BritManToo

On 11/29/2018 at 6:52 PM, kanga09 said:

you are lucky from the beginning their family wanted me to pay of the mortgage in thailand and scored a car from me when i brought her here she pretended to play happy family only to get what she wanted was a free visa entry my lesson learnt when too kind to others they don't comply I had a bad experience i have alot on my own plate i manage looking after our child she benefits now i simply do not trust thai women no more from my experience she knew from the beginning what she wanted and i have some evidence of that 

It's never wise to be overly generous or trusting to any woman from any country.

I can't say I've found any foreign lady to end up as bad as my former English wife of 30 years.

Claiming yours is different after 9 or 12 years is laughable, they can all play a longer game than that.

On 1/4/2019 at 1:11 PM, Ks45672 said:

Of course they only want rich farangs, they have more than enough losers here already without importing them from the west

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Rich foreigners have better options than Thailand.

Only the poor come here.

But even as a poor foreign 'loser' my pension is 5x their minimum working wage.

1 hour ago, madmen said:

Expect to be killed or have back broken when stopped at an intersection and the thai in their suv is having a Facebook chat followed by brake failure slamming into the back of you at 80 kmph

 

This is the scariest one. Absolute zero you can do as a rider.

You can avoid being the only one stopped at traffic lights to avoid this one.

I see plenty of Thais stopping 50m before the red traffic lights on the hard shoulder, and others that hang a left then do a Uey.

On 12/25/2018 at 4:55 PM, rickudon said:

My local pubs (London/surrey border suburb) all under 5 GBP a pint. If Weatherspoons, sometimes under 4 GBP. There may be some shitty lager that is more expensive, but drink real beer.... 

Slightly off-topic, as Cambodia, not Thailand but ........... draft beer 15bht (50c, 35p) in all the bars.

On topic,

I feel safe everywhere, mainly because I look more dangerous than everyone else.

Never had any feelings of being unsafe anywhere in the world, and I've been most places.

57 minutes ago, Ks45672 said:

I don't think meat quality is the equivalent, and you forgot about beef

Did you read the words 'locally available, not imports'?

30 minutes ago, flipper2222222 said:

we transfer the money to the owner via bank transfer and then they pay the loan. 

The usual way in Thailand is for bank official, buyer and seller to go to the land office together.

I would be very wary of any other suggestions, solicitors in Thailand are just as likely to cheat you, or put the property in their own name.

On 11/14/2018 at 5:54 PM, Sydebolle said:

Sick and tired of Tom, Dick and Harry with Grannies and Aunties flying around with air-dried fish from Kalasin or baskets of fruits which would be available at destination as well. 

IMHO, if they want to limit my baggage weight, they should also limit everyone's body weight.

How about a scale at the boarding gate you walk onto holding your luggage, and if you're over you pay more.

3 hours ago, sanemax said:

They seem to mean , long term happiness , rather than 30 minute happiness at night and another 30 minutes in the morning , if you chose the all night option 

All life is misery, interspersed with the occasional 30 minutes of happiness.

Marriage takes place at an Amphur Office.

But how you will know which office in advance is a mystery, as some offices make it difficult for foreigners.

(when I did it 10 years back, no such question was asked)

On 1/18/2019 at 2:38 PM, Bill Miller said:

Okay. I got "caught" a few months ago when I learned nobody had done this for me when I, or more correctly my GF, rented a condominium. I have been doing 90 day "bumps" and always thought the TM 6 was sufficient. I wanted to get a residency certificate because I was thinking to get a driving license.

I think you mean you got scammed.

TM30 is to be completed by property owners, reporting foreigners living in their property.

If you are renting, it's not your concern or your fine.

36 minutes ago, SammyT said:

If you believe that story, I genuinely wonder how you got this far in life. He mysteriously finds the 40k baht that was stolen, and the other stuff, including a notorious frenchman who has featured in this sort of story before was all a dream?

 

Seriously, life must be had being that naive

Somebody said, "Thailand, an LSD trip without the need for LSD."

1 hour ago, Benroon said:

I know dozens of couples securely going about their business and not a single person who has been fleeced - perhaps you're all talking about the same guy ?

Yet, every foreigner, I know who bought a house has had problems in the end.

(That includes a married foreign couple from the UK and a single foreign lady from the USA)

In fact, I'm the only foreigner that I know who's managed to hang on and that was only because of the 90% home loan she couldn't pay.

On 1/21/2019 at 6:35 PM, melvinmelvin said:

maybe you have bad taste?

 

I would have to walk several times between Asoke and Soi 4 between I see 1 beautiful woman

 

just disagree with you

 

I was on the MRT yesterday and saw loads of attractive women getting on and off.

Maybe you don't see them because they don't walk much.

On 1/21/2019 at 6:45 PM, steve73 said:

No Tops around me.. and I've never seen wholemeal flour anywhere local.. That's why I'm always trying lots of other ingredients, as I posted a few weeks ago on this thread..

I'd be very sad without YoK in Chiang Mai, white bread flour 32bht/kg, wholewheat flour 38bht/kg.

You must have a Thai baking outlet nearby, where do your local bakeries source their supplies?

It really depends on your definitions of rich and poor.

(If you have somewhere to sleep and enough to eat and drink but own no land or car, are you poor?)

As far as I can see, in the past 50 years the base standard of living for most has increased dramatically.

But the ability of the general population to own their own home has decreased dramatically.

So in all, harder to have your own home, but the food, booze and entertainment situation is much better.

1 hour ago, Ks45672 said:

Most People here could probably have stayed with the women they were with in farang land but chose not

If given any choice, I would have lived my life with my English wife of 30 years, but she wanted the gardener, and my house, pension and children.

Most of the guys I know out here were similarly discarded by their western women.

If married, he and the kids inherit 50/50.

If not married, her parents and the kids inherit 50/50, parents get custody.

So answer depends on OP understanding marriage is a legal term and not a status derived from monks or cohabitation.

On 1/18/2019 at 4:06 PM, NamKangMan said:

 

He must have been under a lot of pressure, but surely, living a cheaper lifestyle must have been an option.

 

RIP.

Yes, hard to imagine death being a choice over living within your means.

On 1/12/2018 at 11:05 AM, Wake Up said:

Two things that are daily myths myths on this TVF. One is that Thailand is not doing well financially and will collapse soon.

I don't know about Thailand doing well, but the Thai people are struggling. Local restaurant needs 3k/day to break even, pays the waitresses 150bt/evening. Only makes it 3 night/week.

This is typical for a business in Chiang Mai, the country is doing well, but the poor (almost everyone) are suffering.

34 minutes ago, HuskerDo said:

 That's unfortunate but that's her classless fault not yours. 

So you've found a woman who loves you and who's had you children and are both happy? ...... Or you're still looking?

11 hours ago, marko kok prong said:

 

As for all the talk of sex on this thread,yes i like it,but having a companion you can share your life with is more important to me,yes i have shagged maybe 2 bar girls,but i don't really enjoy it,more about feelings for someone than the physical act, 

Sums up what nearly all men think and want, but sadly in reality all you can get is the sex, the feeling we want are always one sided.