Andrew65

Probably not wearing a seat belt.

Happens occasionally in many countries.

A lifetime in a Thai prison's probably worse than being executed.

How many times have we heard of go fund me pages for both tourists and expats? Over the years I knew quite a few elderly expats who ended up returning to their home countries, I think healthcare played a part in that for all of them.

Someone probably didn't need to be stupid to be caught. I expect it was much like any other transaction they've done with their plastic.

I have an old friend who lives in BKK. His rent's 400k pa, plus 200-300k for other expenses, so he needs close to 800k pa in money in Thailand.

Are you saying corruption's legal in Thailand? I spent 20 years living in Thailand, so I've got quite a good idea of how things work over there.

Only from the moment that they give a backhander to an immigration officer.

Depending on your lifestyle and where you live, you might need the thick end of 800k to be in Thailand every year anyway. Plus the knowledge that you're totally legal.

I had an old friend who had gone from a retirement visa, to a marriage visa, and then back to a retirement visa. All things considered he thought the retirement visa to be better.

It's called "Care in the Community" in the UK.

"Kan yoo pleez look at my resumay?". "We have spell-checker, you start on Monday morning"????

Hope everyone's OK. I grew to really like Soi 8, plenty going on, but not OTT. I

It can work the same way in the UK, get involved and you could be the one who ends up in court and in prison. Much can be said for "minding our own business".

Too many cheap charlies already!

Get 'involved' and you could be the one who ends up in the joint rather than the crims.

The only thing with bars and alcohol is that they're not essential services and products. Although I agree with what a UK politician said recently, we can't carry on like this indefinitely. In the UK the furlough scheme cost the taxpayer £70 billion, we can't afford too much of that. A balance has to be found between managing the virus and not destroying the economy.

I think she was going to see family in CT, so probably not absolutely essential. I last left Thailand on March 27th 2020, 11 days early, so as not to be caught out. That was just as the pandemic was getting going! Thailand was starting to shut down, so not much point in staying anyway.

A week or two ago I heard a lady on the Jeremy Vine Show on Radio 2 in the UK. She said that she had been flying from London to Cape Town (about 12 hours). She said that whilst flying the rules in South Africa had changed drastically, and by the time she heard the news, I think on the day she landed, every flight from SA to Europe had been booked up, for a long time!

"Don't rock the boat!".????

An old British friend has 2 half-Thai daughters. He said it has always been incredibly hard to get them to speak English, even though he knows that they can, quite well. It's almost like it's embarrassing for them to speak English.

There must be millions of Thais in Bangkok from upcountry, places like Buri Ram, and they do all kinds of jobs. I spent nearly 20 years living in Bangkok, and most of the Thais who I asked weren't originally from Bangkok.

As far as COVID goes, testing negative is a positive????

Some years ago an old Scottish friend came down with meningitis just over a week after he arrived in Bangkok, almost died. I suspected that he caught it on the 12 hour flight over, planes are like flying petri-dishes.

In my almost 20 years in Thailand that worked well for me. Also, if we're visibly drunk we become even more of a 'target'.