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1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

I'm not sure if you think you are a Lawyer, or just placing your case down in the Blue Oyster and expecting a dance...   

i won't be fearing the reaper, that's for sure....

one word - use an agent ....

sorry that's three ..

i'm a Trump man  ....

Who could forget Vizz's "Johnny Fartpants".....

oh,

Sorry, you meant Trup the American bloke ....

What are you learned people's opinions of the pros and cons of each region ?

To start the ball rolling:

Jomtien has a great paved sea front walkway - Wongamat just has the beach ..

Jomtien has no gas stations - Wongamat/Naklua has 2 ....

cheaper to shave, surely ?

was at the new place earlier - i was expecting it to have a coffee shop and loads more stuff than the old place.....

well no coffee shop - its bigger than the old place with a high ceiling - but everything same old same old ....

Bloke down our ways got a large chopper - He'e always got it out ....

On 2/12/2024 at 4:13 PM, scubascuba3 said:

There's a thread on it i posted a year+ ago, basically there's a cartel in Pattaya, they charge falang price. Go to Asia City Motors in Bowin. Easier to just order on Line or Facebook, and get a taxi there when ready

i'll second that - Those in the know go to Asia City Motors ....

And they laughed when i moved to Wongamat .....

Decent  accesory shop on corner of South Pattaya Road and Soi Kopai .....

i'd bet that the vast majority ain't got work permits .....

they should take a walk down the six, that's were they should be clamping down ...

would just about cover me rent .....

On 10/20/2023 at 4:30 AM, scubascuba3 said:

Good, was Grail still there? Previously the others didn't speak very good English

Grail still works for Asia City, but she's not involved in selling - The new contact that speaks English is a lady called "Warn" .....

you don't need to change to a non O ....  i had a job with a Non B visa and work permit .... When i left the job, immigration did a retirement extension to the Non B visa  - And i've extended it each year, for the last 8 years .....

OP - The day i arrived in Thailand 18 years ago -  my buddy, who got here 7 years before me and had a few businesses running, said:

"Never forget this place attracts the har souls of society and the worrying thing is that these har souls don't know they're har souls..." ...

10 hours ago, SunsetT said:

Wow! You are clairvoyant are you? You not only know what the UK would be like  if the Socialists (not Communists) had won the last election or win the next election, but you can also read my mind.

 

All I know is, at 70 yrs old, I grew up in a country where I received excellent free education to graduate level, excellent free NHS healthcare, incl. dental and eye care as a child, all public services and utilities were nationalised and more efficient and affordable by most,  I felt safe with emergency services and police arriving in minutes not hours or days when needed. And all of this was from Socialist policies introduced by post-war Labour governments.

 

All of this has now been destroyed by the Conservative party!

 

I never thought I would live to see UK people having to pull their own teeth because there are no (affordable) NHS dentists in huge areas of the UK; city people having to hail taxis to get to hospital after road accidents because ambulances take hours to arrive. Elderly folk, after a fall, spending hours (one 9hrs, one, over 90, 14hrs in my area) laying on the ground, even outside, and sometimes overnight, waiting for an ambulance. And when they do eventually reach hospital they, and other patients in emergency circumstances, often have to spend hours and hours in ambulances queued outside of hospitals because A&E is backlogged with patients lining corridors on stretchers waiting for beds to become available. And it is Jeremy Hunt, the current Conservative chancellor who is personally responsible for most for this appalling situation. Because, as Health Minister, he was notorious for closing wards and small rural hospitals cutting the number of beds available, and also nurses and doctors to the bone. As for the police, they have become a complete joke, not even interested in arresting shoplifters, taking hours to answer non-emergency phone calls to report a crime. Rather they expect people to fill in  a lengthy online form to do so. Again even in an emergency, it can take them hours to respond even where there is a threat of violence, and then maybe just with a phone call!

 

Who is responsible for the absurd UK price capping system which has made gas and electric the most expensive in Europe and unaffordable by most and requiring government sudsidy for all. This when the government is refusing to increase windfall  taxes on the fuel companies supplying it who are raking in obscene and record profits?

 

Who is responsible for the total disaster that is Brexit, and which has led us from being one of the most respected countries in the World to being the laughing stock of the World?

 

Have you tried using UK government depts. such as the Passport, Driving Licence, or Pension offices lately? There are often long delays, and it is virtually impossible to contact them by phone or get a reply if you have a problem. Why? 12 years+ of Tory austerity again have cut their underpaid staff numbers to the bone.

 

How about the ongoing Tory corruption, hypocrisy, and cronyism, e.g., the millions of tax payer's money squandered and wasted on PPE, etc., during Covid giving contracts to their mates and Conservative party doners?

 

I could go on and on but sadly most have been brainwashed by extreme Right wing populist propaganda published by tax haven millionaire owned publications such as the Daily Mail who have an extreme vested interest in keeping the Tories in power, i.e., tax avoidance. Also many more voters, thinking they are superior and more enlightened, suck up to the biased political coverage of the BBC who are the propaganda wing of the British public schoolboy establishment & elite who again have a vested interest in tax avoidance and hanging on to their wealth by keeping the Conservative party in power.

 

People in the UK make the mistake of simply voting for the party leaders that they are presented with when they should be scrutinising and voting for party policies and their track record when in power. Labour lost the last election because Jeremy Corbyn, who, OK, never had leadership qualities, was completely demonised by the establishment media who, along with Boris Johnson's lies on Brexit, convinced people that returning to the socialist Britain that I was blessed to have grown up in, would be a nightmare. So Corbyn had no chance compared to the cuddly, charismatic and posh eccentric Boris Johnson (The British Class system is alive and well). They said that Labour would take us back to the Seventies (which were actually great), but hell! the Tories have taken the UK back to the Stone Age!

 

So I ask you, how can the alternative be far far worse than this? Any alternative must be better than the utter disaster that we now have in the UK. Are Corbyn and Starmer far far worse than Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Liz Truss (????)? I dont think so. And now we have an unelected ethnically Indian millionaire or is it billionaire as Prime Minister (who is actually not doing such a bad job compared to the previous shower!).

 

How can we possibly know that the alternative is far far worse until they are given the chance in power to prove that they are not? Of course I forgot, you are clairvoyant. You must be rich or one of the rich British establishment greedily clinging to their wealth and frightened to death of paying more tax under a Labour govt., or even paying any tax at all to contribute to the country that has given them so much? Or have you been successfully brainwashed by the UK media?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

some very valid points there !    what are your thoughts on the "boat people" keep rocking up ??