Hornyskunk

I would absolutely choose to live in a farang village if I could, but I don't think I represent the average farang in Thailand. For starters, I never wanted to be here.

Ideally, I want to live in a community similar to the one I grew up in: http://castlehills.com/

However, I think importing the Castle Hills model to Thailand would be virtually impossible. Also, the price of a house alone would exclude almost everyone from living there. 

Where can I buy garcinia cambogia and for how much?

Might as well try it.

where can I make easy money in Thailand?

Well... I'm no expert, but I hear there's a lot of easy money to be made somewhere between soi cowboy and nana plaza. Happy hunting! It's always open season.

what about this one:?

Whats he getting smacked up for....?

Maybe he was drunk and did something stupid. Why didn't he defend himself? Obviously he ain't Texan. God, please don't let something like that ever happen to me, for everyone's sake.

By Thai standards, 65k/month is a lot. I live and work in downtown Bangkok and I think you can live here off 65k/month no problem. If you need to send money home, you can live cheaply and more Thai-like.

I don't drink, don't smoke, don't pay for sex, don't go out for entertainment, etc. In my free time, I am either with my girlfriend or I'm home playing video games. I'm young so I have no medical expenses or children.

However, I have to warn you that you can still easily blow through 65k/month. I am moving to a new condo this Sunday and have estimated my new monthly expenses to be around 50k/month, so I'm budgeting 60k/month.

If you can, I advise you to splurge on your apartment or condo and try to save money elsewhere. I wish I could cut down on my air-conditioning costs, but I instantly burst into sweat every time I walk outside. This means I travel almost exclusively by taxi and I eat/shop only at expensive, air-conditioned places. When I was calculating my costs recently, I found that I spend almost 10k a month on taxis! At that rate I should just get my own car. If you can stand living, eating, shopping and traveling at higher temperatures, you could save more than 20k/month compared to me.

With 10m baht, I could finally marry my girlfriend, who I love more than anything. I've been wondering for a long time how I'll be able to afford her dowry. She is from a really good family.

dow·ry

noun

noun: dowry; plural noun: dowries

1. property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage.

God, how I wish that were true. I've asked my dad to loan me money to pay her dowry, but he absolutely refuses because he's too old and white and intolerant. He told me in very racist terms that dowries are retarded and that if a culture is going to be so ignorant and uncivilized as to continue the practice, the dowry should always go to the man for having to put up with the woman for the rest of his life. I tend to agree with my dad on most things, but he doesn't understand love (he's borderline autistic).

With 10m baht, I could finally marry my girlfriend, who I love more than anything. I've been wondering for a long time how I'll be able to afford her dowry. She is from a really good family.

If I were deported back to the states, I would go right back into the marijuana business. My girlfriend is lucky that I care more about love than money or I would have never left.

Try playing video games. Alternatively, trade me lives and I'll play video games for you.

PC strategy games from Paradox (i.e. Europa Universalis IV), Firaxis (i.e. Civilization V) and Creative Assembly (i.e. Total War Rome II) can be very intellectually challenging, especially against human opponents, and do not require youthful reaction times. They are also mostly history-based, appealing to an older crowd. I play these games when I get tired of mass murdering children in other games (or when I lose to that one teenager in a thousand that is actually better than me).

This is the best news I've heard out of Thailand in a long time.

if they would really do, it would be in the scale of Pol Pot... and you can buy a few rai of land cheaply in downtown Bangkok or Chang Mai....

This is the best news I've heard out of Thailand in a long time.

Hey, sometimes governments do good things. I voted for the full legalization of marijuana in Colorado and it actually passed. I am still shocked.

It's funny how peoples views can differ. I totaly agree with you on the pot thing but totaly disagree with you on the marriage thing. I am a single hetrosexual man (have a gf). I have no issues at all with gay marriage. If two guys or girls want to marry why should it bother me. Giving tax breaks to parents is something I could agree with but not based on sexuality or ethnicity.

Tax breaks aren't going to stop gay people getting married.

The way some are so disgusted by gay people is quite funny. You would almost think they were scared they might catch "gay"

I don't want to stop gays from being together in legally-recognized unions, I just want the state to call it anything other than "marriage" and to do something to protect traditional marriages that produce children, which I believe are a cornerstone of any society. I think that other demographic groups, not just gays, should respect and contribute to traditional married couples with children in exchange for state recognition and protection of their rights. Just as we pay taxes to sustain armed forces for our national security, we should also pay taxes to sustain parents and their children for our nation's future.

If the state will not promote traditional marriages by requiring gay "marriages" to contribute taxes to support them, I will not support gay marriage. I think that is a fair tradeoff.

If a minority group wants to benefit from state protection of their rights, they should pay taxes to support the majority. For example, immigrants should pay taxes to support citizens, abortees should pay taxes to support mothers, gun owners should pay taxes to support police, polluters should pay taxes to support environmentalists, etc.

In Colorado, weed is taxed to support schools. Colorado was previously one of the worst states in terms of public education. Based on my own experience, I believe that potheads in Colorado are overwhelmingly in favor of paying consumption taxes (in some jurisdictions up to 50%) to support education. I think that even the old farts on their farms in "Northern Colorado", who actually voted to secede from the state over the marijuana issue, would agree that weed has been a huge economic boon for the state and that the tax revenues are completely transforming schools. I see no reason why this political strategy cannot be applied to gays and other minority groups with similar successes for both sides of the issue.

DECIDES to be gay??? lol

Yes, gay people decide to be gay.

I don't like this BS about some kind of biological programming which forces someone to be gay. When I was 13, I felt my biology was forcing me to hump anything with a vagina, yet I chose not to. If an insanely horny 13-year-old can make the conscious decision to masturbate rather than have sex with the class slut, then anyone can, gay or straight. Anyone can choose abstinence. I don't recommend it, but please don't have sex with someone and then tell the world that you couldn't have avoided it just because you were born that way.

Tell the truth: I am a man/woman and I chose to have sex with a man/woman because that's what I like and that is my right!

I wish I could use the excuse that my biology forces me to smoke weed in order to be happy. Unfortunately, as humans, our brains give us near total control over our natural urges.

I know I'll get so much hate for this...

I believe in the half-your-age-plus-seven rule with regards to maximum age disparities in sexual relationships.

It should be made a law and replace the age of consent (effectively making the age of consent 14, permissible only between two 14-year-olds).

I don't like seeing old men with young women or old women with young men.

In my defense, I am a young man.

Hey, sometimes governments do good things. I voted for the full legalization of marijuana in Colorado and it actually passed. I am still shocked.

What ?? Colorado here we come.....

You didn't know that? We should start a new poll: Should Thailand legalize marijuana?

good luck with that

Hey, sometimes governments do good things. I voted for the full legalization of marijuana in Colorado and it actually passed. I am still shocked.

Homosexuals should not be allowed to marry.

They should be allowed to be together in legally-recognized unions that are differentiated from heterosexual marriages by the state for the purposes of taxation and wealth redistribution.

I believe that divorcees, immigrants, singles and homosexuals should be taxed to benefit heterosexual marriages, especially those which produce children, in order to maintain a nationalistic demographic ideal. I think this is only fair, as something must be done to ensure that heterosexual marriages with children are encouraged for the sustainability of a nation and its culture.

This means that immigrant couples with children should not receive the same benefits unless at least one parent is a national. Homosexual couples with children should also not receive tax breaks.

Edit: BTW there are a lot more disgusting things in public than gay asscheeks. At least those guys look like they shower.

I might be late, but I have a job suggestion for the OP.

Have you considered working on a cruise ship? Several lines operate around Southeast Asia and stop at ports in Thailand.

I love going on cruises and I always take advantage of the top-notch gym and trainers. In my experience, fitness is not much of a priority for cruisegoers so I often get great one-on-one training. I don't know what they get paid or how they get the job, but it might be worth looking into.

Damn... this post could be a metaphor for the whole of Thailand.

All it needs is some photoshopped construction workers with their heads buried ass deep in the dirt.

As a recent master's graduate, I really wanted to help this student by taking her survey. However, I won't complete it because it does not allow for nonresponses. The answer choices for some questions do not reflect my opinions and I cannot skip them.

Home is where your rump rests.

Somebody tried a Non-O there ?

I recall that the Thai embassy in Yangon does process non-o visa applications, but of course I don't have experience getting one. I think they do all types of visas, including education and non-immigrant visas. I imagine that the process would be the same but with a higher fee.

That is correct. The e-visa receipt is good to use for 90 days but once it is used for a stamp it only allows a 28-day stay in Myanmar. I'm on a taxi going home but I will update the OP later and add some details like the days of the week and the fact that the flight was from Bangkok. Good catch!

Anyone know why I can't edit my own posts? There is no edit button anywhere on the page.

That is correct. The e-visa receipt is good to use for 90 days but once it is used for a stamp it only allows a 28-day stay in Myanmar. I'm on a taxi going home but I will update the OP later and add some details like the days of the week and the fact that the flight was from Bangkok. Good catch!