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Trudeau is so bad for Canada that I'm considering going back to live with my Thai gf after we get married. People who benefit from this regime the most are the ones on dole. Sign me up.

Off you go, then. One less whiner.

This is a typical Canadian arrogance.

When you tell a Canadian you want to live in Thailand they say exactly that because how can you say anything bad about Canada especially Toronto.

Now that Trudeau has won it seems like all Trudeau lovers are behaving exactly the same like when Obama won. There is no middle ground, just arrogance. The same close minded mentality that thought oil will be above $100 forever and we don't need to have any other economy. It is just too fun to watch a bunch of "whiny" Canadians complaining on internet forums how much they are losing out on cross border shopping. Just hilarious.

Are you declaring your TEFL salary? You know Canada taxes on world wide income. Trudeau needs your help.

Go get 'em, Guy! Unleash your Quebec spirit!

I find Private Internet Access (PIA) suits my needs on all my devices seamlessly, good speed, no logging, no tracking, and relatively inexpensive.

I used to use another VPN that cost about 55USD/year but I changed to PIA a few months ago because it was quite a lot cheaper and didnt cap bandwidth or prohibit certain protocols. It also offers a wider selection of nodes.

I find that the service works well enough but I hated their software which runs in the background, creates malware-like temporary processes with varying names and makes multiple connections to strange servers all the time (regardless of whether a VPN is active or not) apparently in order to pre-select the best node.

So I removed their software and just use OpenVPN with their servers, which works perfectly and presents no issues with background tasking at all.

That's a good idea to use OpenVPN- PIA does show one how to set that up, which is a nice thing to do- I'll check it out. Generally I'm happy with PIA. The price is right and certainly it works fine.

Yep. Just made the switch to OpenVPN with a PIA profile. Took less than a minute. Works perfectly! Thanks for the tip.

Hey I'm moving to Thailand soon and will have fibre to the house, I will be getting a VPN but there's so many of them saying the same thing and it's getting confusing, if any of you guys having a VPN could give me some advice of what you think of yours would be appreciated. Looking to watch netflix, dootv, aussie rules footy etc.

Cheers

Bruce

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I find Private Internet Access (PIA) suits my needs on all my devices seamlessly, good speed, no logging, no tracking, and relatively inexpensive.

I bought a house in Mae Rim two years ago at The Spa resort. The owner was a Brit and I sent her UK funds from my bank in Canada. The property manager (Thai)had power of attorney and the transfer of the house at the land office went without a hitch. I leased the land the house was on for 30 years (renewable twice).

I sold it this past August. The buyer paid me in my Canadian bank with Canadian dollars from a UK bank. Not a problem. I gave the same property manager power of attorney to transfer the house title to the buyer. No problem.

I don't know what all the talk it can't be done is all about. Just go ahead. Do it.

I am sorry but I am having a difficult time following your thread.

How do you buy a house (if you are a Foreigner) and also lease this land and house to yourself for 30 years as you said. I can't see how you did both. So did you buy this property or lease it? If you leased it, how then did you sell this property again you do not own? Or did you sell the Lease?

Sorry but it just doesn't make sense to me

I'll answer the questions as best as I can:

1. I bought the house from a Brit national who owned the house. I paid from my Canadian bank to her UK bank directly.

2. I leased the land that the house was on from the Thai national who owned the land. The lease was for 30 years, renewable twice. The lease fee was part of the house sale.

3. I sold the house to a Chinese national with a UK bank account. He paid me in Canadian dollars from the UK to my bank in Canada.

4. He leased the land from the Thai national who owns the land.

Note: I owned the house, but not the land. The land was leased from a Thai national.

Since I did not want to go to the land office to transfer the house title, I gave power of attorney to the Thai property manager who did it for me. No money went through the property manager's hands, other than appropriate land office fees and taxes. The Chinese owner paid for the house sales tax and land transfer fees.

Clear?

I understand as I said but I am still not sure why someone would do this. I understand if you are single and you want to live in your own house, as this is a way in which you can do this, but why not just rent then? What happens if things change for you in the future?

Let's say you find a partner you want to be with for life (you hope). They move in with you and all is fine. Maybe even have a couple of kids together. Then you suddenly die? What happens to your partner? You can Will your house to your partner as you own that, but you can't do that with Lease.

This Lease dies when you do. Or at least this is what I thought. You can sub-lease to someone else, but the sub-lease would end when your life does to. The owner of the land is not required to give your Partner another 30 year lease and if he doesn't what do you do with this house then? I am trying to see the benefit to doing this but I just can't.

I also can't understand why someone would sub-lease from you. Or the owner would write another 30 year least to someone else for free. Is he charging you a monthly or yearly rental fee to lease from him? Did you get this house at a steal and less then renting, including any maintenance fees and lease rental fees?

If he is charging you rent on your lease I think I would just rent the whole place. Then, when you find a partner, buy a house with her/him and then perhaps put on another lease. At least then this house and property would go to her.or him, or your kids, after you die. I just can't see any benefit of doing it this other way.

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You , as well as most that post here, are overthinking the issue. Not only that, you assume values (eg., marriage and kids) that are not explicitly mentioned. Please refrain from assuming and then it is quite clear what has transpired.

To my delight, I made 50% profit on the house sale in two years.

For me, that is a plus. Do you really wish to say anything to the contrary?

I bought a house in Mae Rim two years ago at The Spa resort. The owner was a Brit and I sent her UK funds from my bank in Canada. The property manager (Thai)had power of attorney and the transfer of the house at the land office went without a hitch. I leased the land the house was on for 30 years (renewable twice).

I sold it this past August. The buyer paid me in my Canadian bank with Canadian dollars from a UK bank. Not a problem. I gave the same property manager power of attorney to transfer the house title to the buyer. No problem.

I don't know what all the talk it can't be done is all about. Just go ahead. Do it.

I am sorry but I am having a difficult time following your thread.

How do you buy a house (if you are a Foreigner) and also lease this land and house to yourself for 30 years as you said. I can't see how you did both. So did you buy this property or lease it? If you leased it, how then did you sell this property again you do not own? Or did you sell the Lease?

Sorry but it just doesn't make sense to me

I'll answer the questions as best as I can:

1. I bought the house from a Brit national who owned the house. I paid from my Canadian bank to her UK bank directly.

2. I leased the land that the house was on from the Thai national who owned the land. The lease was for 30 years, renewable twice. The lease fee was part of the house sale.

3. I sold the house to a Chinese national with a UK bank account. He paid me in Canadian dollars from the UK to my bank in Canada.

4. He leased the land from the Thai national who owns the land.

Note: I owned the house, but not the land. The land was leased from a Thai national.

Since I did not want to go to the land office to transfer the house title, I gave power of attorney to the Thai property manager who did it for me. No money went through the property manager's hands, other than appropriate land office fees and taxes. The Chinese owner paid for the house sales tax and land transfer fees.

Clear?

I bought a house in Mae Rim two years ago at The Spa resort. The owner was a Brit and I sent her UK funds from my bank in Canada. The property manager (Thai)had power of attorney and the transfer of the house at the land office went without a hitch. I leased the land the house was on for 30 years (renewable twice).

I sold it this past August. The buyer paid me in my Canadian bank with Canadian dollars from a UK bank. Not a problem. I gave the same property manager power of attorney to transfer the house title to the buyer. No problem.

I don't know what all the talk it can't be done is all about. Just go ahead. Do it.

Well done! I basically purchase A++ stock (Valueline rated), high market cap, with at least a 3% dividend. Buy and hold. That's it.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Three questions to ask your financial manager before giving your hard-earned cash to him to play with: 1. How much of your own personal investment is in the portfolio you want me to purchase? 2. Show me your personal spreadsheets for the past five years displaying your performance. 3. If you are so good at managing funds, then why aren't you retired?

Me? Up 10% in the past two weeks. No fund manager. I buy single stocks that fit my criteria. Up over 40% compounded in the past 4 years.

Well, no one can stop you from being scared. It's all in your head, mind you. Maybe pull the covers up over your head in bed at night. That seems to work against ghosts and being afraid of the dark. But in terms of your fantasy of a conspiracy- maybe you should be a screen writer. Your conspiracy theory would make Jerry Bruckheimer millions - and you too!

Thankfully, the Liberal party wants electoral reform. They recognize first past the post is not representative of the popular vote. So we'll see if their majority mandate to reform elections in Canada to best reflect the popular vote is legislated. I hope, with good faith, the Liberals will honour their promises. One thing they did 12 hours into their majority win was call off the bombing mission in Syria. Wow! That's one thing crossed off the to-do list. I spent 8 years watching Stephen Harper create an atmosphere of secrecy and divisiveness in Canada; I can allow Trudeau at least 5 years to undo all the paranoia Stephen Harper created and get on to creating a Canada that supports peacekeeping and prosperity. Have you checked your stock portfolio post election? I'm up 4% in two days!

Regarding Trudeau's elected mandate to lead Canada for the next five years, we should see where he stands on issues and what he proposes to do. If we have a clear idea of the Liberal platform and what is promised, we can use these statements as benchmarks from which to gauge the success - or failure- of the effectiveness of his mandate.

On September, 8, 2015, Justin Trudeau sat down with CBC news anchor Peter Mansbridge and talked one on one about the issues being contested in the election, and where Trudeau stood in relation to the issues and what he will do if elected.

Now Trudeau is elected in a majority government, so we can assess and evaluate his promises and priorities from the video interview below with how he actually performs in carrying out that platform and priorities.

So, have a look at the video at the link here:

Remember what he says. Over the next few days, months and years, we can assess his performance better than going on hearsay, third party pundits, quack criticisms and so on and so forth. We can see where he veers off the path, where he accomplishes tasks, where new problems and challenges occur, and have a far more informed assessment of his job as Prime Minister of Canada.

Enjoy!

A pot-smoking, university drop-out who befriends all walks of life in the Canadian Mosaic, now leader of a democratically-elected majority, with 68% of the country voting , the largest turn out in federal elections since 1993? You go Trudeau! Love it. Love Canada! All is well in the great white north. Looking forward to 5 years of decency and level-headed governance!

Wat Suan Mokkh in Chaiya, Surat Thani, offers 10-day retreats for foreigners (and novices to Buddhism/Meditation) on the first 10 days of every month. Instruction is in English. Arrive the day before the first of the month. You'll find it crowded -maybe 100 people at first, but by the end the number goes down to 40 or so.

What's App, Skype, Line and bunch of other Apps let you text for free via WiFi/3G. These apps are free downloads. Then there is always the old standard, email. These are free workarounds for texting. (note too that if using iPhone to iPhone, texting calling or video calling is free over WiFi / 3G.

Not sure where in Canada you are from or would like to live, but a mitigating reason for Thailand is the weather. Toronto currently -11c. Vancouver 8c, but you know the rain there can last a long time, and being cold and wet is worse than cold and dry (snow). So, what about 6-8 months Thailand for the winter and spring, summer, start of fall in Canada rest of the time? Your Thai gf would appreciate it (winter so cold and dark...)

Here's an investment tip for the stock market: LMT, NOC. Up 100% from one year ago.

Crisis? What crisis?

Be a good capitalist.

Why not just go to the UK embassy and ask directly what is required? Wouldn't the UK embassy know the policies and procedures?

Most pharmacies along Sukhumvit have it.

What type of mobile phone do you have?

I have an iPhone 5 purchased in Canada. I went to Terminal 21 and the True Move shop on the 6th floor (I live at Asoke). I got the 4G sim but because my iPhone is from Canada I cannot use the 4G network here in Thailand- that is what the shop told me. That said, the 3G service on my 4G sim is fast and reliable.

Climax is the bar under the Ambassador Hotel (Soi 11). The Bamboo clientele seem to be mostly Arab men from nearby Arab Street. Live band on Fri-Sat are very good, however.

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