EVENKEEL

Unless you plan on having kids together why would any retired guy want to do the whole settle down with one woman thing? And to make it worse the ladies are typically from Isaan so what does the stupid farang do, yeah he follows her to the rice fields, buys some land, builds a house, buys the mandatory 4 door pickup. Then he has to try and convince himself that he loves the place because chances are real good that he can't afford to start over somewhere else to his liking.

I understand some of these guys are wealthy and are just having a good time and can move on any time. It's the ones who sink their life's savings into Isaan and can't afford to leave that are screwed.

I have a 9 yr old daughter as well attending an English program school. She's never talked about any bullying.

Has your girl talked about the reason for bullying. Usually there's a reason. 

I've seen them by the road doing some crazy dancing to weird drum music. It's real. Took wife and 2 of her friends to an exorcism. I didn't watch but drank couple cans leo on my tailgate. It was a long day trip to find this guy that does the exorcism.

Supposedly better quality than the voodoo dancing.

I'll give it another week and positive cases will explode, schools will remain closed, round three.

5 minutes ago, BritTim said:

 

What this means is that, for instance, you might live in Bangkok and use an agent based there. However, when your extension of stay has been processed and the passport is returned, you find that the extension was granted at the immigration office in Nakhon Nowhere. That is where you now officially live. You have a valid extension, but one that was based on a fraudulent application.

 

Note that this does not always happen. Many agents will deal with the correct office. However, in many locations, agents can offer a much better price by processing extensions in offices that expect lower bribes.

Of course it does not always happen, tell us your personal experience of this happening.

26 minutes ago, izod10 said:

The particular agent is actually based in the immigration area,alongside it

In my case as I'm sure is the same for all, a photo must be taken at the Immigration office. For me hand over passport and bank book, after a week go to immigration with agent walk in take pic and passport with extension handed to me by same IO, all less than 5 min. and done.

Loss of steering most likely.

3 hours ago, kiwikeith said:

Spending 10 million Bhat on a property, on a development with one Rai of land. 

Where are these properties? 

And the only people I know who are spending more than 20k Bhat a week are golfer's that play a lot. 

20k Bhat is roughly 1000 dollars a week, twice the NZ pension. 

I try to manage on 10k per week, which is more than I can manage on in NZ. 

The Thai Bhat is to high still to high, and I would not dream of buying a property under the conditions in Thailand, renting will suffice. 

Anything in Pattaya area with one rai, most in Rayong along he beach, not on the beach but near the beach.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Just watched 'Nobody', and quite enjoyed the mindless violence.

Better call Saul as a retired hitman wiping out the Russian mafia (Didn't they do this in John Wick?)

How did you watch Nobody? It supposedly just came out

2 minutes ago, Tanoshi said:

If like you they think they apply for a Visa, then better to use an agent because they obviously don't understand Thai Immigration.

Ooooh bad man said visa instead of extension. Get over yourself. 

1 hour ago, stevenl said:

Glad to see they're taking it serious.

Always good when your gov. has the ability to hold their citizens in a fed. facility for fear of Covid. What's next??

It takes me longer to fill out the form at immigration than it does for lady behind plastic barrier to process it. Easy peasy

What happened to our friendly neighbor to the north? So if you don't have a plan when entering Canada you'll be held against your will in a Fed facility? Yikes.

https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/travel-restrictions/isolation

On 4/3/2021 at 7:23 PM, AlfHuy said:

I shower once a week in summer and in winter, once a month. Doctor told, it keeps the bugs away.

 

Does her brother live now somewhere close ?

You must be a Dane.

24 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

of course you will.  There is always somebody who will sell you an expensive unit that you don't need and back it up with spurious numbers of square metres and BTUs.  

So, tell us your go to guy in the Ban Chang area. 

8 hours ago, Ban Mai Guy said:

Thanks for the heads up.  Going to Thaiwatsadu in the morning see what my options are. If anything I'm at least getting one for the bedroom to take the edge off . Doing the math I should be able to get away with a 14k btu but will probably go a little higher. 

I measured last night and I've got 42.5 M, factor in sun and crappy insulation, I'm thinking maybe 2 units instead of one big one. 

I went to Global today and stopped by the AC as I'm in the market to install one in living area. The biggest they had was 24,000 btu, supposed to be good for 36-40 M.  I'm needing one for 42.5M. Room faces east so sun till noon or so, old house. I'm replacing the swing out glass windows with new aluminum ones. From what I've seen at other home improvement stores they don't go above 24,000btu.

caff. ( kæf) n. a slang word for café. Collins English Dictionary 

2 hours ago, loong said:

You must have linked to the wrong clip or I totally missed the funny bit

It kills me every time I watch it. For you non Americans this is a reference to the lower class of people drinking malt beer. JHC, it's hilarious.

On the news they said everyone returning to Canada must quarantine in a State run facility. Mandatory.