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3 hours ago, InMyShadow said:

How is it you get to have a card when you don't live there?

Every room is allowed 2 cards.  She stays alone so gave me the second card allocation.

I think at that sort of pricepoint (14,000) a lot of the younger Thais will be sharing 2 (or more) to a room, more than they might on a 5,000 baht room, for example.

But still, I would have thought the equipment should be maintained as and when it becomes faulty.  Especially in a fairly high-end condo.  Apparently not.

she.  renter.

It's not my condo, it's my friends.  The gym costs me 100 baht a year (the cost my friend paid for the additional card), so I'm getting good value whichever way you look at it.  But my friend who owns the condo is paying 14,000 baht a month rent and they signed that contract expecting a working gym.

The gym is pretty small considering the size of the development.  About 10 machines total.  It's a 30-storey building with about 20 rooms per floor.  The building is about 1-2 years old.  The main machine (multi-gym type thing) is completely broken and has no scheduled fixing date (there's just a dash  on the out of order sign where the date should be).  Most of the other machines work but they're tired and starting to fall apart already.

I understand some residents have already complained to management but nothing has been done.  What are you supposed to do in this situation or are you just expected to put up with it?  Hypothetically would it be grounds for early termination of the contract?

what % was it before?

Does Thailand import potatoes?  I would have thought they were grown locally but maybe they don't make enough of them here, I don't know.

I'm not a big fast food eater but occasionally I'll go in Mcdonalds to charge my phone (they don't seem to care if you buy anything or not).  I noticed a medium fries was 69 baht.  In the US they're $1.79 according to Google.  Which is 58 baht.   In the UK they're £1.09  -  47 baht.  So in a poorer country, where labour, construction costs, base ingredients(?) are all cheaper, and people have less money to spend, why does it cost more?

On 11/15/2017 at 7:58 AM, soomak said:

Underwear and T-Shirt in Thailand's hot weather must be changed daily, otherwise its just disgusting.

Agree but surely everybody has 7 pairs of socks, 7 boxers, and 7 shirts?

Saw another dog at the top of Phu Kradeung last week.  I admired the effort on the dog's part, that's a hell of a walk to get there.

There are dogs living at the top of Doi Pha Hom Pok national park.  Presumably to keep the lone ranger there company.

There are dogs living in Khao Sok national park at one of the ranger stations there as well.

They're the two examples that I can recall but there are probably more I forgot about.

I think if you do see dogs there they will more than likely belong to the rangers there, and possibly you are more likely to see them at the remote ranger stations where rules are a bit more lax.

Principled people usually have a hard time of things if they want to stand up for what they believe in on a consistent basis, they don't last long and usually end up incarcerated.  But without them there is not much progress made in the world.  Really if somebody is going to be deeply upset by what amounts to a piece of paper or a rubber stamp impression, you have to ask them to look at their stance from outside the box.  I think sometimes we grow familiar with the world that we live in and the various rules and regulations and never stop to question them.  You don't have to necessarily agree, but you surely shouldn't condemn.

I know this thread is old but for anybody else reading.  The pharmacies in places like BIG C and Tesco Lotus are the cheapest in my experience.   I think 6 tabs of Ibuprofen (Nurofen is the thai name that I seem to be offered most often) cost about 35 baht.  There are 2 strengths and that price is for the lesser strength.  If you start going to phramacies on the street in places like Sukhumvit I guess they have higher overheads and the price is therefore bumped up.  And don't even bother on the islands like Koh Tao and Koh Chang.  150 baht+.

He said caught.  Not handed themselves in.

5 hours ago, Kopitiam said:

I hope this does not reflect your personality.  It is something when one overstay even by a day.  You are just encouraging others to abuse the generosity of the Thai Immigration law.

You're suggesting that his personality is in some way corrupted because he shows a disinterest in bureaucracy?  Come on buddy, open your mind...  he's breathing on a piece of land, nothing more nothing less.  To use words like 'abusing' is sensationalist and shows undue respect to your overlords.

7 hours ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

 

Nice story. Why don't you go to Iceland and have sex if it's so easy?

 

Why are you un Thailand which is known as the sex tourist mecca?

 

Come on man....go to Iceland and tell us the same story. I'd like to read about it.

 

For the same reason that I moved from my own country to Thailand - because Iceland is cold and dark.  And because my reason for choosing a place to live is not solely based around having sex?  Maybe you're projecting a little there.  And even if it were, I'm not attracted to white girls so my pickings in Iceland would be somewhat limited I'd imagine.

If you're disbelieving that Icelandic people are relatively care-free when it comes to sex, I don't have any Icelandic friends that would be willing to prove it to you, but there's a fairly common consensus on the internet and in the general media that this is the case.  I don't really think it's the sort of thing that would have been perpetuated to suit somebody's bias either.

26 minutes ago, MaeJoMTB said:

Free the first 2 or 3 times, but if you don't give her money she won't be around for long.

And they bang every guy they meet on the first date, and usually they are fairly 'busy'.

I've met a lot of girls who have zero interest in money.  In fact I'd say it's very rare I meet any who do ask me for money.  But then I don't message the ones who give off that vibe, or stop messaging them if they start to give off that vibe.  Usually they're honest from the start and will say what they want from you, either on their profile or directly.

How big is the age gap between you and them?  Because she has to find you aesthetically pleasing and that's much more likely to happen if you are in your prime.  If you don't have a physical attraction then you have to ask yourself why she's talking to you; answer will probably be money.  Very few of the under 25 girls will be genuinely interested in guys over 40 or 45.  That's just life I guess, we all get past our sell by date eventually.

Pattaya is a whole different ballgame.  I avoid talking to any girl from there because 90% of them are after something, whereas in BKK it's more like 20%.  I wish those apps had a filter to exclude Pattaya from search results.  And I wish Tinder had an option for 'ladyboys', rather than just male and female, not so I can find them, but so I can't.

I'm not just/solely looking for sex with lots of people.  But a gf that matches well is hard to find, so I'll take the sex until I can find it.

I think a lot of the girls are naive, they want a fairytale.  They don't seem to realise that their government doesn't really want us here and our situation is precarious.  Even if we pay for an elite visa it's no guarantee that programme is going to be around forever.  And people's jobs change, circumstances change, they grow tired of Thailand, miss their home etc.  It's tough for a Thai girl to find a farang boyfriend who will stick with her for a long time.  Personally I have no intention of ever getting married in any country, I think a growing number of people from western countries are feeling the same, marriage is an outdated tradition with little if any benefit other than an extensive buffet at the reception.  Older guys can maybe manage it better because they stem from a more traditional age, so the culture matches more to modern day Thailand.

I theorise that most of us only remain (fairly) monogamous because society insists upon us (particularly females) that this is what we must do.  If there was no stigma about having sex with lots of different people (and really, why should there be?), then I think we would all be doing it.  In Iceland they have the right idea there, it's normal for them to have sex with somebody before they've even had a conversation with each other.

I wouldn't lie to them as you used to, if they asked me if I wanted to be their boyfriend and I knew I didn't, then I'd say so.  If I wasn't sure, I'd say that.  About half the time they'll still have sex with you anyway.  The ones who aren't hyper-emotional, who don't have their heart set on marriage and a lifetime together, are usually good for casual sex until either you or they get bored.

On 10/31/2017 at 5:34 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

Seems that some TVF posters consider that one can "live" only if one is spending money. Given that most of what people spend money on is unessential and somewhat pointless, if one can live without all the extraneous clutter one could be far more content with life.

The year I spent in Antarctica where the only thing requiring payment was booze, and we all lived the same was the best year of my life.

There's nothing stopping the world living without borders and money - only greed drives these things.  Without personal greed, corporate greed, and governmental greed, money is obsolete.  You simply take what you need and no more and everybody works a limited number of hours to produce the things that everybody needs.  Everybody gets the same and everybody lives comfortably.  It'll need some sort of apocalypse for this to happen, I guess.

4 minutes ago, Techno Viking said:

No man is getting his end away for free.

Why not?  You meet a girl on one of the dating sites.  Most of those are free.  So there are no costs to procure the 'target'.

You proceed to invite her on a recreational outing, to a park for example.  They like parks.  It's free.

She likes you and you like her and thus results copulation.  A condom might be advisable, but aside from that, everything is free is it not?

On 10/30/2017 at 12:31 PM, bazza73 said:

Let's not kid ourselves. Thai women are with us because of the security we provide, compared to their previous precarious existence. Threaten that, and you arouse a raging demon.

That only applies to the older ones, who have had time to have had a 'previous existence'.  Lots of Thai girls just prefer white guys (for example), nothing more complicated than that.  Like lots of us prefer Asians.

What do you mean by entertainment?  I'm not a party type of person.  I like hiking/camping and snorkeling/freediving and playing/watching sports.  I spend a lot of evenings finding snakes (not in BKK obviously, usually Koh Chang).  I've no interest in malls and coffee shops and bars.  Instead of cinema I'll usually torrent the film.  I'll go to a night market type place like W District to watch the football if it isn't on PPTV, but that's about it.

I don't live on 4000 baht every month, to be clear.  But when I stay in BKK, I'm usually at that figure or there abouts.  BKK is cheap.

On 10/29/2017 at 7:39 AM, Just Weird said:

Really?  Exactly what do you get in that bag for less than B50?

Bag of sticky rice 1.5 baht

Bag of steamed rice 4 baht

Big 1-2kg bag of longan/rambutan/manogsteen (or whatever's in season) 15 baht

Any number of various curries, 6 baht each as the other guy mentioned

Apples, bananas, about 15 baht for a pack of 4/bunch of 4.

Normal size bottles of milk 11 baht

pack of 4 yoghurts 15 baht (though these are popular so you have to engage in a scrum with the old Thais who have been hovering there for hours waiting for the sticker guy to appear)

etc

You have to time it right and you will rarely get all of the above the same night unless you stay in there for an hour or two.  And different stores have different times when they reduce stuff.  Even different branches of the same store.  But as a general rule, 9-10pm works well.  Inconvenient for some maybe but I'm usually on the way home from a run at that time so it's okay for me.  The main branch of Tesco in Onnut (the flagship store) has stopped reducing food now, since it revamped its food court.  I think there were too many people waiting around and it wasn't the type of customer base they were trying to attract.

On 10/29/2017 at 7:26 AM, Just Weird said:

Do you really think that the OP, who lives on less than B4k per month, has an oven?

 

I have a mini oven.  It has an integrated timer and grill function.

Oven snob. 

On 10/29/2017 at 6:10 AM, shanesox said:

Who says it’s “old” folk being frugal? A lot of under 30 losers in Thailand living on a few thousand baht a month because they don’t want to work hard in their own country

 

You say that like it's a bad thing?  Seems pretty smart to me.  You only get one life, why spend it working all the time, that's not a rational thought process and we only do it out of necessity and because society teaches us that we must.  I tried the working all hours thing, I did 14 hour days for about 5 years, made a tonne of dough, but I wasn't happy, I wasn't experiencing anything.  If I'd have died then I wouldn't have done anything in my life and all I would have had to show for it would be some wads of paper.  Valuable in a monetary sense but actually totally worthless.

On 10/28/2017 at 5:32 PM, geriatrickid said:

Unfortunately, the The budget described by the OP is more likely to be associated with the people who kill themselves either through intentional means or through misadventure such as a drug overdose.

Sorry to say, if one reads the  news and TVF reports, the people who have jumped from buildings , hung themselves, slashed their wrists, overdosed etc. are of two distinct subgroups neither of which is exclusive; 1-They have suffered from a chronic illness and 2-  They have had very limited financial means. The 4000 baht  budget does not allow for the medical insurance let alone decent medical care, nor the contribution to a family unit essential to surviving critical  illness. 

I'm not suicidal at this moment in time.

On 10/28/2017 at 7:48 PM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

But it seems he left off a few real expenses, like:

--visa/extension costs  according to the other guy I'm on overstay so..

--health insurance and/or medical expenses   don't have any, it's a calculated risk based on my age and the amount of savings I have (fairly young and enough to cover all but the worst accidents).  My lifestyle is healthy so I'm not high risk for a lot of the usual things that might hospitalise you.  I do a lot of marathons and trail/jungle running here but they have insurance included. 

--dental care/teeth cleaning  yeah

--trips back to the home country at some point/points  not been there for 5 years but I do travel around south east asia, so fair point.

--a GF or wife or just one night fling sometimes  i don't date girls who don't pay for themselves.

--mobile phone and/or home internet services  forgot that, 300 baht a month for wifi, unlimited data 199 baht a month with Truemove