richard_smith237

Ultimately, to allow the convenience of being permitted to live together. For both of us... It was obvious we were going to get married at some point, we married after 2 years just to make life easier for us. My Wife is from Bangkok and lived at home with her parents (Wife was 31 when we met - 3 yrs age gap). In a traditional culture there is no way my Wife was ever going to be permitted to live with me or travel together unless we were married. Before marriage, whenever we went out she had to be home by midnight. We did holiday together etc and sometimes she stayed over, this involved the ‘white lie’ to her parents that she was staying at one of her females friends places. I’m sure her parents knew was was going on, so prolonging this sort of lie was becoming disrespectful. We got married so we could live together and spend more time with each other, we’ve been married 12 years. My In-laws are proud grandparents and visit weekly and often stay over. Would I get married again ? - thats obviously something I can’t imagine.

Then a hypocrite I am... passing bitter judgement on those who pass bitter judgement !!!

It is a Thailand issued Identification card for people of non-Thai nationality...

Next in news.. Dog pays for British Tourist’s medical bills after causing accident.... and add to boot, British Tourist was not double charged !!!... ????

Its just so very droll..... whenever there is an article concerning anything to do with beauty, there are always posters who spout the same pathetic twaddle... - Not my cup of tea - Too much plastic - Bleached pasty white skin - Looks like a ladyboy - Seen better down Soi 6 (Pattaya) - Not representative of a real Thai - Give me farm girl any-day ... yadda yadda yadda... when the reality is those making such comments have so little game they stand no chance whatsoever with such females and are forced to continue scraping the barrel... they’ve become brainwashed into thinking ’it is their choice' to become attracted to the females the rest of society ignores when in reality, they’ve just become used to it because thats all there is for them... They make themselves feel better by passing bitter judgement on those they know are higher up the socio-economic food-chain who’d never ’need’ them to ’take care me’ !!!!...

I repeat, as you appear to not understand what I wrote - it has nothing to do with saving a couple of hundred baht. And... neither does hiring a maid have anything to do with not being able to look after yourself. It's simply paying someone else a very affordable wage to do some work (washing, Laundry, Ironing, cooking) that the Op would prefer not to do himself and thus give him more time to do the things he does enjoy.... It [having a maid] is not a tough concept, its one many have warmed to in Thailand... except and your friends it seems. I also pay people to paint my house etc not because I can’t, but because there are other things I’d rather spend my time doing.

Maybe he has more disposable income than you? I think he’s simply decided to attack the Op and is sticking to his opinion without realising how exaggerated and flawed is comments are.....

Either a basic level of comprehension eludes you, or you’re either being deliberately obtuse. There is a difference between.... ‘unable to do’ ... and ‘prefer not to do’.... Its about standard of living... My Wife and I don’t want to do out own house cleaning etc... so we hire someone else to do it... Simple. I don’t want to wash my own car, so I pay someone else to do it. And this one’s a shocker.... We regularly go out for meals.... and its not because my Wife and I can’t cook for ourselves !!!!

Why close the thread... This is comedy gold !!!.... Unfortunately for you, in a laugh at, rather than laugh with manner...

"Trip, trap, trip, trap, trip, trap, went the bridge. "Who's that tripping over my bridge?" roared the.............. " ok ok... as Trolls go, this one is quite funny.... Next instalment..... 'I went out for some food and came back to an empty room... she took everything !!!’....

Where he is from is of no relevance whatsoever to a thread about having a maid to clean, cook and do laundry. As is the amount of time it takes up in the day... Even if prepping, cooking a couple of meals a day, then doing the dishes etc, them perhaps cleaning a little... then laundry a couple of days per week... It all adds up.... IF the cost of getting help is cheap there is no reason whatsoever to go for that. I have no idea why you are attacking the Op for wanting something that many many people in Thailand have.... Maids here can be a godsend. Once my Son was about 6 months old we got a Live in Maid / Nanny... (no cooking though)... about 12,000 baht per month - she was awesome and made things so much easier for my Wife... I wouldn’t have a ‘live in maid’ now as I prefer the privacy - but having someone come around and clean the house couple of times per week is perfect - It free’s up so much more time for my Wife. Yet you weren’t brought up not to jump to silly conclusions and assume the op can’t take care of himself because he wants a maid ???... Now.. Good for you for cleaning your own toilets (not on your knees)... the op wants to pay someone else to do that stuff...... that in no way means he is unable to do so himself.

You’re confused about ‘quality of life’ ???? He doesn’t want to do ‘those things’... he prefers to pay someone else to clean, do his laundry and cook..... & Why not ??? None of this suggests he is incapable of looking after himself - thats just your hyperbolic projection. One of the enjoyable facets of living in Thailand is cheaper labor and being able to pay others do some of the work you don’t want to.

Horrific... In many of our home nations the road below would be closed while constructing the bridge causing traffic chaos for weeks. In the UK roads are closed to paint the white lines !!... Motorways are ‘coned down’ to a single lane to prosecute the workers carrying out repairs which take weeks and moths. In Thailand the traffic is permitted to flow, beneath, above and around road-works and building works. This incident is of course horrific, and someone for such took a short-cut resulting in this failure. But its construction and this is why in other areas of the world whole roads are closes. Which is the right way to go about this ? Well, I like that Thailand doesn’t close whole roads when carrying out work, but this can come at a very expensive cost as this news highlights... Pros vs cons of closing roads.... We like them not being closed until something like this happens. We don’t like them being closed in the UK and complain about it, but then something like this cannot happen... Which is best ????...

Same here... When seeing the Doctor its easy enough to just tell them you want to buy the meds outside of the hospital - I’ve never had pushback on this.

This is one of the major is issues in Thailand... borne of an utter apathy by the police to enforce the laws... people do what they want when they want (i.e. park like this) then the sense of entitlement develops, they expect to park like this all the time.... No one does anything... Pedestrians are forced to walk on the road.... Its the same with motorcycles on the pavement, ‘someone’ even goes so far as to add a little concrete and build little ramps to ease access !! Do those in positions of decision making power know ??? My guess is they care so little they hardly notice until something negative occurs and social media makes a big deal out of it... they are then ‘forced’ to care, but briefly until the issue dies down. In this scenario, if you were looking for a spot to park and there was an available gap, what would you do???.... Personally, I’d park there, everyone else has... And thats the issue, the authorities ‘enable’ antisocial traffic behaviour (and parking) by doing nothing about it - in this case they’ve pretty much designed the pavement to be parked one with the ‘ramped kerb stones’.... That said - is the side walk / pavement on the other side of the road clear to walk down ??? This is one of those... TiT issues... not too much to take issue with, its just one of those things to shrug at... its Thailand after all.