Polaky

16 hours ago, tropo said:

Times have changed. I used to rent a beachfront apartment in Surfers for $275 a week...I left in 2003. That used to feel like high rent LOL.

 

The body corp fee for the Pattaya condo where I live is 140,000 per year including insurance, so that's nearly what you pay on the Gold Coast. It will all depend on where you choose to live and how big the place is. How big is your Gold Coast apartment?

68m2, rents in this building haven't gone up much since 2003', around $350.00 per week, 140,000 = $5,542.95 aud at todays exchange rate, the guy's above have indicated 15,000, why the large discrepency?.

3 hours ago, TunnelRat69 said:

Ours is 15K per year, gives us exclusive access to the Gym which is professionally maintained, key card access only and the six swimming pools which are cleaned daily.  but as a renter, your landlord/owner should be paying this.  Water is about 200baht a month and Electricity is 400-1200 expensing on aircon usage, enter pays that.

Well that blows my unit on the gold coast/Australia out of the water, body corp $135.00 aud per week, water $375 every four months and Rates $1600.00 per year, think I might move.

10 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

15,000 pm over 5 years works out at 900,000. You can buy a Condo for not much more, especially round at Jomtien.

What about ongoing costs?, Body Corp etc,

Only in Pattaya!

Always entertaining news, you don't hear about these groundbreaking developments from any other news source.

Chicken Extract mixed with a gut full of whiskey=?

If he doesn't look thai you would call his bluff, but to chinese tourists we all look the same.

He could plead temporary insanity due to the cheap thai whiskey he had on the night.

Restaurants should Incorporate detectors of pesticide levels in their food, claim that their food is 100% pesticide free, here is a detector..... test for yourself, this would ensure more customers walk through the door, but don't tell em that the detector is actually a dog whistle.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander

Cheers.

Take the 3 wise monkey approach and you will be safe!

No one here seems to think that his claims might be genuine?,  kangaroo court the guy.

don't need encouragement to drink beer, comes naturally.

Enough to make you lose your appetite

Do you need to get a Laos visa before entering vientiane?

Thanks Ubonjoe, that clears it up nicely.

So much information my head is spinning, the more I read the more I forget what I read, yes I am a retiree,

ok so from Aus I enter thai on a tourist visa, I go to a thai embassy and apply for a Non Imm visa which involves filling

out a TM86 form and paying 2000 baht, what supporting documentation is required?, do you need dollars in a thai

bank or is that only for a year extension?, on the form where it sais "Reason" do I put "Retire",

let's say for example that I manage to obtain this Non Imm visa, I am permitted to stay for 90 days, what happens if

I have a flight out after only 30 days and then wish to re-enter?, do I need to go through the whole process again?,  or

when the 90 days expires and I leave the country, can I get back in with an extension?, hope you can understand my dribble

any advise would be appreciated.