BritManToo

Easier said than done, In Petchabun, on our family rice farm, you sell to the middleman or your farmhouse burns down.

Obviously you're very 'hansum', young, witty and have a great body and personality. But for us normal blokes, fat, old, bald and boring the choice is between a woman with financial needs and no woman at all.

I spend less than 50kbht/month, the rest of my pension just sits accumulating in my UK bank account. Without the wife and my son, I'd be spending less than 30kbht/month. As @spidermike007 says, having a Thai lady costs lots, but it's not as if I'd spend it on anything else.

Swimming pool is in the next Soi, 40bht to use. I prefer cycling to tennis or gym, 25Km 2x a week to the local lake. Dogs are not allowed on our estate, my wife runs the housing committee, and has any dogs roaming removed by the Amphur next day. No crime in the past 10 years. I've very content living here, quiet, rural, plenty of shops and a market within 200m. Swimming pool. HuayJo Lake. Housing estate park

You are a freeloader that expects sex for free ...............

Just follow 'Pattaya LK Metro Bars' on FB to find the 50bht beers.

Wherever you live, the village idiot is always happy!

I had a pal in PI that was a bit old and infirm, near the end of his 3 years he went to PI immigration and said he was a bit scared of the flight out and in, they said, 'no problem sir, we'll just mark your passport as too ill to travel and you can stay another 3 years without leaving' Can't get more reasonable and helpful than that. I used to go to PI every 3 months (non-o multi bounces), and the pretty young airport immigration lady said, "you come here very often sir, but only for a week, you should stay longer and get to know the country and people more'. I got the impression, she would have been happy to show me around, her phone number was definitely available. Nice people in PI, they seem to like foreigners much more than Thai people, and immigration staff were always extremely pleasant, always smiles, never the Thai scowls.

You need to show proof of 400kbht in the bank now. 6 month bank statement + immigration bank letter

I've not been scammed/cheated since 2012, and that was the Brit guy that ran CM Expats club.

I remember it was exactly the same in CM 2010, they arrived mob handed (6 of them) for my first marriage extension, and 'raided' all the foreigners around me at the same time for not reporting their addresses.

How can it be illegal or corrupt when immigration tell you it's their preferred way to do business?

Depends if you're broke or not. I have no desire nor need to earn interest nor make any more money.

Don't think you're really up on prices. Fan room 2k5bht, with aircon 3k5bht, 3 bed house 10kbht.

But immigration want us to use agents!

Nobody does until they move here.

I'm living in CM with wife and son, plenty to spare on 50k/ month. 3bed house 10kbht, plenty to choose from in the 6-12 range. I only eat English/Indian/German food. If I were living alone, I doubt I'd spend more than 30kbht. Wonder what all you big spenders waste your money on?

Your Thai child can use any government hospital, no need to register.

Again, just wrong, kids can use any government hospital. And I've used this option for my kid when I didn't like the hospitals diagnosis.

Harmful misinformation, reported to mods. Thai kids can use any government hospital, no need to register.

Doesn't apply to children, any government hospital, anytime.

Children (unlike adults) are entitled to free health care at any government hospital. No documentation required, apart from proof of citizenship.

Complete and utter BS! Every animal species expands it's population until resources can't support any more. We, as a species, are nowhere near our peak resources, so our population will continue to increase.

You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals, so lets do it like they do on the Discovery Channel. (Bloodhound Gang - Bad Touch)

I though it was a poor (but handsome) man exploited by rich women. Why do you always say it's men exploiting women. My marriage in the UK was clearly an example of a lazy woman exploiting my earning potential.