BritManToo

Unless you want to be a schoolteacher, math is pretty worthless in Thailand IMHO. I know posters on this forum love STEM, but all the jobs are low paid. My misses wants to send our 12yo son to private school, but I can't see him being all that keen on a 3hr van journey with a maniac driver every day.

Transfer using phone app.

Entirely normal in marriages with children. Buy yourself some pets or get a girlfriend. It'll make you feel a lot better.

I used to race my pals from Maya to Central through town. They had scooters and I had a road bicycle. Most of the time I beat them.

FCA only covers people living and using financial services in the UK. OP is living in Thailand so not covered, and not entitled to use pension/investment/IFA services in the UK. Any UK IFA in Thailand is already working illegally (reserved occupation for Thais) and as a first step will try to move your pension offshore, Isle of Man is popular, or into QROPs. Financial crooks trawl this forum looking for victims. Beware of people in this forum PMing you with advice.

My last financial advisor stole 30,000GBP from my pension fund. All crooks IMHO.

I always choose under 35 years old and weighing less than 50Kg. Works again and again for me.

Splitting up siblings merely because you want a VISA doesn't seem like 'doing the correct thing' to me. Anyway, kid will be 15 next week, so nothing you can do, or any Thai authority will enforce, after that.

I've always avoided rocking the boat in foreign countries. You may think that's cowardly, but I always thought it was being sensible. I was always happy to look after and pay all expenses for kids living with me. But once out of my house they got nothing. Splitting up siblings just seems wrong to me. I'd find another way of getting a VISA or simply move to another country.

Thailand has never been very big on enforcing its laws. Back in the UK, the police rarely enforced any laws involving mothers either. So all agreeing on the law doesn't make that much difference to any outcome in the real world.

Probably because she was told never to be alone with a man. At 14 she should know better than to go to a guys room ....... for any reason. We taught our daughter not to even get in a songtaw if she were the only passenger. Conversely, When I was a schoolteacher in the UK, we were all told never to be alone in a classroom with a female student.

It was supposed to be Is not In ...... predictive text or typo ....... who can say! Hard to tell what you're typing when 3/4 of your phone screen is obscured by adverts and keyboard.

Would point out touching in public is frowned on by Thai society.

In 'unordinary' a word? Shouldn't it be extraordinary or unusual or abnormal.

All the Thai islands are like that. After my first trip (Koh Libong), I never went to a Thai island again.

Yep, they're very friendly, I used to go there 3-4x a year. After few 2 weeks trips the lady at immigration said I should stay longer (unlike Thai 'you come too much'). If I hadn't already had a relationship going in Thailand, I would have stayed. Even the guys are friendly! And everyone speaks English. No racist slurs either, they all call you 'boss' or 'sir'.

Stop giving her money is the obvious starting point.

After my 2 hour romp I usually fall asleep.

No visa for working EU citizens in the UK without submitting tax details after Brexit. Before brexit they could enter without a visa.

Not sure, I'm a native English speaker, learned French, learned German, learned Spanish. Learned a bit of Thai (+basic reading and writing) but never found it worthwhile. Especially as I only get 1 year to stay at a time. I've forgotten most of my German and Thai now as I never used them. (my family speak Lanna and English) If I had to learn another language now, it wouldn't be Thai as I don't live in Bangkok. Always surprised at the western guys that insist you learn Thai while not seeming to understand that Central Thai isn't generally spoken by most Thai people in normal conversations.

Every bank teller in every branch of every bank will tell a different story. Unless we all spoke to the same teller you visited, we wouldn't have heard the same. Net time find another bank cash deposit ATM to take your money. Doesn't have to be your branch or even your bank.

Current numbers suggest it takes 100x to reliably impregnate. A century ago it was only 20x.

I have no money apart from my pensions. I'm worth more alive.

I only said that to avoid the personal attacks that you attract!

Yep, I had a problem paying for a lazada delivery, van driver wasn't surprised, said many deliveries were having the same problem. Bangkok Bank was the culprit (as usual), TTB (my other account) had no problems.