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1 minute ago, Scotwight said:

PS I think the largest demographic on TV is old guys.  Correct me if I'm wrong.  

Sadly you're not.

One reason why so many of the views aired here are so out of touch

Things seem to have changed

Just now, Johnniey said:

All they asked me to do was open a savings account with 15,000 in it. I had to shop around as my own banks ones were all being used.

How long ago was that?

2 minutes ago, Johnniey said:

Why don't you want one from a bank? I use  Krung Sri Ayuthaya and only pay 600 baht a year.

ALmost all the banks are asking people interested in safety deposit boxes to take out some kind of savings/insurance vehicle as a condition of rental.

Needless to say, the products are crap

13 hours ago, siam2007 said:

cblockers.com 

Charoenkrung road near Saphan Thaksin BTS stop.

Used them some years ago for 3 years and they are reputable and safe.

 

I've seen their website but there isn't any info about ownership of the box contents in the event they go into liquidation or whatever.

Maybe it's unlikely that would happen but what recourse does one have if they did go belly up?

20 hours ago, alofthailand said:

More hard core criminals go to Europe and the UK where they practise real crime. The crims who come to Thailand don't do much real crime at all. They relax ' party and holiday. 

Visit Andrew Drummond's site and then tell me foreign criminals are here relaxing and partying

12 hours ago, Strange said:

 

No, she will not be a foreigner if she is a citizen. If she is a citizen then that would make her just as much "American" as anyone else. No immigration checks, no passport checks, can own property free and clear, protected by law. On and on and on. Just as much an american as you or me. 

 

Technically, she'll be an American but that won't matter to the racists. There are plenty here on this forum who make disparaging remarks about immigrants who've been given passports in their homelands. "They're not real Brits/French/Swedes"

5 hours ago, mesquite said:

What does "taking up the jack-sea" mean?

He means taking it up the "Jap's eye" which is the urethral opening in the male sexual organ. 

Most people who use these slang terms are totally ignorant of their origins and can't even write their own language

1 minute ago, georgemandm said:

Yes ok if it works , but you still have to report like you are a criminal .

That is a joke in it self .

Might have a lot to do with the hard core of criminals and undesirables pitching tents in Thailand. 

Maybe other countries don't have these requirements because there aren't as many of these types of "expats" living in there.

Let's see how long it takes Cambodia to introduce tighter criteria once all the losers who marvel at the lax immigration rules there start getting up to the tricks they used to get away with here

2 minutes ago, Bob9 said:

I liked and then unliked your post - hope that does not make you bored.

 

The first part is spot on - too high expectations - too low dollar/pound.

 

The second part is a grumpy whinging Expat complaining on TV.

 

Complaining??

Hahahahaa

Hearing a lot more complaints from long-termers in Thailand bitching about how bad/racist/restrictive it's become but, from what I've seen/heard, it really does all come down to the cost.

They just don't feel like the big shots they once did

I think there's a direct correlation between their deteriorating perceptions and the slow, inexorable decline of their home currencies' rate of exchange to the baht.

I guess when the exchange rates were high, their bellies were fuller, their testicles emptier and it was so much easier to elevate oneself above it all.

Not any more

Thailand was never a Utopia - it's edges are as rough as old boots but it seems to me that too many people have failed to move with the times and have held on to their over-inflated expectations while the country has moved on regardless.

If you're gonna go, then go - don't see why everyone has to post a confessional on a bloody internet forum.

The opinions of the old fogeys, sexpats and social misfits that make up a sizable chunk of the TV forum membership really shouldn't figure in one's deliberations.

Their only real use is as something to laugh at when you're bored

3 minutes ago, Strange said:

 

 

 

Utilities are not cheaper here than the US. Its only cheaper if you don't run the Air conditioning. You can turn it off in the states as well. I was born in Dallas and lived there until I was 15. 

 

Yes health insurance is cheaper here, but be careful. People come here for treatment of specific, already diagnosed issues. Health care is not better here than in the states. Forget about 911, forget about standardized emergency services. God help you if you have some severe medical emergency. There is NO safety net. Im not hating here. Its just a fact of living here. 

 

Yes you can get a place in BKK for 30k a month but just wait until you get some crazy neighbors. It will happen. ONLY Choice is to move. 

 

Im ranting now but give it more time for the newness to wear off. 

Here, you run the air conditioning; in much of the West, you run the heating.

Same same but different 

Healthcare here is on a par with the West if you go private. Health insurance covers pretty much all costs. Of course, it's more expensive the older you get but that's the case everywhere

Your comments on rent are misguided. If you pay 5k a month, there's a good chance you'll end up living next to or close to local yahoos who want to blast music or rev his souped up scooter at 4am. 

If you're paying 30K, you're less likely to find yourself in that situation as your neighbours will either be other farangs or middle class Thais who have to work for a living.

48 minutes ago, yellowboat said:

Because those who crave creature comforts over intellectual pursuits and the quest of wisdom are boring dolts.  

Well, clearly your quest hasn't borne much fruit, has it?

Can only guess at the motivation for such a bitter post - petty jealousy, frustration about not being able to afford those things yourself - but whatever it is, one would imagine that you'd have purged it/them from your oh-so-enlightened psyche.

7 hours ago, autanic said:

 

No on to what really gets my goat.  The media will report a story, where 33 people are arrested for drug offences. Three of them will be falangs and they will have their pictures all over the paper, in handcuffs. The others will be Thais who are anonymously going about their business.

 

Laws passed, where falangs must carry around a sim card so the authorities know exactly where they are, who they are talking to and what their web browsing habits might be.

 

90 days reporting to the Police or Immigration, where you are made to feel like a bum, freeloader for having the gaul of staying in Thailand.  What will you be doing here ?  Nothing, just relaxing.  I encountered a month ago.

 

It is a build up of my animosity which is not good for me.  I feel resentment everywhere I go. I feel like an outsider, a freak.

 

That is why I have made the decision not to return to Thailand for the foreseeable future, as I am currently in the UK. 

 

At the end of the day, I am fortunate to be in the position, where I do not burn bridges and should I decide to return to LOS, I can, no problem.

 

My frame of mind at the moment, is what I am going back to Thailand for ???

 

There are many other Countries in South and South East Asia, which I would like to spend some of life, I am kite blowing in the wind, lets see which one wants foreigners to spend money,  rather than putting off foreigners.

Rubbish

I don't feel any animosity or resentment towards me or my presence here. 

The sim card thing will never happen

90 day reporting is no biggie and, frankly, you knew about it when you got here. 

I've found that much of the carping about 90 day reports has jack shit to do with the sense of restriction or the questions and more to do with the fact that some farangs simply take exception to what they perceive to be poorly-educated brown people having "power" over some aspect of their lives.

Doesn't anyone else find it weird that someone who still has a job in the O&G industry is whinging about the price of a roomy apartment with air con and all the other trimmings?

I rent a 100sqm 2 bed in Asoke/Nana for ฿40,000 a month but it's possible to get a 2 bed place about 80 sqm, fully equipped for ฿25,000 up the road in Ekkamai which is a decent area.

That shouldn't be a stretch for someone on O&G coin

2 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Also countless sob stories we see here and yeah be sure they'll keep coming along with some of the intelligent dictionary swallowed people that reply to them. 

Yeah some people feel quite inadequate next to them, don't they?

46 minutes ago, i claudius said:

When i speak about immegration , to be honest i have no problem with Poles ,French Germans etc they on the whole do work hard when they come to the UK ,the likes of the Romanians , and ones from the African sub continent etc just scrounge off the system , in my mind there are two sorts of Immegrants , and most seem to fall into the second batch .

So you're allowing your own personal prejudice to colour reality and then have the gall to suggest that the data in the link I provided is somehow invalid because it doesn't confirm your bias?

12 minutes ago, i claudius said:

Actually evidence doesnt show this , can you give facts?

Sure

http://voxeu.org/article/fiscal-effects-immigration-uk

5 hours ago, yogi100 said:

 

Come to London and show me some. Get on a London bus and for every white single mother you clap eyes on you'll see five black ones. That's if you see any white ones at all. It was London I was referring to in my post.

 

What is the Boo Hoo comment meant to mean? Was that made in sympathy or were you mocking me.?

No need for me to come to London

Just go to the following areas:

Woolwich, Plumstead, Thamesmead, Lewisham, Enfield, Tottenham . . . I could go on but you get the picture

Like it or not, Britain had the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the developed world long before the most recent rush of immigration began.

Every time things get difficult in the UK (and other countries too, I might add), the first people to get blamed are the immigrants and this time is no different. This happens despite evidence which clearly shows that Britain gains a net benefit from the presence of immigrants most of whom do go there to work, not to claim benefits.

3 hours ago, yogi100 said:

 

I'm the only one of my old pals who still lives in my part of South London. They have all been denied local authority housing and can't afford to buy. My son was told that he did not qualify for council housing and would NEVER be allocated accommodation, in other words white working class need not apply!

 

When I travel by bus apart from Easter Europeans and a few OAPs I'm the only white person on board. All the old pubs are gone or are Islamic centres, doctor's surgeries or flats. Only Wetherspoons pubs survive. I long term in Pattaya but it breaks my heart to see what they've done to the London I grew up in.

 

I never realised it was possible to hate people as much as I hate our politicians, you can't blame immigrants for taking what's been handed to them on a plate although it has been done so at our expense.

Oh boo hoo

British-born, ethnic minority working class need not apply too but they're not running around with their arms flailing screaming "injustice" like some do.

The first people you ought to be blaming are the hundreds of thousands of white, working-class British-born single mothers who are automatically assigned local authority housing when they pop out a sprig sired by a white, working-class British-born hoodie.

Your son just got to the party too late, mate.

22 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

PS I am zillions % more free in LOS than in the over regulated, expensive, crime ridden, gang infested place I call my homeland, not to mention the excessive PC that has brainwashed the citizens.

Yep, this old "PC" chestnut again

Thing is, a lot of foreigners living here who share this view on "political correctness" in their homelands are the same ones who are perpetually whinging about being called a "farang" or being "discriminated" against in Thailand.

How balls-out hypocritical can some people be? 

I love it when I go back to London; it's still one of the world's top cities

Catching up with old friends, talking to well-dressed, educated, attractive women that can hold a conversation on subjects other than the latest iPhone and can afford to buy a round of drinks and going to quality clubs/bars that don't have wall-to-wall freelance prostitutes.

I love Bangkok too

Life is good

5 hours ago, Henryford said:

Getting "free" sex will cost you a lot more.

Only if you're a mug

1 minute ago, philtrue said:

Well some of the reply gives me some comfort for the rest if you guys want to do it Inquisition style well thanks it is not a game for me my life is a stake.

I shall not reply any more to the silly. 

Still welcome tips from the knowledgeable.

Well hang on a second, mate.

If you don't provide the information, how do you expect people to help you.

You haven't clarified your nationality (Swiss??) and you haven't clarified how you were able to fly to Switzerland without a passport (emergency travel documents, perhaps?)

4 minutes ago, tomwct said:

Bar jobs are for Thai's only.

Rubbish.

Foreigners can work in a bar legally. 

Please make sure your facts a straight before you post 

Of course, if you hang with certain types of Thai women, you might reasonably assume they have little in the way of a formal education.

The reason so many foreign men end up getting "done over" is because many of those men aren't much brighter despite having been given the opportunity to excel within a Western education system and more of a chance to develop a worldliness most Thais can only aspire to.

Couple that with the sense of empowerment they experience by dint of their exchange rate wealth and you have fertile ground for complacency to develop.

Complacency leads to over-confidence which, in turn, creates the very real belief that nothing can go horribly wrong

I've lost count of the number of posters here who think nothing of building/buying a house or car in the name of a woman they barely know or understand for no other reason than the fact that they've had the most intense orgasms they've experienced since they were 25; though, of course, they'll deny it 

Any number of documentaries on this subject will reveal an all too recognisable pattern - namely, the man is either a needy love clutz or he's desperate to project the air of a man who's successful with women.

Typically, however, the women are the kind he can only get with ill-advised largesse. 

11 hours ago, Smudge said:

I won't say I'm am angel, I say things that upset people and have done on many occasions but this caught me completely off guard... ie. hanging off the back of a baht bus.

So you admit that your mouth has tendency to get you into trouble when you're hammered and, on this occasion, someone made sure you paid for it.

Take your experience as the wake up call you need to seek some form of counseling to deal with your obviously repressed hostility to others.