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On 19/08/2016 at 1:07 AM, GOLDBUGGY said:
This reminds me of some younger guys arguing that it is better to rent your place then buy one.
The argument being that it is cheaper to rent then buy. That if you rent a place you are free to move around as you like staying 6 months in one place, then another 6 months someplace else. If something breaks down you don't have to fix it. Just get them to do that or move on. You are never committed to owning anything, or being responsible for anything or anybody, or being in any one place too long.
But after 10 years or so of this life, you realize that you are getting older and perhaps a bit lonely, as you still have no real commitments or anything else. Just you and the roof over your head that you rented for a few months as well as the woman in your bed. All the rent money you spent so far on both is gone, and all you have to look forward to in the further rent increases, from both.
On the other hand the other guy decides to buy his own place instead of renting it. He doesn't have to worry about packing up and moving out as he is happy with the place he shares with the woman in his bed. No more money wasted on renting a place anymore or always looking for a new place to move to, or someone to move in. Sure in 10 years some things do break down which if he is wise he tries to fix them. He hopes he can keep this place and the things he has for life. But nobody knows the future.
But if he is forced to sell his place in 10 years time or longer, at least he knows he will get half of his money back. What does the renter get back?
Trouble with that post, is that in Thailand you spend up ending more averaged out a year buying a place than renting, especially once you factor in what you can do with the capital it took to buy, elsewhere
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Why does anyone ever think this is a good idea?
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On 14/08/2016 at 11:22 AM, robblok said:
Lived here 10 years quite happy and no problems at all. I am not even considering moving back but if I wanted I could at any time do so. I think the secret is to learn a bit of Thai and to live near BKK (I think i would not be able to survive if i lived far from BKK). Also you need to have a good partner that can help you. (especially at first)
I agree with half of that, learning thai is a must
Living in or near Bangkok though, garrhhhh, I love pretty much everywhere else in Thailand except its biggest city
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One of the boys that died was a friend of my wife's younger cousin.
Not that that's much of a link, she has 500 cousins.
But a little strange it happened around here, this neck of the woods a bit quieter than average
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When Thais become violent we call it Thainess.. now that a German slaughtered a whole family do we call it Farangness ?
Sour Kraut?
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Never really understood what people usually mean by "meaningless" sex, especially if its with a superfine little 20 yr old thai girl
There are more fullfilling things in life?, like what exactly? Everyone gets bored of everything and everyone anyway.
Bar girls are doing it for their families? How much that bar girl is actually sending back to her family is actually a great indicator of how much you need to spend and where to spend it if you marry/have kids with one.
That is, the answer is sweet FA, only 10% or so really goes back to the family. The vast majority of that money either gets hoarded, or goes to clothes, shoes, jewellry. And anyone that thinks its not her very own father/mother/brother/boyfriend that isnt the one sending her of to do that work in the first place is an idiot.
(or as seems to be the case the vast majority of the time a kid with a thai guy in the village who dumps her ...and then what
These girls have low self respect? Oh please!
There will always be holier than thou moralists or secret butthurt guys that never got enough ...that write this crap
Why is it, when it comes to talking about a "more meaningful bond" in a relationship, its always mostly either comes from older women or short little guys that have a wife twice their size
Whats the bet Saviour Dan has a little stash of upskirt photos and videos of these girls he has taken, and he is a little freaky that way because he;s spent too much time repressing natural urges out of some self-righteous-wanting-to-make-himself-more-important-than-he-is-thing
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He will get 3 - 5 years if he pleads guilty, and will be out in 18 months.
My wife's younger brother got caught trafficking commercial quantities of ya ba some time ago. He pleaded innocent and got 20 years. His buddies pleaded guilty and got 10 years, but were out in 5 years. He has been in jail for nearly 7 years and this week had his final appeal/sentencing. The judge decided to add on another 14 years (he was caught with a mobile phone in prison) and he now has 34 years in total.
Mmmmm Hmmmm, what that really means is we will keep tacking on things until admit you were guilty.
Bet if he did, or as soon as he does, he'd be out quick smart
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Well, if his legal counsel is matched by the family finances he may as well have cockroach represent him! As far as I am concerned he can get the death penalty, at least he won't offend another time. The sad thing is, he was a smart kid, he had a lot going for him, but his mother was never around, his father left when he was a baby, I am not making excuses, he made his own decisions. There is a lot to say about nurture and upbringing, sad it has turned out like this.I don't know what the penalties might be but I would imagine as in USA too, it could depend on the quality of the legal counsel that he gets... the really sad part is the turmoil in the family...
You havent actually mentioned what your wife thinks you should do, if anything, or whether the grandma intends to sell anything to raise any funds.
I keep hearing some members say a lot of farangs finances will go to family trouble.
My experience has been the opposite, with the wife, MIL and Brother in laws wife, all three very tight with money. Had one nephew crash his motorcycle, with all three, none of them would cough up the measly 1800 baht for the hospital bills
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And you always miss the point, an average woman you meet in London will have approx 8 times the earning potential of an average Thai woman but you consider that a relationship should still be the same.
Yeah, but it costs 8 times as much to <deleted> live in London
Been through this argument so many times on these forums, still dont get what many of you are on about.
Yeah, you could find a woman in London that could earn as much as you do, but then all that incomes and then some, just goes on mortgage or rent
Whats the use, whats the difference, if Income minus spending, your combined disposable income still works out the same or better in Thailand?
Thai woman are supposed to be bigger goldiggers than the ones back home, certainly not my experience
Then you say "but you consider that a relationship should still be the same" Same as what? what are you talking about
Not only do I not understand what many here are on about, doesnt seem to have any basis in reality.
Even within Thailand, the difference between cost of living in Bangkok vs NowhereKonSawan adds up quickly.
Just gone past 7 years with mine, she doesnt really work ( not for more than 300 baht a day anyway, and its really her mother that does all the work), I paid for the wedding, car, house in what still came to under a years salary
5 years since then, its not trying to pay off a ridiculous mortgage back home, still can send her plenty to pamper her and yet still end up way ahead
If i had tried the same thing over the same time frame with a woman back here, and even if she had the same income as me ( which of course is impossible with infants), 5 years later, we would be what, at best probably 1/3 of the way through the mortgage
Even if the thai wife doesnt work, but a western wife would, the $ difference, the $ advantage is mind blowing
(and not that you'd really find a working western wife that wouldnt want to start off with some ridiculous McMansion and the mortage that goes with it)
I send the thai wife 50,000 baht a month, which going by these forums is far more than average, some might say I'm crazy, but if you add everything up, even with a working western wife, just in 5 years, I'm still a couple hundred thousand dollars not baht better off with the Thai wife, thats just in 5 years, let alone the next 30.
Then on top of that she's half my age, looks a whole lot better and the kids have 20 little cousins to play with, 20 aunts always ready to provide free childcare.
Who gives a rats a**** whether the relationship is the same as......
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What a crock! This girl claims she repents yet and says women doing this can not find love yet, at the same time, claims her customer has become her boyfriend? It would seem that anyone who actually read her story would be encouraged instead of discouraged into finding a man with money and a possible future with one of her customers.
Yes, it would mean something if she said this after 6 months, not after 6 years
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I know that they opened on 242 Acres Waterfront Casino Resort in Louisiana USA recently with 740 Guest Rooms and Suites on 25 floors, and includes a 18-Hole Golf Course and over 30,000-square-feet of meeting place for shops and bars and whatever, plus the Casino. There final and total cost was about $600 Million US Dollars.
The most expensive Casino and Resort Hotel ever build is the Marina Bay Sands Casino-Resort with 2,550 Hotel Rooms and Suites in over 1.3 Million Square-Feet of living space and over 800,000-square-feet for meeting places, which includes a skating rink. The Casino alone is over 160,000 -square-feet with 500 Gaming Tables and 1,600 slots. The total cost including the land in Singapore was $8 Billion Singapore Dollars or about $5.9 Billion US Dollars.
So somehow spending $3 Billion Dollars for a Resort in Sihanoukville and compared to Singapore or the USA just doesn't seem feasible to me. Maybe if they knock one zero off of this estimate they would be closer to the real one. Spending $3 Billion Dollars for a Casino Resort in Singapore or Los Vegas....sure! But in Sihanoukville?
Better to use some of this money getting a Gambling License first, then to build an airport and some roads, so you have a way of getting the tourist their. It would be difficult to attract 25,000 people daily, like the Marina Sands does, and squeeze them all into Minivans down Bumpy Roads, even if they are all Chinese.
Yes, $3 billion sounded a bit extraordinary to me, especially there,m with hardly any matching infrastructure to support it
Unless thats whats included in the cost, all the extra infrastructure required to support it, but that doesnt sound very Chinese-ey
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I seriously doubt those figures
It would suggest a high degree of efficiency from the thai authorities
Even if it only cost 1000 baht to process each individual, 100,000 would mean the government spent 100 million baht on this
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She is Thai, the daughter is Thai, and the son is Luk Kreung.
Money does not change anyone's nationality.
When the daughter (who is Thai) reaches her teenage years, and the OP tries to show some authority, as in telling her she should not be doing this or that, her answer will be '<deleted> off, you are not my father'.
That will be the appreciation he gets for throwing money at them, to, as you say, keep them up with the Jones'.
And for your information, the same doctors treat people on the 30 baht scheme, as well as the extortionate private hospitals.
So after years of supporting an adopted child, you should have the right, to what control their lives?
A biological child would be different in that respect how exactly?
Have kids they are going to take the parents for granted, maybe pretend to listen, but end up doing there own thing.
This is the way you were when you were younger, we all were. Not like any of us had a clue when we were little about the finances.
So she has a kid from a previous guy, thai guys dont want women that already have a kid, only silly falangs will go there? - Its not like that kid has any choice in the matter, what does any of that nasty sentiment have to do with the kid?
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Lol at you guys, seems to be a TVF pastime that if the girl grew up in the village and is uneducated she has to be a twit.
Or if she wants to stay at home look after a bunch of kids, I have to be a throwback from the 1950s, 1950s in the west that is. Not like the thais would really understand if you tried using a term like throwback to the 2490s
And everything isn't about money, okey dokey. ...every damn thing is about money man
..every damn thing is about money man
Ah the thoughts of yet another 2 week millionaire or blow in.
You obviously dont live here, all about money, you dont have a clue, all it does is reveal which pool you fish in.
There are girls here who neither need nor want your money, these girls have their own dignity, self respect and pride.
You cant buy them, they will not be subservient to some insecure man, be he Thai or farang.
Best you get back to the production line, dont foget tomorrow go WU and sent more money for you teerak.
Will ask you again, do you actually live here?
Or are you posting from some place like Woga Woga?
Some differences, but its not rocket science man, a lot of its still the same crap you get everywhere else, especially with all those little disagreements between family members.
Even with all the crazy superstitions, thats different for each person, so whatever
Dont act like there are one group of humans so remotely different from all the rest on the planet that all the rest are incapable of understanding
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So, why do most westerners, particularly the "wealthy" ones who are always sending me home to "earn more money and then come back" are living in places like this? Is it the sudden urge to help the needy? Help a poor Thai family?
Its simply because they have a family, half a dozen living under the same roof, same amount again visiting every 2nd night, just pop round say hello in the middle of the day.
Something Ive never experienced back in Australia, you might get one or two occasions in the year where its a family BBQ and you might have a dozen people there, but that will be it, count on one hand the amount of times youd have that many people around throught the year....certainly not every darn day like it happens in rural thailand. The thais win when it comes to family.
As for the condition of the place, who cares, he should have turned the camera around and showed you the view
Is it also fair to say that people who live in these villages have absolutely no clue how the "normal" relationships work?
I think we all know the answer to this question.
See, Its when you say stuff like this?!
Seriously dude
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I just think that guys like you deliberately hunt for women who need some form of financial support.
You know what it is you're doing but you're just trying to give it respectability by comparing it to a traditional breadwinner/homemaker situation.
Keep telling yourself it's "housekeeping" if it makes you feel better but you're not fooling anyone
Those i disrespect are the Western guys who have had the opportunity to earn 6 to 10 times the salary of almost every Thai girl but are then proud that they get everything for free.
Rogeroc answered that for me
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What a croc
Guys are still going to want to go on the hunt, cop and eye full, have a drink or two
You are not going to sit at home, pick one on tinder and hope her pic matches reality
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As an ordinary joe, I also find the exchange rates a mystery and black art.
My only conclusions are that interest rates are the key, and the failure of the US to raise them had a major effect .
The Thai economy baffles me - but then I'm no economist. They seem to have money to throw around everywhere and yet I don't quite understand where it all comes from. In Pattaya (a bad example I suppose) almost everyone seems to have 'cash in hand' for work. Someone once told me it's all to do with the country's 'debt' situation and Thailand's is good in that respect.
We just have to grin and bear the 'yo-yo' of exchange rates. There seems to be no stability at all. As a Brit we are 'allegedly' suffering from the forthcoming referendum. I say allegedly, because if there were a 'remain' decision,and the pound took a boost, within days there would be some gloomy 'announcement' from the Bank of England or Chancellor in order to weaken the currency. I have no idea if American exporters grumble about the 'strength' of the dollar.but many UK companies complain the pound is too strong.
It's all a game in my view and currency 'strengths' seem to bear no relationships to the economic well being of the country.
2/3 of Thai GDP comes from exports, manufacturing, agriculture, less than 10% is tourism. From memory half the thai workforce is employed in agriculture
Any economy heavily dependant on agriculture is reasonably bullet proof. Even in the midst of a real crappy El Nino and the rice price plummeting you still dont see the flow on effects compared to say with a too oil dependant country like Russia and the oil price plummeting.
With manufacturing Thailand is in that goldilocks range, can still outbid China in some areas, but not too dependant on manufacturing for slowdowns to hit like they have with China
As for public debt, welfare is fairly non existant. Go hunting on the net for info on how high the percentage of the public debt with some western countries is welfare
The thai currency jumps around seasonally as agriculture, manufacturing and tourism are all seasonally dependant
Of course you dont see all the manufacturing across the country, thats where most of the money comes from
But basically, enough fingers in enough different pies, a strong agricultural sector to fall back on, and none of the ridiculous nanny state cost driving up public debt ( a crapload of corruption though) is why the Thai economy is in an ok state
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I'd unblock the sink myself, its not rocket science
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Lol at you guys, seems to be a TVF pastime that if the girl grew up in the village and is uneducated she has to be a twit.
Or if she wants to stay at home look after a bunch of kids, I have to be a throwback from the 1950s, 1950s in the west that is. Not like the thais would really understand if you tried using a term like throwback to the 2490s
And everything isn't about money, okey dokey. ...every damn thing is about money man
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Got myself a thai wife, made babies with her, set it all up in Thailand for three main reasons
And in order:
1. Eye wateringly cheaper than trying the same thing back home over decades
2. She was smokin hot, smokin. Thai women are the hottest on the planet, and she was hotter than almost all of them
3. When working back here I am doing like 60 hrs a week, dont have time for anything else anyway, and I'll be damned if I am spending my holidays in this overpriced, nanny state, butt wipe of a country
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You guys make out you've got the man/woman dynamic licked by paying a salary and that everyone who doesn't pay is some sort of idiot but you're not fooling anyone.
The truth is, you're terrified of women; even at your advanced ages, you've not even come close to understanding them.
Deep down, you're terrified they'll leave you if all you bring to the table is your personality so you look for ones you can control with money; it really is as straightforward as that
Your limited funds won't buy you anything under 60 in the West so you came here to exploit financially-strapped younger women without the safety net of welfare and take advantage of their sense of obligation to their families.
That's why we laugh at you
Being in control of a relationship.
Being able to take the good parts of the relationship and not the bad.
Being able to choose what to do with own money
Being able to find another round the corner when personality deserts you
Being able to choose a younger girl when at an age when personality is irrelevant to any girl
Being able to have a portfolio of girls.
Being able to never have to attempt to understand the impossible
And probably all of this at a lesser cost than you guys with great personality have spent in the past 10 to 20 years or so. I wonder who will have the last laugh !
Guy brings home the bacon, girl stays at home looking after the kids.
This is how the majority of the world still operates
Your attitude would be in the minority, compared to the whole world
If having / looking after kids is/was always what she wanted more than anything else....how is anything else you've said relevant?
"Your limited funds won't buy you anything under 60 in the West" - by 60, you referring to years, or kilos?
Edit: Oh, that guy didnt quote properly, was responding to the guy that posted the all but last paragraph
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I'm not sure if violence is getting worse (many think it is) or are these things being reported more? Maybe someone who's been here a long time can help out???
7+ Million people in Bangkok, all in sometimes 40 degree heat
Im surprised this kind of thing doesnt happen way more often, way way more often
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I'd expect that's the kind of thing that happens in thai jail.
There has to be a deterrent do most of the population other than just the term of the sentence.
I suspect the suicide/ murder rate especially somewhere like Bang Kwang a lot higher than will ever be publically known.
When people scream foul of a light sentence given to some crimes, I think the Thais know even a 5 year sentence can actually be a death sentence
Divorcing in Thailand before thai wife issues proceedings in the UK
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As for this, the opposing side of the argument
There are easy ways to handle certain things, especially if marrying a thai girl in thailand, 1) would be never buy anything of great value, rent and leasehold with the kids names on the lease 2) would be never get her to come to your home country
The main reason for (2) is that the laws back in our home country are far more ****ed for the guy than the laws in Thailand, so I dont really know what guys are on about on both sides of the argument "gold digging bitches" the Thai wife should never be able to get you for anywhere near the amount one back home could