GeorgeCross

12 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

If you're a resident here, you don't need a five year visa. You can stay here as long as you can meet the requirements, which the majority of long term married stayers and retirees etc, can do.. 

what worries me is they bring in the 5 year visa, make it impossibly hard to get (10M baht capital etc) and do away with the retirement/marriage extensions

think it can't happen? i still remember how excited everyone got about the METV until we found out the requirements, that we could only apply in our home countries AND they were going to kill off the double entry 

can only imagine the hoops they'll make us jump through to get one of these judging by the requirements for an METV

still sounds promising and at least floating the idea of these and dropping 90 day reports in favor of yearlies is a step in the right direction

one can hope

they could stop referring and treating expats as "long term tourists" for a start

33 minutes ago, ldiablo72 said:

So the government gives workers a 5-10 baht a day minimum wage raise and then tells manufacturers to hold off increasing their pricing. Would have made just as much sense to not give a minimum wage increase and tell manufacturers to not raise prices. In principle, it's the exact same thing.

it gets worse.. by raising minimum wages those who cannot provide enough "value" to employers to justify the increased costs lose their jobs and those on fixed income get poorer through inflation.

great policy.

so who wins? well government get more taxable income and also look good to the financially uneducated (thats most of us) 

17 hours ago, piersbeckett said:

No, their webpage is totally useless and confusing.  Firstly, what is it 'the energy' of and then what the *uck does "Enjoy an exclusive life style needing to use money" mean? 

 

Perhaps it's fear of losing face that while they are investing huge sums in acquiring land and construction they don't bother to consult a competent native English speaker (& writer) to advise them on the appropriate naming of the complex as well as to design or at least edit their website.

"the energy" - sounds like a UK rave party lol

eating burger in a "suspicious manner"? 

9 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

" granted special leniency to stay " would be various ethnic groups who do not have Thai nationality, or are still in long process of obtaining it, but are allowed to remain in Thailand indefinitely.

 

Triabl groups etc

 

long-term multi-generational Chinese

 

in Issan area there are people of Lao and Khmer ancestery whop have lived in Thailand for mul;tiple generationsd

 

etc

 

Nothing to do with resident expats

and there was me thinking "good guys in" were finally going to catch a break..

why stop there? RFID chip the foreigners too

3 hours ago, fruitman said:

 

Yup but the Bangkokians are not so stupid to sell them for 500 baht. They must have brains in that city.

as opposed to the farmers who took 500 baht from BOTH sides and voted accordingly.. dumbasses 

3 minutes ago, darrendsd said:

 

I read this story and wondered how long the first racial profiling comment would take

 

It is not racial profiling, the blacks down lower Suk are drug dealing scum, no exceptions, they have been at it down there for years, everyone knows it and if you don't you don't live in the real world

no-one was arrested for drug dealing though, where were the drug dealing people you refer too?

i'm assuming the thais pimping live sex shows were allowed to continue though?

oh noes!

please come back

all terrible misunderstanding..

3 hours ago, pcliff069 said:

Not quite sure where you are from Georgie boy but I'm going to go out on a limb and say pompous git land. Now I'm sure in pgl they have forms available in all languages to fill out and you being a good little ambassador from Pgl expect the same here. And rightly so after all pgl does rule the world. Sadly it isn't so. So when someone asks you to pick up the soap don't ask how far you want it up your Russell
Goodbye you are a boring little git

lol 

21 hours ago, pcliff069 said:

 

And still thinks so.

 

i can see my point went over your head.. twice 

(hint and i'll slow this right down so you can catch up..it's not the force bit..)

tell them you dont have the money on you right now but your wife will be happy to drop it off with their commanding officer in return for an official reciept later in the day, if they still want that is..?

4 hours ago, pcliff069 said:

And here's you thinking you live in a democracy

so what you saying? he can force me to fill in a form written in a language i can't read?

yeah, good luck with that 

On September 21, 2016 at 8:12 AM, kannot said:

This as mentioned being asked of  all farangs by me and I live way out of Pranburi, the form was given to my Wife by a  FULL TIME official Thai policeman who has been coming here for over 3-4  years, no tourist police here anyway. HERE is the form you will be asked to fill in, again was told simply "from govt"

"i'd be happy to fill in the english translated form mr.policeman.. now jog on x"

what hope is there when even the cops cannot conteol themselves 

hmmm no more 200m long roads built for 7.8m baht then? the mayor's brother gonna be unhappy..

police out again last night this time on the soi chomsin to soi 88 mountain pass over hin lek fai from ~11pm. waved me on with a "slowly, slowly" warning but were pulling other bikes over, about 10 of them.

not sure i feel safer or not lol maybe start carry passport in case

about 10 years late to the party

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced."

 

weird, i ride 10-20km most days in hua hin, all over town and hin lek fai area and have never been attacked by dogs however i see and pass many on my rides.

i like dogs a lot though.. maybe they are picking up the bad feelings towards them? kind of like how they "smell fear" - or is that just a myth?

who knows.. hope you find a solution 

"They said that out of eight people they wanted to arrest they have sent papers to court regarding just one. Two defendants have died and they are still after five more."

jaysus, dragging heels or what 

"The Ministry of Sports and Tourism has been told by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha to set a new order at the Temple of the Emerald Buddha or Wat Phra Kaew so that there will be a space for Thais to conduct religious activities"

all thais are buddhist therefore all buddhists must be thai