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On 8/5/2019 at 2:15 PM, Cadbury said:

My prediction is the AUD will continue to drop against the THB. The AUD is now at a 10 year low of 0.68c against the USD and likely to go lower. Westpac says it will go to 0.66c. So if this happens and the THB stays where it's at you will get less baht for your AUD. 

AUD being pulled down by a plunging NZD after Reserve Bank New Zealand just dropped interest rates by .5%. You might see .66c to the USD in the next 24 hours...currently at .6723 and falling.

7 minutes ago, Zagor said:

Thank you for answer.

I didn't know they were such materialists.

Damn it. Is there any country in Asia which  has not materialistic girls?

To answer your question, in a word: No!

So what's the rule here? If you have a Thai wife, you can use the Thai line with her? Or do you need to have young children too?

AUD getting 20.75 at Vasu Exchange this morning, and less than 20.50 baht at banks. Probably less than 20 at the airport now. And I think it's got a way to fall yet...

Flying out of Bangkok on Thai Airways both domestic and international I always have two bags for carry on - laptop bag and another bag with camera, glasses, charger etc. Never had a problem, never been challenged - and see many people carrying similar.

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12 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I do not want to sound like a doom and gloom forecaster, but I see the property market worldwide, nearing a rather substantial correction.

It's easy to say that with prices so high that it's unsustainable and that there must be a correction coming. Many things could cause property prices to fall such as a major economic slowdown causing a sharp rise in unemployment. But it's going to have to be something like that because interest rates are so low that in many ways they offset the higher asking prices - and it doesn't look like interest rates will be going up any time soon. In some countries like USA and Australia interest rates are tipped to go down more...

15 hours ago, Mikisteel said:

Who was about in 97?

 

What kind of bargains we talking about? If that property crash happened in bok does it spread nationwide?

You could get a 100 square meter unit on Sathorn Road for 2,000,000 baht in 1998, a year or so after the crash. Same unit now would be closer to 20,000,000 baht....

8 hours ago, Steve Vincent said:

Exports from Thailand have fallen 32% in the last 12 months,tourism fallen by 25% businesses closing daily  without sustainability the baht will crash ! 

These numbers are completely false. There's no reason to make absurd exaggerations to try and support your point.

47 minutes ago, drgoon said:

At 16 to the NZD, I'll be going home lol

And that rate has precedence....19 years ago there was a short period when 1 NZD got 16 baht....and 1 NZD was under 20 baht for a good while I seem to recall.

New Zealand dollar very likely to fall further next week with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand widely tipped to reduce interests rates at their next review on Wednesday of next week.

Great for visitors who want to visit Chinatown or the river and the palace - and those hours should suit your average tourist just fine.

10 hours ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

Not their job, not their business. <deleted> Thailand, getting more xenophobic by the minute.

Thais just love to catch out foreigners who are up to no good. Report it to the relevant authority and get a cut of the pay-off. This is hardly uncommon, just ask any foreign Pattaya business owners who have been around a while and they will be able to relay many stories of foreigners caught without work permits, not paying taxes etc. The snitch always gets a cut of the pay-off.

It's easy to be blasé about this and suggest Immigration doesn't know what they're doing or there is nothing to worry about, but given rather a lot of foreigners have performed work without a work permit in Thailand and monies have been deposited in to their account for that work, I would not want to be asked to show a bank book when extending a visa which would show a history of transactions that might not be easy to explain.

15 hours ago, Elizway said:

I see them doing that even with their own kids. 

The worst is when the kids grow up in a western environment because then mom is just too cold. 

 

Anyone else notice this? 

Yep, can relate to all that you say and have observed similar over a long period of time. Thai women have their pluses but I seriously question whether they make good partners for Western men who are looking for a genuinely fulfilling relationship based on mutual respect.

For Thai men, Thai women are fine and all is well in Thai : Thai relationships. I, however, believe that the cultural differences between Thais and Westerners and the respective cultures, especially on matters of love, relationships, family life etc are very, very different. And that is why I think Thai women : Western men relationships fail more often than not.

Most Western men I know who have a Thai wife are in what an unbiased outsider could reasonably describe as a dysfunctional relationship. Not all are in such relationships, but most I see are. I know I'll get flamed for saying this but it's what I have long observed.

On 7/16/2019 at 9:53 PM, possum1931 said:

Not on computers, most Thais and computers are not compatible, a lot of students do not even graduate from high school legally. Why do you think there is so much paperwork involved in everything here?

I think most Thais aged under 35 would run rings around your typical retired farang when it comes to computer skills. I even see motorbike taxi riders with iPhones running multiple apps including LINEMan and other services and being completely comfortable with technology. Thais of all walks of life spend hours and hours every day on their devices and are perfectly comfortable with computers and technology these days!

My wife always told me never ever to flip the bird at a Thai. She said that it was considered much, much stronger than it is in our home countries and the reaction by some Thais would be "It's time to fight and teach the farang a lesson". What I took out of that was don't flip the bird in Thailand, ever!