Speedhump

Mot? What gibberish. Sinking funds aren't fees you dolt. It's savings which we, the house owners, keep to use as and when we want. Do you really believe that once the builder of a housing resort has sold all the houses he pays for its upkeep for evermore? MY idiocy? ????????????????

They (government departments) don't check everyone for everything. You know that. Either random checks, or use of algorithms or simple data trawling would be my thought.

So no one that does anything wrong is ever identified and caught? I see. If you think hard you'd see there are certain indicators they can target, such as newly registered UK addresses for new pensioners overseas. If you never told them, or the taxman, you emigrated, never sold your property or changed address, maybe you're not so easy to spot. I believe they can then ask you to prove your phone number, name of GP, etc.

I read it here last year as experienced fact by the poster. Maybe it's just a question of being lucky or not. Or a new address raising suspicions, or whatever. I have no idea.

The authorities will check to ensure you actually live there. If not immediately then eventually.

You really are a know-nothing . I don't mind insulting you personally, actually. Sinking funds are quite normal for homeowners to handle upkeep or improvements to a housing development. The homeowners have control over the funds. There. Now you know.

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Not in the least. 4500 common fee and balance is sinking fund and leccy/water at PEA/PWA tariffs (swimming pool and lots of lovely aircon almost 24/7) . Some idiots 'liked' your comment. Friends of yours in the secure facility?

My income's fine thanks, that's why I said 'would'. I like the resort life though, but I appreciate you do have to pay a bit for it. The other problem as I mentioned would be THB 5000 or more for health insurance (for just one person). My wife currently has cancer and we're too long a time away from UK not to pay there either.

The common area maintenance charge, plus my water and electricity at my housing resort is around 10,000. Wouldn't leave much except for somtam and rice, and pray not to get sick.

I'm confused. Police station or chocolate teapot?

You made the point in reverse. In many jurisdictions it's not underage. As an aside, she sounds like a piece of filth: "“She was like the head b—h. She’d have like nine or 10 girls she used to bring to him [Epstein]. She never looked like she was being held captive,” Philip Guderyon, a former boyfriend of Giuffre’s, was quoted as saying in the court document. Crystal Figueroa, whose brother also dated Giuffre, said the accuser asked her for help finding victims for Epstein, according to the court filing. “She [Giuffre] would say to me, ‘Do you know any girls who are kind of slutty?,’” lawyers alleged Figueroa said."

24 hours later. Elton John says Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting ????????

Although the 'underage' remark is garbage.

Surely the difference is in the position of the tongue, roof of mouth versus back of teeth. I suppose the difference isn't important to farang, who sometimes mispronounced words like 'suay' (wrong inflection) and totally mangle its meaning. ????

I love Thai law experts!

Too subtle for the knuckledraggers commenting to understand. They'd have just decked him and been carted off to the BIB Hilton.

Any excuse to put a pretty face on the page, eh? ????

You think he should have Gas Mark 6'd her then? ????????

Someone here recently put me onto a great alternative to translate language in images. When you have "Tap To Translate Screen" open, it leaves a small movable icon on your desktop which will translate any screen without needing to screenshot it. You just make its settings to stay open on top of other apps and it's there while you're browsing websites, etc.

If you don't know, you can't afford it.

She doesn't even want him to meet them! Why would you go against that? Surely only to find out if she's some sort of black sheep/bunny boiler/whatever. If you wanted to do it, you'd take a good Thai speaking friend with you to pick up the family vibes. ????

Transferring USD from HSBC in another country to my Thai bank I now always leave the currency as USD and let the Thai bank convert into Baht. It's always worked out a better rate than the HSBC online app offers me

You started talking about me personally. In any case Asian tourist will be used to far lower standards of road behaviour than westerners. Excepting Singaporeans who I'm sure are horrified at the antics here, but perhaps aware of them if they have visited other ASEAN countries. So, no comparison is possible and your insults towards western tourists (or towards me) are totally misplaced.

You couldn't see that I was clearly was talking about tourists' expectations? You live down to my expectations of forum pondlife...