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An old ex-Navy friend used to call them 'depth-charges', where they put extra bills in your check-bin. 

53 minutes ago, Celsius said:

 

How did the Russian know it was his wife?

 

she was "invited" to a pool party....at 2am.

 

apparently after her day at "work".

 

Yes, the Russian totally deserved to die after making advances towards a common Pattaya prostitute.

I got the impression that many guys get think that any woman is 'fair game' in Thailand, when that isn't always the case.

3 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

was he singing 'there'll be a welcome in the hills' when he threw the punch?

"Men Of Harlech"😁

On 5/26/2024 at 3:01 AM, ChipButty said:

Below the soi dogs, 

Below the fleas on the soi dogs!☺️

18 hours ago, Baz Erckens said:

Does anyone track the current high scores? What's the longest overstay ever?

The longest that I remember seeing a report about was 13 years.

4 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Another crazy, nutjob foreigner that's escaped from Pattaya. 

 

Who's going to guess nationality, Germany maybe!!!!! 

I read yesterday a member asking 'Why's it always Germans?'. 😂

 

So sorry for the pump attendant, getting a measly 300 baht daily wage and have to deal with foreign freaks. 

Just waiting for the Brit-bashing to begin. 

3 minutes ago, roo860 said:

They're in Phuket 

One of the most expensive parts of Thailand then.

9 hours ago, gearbox said:

Lower Sukhumvit is fairly expensive place, I doubt you can even rent  a garage for £550 in central London. My nephew was renting 2 bedroom apartment near Victoria station for £2500 per month, and that was a few years ago. Now he lives in his own house but his childcare is £2500 per month for only one child.

London's the most expensive part of Britain. This subject of this post is about whether Thailand is necessarily cheaper than Britain as a whole, and not just London.

I sometimes look at the question and answer site Quora and see questions like "How much do I need for a 2 week stay in Thailand?"
They don't provide any more information Like:

Do they have a very epensive drug habit?
Do they usually stop in 5 star hotels or dormitory accommodation for 5 bucks a night?
Will they be stopping in Bangkok, Phuket, or Nakhon Nowhere?
Will they be spending 5k to 10k Baht per night on hookers/partying etc?

Do they dine in Michelin starred restaurants every night, or pay 50 Baht for street food?
Do they realise that they will probably have to pay a lot of money for things that they get for free back home? (Like healthcare and sending their kids to school, if living there).

Many people assume that Thailand is super cheap, when it isn't necessarily so.

And that's just for starters.

Like many other places, Thailand can be as cheap or as expensive as we want it to be. Some people assume that it's still a cheap & cheerful place.

4 minutes ago, BuddyPish said:

Talk about apples and oranges.
Lower Sukhumvit's equivalent in the UK would be something like the West End in London.

24k in Lower Sukhumvit would be 120k+++ in the West End.

Healthcare in the UK is a postcode lottery; the quality of service you receive is almost entirely dependent upon where you live. 

 

If you're paying GBP550 pm to live in the UK, you're definitely not living in London or even the South East
 

I live in Bromsgrove, which is quite a nice area. London (inside the M25) is almost like a different country to the rest of the UK.

I could have also gone and lived in Nakhon Nowhere in Thailand, where there's (maybe) nothing to do, and been bored-rigid. Like the UK, Thailand also has big regional differences in costs.

I was just pointing out that living in Thailand isn't necessarily much cheaper than living in the UK, depending on where one lives.

Some old firends moved from Thailand to Cambodia, which I found appreciably cheaper when I was there on visa runs, and also visas aren't such a pain in the ***.there.

7 hours ago, theblether said:

Here we go again. Another chance for the nutter brigade who haven't lived in the UK for decades to start ranting. Let me annoy you - 

 

20% of British pensioners are millionaires. NHS free, education, free, university - free in Scotland, limited fees in England. Prescriptions, free in Scotland, Bus passes, free. 

 

8.5% increase in the UK pension. Re NHS - contrary to the drivel you read - I was referred to the hospital for an ECG a week past Thursday and had the scan on Monday - two business days. 

 

My gas and electric bill for the last quarter - £330. The most expensive in my family was a millionaires seven-bedroom house, £1100. Supermarkets are cheaper than Thailand. Fruit is bizarrely cheaper. Meat is higher quality and cheap 200 baht a kilo for chicken breast. 

 

£2.10 a pint in my local bar. 

 

Where are we more expensive? Rent and petrol mainly. Rent isn't an issue if you own your house, just as we have been encouraged to do for the past 50 years. Street food us cheaper, but every UK town has an all you can eat buffet these days for a tenner. 

 

Have at it with your growling. And this family is in for a shock when they see the reality of school fees etc in Thailand. 

 

You're right there. I lived in Bangkok for 20 years, lower-Sukhumvit area. I've now been living back in the UK for almost 6 years, and my living expenses are similar to what they were in Thailand. I now pay £550 per month rent (all inclusive). When I last lived in Bangkok my rent was 24,000 Baht. I don't have to pay for healthcare in the UK

When I lived in lower Sukhumvit, so not a cheap area, my living expenses were similar to what they are now in the UK. I was paying 23,000 Baht per month there, I'm now paying £550 pm (all inclusive) in the UK.

(What we save on heating costs in the UK, we could be spending some of it on cooling costs in Thailand).🙂

6 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Given they are not receiving a pension, and sun drenched villas are not cheap, one wonders how they are financing their "new life". One hope that he has a work permit for whatever it is.

 

PS, have they taken the cost of health care insurance into consideration? No NHS in LOS.

Some years ago I was talking to a (younger than me) British guy. He was planning on  moving to Spain with his Thai wife & kids, he said he was paying around £100 per week for his 2 kids to go to (primary) school in Thailand.

I also knew many retirees who left Thailand due to medical expenses, 2 guys I know currently have left Thailand for cancer treatment. One old guy I know had successful cancer treatment at B'grad, it cost around £40k, but he's a millionaire. Another (very wealthy) Swedish guy, a good friend, ended-up parting with around 5 million Baht (B'grad), before eventually going home to die in Sweden.

(These are all things that people get for free when they move to the UK, unsurprisingly we have massive queues for healthcare).

1 hour ago, MichaelHunt said:

I didn't think it mattered. I thought that either a person needs a visa - or doesn't. And I do.

 

Anyway, I spent my first 50 years as a (U.S.) American citizen, but I have renounced that citizenship and now I am a citizen of Belize. Does that change anything?

I would think that being a citizen of a third world country does change things in this regard.

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

If you're coughing up stuff, there's probably something wrong with your lungs.

I've smoked 1gm every evening for the past 4 years and never cough.

It's incredibly harsh on your throat, so it can't be much good for your lungs. 

14 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Nothing to worry about, the climate sceptics have it covered. Rising seas are fake news.

 

 

Saw something interesting a few years ago about an American guy, a commercial fisherman. He had his Miami Beach area residential property for sale, whilst it still has value, due to rising sea levels.

5 minutes ago, bristolgeoff said:

That is a red flag str away advertising thru social media,a thai saw it they were losing out game over for him.

Could you translate that for us!?🙂

There are many Thais who should never be allowed behind the wheel of a motor vehicle, driving standards can be shocking in Thailand.

27 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Never mentioned?

Have you been living under a rock?

 

Maybe you don't get my drift? Never do I hear anyone differentiate in the way that I mention. 

I believe that cannabis smoke contains around 3 times the tar of tobacco smoke, but one difference being is that pot smokers don't tend to smoke 20 or 30 joints per day. Nothing that we smoke is likely to be good for us.

1 hour ago, aussiebrian said:

I have lived in Thailand for 19 years, I have never seen any Jew hatred amongst Thais. Could be because most Thais don't even know what a Jew is, look at Hitler chicken, poster of Hitler with super heros on University campus, etc,  This was naivety not hate.  But with farang, it is a different story, it is rampant especially since October 7th.. 

Move one country to the south of Thailand, Israelis are banned from entering Malaysia, Palestinian flags flying on many buildings, and rampant Jew hatred running wild.. (The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree when you look at Penny Wong.) 

The journalist who wrote this might have thought he would get more hits putting in an Israeli.. but maybe he is one of the very few that said "Israeli" due to Jew hatred.

 

https://focusmalaysia.my/when-flying-the-israeli-flag-is-now-a-crime-in-malaysia-but-ok-with-the-palestinian-flag/

 

What's never mentioned currently is that there is a difference between anti-semitism and anti-Zionism. For instance, many Jewish people don't like Israel. Some years ago I saw a documentary featuring some young Israeli people who had decided to live in Berlin, Germany, rather than live with the "stupid old men" in Israel. I thought that was rather 'ironic'. I guess they were Anti-Zionist-semites?

2 hours ago, hwas said:

Side comment:  What is an 81 year old man doing using a motorbike taxi for touring?  30+ people a day killed in accidents, mostly involving motorcycles 

Yep, in my 20 years there I almost totally avoided using motorcycles either as a driver or passenger.

5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Why is he reported as an israeli? What difference does his nationality make?

 

It's normal for the nationality to be reported. Otherwise, why do they always mention that they were Brit, German, American etc?

(Although this guy's surname sounds Bulgarian/east European).

49 minutes ago, sandyf said:

Thailand offers visa free access to many foreign nationals, how many western countries offer visa free access to Thais.

Also, if Thailand wishes to deport a foreign national it's free to do so. They don't have to refer to a court in France which would almost invariably block it