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I will pay one baht more per product if they would just get rid of the annoying stamp thing.

I will pay two baht more if they turn the door buzzer off.

And I will deal with bad service and attitude regardless of the money involved.Even 1 baht 1 stamp and one bad mouth or dirty look.

someone mentioned 10 baht x by 10 per day=100 baht...........I think more like 100 baht per hour ...

Life living in Thailand is paradise compared to what my family and friends have to endure in the UK. On so many levels it is paradise. Cheap everything and an easy life, sunshine and beech or beautiful countryside everyday. But that’s living here once you have learned where to go, what to do, and who to keep away from.

As a tourist alone or with family you are walking into a nightmare from start to finish. Not one of my friends who visited or new friends for the last year wants to come back. The main reasons; they are constantly being over charged. Don’t feel wanted here by Thais. Service level nil.

They will all go home and tell their family and friends, I can only talk about UK, I cannot speak for other countries but I don’t think the feeling will be that different.

The last 3 months news coming out of Thailand has not been a good advert. The Thai people have lost any idea of service and if they learned some it would be brilliant. They will not take any advice from us, even to the point of them starting an argument with you for trying to help. So leave them to it.

They really don’t care about tourist having a wonderful holiday here, the tourist just keep coming because of sand and sea and sun. They don’t have to think too much, so they don’t.

It’s very frustrating to watch because it could be so much better for everyone

There are many Auctions in and around Bangkok. You have just as much chance as anyone else to buy at the right price. They have cars from 10k up. They have a full range .If you seriously want to go look, I go most weeks .Send me an email.

The most important thing if buying from a private individual or a car showroom. is to take the seller with the blue book to the transport dept to put the vehicle in your name. Do not pay one Baht, until this is done. Not one single Baht, if they don’t like it walk away.

Good luck

Wow, they must have been buzzing. Let’s close down a street and have a race. The adrenalin rush would be off the limit, and then just getting organized and the Police and Army start chasing you all over the place. And if they are caught and charged they become a hero. What great imagination and guts these guys have.

My mates and I used to do exactly the same in the UK. The excitement was brilliant. And the girls loved to watch ……………………..just a different prospective

Wave 110i, 60Km/l

Scoopy/Click 110i, 45Km/l

It makes a big difference.

I have a wave 110i and a click 108i the AOA figures are accurate.

I ride between Pattaya and Bangkok 2 times a week. I have been alternating the bikes to test for about 2 months now. Cut a long story short, the fuel is equal in the city and the Wave is 40 Baht cheaper to Bangkok. I think the auto box on the Click works more economically than I can make the Wave manual box work. The wave top speed 110km ,the click 103km .The Click is smooth ,The Wave has vibration but is better balanced . I always just wind them both back all the way. I think my choice would always be the Click .

Just reflecting for 1 minute over the last months events,

Can anyone guess just how far ahead the immigration in BBK plans anything?

I think it’s about 12 hours.

Can anyone guess how they convey their new plans to all the offices to synchronize operations?

I have not got a clue.

The whole organization is truly shocking and their staffs on the whole are arrogant.

Could have been worse, one of them still has a neck lace and a phone .

So many times I see girls wearing bags wide open and tucked under their arms. Everything inside visible

Now we will here from all the cry babies who been living in Thailand with these tourist visa. Either get a proper visa or go home.

Yeh there is a few people crying about it.

For some, the Thai rules dont give them an option to stay.

They love the country and the people, dont work and can support themselves. I really feel sad for the people in this category.

So dont cheer too loudly about all of the people going home. Ok Thailand is enforcing its laws so it should. But it is Thailand who has allowed these people easy access for as long as I can remember, so these people put down roots.

Others formed partnerships and become part of Thailand as a new way of life. They will be crying too.

At the end of the day, the ones with no money have to leave. That is what this whole thing is about.

Why would anyone love Thailand? Corrupt, unstable, military dictatorship that despise white foreigners.

Under 50, don't work ..... I think not, so few people in this category, not worth letting the few in.

Let's face it, they are almost all hustling, teaching, working on the sly. I've met loads, none of them legit.

Why would anyone 'put down roots' in a country they are not entitled to live? Madness.

Formed partnerships? Get married, it's easy.

Many people love to be in Thailand. The military is doing a brilliant job! We see progress every day. People put their roots down because the Thai rules allowed it openly for years and years, so where is the madness? Not everyone who forms friendships and partnerships wants to marry! You are so negative pal.

I am talking about, people who don’t work. Can pay their own way. Want to be in Thailand.Want to be part of the community, But the Thai don’t cater for the under 50s unless they pay big money, It’s the people with little money who cannot stay. It’s them I feel for. Not the hustlers and illegal workers.

Most scammers are not very good and are obvious. But this industry is only young really. It will develop and become more professional.(Just like the banks…legal con artists)Soon you will not be able to tell the difference between real and fake.

There are many examples of eBay, Ali sites, PayPal and the rest, working for their own fees and agendas, not your safety. They have devised some very complicated complaint procedures taking months to sort out. Locking you into a road to nowhere, in the pretence they are protecting you. Most of the “star ratings “and 97.4% customer satisfaction on these sites is pure fabrication. Remember, this is there job. This is what they do for a living. They make time to create the illusion.

The simple process of buying and selling has been turned into a person needing to take courses on it to learn how to do it. Why do they complicate everything? It’s not for our benefit.

These sites police themselves; they are the world internet online police force. They will judge the situation, and if you ticked the I AGREE without reading it, because its 99 pages long .Then they will keep your money, if you complain further they will close your account.

The first person to work out how to do this with equal safety for buyers and sellers will be rich. Let’s start a think tank

A not so simple question ,but some brilliant replies , and informative that s what I like about TV .

Here is the big whining for an elephant, but no one care how pigs for meat are treated or how the killings for halal beef is done....

they do care mate its just a 50 year old Elephants turn........feel for the handler too

I have a couple of questions;

They arrested him 3 days after the alleged event of rape on his 7 year old step daughter. His wife informed the Police. Why 3 days later?  And if your 7 year old girl was raped, as a mother would you not seek medical attention for your child?       We have not heard of any reports of this.  

so in just 2 days this is how your wife using your daughter in law ,can dispose of you. Could be a game changer for some.Even if you scream your innocence nobody wants to listen,That is one serious nightmare. 

OP, you might incidentally be correct about this or that but your comments are wholly supposition, generalizations, and faulty reasoning. You make an observation based on the immediate event in your world that you experience, extrapolate that into a universal truth about teaching & immigration, then try to collect others to see your conclusion? You have no idea about teaching/immigration stats. Following your reasoning is dizzying.

Quite frankly, your a mess of shouting (see CAPS), defensiveness, and false logic. Good luck with your teaching.

So Mr. Psycho analyzer do you have any facts on the OP original question? Or have any constructive points to add. Or is it your job to police personalities. -

I think if people start a post they should reply to as many posts as they can. I hate it when people don’t answer questions others have bothered to ask them, about their related to posts. Thanks Bruce for staying with your post .

The question Bruce asked was how many people have had “first hand experience”. It’s a very good question, and to understand the present and the future it’s a good idea to know the past accurately.

I have been trying since the “costas2008” post to answer the same question. I am using Thai people to contact legal departments and government offices to find an answer. So far (1 week) I cannot get a simple straight answer.

Yes there are vague stories about other people, without school names, dates ect. But as Bruce has clearly asked how many people have had” first hand accounts”. When were YOU affected.

You can break whatever laws you want it’s your life. You can risk fines, deportation and jail it’s your life. But it’s nice to know the actual risk.

I think the visa run situation will finish all teachers on a tourist visa situation anyway .Others that hide behind a different type of visa, and still teach, need to know what is the true risk and punishment.

Have a look around any major city; you will see building work and some complex buildings too. Very cleaver qualified Thai people doing a good job. They are given clear precise plans and instructions. They are paid always with an incentive bonus because Thais like everyone else needs an incentive.

If you use unemployed and unqualified family or spare people from around the village. Pay them 2 to 300 Baht a day. Plus you cannot communicate effectively enough. Then it will always be disaster.

It’s all about saving money. It’s the same in your country, hire an unemployed, unqualified guy and lend him your tools .Its cross your fingers time. You know it’s going to go wrong.

Or hire guys who are qualified and recommended, that know how to use their own tools .Pay the right money at the end…………..but most people won’t ……..because they do not want to pay, and think getting a workforce together out of the jungle, paying them next to nothing. And then continue to abuse them and insult them and embarrass them is the way forward.

How many of you really believe Thai people are such bad workers……….

Why would a good Thai builder and his lads want to come and work for an ignorant poor paying foreign guy who cannot even talk properly, and ends up insulting them, not a chance?

Another Hitler and capable of as much damage, a few bombs in the right places this guy could start ww3 so easily. Thank god he cannot fart without the rest of the world knows. My wish that his own people can rise and crush him.

what about the provision of crash helmets for passengers? A bit more important I would have thought if making 'reform

You can't be serious!! I say do away with all laws requiring crash helmets and leave it to the operator to decide whether to wear one himself

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But, you're talking about making PASSENGERS wear one. What kind of nut-job moves from a nanny state in the west and wants to impose the same onto the people who live in his new "home"? If someone wants to risk injury by not wearing a crash helmet, so what... that's his business and not anyone else's. I'd bet you're the kind of person who thinks people should be forced to wear a crash helmet when walking on a city sidewalk.

Besides, the helmet issue is only so the cops can have an income.

People choose to live in a different country for reasons that have at least something to do with conditions in the country they came from. Right? Yet, the first thing they do is to start agitating to change the laws in the new country to make it just like the old one. Talk about arrogance!!

Go back where you came from!!

Jacky54 said there should be a” provision for crash helmets for passengers” That means people would have a choice. Yes that is a really valid point Jacky54.Please don’t go back where you come from.

Ok, it's annoying, but taxi drivers should not be prosecuted for refusing fares. It's their car, it's their source of income, it's their decision. And yes I've been refused, but I've also walked away from taxis where the driver was clearly drunk or looked exhausted from working too long. Choice is a two way street with taxis.

Driving recklessly, now, that's completely different. Ban them for that, refusing a fare is one thing, endangering others a totally different one.

Agreed. It is a taxi driver's right to say yes or no to a destination, IMHO.

If a taxi driver is planning on knocking off in 30 mins, then gets a fayre which takes him/her to the other side of BKK, as an example, 100Km away from home... why should he not have the right to only accept a few fayres which keep him within range of home, and his knocking off time? There are many such examples of a taxi drivers right to accept or refuse a fayre. Should a taxi have to accept a passenger who is inebriated, for example? The list is endless... and it's not a long wait in most places for another taxi to come passing.

A driver offered a fare for 100km is not going to choose to go home. No way, no how. Not even for his own birthday party.

I can assure you they do refuse and have on many occasions.

If they stay fairly local, the chances of picking up another fair where you dropped off are high. So they earn more.

If you go over 100km out of your area the chances of picking up another fair back to your area is low. So you earn less.

Ok, it's annoying, but taxi drivers should not be prosecuted for refusing fares. It's their car, it's their source of income, it's their decision. And yes I've been refused, but I've also walked away from taxis where the driver was clearly drunk or looked exhausted from working too long. Choice is a two way street with taxis.

Driving recklessly, now, that's completely different. Ban them for that, refusing a fare is one thing, endangering others a totally different one.

Agreed. It is a taxi driver's right to say yes or no to a destination, IMHO.

If a taxi driver is planning on knocking off in 30 mins, then gets a fayre which takes him/her to the other side of BKK, as an example, 100Km away from home... why should he not have the right to only accept a few fayres which keep him within range of home, and his knocking off time? There are many such examples of a taxi drivers right to accept or refuse a fayre. Should a taxi have to accept a passenger who is inebriated, for example? The list is endless... and it's not a long wait in most places for another taxi to come passing.

They are very annoying how they refuse the fare, and they massively abuse this making it very hard and stressful for people.

The rule should be if they don’t want your business, then they use their radios and find another taxi for you.

You are a married man working through divorce. If your new wife to be, knows this,she should be content to support you.Not rush you into any level.And you don't need to be a married man and an engaged man at the same time.

End one then start another like you know you should.

Does your wife or any of your family know what you are up to.

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They must be desperate and hungry by now ,all those 400bht suckers?

Wait until the military "cracks down" on them ,5555

If the Military crackdown on the police, that would mean the police would have to enforce the law 100% all the time. There would be no arguing with policemen at the side of the road. You would have to go to the police station every time. They may even up the fines, put automatic speed cameras every 100 meters, and crush your vehicles at the slightest opportunity to teach you a lesson. All the increased income would pay for all the other plans the Military have in mind.

Maybe they could employ some UK road patrol Police officers to show them how it’s done in a sarcastic school prefect style manner. Corruption has to be stopped but generally speaking it’s really slack here for driving enforcement's and the fines are nothing compared to Europe.I cannot complain about none corrupt fines.

I was stopped at a road block last night (Bangkok). I took my helmet off, smiled at the officer and held out my hand to shake his hand. Like I was very pleased to meet him. He asked “where you from”…I said Manchester United (another big smile).He asked” you have papers” Yes I said I have everything passport license everything…In my room (another big smile). He said OK you can go.

Hi Costas

Every poster is either saying do it there is no risk about work permits or don't do it its not worth the risk without a permit.

Does anyone know how many people in the last 3 years got deported fined or jailed for working for free in a school, unqualified.Just to put some facts on the table. We know its against the law ,but just how much of a risk is it.

You mentioned you wont do it without a work permit. If that's the case whats stopping you from getting one. And what form of "loop hole"are you trying to find. I would like to help you but now I'm not clear what it is you want to know next.

Thinking about how much and what I drink……..I think I am a Tea addict. I hide tea bags all over the place in case I run out. I pressure mates coming from the UK to bring me Yorkshire tea bags. I give 4 or 5 Liptons tea bags away to my favorite little cafes, so they have them when I call next. I try to convince many businesses, if they learned to made a proper pot of tea  they would get rich(even the fruit stalls ).I never go anywhere without a few tea bags or the day will be ruined….back to the plot 2 bottles of Chang Classic every night.