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18 minutes ago, Dazinoz said:

The last time I got one in Chiang Mai it was 4 weeks wait.

Obviously didn’t open your wallet

7 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Good try. When I used to visit CM twenty or thirty years ago, it was a delightful place. Now? It is over developed beyond my wildest imagination, chock full of traffic jams, due to a total lack of traffic mitigation, and the air quality is often as high as 500 for PM 2.5 - not something one wants to be taking into their lungs, for 6 months of the year. 

 

It does have its charms. But, the glory days are well behind it. 

Sounds like most of the places in different parts of the world I have re visited years later full of people, cars and congestion.

I watched Sydney grow the same over thirty years or more which is one reason I left.

1 hour ago, chilli42 said:

I recently returned to Thailand from Canada - 3 weeks ago.  The Thai consulate in Vancouver offered me a return on a “repatriation flight” whatever that is.  I told them no thanks as I had secured my own way back.  They were fine with that ... could not have cared less. I returned to Thailand  on the flight I arranged.  I am not aware of any specific discount airlines flying to Thailand as it’s not a very profitable business selling cheap tickets and flying airplanes around that are half empty.  BTW I returned to Thailand on China Airlines.  My own sense, speaking to other Thai’s and expats, is that each embassy and consulate has their own interpretation of what the rules pertaining to returning to Thailand ... just the regular incompetence exacerbated by distance from the mother ship.

The big difference is that the Thais do not pay for the quarantine, but you do.

Last year I deposited a Cheque from an airline in the UK with the Bangkok Bank.

The clearance time was fairly quick the fee from memory about 400 baht.

2 hours ago, Postmaster said:

Do they drive on the left in Vietnam ?

No the right,  I think you would have to have a death wish to drive in that country.

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

aits goes without saying that logistically it would be very difficult to get so many people vaccinated in one year whatmore in a country that spread wide and far with many rural communities, but to start that must and so far Thailand fared very well in keeping the virus at bay...

Don’t forget that all these communities have local government medical clinics that currently facilitate vaccinations flu etc.

1 hour ago, ourmanflint said:

Irrelevant. If Thailand has been granted technology transfer for the whole region instead of Indonesia then that is a problem if Thailand thinks it can vaccinate it's own people first

 

So basically Indonesia and others will be paying for the construction of the facility in Thailand. Anyone who thinks Thailand is right to vaccinate its own people first whilst other countries citizens are dying in their thousands has a very warped moral compass

If you care to check what is happening elsewhere you would find that there have been discussions between China and Indonesia for the latter to manufacture vaccinations for the region and also that Indonesia has secured vaccines from the UK.

Perhaps you would like to conduct a poll amongst Thai people regarding your proposal, I wait the response.

7 hours ago, ourmanflint said:

Thailand vaccinating their own population first before shipping to countries like Indonesia who have a major covid problem is beyond criminal. They should hang their heads in shame

Perhaps you should ask what Indonesia and other countries, whoever they are, are doing to obtain the vaccine for their own citizens before you start criticizing Thailand.

25 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

3 month inspections is the norm in the real world, pre-arranged time and date.

I think that’s what my wife does also it’s useful to check on if anything needs replacing due to “wears down tear” often people don’t request items need fixing or replacing.

We never have a problem overall.

11 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Only 12 months living together in Oz, do not even have to be married. Trust me, I am the voice of experience.

Yes I thought that was the case I seem to remember it being changed when I was still living there and that is getting close to ten years ago.

1 hour ago, madmen said:

That depends totally if the tenants allow it. I'm a landlord but as a tenant would tell you to <deleted> off with your 12 inspections a year. 

 

 

We include an inspection provision in our rental contracts plus the ability to enter without notice in an emergency.

If any prospective tenant wasn’t prepared to accept, which has never happened, we too would be telling them to xxxxx off.

After recently spending four weeks in hospital and then a further six weeks or so confined at home, I think that being locked up for life is a very appropriate penalty.

I have sent numerous packages to the UK even during the Covid situation.

Have always used EMS and never had a problem.

Our local post office provides an excellent packing service at a very reasonable cost.

1 hour ago, Tyler Visan said:

Will that local clinic have the equipment and know-how as to extraction, purification, packaging and storage of said cannabis?

Definitely not. Just sell it with a couple of packs of Rizlas!

The answer to your question lies in the second last paragraph of the article.

On 11/22/2020 at 9:34 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

If you don't register your marriage in the US how would she be able to claim anything? Perhaps that's just being logical and she can, but could she afford to hire a lawyer in the US?

 

To be absolutely safe, don't officially marry a Thai woman. Village weddings are great- not legal.

 

You'd be screwed in NZ though. She only has to live with a man for 2 or 3 years and it's regarded as same as a legal marriage.

Pretty much the same in Australia although I think the time is less.

I often wonder whether the people asking these questions would do so if their wife was from their home country ?

On 11/19/2020 at 8:12 AM, ChipButty said:

Wasn’t that place somewhere in Manchester?

16 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

That is up to the court to decide if the prosecution proceeds ,learned counsel 

My thoughts exactly, I wouldn’t want to be defending him.

1 hour ago, swifty5x5 said:

my country has free medical

 

It’s pretty much free for Thai people as well and it’s free in my country Australia if you are a citizen or permanent resident.

If I come to your country where ever it is will it be free for me ?

On 11/17/2020 at 7:02 PM, 2530Ubon said:

That's what the Scottish agreed to...

In 1707, England agreed to give Scotland money to pay off its debts, and both countries’ parliaments passed the Acts of Union to become one nation.

Americans fought a war to join unite as one nation, England bought another nation (after several failed attempts at conquering). You could say the scots are part of the oldest recorded profession.

After  reading a fairly detailed account of what happened at Culloden, which occurred later than what you describe above, I would have thought the Scots or Charle’s Jacobites we’re fairly well conquered.

I still have a 1964 Lambretta TV 175.

When younger always wanted an SX 200 special but had to settle for an LI 150.

Whatever One More Farang may think there was never any shortage of girls to ride on the back

14 hours ago, herwin1234 said:

 

how and where did you get your understanding that "both parents have to be physically present"? 

 

how about letting the wife inform at the proper authorities how exactly to get a Thai passport. info from the right source might be more correct than an unspecified "understanding."

 

lastly. i dont get it. your daughter is Thai. Born in Thailand. Why she has an American passport but not a Thai passport.

 

I feel the whole dual nationality thing often turns into a superior feeling that the homecountry of the father has more value than the mother country of the child. 

This is not specifically directed towards you, but just a general issue. I myself my child i only obtained a Thai passport for him and never a passport of my home country, until i was forced to get one for him bc making a visa for him to travel to my home country  was far more difficult than getting a passport for him.

I don’t know how you come to the conclusion that having a passport from the father’s country of origin somehow creates a feeling of superiority.

Anyone I know who has obtained a non Thai passport for their children has done it for the reason stated in your last paragraph.

My wife and daughter both have Thai passports and Australian citizenship and passports.

Not only does it negate the need to obtain visas for most countries but should they so choose they could also live in Australia.

A no brainer I would have thought.

11 minutes ago, Pravda said:

 

Minimum wage in UK is 1600 Euros per month.

 

Lets make the cost of public transport 700 Euros a month.

 

Perhaps if the middle class in the western world was obliterated the same way like in Thailand you would understand the arrogance of your post.

 

Or maybe not.

 

 

 

 

Since when have people in the UK been paid in Euros ?

19 hours ago, Salerno said:

 

How long ago was that?

More than 12 years ago but to be fair hers was due to a lucky stuff up by Aus Immigration

I gave more details in a response to Moogradod.

I accept normally it can be hard