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Aranyaprathet....is with out doubt the best market town in Thailand IMO.--(price wise, it leaves Chatuchak or anywhere else in BKK for dead) & its a charming little town to spend a day or 2 in. I Always try to visit there at least once a year on my way south, prices are at least 75% less than Pattaya....& the stall owners (I think) are just nice polite people........... The Cambo begging / pickpocketing kids do drive you nuts though .
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1. Achieve immortality.............................................
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Lie's.......... Dam Lie's................. & statistics ...............
Statistically... 9 out of 10 people enjoy gang rape.
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Why not get married first----a low key marriage ---you don't have to tell anyone, you can have a big reception in a few years--it is probably the best way to secure your 50% of your purchase.....but to your question--No your girlfriend owning land (because you don't own it) will make no difference when applying for an extension Visa.
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Yes but this is really only the tip of the corrupt iceberg. Too many othere are escaping the spotlightAnd people are saying we did not need a coup..... Seems the military is the only one who can keep the police in check.
Rome was not build in a day....litle by little....first the head...Superintendent...!!...it's a good start....although they started a while ago....it's a good continuation....!!!
I agree with you----this is progress.... its so easy to stand at the sidelines & say nothing is changing--because it is, & I think a lot of the post here are from just bitter people with their own axe to grind about Thailand.
wherever country you have come from --you have (or have) had a corrupt police force
And changing it takes years & years, especially so in Asia, where most countries see graft as the norm.
In America they made movies about people who spoke out like the Policeman Serpico, who had a contract taken out on him by the NY police, was shot in the face but lived. It caused an outrage---& there was a hugh clean up, but did it work?
Not according to Mayor Rudy Giuliani 20 years latter who done his own "Clear up"....& did that work?
According to today's NY post there are 300 cases pending , just in killed off tickets alone.
"District Attorney Robert Johnson said he hoped the criminal charges send a message that corruption would not be tolerated. The city lost about $2 million in killed-off tickets, he said." ---- Killed off tickets, is when you pay the policeman $$$ instead of the full fine. Does that sound a bit Thainess to you ?? ...Maybe that's where the BIB got it from.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/28/nypd-officers-surrender-i_n_1063515.html
Where I came from the 70s- saw the London Police at their very best (worse) they were completely owned by the porn kings, but also branched out into other enterprises. They were involved on different levels in many armed robbers. Notably
£175,000 payroll robbery at the offices of the Daily Express newspaper in 1976
£225,000 robbery outside the headquarters of W & G Bank London, in 1977
£200,000 payroll robbery at the offices of the Daily Mirror newspaper in 1978. But there were others that they could not be charged with. It took 5 years to curb them ---& three police commissioners, because every-time they appointed a new commissioner, he was found to have taken bribes. The findings were---"the corruption was not limited to "a few bad apples" within the forces but was "historically and currently endemic" and "widespread throughout the hierarchical command rather than confined to those below the rank of sergeant." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Countryman
Since then there have been many--many more commissions....
I lived in Oz for some years , but really don't have the room to list that force & the different commissions.---- probably its best summed by Terry Clark (head of the Mr Asia drug ring) when arrested in Europe, & asked about Australian police he was quoted----- "Australian Police-, The very best that money can buy" He said he would expose all at his trail, but was found dead in his cell before he could....... findings by the British police were that he died in his sleep of a heart attack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_John_Clark
I think things are changing "SLOWLY" ..will they slip back --Maybe, because corruption is so ingrained here--but there is a war going on at the moment between the Army & the Police, & I think its incorrect to call the Army corrupt. The easy-way would have just been to take the money the
Police..Someone was getting for those Hotels on the beaches, not pull them all down. Don't burn the resorts in the national parks that shouldn't have been there---just take a big envelope & not see them. They --The Army--are going to make a lot of mistakes, & be open to a lot of ridicule, but I think they have taken a small step in the right direction. I don't know about the Casino's in the south being open, its so easy to make these claims, I can tell you that all the casino's that I know of in Essan (about 11) are closed, I have many friends that own bars & they are all saying that the girls who used to work there are around, looking for other work..
...........Its better to light just one small candle--then to stand there complaining about the Darkness
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...."but I live in Bangkok and have visited Jomtien a few times.
I've often thought about buying a small bar",---DoDoey
Seems a great Idea DoDoey................. Can't see any down side to that.....................
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Now that's one place where you wont see an American Ambassador telling the Military government what it should do.............
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All American Allies are equal---- just some are more equal then others.
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Congress is preparing to allow the Obama administration to give more than $1 billion dollars to the Egyptian government and military, despite the fact the generals perpetrated a coup last summer and are suppressing opposition ahead of a nation-wide constitutional referendum. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/13/congress-to-give-egypt-1-5-billion-in-aid.html
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"This year officials have called on teenagers to have a special meal or visit temples instead of having sex."
Wow big decision tomorrow-----Do I party & Boom Sing...... or eat noodles & go to the temple......................
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My prostate is in much better shape since I move here.................
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The Thai tourism bubble will burst when Burma opens up those beautiful unspoilt beaches on the Andaman coast. Let's face it it has the same climate,people temples and food as Thailand.---Jay Sata
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I have put in for a Jet ski license there already...........................
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Should be easy to spot who it was on CCTV & track him down..................
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Did you hear about the look-a-like
competition in China?
Everybody won.--
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Please name--same the insurance company so we all know.....I know this doesn't help your friend , but it may stop a repeat.
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Salmon...........at Makro's price I eat it 3 times a week----------
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The Gym sidjamison..... & its healthy at the same time, this is the 5th new country I have lived in--never failed to meet nice people at the Gym.................
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I think the Thai Generals realized the Japanese are very quick to build railways. The "Death Railway" in Kanchanaburi only took 13 months, and today it is still running. Hopefully the new railway will not claim as many lives.
Yep and that was a kind of Thai Japanese JV as well---ExPatt
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.......Don't forget the British input ExPatt,....................
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I lived more than half my life in America, PA, Maryland, Texas and Florida and cant remember ever having a problem. Went out all the time and never worried about anything.
I don't know of anyone who ever had a major problem in the US.----------ttthailand
I first thought at first it was put there as a joke---then I noticed who it was posted by.... "Yes i have lots of scary tales to tell you about this bad old country"-------by Amazing ttthailand
11 Of The Nation's 100 Most Dangerous Cities Are In Florida
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/31/most-dangerous-cities-florida_n_4524866.html
It must brake you up tt that only 8.33% on TV have anywhere near the same outlook as you.
It's prevalent, but I don't know anyone who has been the victim of a serious crime 8.33%
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1.I have been beaten with a steel bar.
2.punched and got black eye.
3.attempt to run me over
4. Shit and piss on my fence every other day.
5.punched again.
6. My bag snatched
7. My friend got bag snatched
8. My friend got hit on head with stick and passed out.
9. I have had my drink mickyfinned and robbed.
10.my friend had drink mickyfinned and robbed.
11. My thai partner was attacked and had head stomped on. Had to learn to walk, talk and eat. For 3 years.
12.got 800,000 in compensation a lawyer cheated and victim got nothing.
Could go on but I am tired now.
And all that was just in the first week that I arrived in Thailand......................
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Why oh why do I get the feeling that you would be the loudest guy in
theANY bar.I really do think that after 15 minutes with you----I would want to you beat you with a steel bar......................
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Guys before you tear yourselves (& each other) apart, --The OP posted a thread on American -Thai relationship.
"Being an American resident in Thailand, I am not as comfortable here as I have been in the past.
With recent international developments involving both Thailand and my home country I am no longer confident my future in Thailand will continue to be as comfortable as it has been. Because of past good relations between Thailand and the US, I have had the feeling that we were maybe treated a little better in some situations than expats from other counties."
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I know its been hijacked a bit by the xenophobes on both sides..... but his question is--- If you are American, do you feel a difference lately in the Thai-American relationship.
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My 2 satangs on the other questions is--- I left London in my teens, lived in Sweden--then America---NZ---Australia--Thailand, & spent far to many years in the their merchant navy's traveling around other countries, my take on it is that the more similar the countries -the more they argue. I found the German & British people a lot alike in many things, The Canadians seem horrified when you think their Americans......etc...etc
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With recent international developments involving both Thailand and my home country I am no longer confident my future in Thailand will continue to be as comfortable as it has been----Willyumiii
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How does an American change a light bulb?
Holds it under the socket and expects the world to revolve around him...........
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Glass coating every time .........................JAS21
I must admit that didn't even consider DIY on glass coating --although when I brought the car in BKK I got a real lot of freebies thrown in, (free insurance, also 50% reduction on GC....etc..etc )
I have been really impressed with the GC, as far as stone chips etc are concerned, 2 years on now & I travel a lot on country roads---had a small accident up in Issan & thought would have a problem with GC & the new panel, but many of them (GC) have opened up here now. Just run it through the car wash-- looks like new.
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If he is eating into his 800K baht = £16K....where would you suggest he takes it & buys a house in the UK with whats left,
& how do you come to reason that his "Mother Country" gave him the means to live here.... ??
He isn't on a OA pension at 60, so one would assume he made the money to come here by his own (Sweat) work.
not given to him by his or your "Mother Country".............
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Same thing happened to us 4 weeks ago and to friends 2 weeks ago, is this Thainess?
No its just anal retention on your part..... stop trying to blame your stupidity on the country.....or maybe you had an attack of Farang-ness.......
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I can't help but wonder if the value of the baht has anything to do with money laundering.......... I wonder how long that would last if the market began to think that the emperor has no clothes.--NeverSure
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What are you smoking NeverSure-----& more importantly .....where can I get some..................
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I failed to mention that I will be going by air.----OP
Siem Reap --yer..?? --I know it does get spelt a few different ways,
Air travel-- that's a pity, as I don't think to many locals would travel there that way--- The last time (5 years ago) I did it with friends was a van tour , --Travel agent soi 7 patts--3 nights--just over 7,000 baht each, gave you the transport to Siem Reap (change at the border ) hotels paid for, all tickets into the temples paid for, your own tour guide (the van driver) --& the van would pick you up drop you off at a different eating place each night in S.R that had a show both which was paid for. That was a bonus as the town I thought was quite exy....... $us20 for a massage etc.
Its is well worth a visit---..here is a link explaining that you have 4 options to get into town from the airport--taxi, moto, tuk tuk, or van taxi..... http://www.movetocambodia.com/transportation/how-to-get-from-the-airport-into-siem-reap/
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There's more danger from the women there than much else, georgegeorgia.....a bit like playing Russian roulette.
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I don't know about a guest house, I have not stayed across the boarder for quite a few years, but the Thai side Aranyaprathet (for me) is more preferable to stay on , & just walk across for whatever I need. Now the markets are all on the Thai side, other than Casino's not so much there.