colder

but then warmer again!!!!!!!

i am 100% sure you will get warmer!!!!

thank me with money

when i saw the title i thought they were talking about the time i went to soi 33 after a few drinks...

same reason every news story doesn't start out with bashing their own country.......like nazis in germany, for an easy example

people that pay the bills aren't going to support that.....advertising dries up.

you don't want to scare people from spending money....d'uh.

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and even doing youtube videos on the subject might get you deported......it might not, i'm not sure.

besides, i'm super poor and lazy and fat and uneducated farang........i need money not knowledge!!!!

BUT..if they captured the Kardashians or Bieber......top story for weeks!!!!

All the schools I talked to won't do 1 year because of new laws, and will wait to see what happens.

the new 6-month visa makes the most sense, if you can show the money, and then just take the classes on your own.

and i remember with my last ED Visa (6-months i think a few years ago)...it cost about $400 to go to Laos and come back....so just be prepared for some added expenses

without cash, it's much harder to stay long term....

i heard in 5-years it will go to 100 million baht!!!!

this thread should be closed....it gets me too worried!!!!!

Just go make a few million baht and problem sorted!!!!

digital nomads are working!!! work permit or deported!!! all selfies that result in money need to pay LOS!!!

you bring in a laptop to LOS, extra 100,000 baht!!!!

sorted.

i'm going to do a youtube video on this and make big money!!!!

pay bar fine first....

I know this guy!!!

Actually, there was a hidden camera for a TV show.

IF you gave him 400 baht, they give you 1 million baht!!!!

sorry, the show stopped filming.

Only had 1 winner out of 9128374982372 farangs who come to Thailand to be "nice"

This gets me very, very mad!!!! I will get those posters and beat them up!!!

hmmmm...

With the crazy as Hell METV requirements, I wonder if getting an SETV will be as easy as taking candy from a child.

Crazy as hell why?

It seemed rather simple to me.

Crazy <> simple.

Who in their right mind keeps A$8000 in a bank account for 6 months? They are always banging on about wanting so called 'quality tourists' but what they really mean is... we want dullard tourists.

that is crazy.

i keep A$90000 for 100 months

incest, alcoholism, theft, low IQ, bipolar, aids, etc

every country has problems...

prevalent in every country....

which is why i will soon buy my own island.....

Thailand likely has much worse air quality...pollution into your lungs, more allergies, probably take a few years off your life. The language is harder, and future has more risks.....

But I think people friendlier in Thailand, easier to escape to a "less worse" country, and bigger country is better....

I would first look at Switzerland. Then Austria.......

spent one year in Thailand......air was too bad. heat was too bad. I am sure it will take years off your life, but might be worth it.

just put me in the will!!!!!

Win every lottery on Earth......should be billions USD, maybe tens of Billions. Then buy out a company, sell it for 100x more...

do that a few times...

buy island, find oil, get 100 warships built...

then have pyramids and temples made in my honor!!!

create own language.....books will be written about me!!!!

herpes

see if you can get 1,000,000 likes on TV and then facebook and then twitter......

then go videotape what you ate at every meal....

then blog...

seems so meaningful to some.....

i don't get it......but maybe this is your calling!!!!!!!