Tony125

There are a lot of expats in Mexico because it's cost of living is lower and they can drive there and easily get back to US for health care or other reasons. Forget the Drug Cartels you can't even trust the police down there. They Beat Him to Death': Tijuana Police Officers Accused of Torturing U.S. Resident https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/they-beat-him-to-death-tijuana-police-officers-accused-of-torturing-us-resident/ar-AAWTrwU?li=BBnb7Kz

Times change, you know the Metoo movement. I know in Boston when I was a kid guys ,especially around construction sites would whistle at cute girls walking by. Do that now and you can be arrested for assault. Hek I was an athlete kinda buff had nurses taking a lunch break outside Mass General Hospital who whistled at me when I walked my mom out to our car. Mom and I just laughed

Because the law states that she is below the age to give consent. Therefore if a guy does have sex with her they are commting statutory rape..

Higher Thai obesity rates coming , burgers washed down with not sweet sodas but shakes = ( much more calories) Don't think I have ever had a cheese burger with a milk shake.

Works both ways, latest article below: https://www.nytimes.com/article/covid-masks-protection-stats.html

My post was to the poster that said many of the people mentioned as having been to Thailand were never here , thus my post. Do not reply as you are now the first person I have ever put on the Ignor list, congratulations.

No they did not go unoticed but I am not going to search for them for you. What i meant when I said it was on TV in US and news here is as a famous dignatory Bush was followed around by reporters/press . Photos were taken of him in different venues such as the tailor shop and then articles were written in Bangkok, Thai , US papers as well as tv programs of his visit and what he did. There were news reports in BKK papers ,TV of his visit to shop and there are photos of him taken in the shop with the tailors and also on video/film. You or another poster said some people mentioned in the vid probably were never in Thailand. Yes they were. Photo below of Obama when he was here with PM Yingluk Shinawatra. I am done trying to convince you if you want more info you can doyour own searches of old news reports.

Your account of their story is your opinion but not fact. I was here when Bush was here and it made all the news papers here and US. Was even on US tv (think it was 60 mins)and CNN you can Google it. The reporters came over to Thailand to interview the tailors. Same as when President Reagan was in my neighborhood of Dorchester in Boston and stopped his calvacade to get a beer at the Erie Pub on Dorchester Ave.

Did a retirement extension 8 days after it expired a few years ago. IO at CW looked over all the paperwork, photos ect then said " 1900 baht for extension and 4,000 baht for 8 day overstay."

IMHO the work is not probably done in that shop but at a second location where the materials are kept. That's is why second /third fittings are sometime done. Tailor at the shops takes your measurements other shop/factory uses the material and makes suit. Then you come back to have the prime tailor make any adjustments needed.

I don't think a lot of Thai Visa readers bothered to view the vid I posted. Not only have various US Presidents had their suits done at that shop but their security detail aka Secret Service men have their suits made there as well. Reason, as in the movie John Wick the suits are designed to hide the fact that the wearer is carrrying weapons. Most guys I've seen in Thailand don't have a perfect body so buying/wearing a suit made for them looks better, feels better than an off the rack suit .

Above are probably the best in Thailand . I don't agree with you about $99 suits, have seen some places that were in MBK Mall in BKK and shops in Pattaya that could make a very good looking suit for maybe $50 than $99 that looked much more expensive. Sometime you have to tell them to double stich or use premier thread so as not to have problems later. https://www.boutiquebangkok.com/rajawongse-tailors-bangkok-suit-shopping#:~:text=While many Bangkok tailors boast,many more visiting US statesmen

You said : "... have known closely at least 30 farangs here have married or extended relationships with Thai women and not one of them has ended well. ..." I have always failed to understand why some guys here do not do deligence. Example I know of no guy in the US who would marry a girl or say get a pretty GF from a go-go bar and just give her say $100,000 and tell her "go buy us a house" They would get a realestate agent to check out property and a lawyer to draw up a contract if not married or even maybe a prenup if they are married. Over here because they don't know the language/laws they just give the cutie the money and then years later gripe about how stupid was I . Really? As I said guys making bad choices. No reason to put car, condo stuff in Thai wife/GF's name and contracts can be drawn up to protect the farang. In my case even if my precautions did not work out my money = retirement pension,assets at home are deposited in a US bank which I transfer funds from every month or as needed. IF somehow she was able to bypass the safe guards I have in place and get the car/house,condo here my pension still comes to me every month. I could walk away with the full income coming to me and move anywhere in Thailand and rent a place and find someone else. Could even move to Phillippines ,Vetnam ect so as I said before guys making bad choices . You don't hope for diviorce/break up but you can lessen the damage/pain with a little common sense and planning.

As I said it depends on your choice /person. I had a friend who came over , partied with 5 bar girls in his room. Liked one and ended up marrying her. She wasn't that pretty but much younger. He was dating an older girl in US but she was too old to have any kids which is what he wanted. He married the Thai girl and she gave him the son he always wanted. They are still together today after 17 years and are actually visiting Thailand right now. So those that say it never works out with a poor farm/bar girl I know that it can as with my friend. Maybe not likely but the relationship can work out. It always depends on the girl and as well the family you marry into. PS: Have other friends in US married to Thai for many years. 1 married manager of Thai Hotel in Pattaya. 1 other waitress at Thai restaurant, 1 maid at hotel, 1 other sales girl at Major Mall, 2 Thai school teachers.

If you have no wish to adapt to Thai customs fine but unlike you I don't think it;s the best way to enjoy life here in Thailand. my wife's father = farmer but sold his land to put his kids thru university. All of them speak English. After I bought land/house here my wife's younger sister who graduated as a chemical Engineer asked if she could build small house on part of the land I bought. I said ok plenty of room ( no payment as she had just started working and couldn't afford to buy) Years later she owns her own company, walked into my house and said thanks uncle and gave me $10,000 USD for the lot I let her build her house on my land. Also when first got here got lazy/fat had a heart attack. Wife's brothers , sister ,cousins,aunts, uncles came from as far as Phicht Province to visit me in the hospital in Bangkok. I have full insurance but hospital wasn't going to discharge me untill bill paid. Her sis put it on her Charge Card told me pay her later which was next week when they transfered to my bank. Extended family own company, multi homes, condo's and apartment buildings, farms so although not Hi-so they are middle class and most speak English to some degree . Family gets together at last once a year to travel Thailand say to Phuket, Pattaya, Bangkok, Samui ,Rayong even to Japan 2 years ago. I know that usually the most well off of Thai family usually pay the bill at outings but even when I was working not retired they never let me pay for entire bill just let me chip in if I insisted. You may have different expiriance if you marry a poor/uneducated farm girl or bar girl but I have dated them before and met very nice so called lower status families. Just really depends on the person.

Think you should make an effort to learn Thai customs/mannners and maybe some of the language. I have known my wife and her family 22 years, been married over 18. In that time I may have shook her dad's hand twice and never shook her gran-pa's or uncles/aunts hands just a Wai. Thai don't usually shake hands that is a western custom, they may do it in a business setting with foreigners but not normal/family settings. Also when visiting from Europe you should have brought her family a gift from Europe/your home country. Doesn't really need to be expensive but something they could not usually get here as a sign of appreciation of thier hospitality to you and respect for her family. Don't point with your feet, don't put your hand on a child's or adult's head and don't offer to shake someone's hand, if greeting someone simply say Sawasdee krup and Wai don't offer a handshake or a hug.

It's not really fishing when you can reach down and pull them out of the water. Don;t need any lures or even bait. They have signs near temples "no fishing alowed" but other areas I'm sure you could.

International tourism will be significantly revived after Test and Go ends. Thailand was known as a fun place to visit with Full Moon Parties, Songkran, massage parlors, go-go's, bars open tillearly mornings and for families Temples , eco tours, beaches, water parks and templs. Untill they relax the stupid closing of bars/nite life they will never see anything approaching 40 million tourists a year ever again. Could see that if they actually opened casin's instead of talking about it and also actually alowing recreational Canabis/Kratum. Aslo if the hospitals didn't try to rip off farangs it could be a medical destination as well. If they wanted they could also attract elderly retires who would rather spend time in a Thai Assisted living complex rather than one in USA or EU>Russia

The girl inlink above was first molested by her Uber driver who then kicked her out alone alongside a road. Later she was raped and killed. Women in Mexico and some other countries say India are held in low regard and considered fair game for rape /murder. I would not move to any country like that. Your choice if you want to move to a place like that. The low cost of living would not outway the dangers.

Lak Si immigration is located in the IT Square Building ( Mall) ,it is not the same as Immigration Bld B ChangWatenna shown in bottom photo.

Might be, I would not live in a country where my GF, wife or daughter might disapear or be raped /asaulted at any time. Mexican police find body of missing woman in cistern https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mexican-police-find-body-of-missing-woman-in-cistern/ar-AAWulJN?cvid=ac78953bb6424f2e9ebd20c41d83054f

Childhood friend's wife had a stroke so beside phisiclly having trouble walking (mostly using a wheel chair) her brain was affected as well. She will make coments to him/people with no regard for others feelings . He niece will no longer come over as she will just blurt out you know your fat/ugly ect. Took her on a cruise to Aruba a week ago and when he tried taking photos she gave him the finger (he sent me the photo) so a stroke could affect a persons body and mind.

We don't know if his 60 days is a covid extension or 60 days to visit wife. If it was a covid extension he could get 60 days to visit his wife and season the money.

I think I understand a point he's making that you don't. You're saying he should not lecture survivors/victims on how they should behave but if the women are lying or willingly entering into a relationship and then because of woke attititudes change their story are they surviors? Courtney Stoden who at 16 married an actor 51 years old and demanded that she have that right as she was mature enough ( her body certainly was) Many people argued she was too young, and now she is saying was too young and was a victim of grooming and is writing a book about it. https://people.com/tv/courtney-stodden-opens-up-about-ex-doug-hutchison-alleged-grooming-upcoming-book/ Even Pam Shriver comes out now to say she was having innapropiate relationship with her coach at 17 and then started sleeping with him at 20. So now 40 years later she realses maybe she shouldn't have been sleeping with a married man, feels guilty about it so tells her story to protect other women. So how many go into a relationship and then recant their reason. Had a case in US where a college girl blamed a sports team for gang raping her ---case was dismissed after film showed she was inebriated but a willing participant and was not forced or held down. They sometimes regret their actions so cry a crime was commited. Had a girl at work grab my ass when I was talking to a female supervisor. I jumped. Sup asked "did she touch you? " I said "no she bumpt me and I wasn;t expecting it." Another time I was on phone wearing cut off shirt, girl raised it up. I said "what are you doing?" She said "I wanted to see if you dye your chest hair" If I raised a girl's shirt saying I wanted to see what color bra you have on they would be removing me in hand cuffs and probably be beating my ass. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/tennis/pam-shriver-reveals-inappropriate-relationship-at-17-with-her-coach/ar-AAWpG8p?li=BBnb7Kz

Not all services done at Mong Tong Thani were transfered to ChangWatena see below. Also never need tests to enter CW but I am fully vaxed and have Covid passport