BritManToo

15 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

To return to the gentleman's questions;
at 31, I would try to work a little more; let's say 30 more years. 
eg leaving for Canada where there is a glaring shortage of manual workers with the bonus of substantial wages.
For an English it will be very easy to emigrate there and with this interesting salary come to have fun in Thailand from time to time.

Most soldiers with a medical pension can't work because their injuries won't allow it.

That's why they are given a pension at such a young age.

You think someone shot in the spine can do a manual job?

38 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Unanswered in the OP article is why the driver couldn't simply return the unaccepted food to the restaurant and get a refund of whatever money he had fronted, given that the delivery had been rejected.  Is it really the policy of the restaurant to hold the driver responsible for COD orders that are refused at the door?

 

It is if he was 3 hours late.

11 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

The girls are not sending the money home as before and I've heard stories of some being locked up trying to get into Sth. Korea.

My niece tried that last week, arrived in Korea on a Thursday, and immigration put her on the return flight on Friday.

She said she was locked in a room with 30 other Thai girls, flight back was 5kbht.

On 2/6/2020 at 11:44 AM, Harveyboy said:

I have a 2 year old son born here .has British passport .and yet I'm not allowed benefits

Benefits are for people living in the UK, how hard is that to understand?

Move back to the UK with your kid and you can claim them too.

On 2/10/2020 at 3:37 PM, wolf81 said:

Our village (Mae Thalop, near Chaiprakan) will soon have a "mini-marathon" to sponsor the local hospital to buy some new machines. My GF already bought the sponsor shirts. And told me if I wanted to, I can join the run. 

Will you get free health care if you support them?

Will they let you enter parks for the same price as Thais?

Else why bother.

2 minutes ago, mrmicbkktxl said:

Good to know.I asked them for Aspirin,but they don't know it or don't want to give it.After 5 min. google ,aspent came up

30bht for 60 tablets at most pharmacies.

Show them this photo .......... 'ah-sa-pet' is probably how they mispronounce the name.

18 minutes ago, Farangwithaplan said:

Never heard if IVF? Look it up. With IVF a man of your high caliber will never need to lower yourself to need to have your quality - and surely outstanding - sexual appendage touching one of those despicable women again - if ever.

40% of potential US citizens get aborted.

Italy is probably a bit lower, but the problem appears to be many western women just don't want to have babies.

Western civilisation and equality gives them choices, and their choice is often not to breed with us.

Maybe the Pope was right about abortion and contraception?

All this 'off topic' talk of food has given me the urge to make pizza for lunch.

1 minute ago, FlorC said:

Yes I get that , but nor I or millions of Thais have a phone or a phone with an app to pay like that.

You're wrong about the Thais.

As for security, you'd need my phone and my fingerprint to make any payments.

And then my phone gets a confirmation SMS about the payment.

Hard to see a way someone else could access my account.

1 minute ago, FlorC said:

I don't have a checking account only a savings account. So whether I pay at my bank or at the bank of the receiver , I have to pay cash to send it to the receiver.

 

I doubt all Thais have the means to pay online .

How do they pay water and electricity ?

All free using the phone app to transfer or pay.

I don't know any Thais without a smart phone, my misses usually pays everything using her phone app, I pay my 3bb bills, scan the QR code on the bill screen, press pay.

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Global air temperatures are predicated to rise by as much as 4C by 2100

That might make the Uk a bit more livable, +10c would be better though.

7 minutes ago, YorkshireLad88 said:

I get free housing but thats from council im currently unemployed but i do get a small pension plus a little savings i was thinking about moving their for 3month then back england for a month, Then back thailand. Having u being to chiang mai worth staying their or go to pattaya? 

Pattaya if you're looking for easy cheap sex with multiple partners.

I'm in Chiang Mai and the air's a real choker.

I had several pals living here happily on 20k/month (500 pounds) but they always had VISA problems.

Mind you, I've got a lot more than that and always have VISA problems too.

You should try the Philippines, easier for a young guy to stay there, and you can work, they don't seem to care much if you're not too obvious about it.

Plenty of decent condo's for 5k/month in Chiang Mai town, or a small house in the burbs for a similar price.

If you really want to live cheap, lots of student type places from 3k and up.

5 minutes ago, YorkshireLad88 said:

I like that kind of attitude my friend maybe i could make something from it maybe it might not be the perfect life style am looking for but it beats living in england 

I'm assuming you're on a medical 'grace and favour' pension, does that still include free accommodation in the UK?

Just wondering?

If you marry a local girl, 1000 pound a month will work, just get a married non O VISA from Suvannakhet or HCMC.

So the attacker using the sword wasn't charged.

But the defender using the knife was.

That doesn't sound right to me!

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

To live in Thailand at your age, IMO you would need at least 200,000 GBP safely parked in investments back in the UK, yielding 4-5% return. Otherwise, you would be stony broke at age 50. Sorry, your best bet is to work and save for another 10 years.

He says hes got a pension.

You're only broke when you're dead.

On 2/11/2020 at 4:03 AM, jamden said:

I plan to have a holiday near a beach in Vietnam with my Thai family and also get a retirement visa at the same time.

Retirement VISA No, NON o multi for staying with wife YES, Single entry o to stay with child YES.

HCMC would be the place to get the VISA, and there's an express ferry (about 1 hr) down the river to the beach at Vung Tau.

According to the Lazada reviews, they all arrive broken.

I thought they just put a tax on sugary drinks.

4 minutes ago, Nigel Garvie said:

I love the stupidity on stilts bit, if I was younger I would try to remember it. I did hear that the UN have given UK the Global National Darwin award, for committing economic suicide by the most idiotic means possible. Other countries may just be laughing at our success at removing ourselves from the gene pool!

The UN is as worthless as the EU IMHO.

We should leave that next.

13 minutes ago, CNXexpat said:

I have stocks worth much much more than I need in cash - but at Degiro and Banx Broker in Europe. I guess Citibank wants that I put them in a Citybank depot, what I don´t want. Also there will be a currency risk.

 

Who's name are these houses in.

And if it's in a Thai ladies name, what's to stop her dumping you, after the second purchase, and owning two houses, while you only own the debt?

21 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

Meant as an illustration to post # 115 ...

You're assuming the universe is real, and we're not just a computer simulation.

And if everything is a simulation, it doesn't matter what we do to the world because it isn't real.