patman30

i just had a 2 storey house built, 100% solar (15kw + 60kw SOC), well with tower, landscaping all for just over 2m (excluding land) i cannot see it being any different from a nicely designed knock down or modern trailer/caravan seems there are many similar options here at a much cheaper cost

yeh, seems a bit steep for a knockdown house, which is basically all it is, with a premium price for the musklovers

Happily would, when one of you wealthy old guys fund it.???? don't download bitcomet or some other torrent client. as you would then have what you need don't find a torrent site or two you like either. i got tonnes of old stuff and plenty of hard drives, DM me if you want to buy a hard drive.

strawman argument????‍♂️ no, i would not do that either.

No. and it is not "meat"

Should not judge a book by its cover Many ferangs here are very successful, which you would never think by their attire as it is very hot in Thailand it makes sense to wear less clothes or lighter clothes forget our western programming of what is smart you would not expect to see ferangs walking around in the heat suited up too often Many ferangs living here may have likely spent the past 30 or 40 years suited up everyday and are just happy to relax now my neighbour in my last house only got dressed if he went outside nothing more than his boxer shorts at home shorts, tshirt, flipflops/crocks/sandals is the attire of the day here Imagine getting dressed up to go to Big C ????

he is making this up? "If the kid's no longer living with you, your VISA extension will be invalid." ????‍♂️ Goodbye.

"can" is not the same as "am" meaning currently you are not, but you "can" "500k" is not for a 1900 baht visa, it is to be able to see and be with your kids without any headache as i said, there are also other ways, that do not cost as much as an elite visa, but EV should be affordable for you. hence why i said it was the "easiest option", albeit not the cheapest. personally i would not put money first, but i dont count in beers so maybe that helps. you seem to complain a lot about the woman you married and had kids with from my POV, it seems you let her take the reigns more than you should now you only want the reigns back as your visa status is in jeopardy. won't be back on this thread, won't see any of your replies.???? have a nice day, hopefully your son finds his own way.

what on earth are you talking about i am making stuff up?..... i was referring to britmans first line tell me this ain't so. you just admitted this was the reason for you having custody

i was referring to the first line go away.

so it was all about you and your visa, not their education or well being or happiness kids got split so you could keep visa "well I think I can teach my son" implies you are not currently teaching him anything. i assume you are not 50 yet, but there are other ways you can stay here, elite visa being the easiest option (which i assume you could afford being an IT expert)

There was more than 1 point being made in the reply i quoted and you sadly cherry picked the wrong one. no need for flooding the thread with large text i read it first time you posted it.

Thanks @BritManToo this answers a lot.

why did you split the kids up? why did you not also take your daughter if education was your concern? what are you personally teaching your son that he would not learn otherwise? obviously he objects to your drinking, why do you persist to consume? at 14 he is basically becoming a man and will make his own decisions There is a lot more to this than simply blaming your ex-wife and your son, If he does not want to stay with you and wants to be with family, it may be in your sons interest for you to find a better solution. don't forget his hormones should be raging right about now and you are his closest competition

your question implied that you assume majority if someone feared the banks collapsing surely it would be logical to keep the majority of funds out of the bank if in case that was the reason sorry logic is a habbit of mine an example of a reason easy my last home when i viewed it, the seller had someone lined up to buy but they had not given any deposit, and could not till the following week the seller was selling very cheap as they urgently needed a back operation i pulled out 300k cash (out of 600k) i had on me gave him a deposit there and then, this was a Friday afternoon, i borrowed 1m cash from a friend (secured) who also keeps cash on hand i had a bit more cash, sold some gold, sold some crypto informed seller Sunday night i had all we signed Monday morning, he was in the hospital by lunchtime paid 1m via bank transfer, the rest was 4m cash and 10 baht of gold (his preference) Bought land up north seller wanted cash, 1.5m landscaper and well guy both wanted cash 100k and 150k *i don't keep all my money in a bank, because i think i would prefer the risk of holding assets over just watching my money steadily (well seems more like exponentially) decrease in value over time, in laymans terms, i just think it's dumb, to keep all your eggs in one basket.

yeh, something doesn't add up here

i did not speculate on the reasons why people have cash on hand but i can assure you those who do do not all do it for the same single reason from your question it seems you are assuming those who do such a thing must have the majority of their funds with them, which does not need be the case again, there are many people who cannot fathom doing such a thing as usually they are not in a position to do so.

a million baht is not that much to keep on hand for many people unbelievable for some, but it does not imply criminal activities at all. no different to keeping watches worth a million baht or more many can, many cannot even fathom the idea. each to their own.

entirely possible, for myself i don't pester others for no reason maybe this is a bad perception of foreigners, brought on by the many pests that visit here thinking they can just invade others space and spark up a small pointless conversation everywhere they go see this often but usually limited to tourist towns

Indeed it does. ????

i assume you have been here a while my nephew came here for a year and a bit when he returned home no money (20 years old) he went straight to the social/housing very next morning first thing they told him because he had been outside over a year he was classed as an immigrant (he stupidly argued he was not an immigrant) he got sent to some other office that dealt with immigrants straight into a hostel same day and then they had him housed in his own place in under 2 weeks, lots of grants everything, sorted super quick. a friend also returned after a year here (40 years old) he tried telling them (probably where he mkkd up) he should be classed as an immigrant, they laughed.

So was your reply They removed mine as they had to remove yours (both deemed off topic) mine was just semantics, whereas your reply was deemed "misinformation" i used the word "ordered" as it was shorter to type than "UK cements 10-year-partnership with Moderna" to "build a state-of-the-art vaccine manufacturing centre with the ability to produce up to 250 million vaccines a year." be gone now, adding you to blocked list as you provide nothing to the conversation, and you quickly turn to ad homiens as you have nothing else. goodbye, have a nice day and all the best of luck to you.

what on earth are you talking about? i stated "mrna doses", and later "not specific to covid" i did not initially state "covid jabs" i did not state "mrna are not covid jabs" do you just look at the screen and make up the words you read?

incorrect, obviously you do not read much "as well as cutting-edge vaccines developed for other respiratory diseases, such as flu and respiratory syncytial virus"

Maybe it is your deoderant or lack of lol seriously there are many reasons why such behaviour exists one thing we have to learn is the xenophobia runs deep here don;t forget the fear pushed into the population always dirty foreigners to blame i recall once taking a few older friends to lifecare to get full blood work done while here on hols when looking at all the things tested a woman (bit too old to be called a girl) with one of the friends asked the nurse "what is chlamydia" the answer she got was "come from ferang" one way to avoid negative comments about Thais is to avoid this forum......????