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I'm on the right side, the Trump side...….all the way, BUT come on a Nobel peace prize. You got to be kidding. Won't even bring Barrack into the discussion. This just goes to show you how screwed up the world really is.

1 minute ago, Odysseus123 said:

Professionals need to earn a decent wage..otherwise why do it?

 

Amazing internet attack on the young Thai woman.

There's no attack, she willingly choose a career in education, and now complains.

2 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

You could always cook your own food at home.

Doubt I spend 100bht/day on food (and another 100bht on beer).

Only 100bht on beer......light weight.

5 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Like Lacessit said in his post, but I wasn't taught not to ask because they were dirt poor so had no money to give......so I had a paper round before school, getting up at 6 am to do it before cycling about 3 miles to school.

 

Also mowed a few lawns and even went potato picking in order to get some pocket money.

 

Having to earn money made me realise the value of it. good lessons IMO.

We strive for a better life for our children, sometimes our good intentions have the opposite effect.

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

Sounds like a good way to make a rod for your own back. How much do you think they'll be looking for at age 20?

I was taught by my parents if I wanted something, I had to earn it for myself. Which I did - my first bicycle, golf clubs and car.

You are teaching your children entitlement. IMHO that will come back to bite you.

And is that how you treated your children? Just asking......Kids having after school jobs here isn't something I'm used to.

She knew what a teacher's salary was when she choose that field. Should have gone into a different line of work.

1 hour ago, GinBoy2 said:

Well it’s all a balancing act in truth.

 

Where you want ultimately to live, citizenship, luck, fate.

 

So I think of it this way.

 

We always knew at some point we’d all move back to the US.

Had our son gone to a Thai University, would he have been able to get the job he currently has in Denver, probably not. 

Had he had no aspirations to leave Thailand, then probably a Thai degree would have been fine.

 

At least now with a decent degree from a US University he has options.

 

He’s young, he may chose at some point decide he wants to go back to Thailand for a while, who knows.

 

But the fact that he can make that choice, where I would argue that a Thai degree wouldn’t give him that flexibility makes a world of difference in my book

Seems you made the right decision, I can tell you're proud of your son as you should be. 

5 hours ago, smotherb said:

Why would you want a better education for your son than for your daughter? You want her to be subservient to some man and not have a chance on her own?

 

I went  back to the states when my son was 5. I wanted him to be educated where his degree would mean something and he could make a good living.

 

If I had a daughter, I would have done the same. I would want my daughter to get an education that would support her well; here or abroad.

 

My son is now 32, makes a good living, has a nice house, just bought his wife a new car. He can live well anywhere in the world on his education and the skills he has developed because he got a chance.

 

I think you are doing your child a disservice leaving them here; especially if you have a choice. Those of you who have buried yourselves here likely have not choice.

And what of your daughter in law? I'm assuming she also is college educated in the US. You kinda see where this is leading. We somehow think being educated in the west is the end all. If that were the case every adult would be college educated. A college degree doesn't always equate success and happiness. Yes, with a son I may have given the thought more consideration but I will never know. 

As for being stuck here, not quite. But, I believe with all its flaws a life in Thailand for an educated person is more laid back than one in the US.

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

This is a situation that I've taken steps to never happen.

I'll get about 30,000 pension,  maybe in 15 years.

 

I was recently in Melbourne and would find it extremely hard to live there on that amount of cash.

 

If I were you I'd stay well away from Cambodia, horrible place, partly due to the type of desperate foreigner forced to live there. 

 

Find a nice small town on the sea,  away from tourist areas,  and live like a Thai.

 

I live in such a place, ocean view condo rents for 8,000bht/mo. Or you can get a room 1km away for 4500/mo. Not sure about things in 15 yrs.

On 10/4/2018 at 8:33 PM, BritManToo said:

My Thai kids will be living and working in Thailand so they go to Thai government schools.  If I wanted them to be worthless layabouts, I'd send them to some 'spoilt brat' Thai school.  If they were going to be living and working in the UK I would have sent them to school in the UK.

 

My daughter has made it through Doi Saket Temple junior school, Mae Rim HighSchool, and now half way through Chiang Mai University. Top of her class all the way, it isn't about their school, it's about the work ethic you instil in them.

These are your biological kids I'm assuming, your daughter has the advantage of having an English speaking father at home. A good education doesn't produce worthless layabouts. It's the home environment which promotes laziness. For mine an International School may happen later after she has a good grasp on the Thai basics. But for now it's an English Program School with native English teachers.

Guess I was just thinking out loud when I posted. I heard many posters argue that regular Gov schools are just as good EP or International schools, I can't buy into that.

Yes, your situation is different but I can understand your frustration at the Thai way of teaching. They learn to spell words they don't know the meaning of is one example.

As dumb as it sounds, if I had a son instead I'd be thinking more seriously about a western education.

14 minutes ago, Spidey said:

 

"BUT, where he is going on policy I agree with and most Americans do." - not according to the polls.

 

"I would say likely over 80% of Americans have never been outside of America so that same % wouldnt care what the other countries think of them haha"

 

No worries, close the door and switch the lights out. Bye bye America.

bye bye spidey

2 hours ago, guzzi850m2 said:

Nice.
Would like to know the price in Thailand.
Perhaps a cheaper alternative to the Bonneville's?

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Sure to be cheaper, but I'll bet it will be north of 250,000bht

13 hours ago, atyclb said:

 

 

could it be a thai woman kicked him out of the house she was paying for while also supporting him?   nahhh

Nope, that's the other fellow TV poster, the guy that ran back to Canada.

8 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

You could just ask her or you could ignore the message until she brings it up again.

Why would anybody spend time trying to figure out how much money she wants?

Easy, peasy…..she wants more than she can spend. Only those with a set income and boundaries have a chance of answering.

7 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

 
Because it's unseemly to bash a has-been nation. Besides, most of the talented folks in the old world left for America generations ago. Those remaining, however, have added new meaning to 'sour grapes.'
 
Yes, Trump is a buffoon -- the Founding Fathers tried to set up the system so that only the cream would be eligible for election. Somehow this has come to curdle. But, I have to smile when the buffoon insists that Europe pay it fair share for NATO. But, why stop at 'fair share' -- why not entire share, and let's bring home the troops.... Christ, the cost of WW I, WWII, the Marshal Plan -- all to bail out these losers my great great grand parents left.... And, as I ponder my lost grandfather in WWI, where the US lost over 100,000 troops, and where Holland sat out the war..... I can only wonder why isolationism wasn't on the top agenda of the US back in those days (ok, so Tojo altered those plans post 1940). Today, isolationism, unfortunately, makes little sense -- except maybe militarily, where those beautiful huge oceans keep the sound of clicking boots at bay.
 
So, I'm not overly disturbed by the buffoon's antics -- less untalented immigrants from sh**t hole countries -- sounds like a positive for America.
 
And for American bashing?.... I'll contently sit back and count the rewards America provided me for hard work and investment opportunities. As for the whiners ?   Sorry your parents couldn't make the jump across the Atlantic.
 
 
Such arrogance and apparantly proud of it. Tsk Tsk.

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I thought it was a pretty good post, well written.

1 minute ago, mauGR1 said:

Good idea, if it's a lonely stocky middle aged woman, you might add some free groping to the deal.????

The missus will like that.

On ‎9‎/‎7‎/‎2018 at 4:28 PM, lamyai3 said:

Yes, on draught, served in a glass is my preference by a country mile. 

Filled with ice, no doubt. Leo with a glass of ice......ahhhhhh

Didn't mean to imply the UK is or was. Through out the world we're joined at the hip with the fighting. Like it or not we're buddies.