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1 hour ago, siesasi said:

I love to spend my time as I want. It’s the only thing that makes me feel rich.

This comment really resonated with me. There's nothing like knowing that all 24 hours of the day are yours, and you can use them as you like.

You need to be responsible to live like this and need to have adequate financial reserves and an awareness of financial planning and the future.

Given that there's a growing movement away from the idea of a 9:00 - 5:00 work day, I think more and more people will be keen to lead this sort of lifestyle.

Relating this all back to the OP, he is ahead of the game.

2 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Seems pointless to have another air quality thread.  This is the peak time of year for "very unhealthy" air in Bangkok.  It will improve (to just "unhealthy") soon

Yeah, May is quite soon....

8 minutes ago, CNXexpat said:

It happens more than one year ago. I think I can´t get money back from the bank.

 

Yes, that´s the last and most expensive option. I can make a 50/50 deal with him - if he will get the 400,000 Baht back, he´ll get 200,000. Better than to get nothing for me. 

Sorry, I didn't mean file a claim with the bank. What I meant was if there was a bank transfer i.e. PROOF that a transfer of funds was made, that is clear evidence of the money being given to them that could be used in your claim against these people.

You do have a chance to get the money back, but it might take some time and effort to do so.

First of all, if you invested money in the business and you received all of the correct documentation, and the business later went tits up because of mismanagement then there is, realistically, very little you can do. It would simply be considered a bad investment.

If, however, you lent the money to them and have proof of the transaction i.e. a bank transfer, then you could file a claim for the return of the money. There are all sorts of options here but you will probably need a lawyer to assist you - and lawyers cost $$, obviously. It IS worth pursuing. Let the lawyer do all the work.

The perpetrator will not be going to jail. He'll be going to hell, courtesy of the men in brown (or the public if they find him first). I expect that the next update will be that he was killed by police fire while resisting arrest. Good riddance doesn't seem strong enough. Killing a toddler like that in a shopping mall (as well as the others he mowed down) warrants his immediate execution, in my opinion.

That video is horrible. I regret looking at that.

Had plans to go to Sydney for a week next month but have put them off because of the bad air quality which is not something you expect. The air quality in Sydney is just too bad at the moment (yesterday it was 290+ and significantly worse than Bangkok). When things improve on the air quality front I'll make the trip.

On 12/19/2019 at 1:29 AM, FruitPudding said:

I, for one, am looking forward to an almighty crash.

 

Not because I have money to buy with; I just want to see it crash.

If the property market crashes a lot of people could suffer badly. Property crashes are not pleasant. A crash can cause very serious money pressures for people which in turn can cause family problems, marriage breakups, children being separated from a parent etc. Do you get pleasure from seeing that? Kind of disturbing if you do....

I lived down that way between 2003 and 2010. That's a good few years ago, I know, but still have friends down there and gather the traffic patterns aren't all that different these days. It is quiet at the weekends and getting to and from Sukhumvit and Silom is easy then. Weekdays are another story and the traffic getting to and from the central city can be really, really bad from Monday to Friday. That to me was the major downside of living down there. If you have little need to get in to the downtown area then Rama 3 has a lot going for it. Plenty of river-view condos down there too, and not that pricey.

Was it a cleaning or was it a full scaling (essentially a more extensive cleaning)? There's a difference and that might at least partially explain the price.

47 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I'm not far from it, but heard nothing, saw no smoke, no one said anything about it. Can't have been a very large eruption.

It is an active volcano and better for them to have minor eruptions to release the energy as makes it more likely not to have a major one. If it were to do a Krakatoa I won't be around to write about it, nor most of the people in the Bay of Plenty.

It's about 50 km from the coast which is quite some distance....even if you were at the closest point I am not sure you would hear anything, but you sure would seen something.

You see you're not far from it, so where are you?

4 hours ago, Jajazazajaja said:

What has that got to do with anything?

 

i don’t give a toss about France, I just want the £ and the U.K. economy to be strong 

If a country's neighbour and major trading partner goes tits up, there are ramifications for other countries which in this example would be the UK.

14 minutes ago, AAArdvark said:

The only one that I am aware of is Siam Legal which wants ฿10,000.  Do you know of other agencies?

I had to get a clearance check a few years ago and I paid, from memory, 4,000 baht. I found it on Google. That was 2016, mind you, so who knows, things might have changed since then.

If you'd prefer not to take a trip down to Bangkok, there are agencies advertising online that can do it all for you for a few thousand baht.

FWIW, when I use Firefox on my laptop I don't get ads on this site.....I think Firefox blocks them all. But if I look at ThaiVisa on my iPad, my God, it lights up like a Christmas tree....and makes the whole ThaiVisa experience <deleted>.