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wolf81

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  1. There's plenty of corruption in the West. It's just less visible, perhaps more at higher levels of society.
  2. I remember some research that I read quite some time ago, that suggested if people have very little in terms of property, really their honor is all they have. As such, poor people would feel more quickly aggravated if they feel their honor is under attack, as it’s pretty much the only thing they feel they can defend.
  3. Living in Chiang Mai I find the air quality ok for most of the year, outside of burning season. During rain season, after a heavy rain, air is very clean for a little while.
  4. Got a relationship with my GF for 7 years now. But at time she can be a pain in the backside, especially regarding financial matters. I think woman in general can never really be happy. My GF got a good life (50.000 THB a month to spend on mostly herself and our daughter, 2 houses including one with a swimming pool, her own 3 rai farm, a car, no loans). I also got a condo recently which will be inherited by our daughter if would be gone in the future. But still only 40 years old, so hopefully that is far away ... We do have a daughter together, so for the sake of our daughter it's better to stay together. But I wouldn't marry her (would have considered if she was as gentle as when we met, but people change). Since a person is responsible for his/her own happiness and woman can never truly be happy while men certainly can (just enjoying working ,hobbies, friends), it can be better to stay single. You can have the upsides of dealing with woman without much of the downsides. In a relationship this can be harder to separate.
  5. Interesting to see so many Western/foreign companies leave in the last couple of years. MAKRO, Lotus, 7-Eleven, Carrefour, now Esso ... Wonder if at some time companies like Shell and Unilever follow suit. I'm suspecting these companies leave because Thailand makes it hard for them to do business here? But not sure. Will reduce competition though and that cannot be a good thing.
  6. I’ve seen that kind of dancing at parties in wats in our village (northern Thailand, “the sticks”). No nudity, but scantily clad young ladies dancing on the podium as well. My girlfriend calls such ladies “coyotes”. And many young children present as well (cause there’s also children toys at the temple at such events, such as inflatable sliders.
  7. Will he be able to get conjugal visits every now and then? And I don’t mean from fellow inmate Somchai.
  8. You do know feeding your wife popcorn will not make where thinner, right?
  9. And dress a bit nice when visiting government buildings (like immigration). Smile and do a wai from your nose to show respect when meeting with bank employees, government officials and Thai people will treat you better.
  10. Good point, never looked into this. Maybe it's not as good as an alternative as I thought it would be, but perhaps I can find out the ingredients. I buy the Grace brand currently by the way.
  11. I use an alum stick as well. Other big brand deodorants (with antiperspirant function) often contain aluminium and from my understanding this can be a cause for cancer.
  12. I think in general it's a bad idea to be a guarantor. But it's ok if you have a lot of excess income I guess. Also understandable in case it's your child or wife for example and you know they are responsible people. I wouldn't want to be guarantor for my girlfriend, since I know she's bad at managing money. We got no debt, got a house, got a car. And I provide my girlfriend with 12.000 THB a week. And still every week she manages to spend it all. And I know of Thai families in the neighbourhood who do have repayments for mortgages or cars and they have multiple children as well and can manage with maybe 20.000 THB per month. Told my girlfriend she could easily save 1000 THB a week. But she says I don't know all the things she needs to buy. For our daughter, for cleaning the house, etc... I do know she spends quite a bit on the lottery. Probably the remainder at the end of every week in hope of striking in big. So a person like that, can never be a guarantor for. Cause can't manage money and spend responsibly.
  13. I know a Dutch pensioner that -due to this regulation- always sends money to Thailand for the whole year (~15.000 EUR) on 1 January. I guess better safe than sorry.
  14. You'll be paying anyway, one way or the other. Some ways are less overt of course.
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