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13 hours ago, bbi1 said:

Looks like a grey nomad from the blurred picture. Charge & deport the drunk old fool, ban him for 5 years and cancel his retirement visa. Seems every day it's the grey old nomads making the news for the wrong reason.

Grey nomad? Is that what the retirees are known as? I’m 69, married to the same Irish woman this last 47 years and living in Hua Hin  for the last 13 of them. Grey nomad my backside.  This fella on the scooter just a drunk young buck. 

I’ve a stinking sorry looking weed cafe along the soi where I live and be really good to see it closed down. 

My Edocrinologist travels down from Bangkok once a month and I see him in Bangkok hospital Hua Hin and I pay only 1050baht for the consultation. Lord alone knows how much BKK hospital here takes out of that 1050 for admin and office space ( as most will know they don’t give anything away) so I wonder how much of the fee ends up in the consultants pocket, not much I’d say? 

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Urging this administration to address environmental issues, is like urging the Pope to consider making abortion legal. It is like urging Justin Bieber to start writing deep, meaningful songs. It is like urging The Weekend to create songs that will not be forgotten by next year. It is a bit like asking Trump to behave with integrity, or Prayuth to consider the interests of the masses. It just will not happen.

 

If Pita gets appointed the new PM, there is a chance Thailand can move forward, the regressive, toxic, damaging, caustic, and completely out of touch dinosaurs can be moved out of the way of progress, and the nation can see some progress.

Don’t hold your breath…

On 6/10/2023 at 9:45 AM, proton said:

Friend bought in Spain now can only spend 90 days at most there, if there was a visa I think they would have found one in the last 3 years

 

Not so. I’m Irish and have a home in Spain so the visa rules obviously don’t apply to me but have lots of Brit friends down there and of course there is a visa but the financial requirements are quite steep around 27k euro per year for each applicant and lots of hoops to jump through which I would imagine would put many people off applying.  Sort of reminds a chap of somewhere closer to home… 

Don’t know why people seem to include Finland as a Scandinavian country, it isn’t... 

We are retiree’s with a home (owned) to run and a life to lead, our average spend per month is 80-85k into the local economy, ( Hua Hin) We made the mistake of flying home to Ireland directly after visiting our grandson in Australia on March 2nd for business reasons, we both have our health, wealth and the desire to return back to HH. Why the hell are we being excluded? Mad. 

Really don’t get why the need to show the 800k 90 days after being granted the one year extension and how are they going to ask for proof of 400k minimum at anytime. A bit of a nonsense but will do harm to the fixers that I for one use as I do have the cash but really can’t be bothered to jump through hoops at the behest of immigration cops who’s wages I help to pay through my monthly expenditure in this country of some 85k. Time to rethink this whole Thai living thing and maybe a shift next door to Cambodia? Why do these people want to make life difficult for themselves to get their grubby little hands on my cash? 

Ah well, there will always be the good old immigration cops who for a fee would sell their grannies so don’t worry chaps, a few thousand well placed Baht will see those on a tight budget good for the next twelve months and so on...