BritManToo

I'm currently trying to forget it.

Works very well ........... At least I know English. I live in a middle class Thai gated village, all doctors, teachers, managers. All appear to be one months wage away from bankruptcy, new cars on minimum deposit, maximum repayment time. Borrow to send their kids to international schools. None know anything about the world outside Thailand. My Thai cycling pal retired after 30 years teaching English in Thai highschool, but we have to talk in Thai as he can't speak one word of English.

He married a foreign woman half his age. You live with a foreign woman half your age. How much more in common can you get?

This works if your relatively stupid and happy to only talk about food and farming. Some of us require conversation with educated and worldly people.

I always viewed Xmas in the UK as a festival of greed. In Thailand it's just another day, and my kid still goes to school if it's a weekday.

Do either of these guys work for the Thai tax authorities? If not, their advice is not relevant IMHO.

If you already own the property it's likely to half in value, as the Spanish still can't get finance to buy it, and foreigners won't pay double for it.

I think she'd need to double in weight to reach German Hausfrau status. But I'd still love her!

Topic about expats resident in Thailand.

My point being you left out most of the extra costs and only listed her 'pocket money'.

Ni payment after 2016 get you 4.75/week extra. Usually payments before 2016 get you nothing. But that's betting there will still be a state pension in 2038 available to expats.

Would point out the Thai government don't tax benefits.

Plus all her food, shopping, transport, fuel, housing, utils ...... Maybe a free house/car/scooter So another 15-20kbht/month + 2Mbht up front.

Fantastic beach, clean sand, clean water .......

So out for my normal 25km loop this morning at 6:45. 8c going out, 9c at 8am cycling back. In 15 years I've never known it to be this cold.

Mine has been great, 15+ years now. Nothing like my sexless Brit wife.

When I were a lad my parents taught me to confine my 'wishes' to my 'finances', rather than try to borrow or beg from others.

I thought Spain had millions of vacant homes they couldn't sell at any price? https://www.ldrgroup.nl/en/toename-van-leegstaande-woningen-in-spanje/ Isn't the solution to housing shortages in many western countries to relax restrictions on housing controls and allow cheaper homes to be built in wider areas. Rather than allow the property housing Ponzi to continue?

Didn't they just catch an illegal homeless Mexican with a blowtorch? Maybe the fires are terrorism, and not climate change. Maybe they should forget climate change and concentrate on fixing illegals and homelessness.

Bought one on Lazada on 2nd Jan, delivered on 6th Jan by DHL from Hong Kong. 4300bht with voucher, no ads and it's great. https://s.lazada.co.th/s.ttr3j 2024, 8gb, 6.8 inch usb C, version. If you don't like the Robot Dreams cover it just clips off and you can buy a different cover.

Wise debit cards (digital or physical) are only available to those using a UK address. If you use a Thai address, the digital option is blanked out on the app.

In early 2023 they limited phone app transfers to 50kbht/day for all foreigner accounts, unless you changed that at your branch. Online, atm and in person transfers are different. The op says internet banking, which has no such restriction. I didn't read the op carefully enough, so my bad.

How did they overcome the 50kbht electronic transaction limit on foreigner accounts? BKB, I have to go to the branch in person for more than 50k in a day.

The only foreign guy in Thailand that doesn't understand you do property sales with cash at the Landline Office!

"The young man's devastated mother Tracy King said her son was 'living his dream' by travelling the world and following his passion for scuba diving."