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Kudel

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  1. Not sure here.. i mean i also have shared cost with the gf. However a trip to Europe would be fun for you and if she is doing it just for you then why should she pay. You want her to visit Europe and such. I know that I always pay for tickets, its not her fault my family lives in Europe.

    No it was actually her suggestion - she wants to come because she's always wanted to see Europe.

    I wouldn't personally mind just coming to Thailand instead for the holidays, but of course a trip to Europe with her would be fun.

    She is using her friends as comparisons, who have +10 year old farang boyfriends with big incomes who of course pay for their trips. However I'm still a student and living on a similar budget as herself, but in a country where most things are twice as expensive as in Thailand. And someone said about not getting paid for holidays.. it will be paid annual leave combined with public holidays for her so she is indeed getting paid.

    Op what about obtaining a shengen visa for her?you or she have to show proof of finances and hotel bookings or rental contract or proof you have a place to stay for her in europe or in some cases she has to produce a letter from her employer stating she can take leave for said holiday and come back to work when returning to Thailand etc.....

    And i think the wages you guys have it will be a no.....or somebody from your family wil have to guarantee for her.

  2. To me success means to be happy in your new environment.

    Thailand is beautiful, that's for sure, but as I already wrote in some other thread, I am not quite happy here, because Thailand is more for old, retired expat community, not for young expats.

    ... unless they have a brain and can work, or work out what to do with their time.

    Yes, you are right, but I didn't come to Thailand to do nothing.

    I just want to say that it's not easy for young expats to have long term circle of friends within their age bracket, since the majority of farangs here are 50+.

    You all speak about money, but to me being with friends, with like minded people, is important segment of life.

    Many young expats working for Multi nationals live and work in Thailand with their family al expenses paid by company accomodation even international school for their kids .

    A pensioner living on a fixed income and benefits is not an expat.

    And old farts are just as good at getting in to trouble in Thailand as the next naieve backpacker fresh of the plane in she wanna boom.

    So i would say no country for old men to many boner pils can make you blind.

  3. My GF gave me 1000 baht last night and said, "Sometimes i pay the electricity bill and sometimes you pay".

    TOP THAT!

    Whether its you, or her, or someone else...the 1000 baht will paid...as will the electricity bill.

    Probably pays her Household money every month so he always pays for the bill

  4. After reading some cv's posted online by certain iffy expats one has to wonder,was i just reading alice in wonderland ........

    But the most credible American ever takes the cake.

    Found a cure for aids,found a solution for the oil spill in the gulf of mexico,came to thailand by royal proclamation to help solve the asian financial crisis after the stock market crash ......jezus christ to open beer bars in pattaya .etc.....

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  5. Then how come the forum is so often overwhelmingly negative?

    The negative guys don't live in Thailand. Most of them have never been in Thailand. The closest they get is an internet virtual affair with an expat pretending to be a Thai female school teacher.

    Maybe some of us non expats see true the drivel most walter mitty expats post on a daily basis about their life in Thailand ,putting on a silly police volunteer uniform in bhucket and getting mentioned on a certain Britisch journalists website operating from Bangkok as being very unlucky operating a bussines in Thailand might get one to loose his street cred so to speak....

  6. Online booking agency's have started their early booking campaign in oktober for the holiday season 2015 in my country instead of January February and are offering great deals for package holidays to places like Spain,Greece,Turkey etc...

    According to said agency's people still want to spend money on a holiday even in times of economic downturn.

    I booked a last minute for me and my three kids back in October for 7 days to the Turkish riviera wich cost 1400 euro's.

    Included in Price:flight,2 rooms in five star beach resort beach vieuw all inclusive even minibar,3 meals a day all you can eat,fitness,spa ,sauna,animation for the kids,waterpark next to the hotel all drinks at swimmingpool bar,drinks at 24/7 bar brand name drinks, and the list goes on......

    Airplaine tickets only to Thailand for 5 people cost me between 3500 and 4000 euro for the cheapest one's in 2012,no competing with the above.

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  7. Just got back from a week in Yasothon. Rice had just been harvested and it was dry as a bone up there. My buddies family has one well doing OK. We priced out putting in another one. Complete system about 20 meters deep just under 100,000 bhat.

    the well driller who had been drilling for 15 years up there said it was getting harder and harder to hit good water...

    And in 2012 my ex father in law had a water well supplied and funded by the local goverment for free to water his rice fields in Buriram......i think youve been had old boy.

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