wolfmanjack

On 10/15/2018 at 1:47 AM, elviajero said:

• If you're looking for a visa/extension of stay to stay with a Thai child there is no age limit. The child can be any age. You would need an income of at least 40K pm, or have 400K in the bank on the day you apply for the extension.
• If you want a visa/extension of stay on the basis of being financially supported by a Thai child you need to be over 50. There isn't a set amount of income the Thai must earn, but immigration might ask for proof of their income.

What about this part?

(4) In the case of a child, adopted child or child of his/her spouse, the said person must not be married, must be living with the family, and must be less than 20 years of age;

It looks to me like they are saying that once the child reached 20 years old I can't get a visa to support the child.

3 hours ago, PoorSucker said:

There is a clause for retired people being supported by their Thai children, no need to show any amount of money. 

99% of immigration officers will not know this. 

I see this in a police order. Are you saying that since no income requirement is specified for the father under maintenance of children then there are no income requirements? I would think there would be some kind of income requirement for the children. Does anyone know if one has been posted or is it left up to the discretion of each immigration official.

2 hours ago, PoorSucker said:

There is a clause for retired people being supported by their Thai children, no need to show any amount of money. 

99% of immigration officers will not know this. 

Thank you for responding. Do you have a citation for this clause? It would help when talking with immigration.

All very interesting. Thank you all for responding. I suppose I need to check with immigration in Chiang mai to see what they are actually allowing.

31 minutes ago, elviajero said:

• If you're looking for a visa/extension of stay to stay with a Thai child there is no age limit. The child can be any age. You would need an income of at least 40K pm, or have 400K in the bank on the day you apply for the extension.
• If you want a visa/extension of stay on the basis of being financially supported by a Thai child you need to be over 50. There isn't a set amount of income the Thai must earn, but immigration might ask for proof of their income.

Thank you. I was wondering since both of my kids are approaching the age of 20 and leaving 400k in the bank is more appealing than leaving 800k in the bank.

I was wondering if there is an age limit for the Thai child for this type of visa?

If not is there an income limit on how much the Thai child can make?

On 10/29/2017 at 12:58 PM, CNXBKKMAN said:

I think if you want to live the frugal lifestyle and be happy with it you need to do the Kings "porpieng" thing. 1 rai of land . Fish pond in one corner, thai veg growing in another quarter, mango/fruit trees in another, simple bungalow house, teak trees around the edge for shade and timber. Cash expenses will be minimal when its established. You may end up giving food away or swapping it for sone cocunuts with a neighbour? You dont need to own the land. Go to to any rural area and rent a patch off a local. It might cost 4000 baht a year? 

      Has anyone done this? 

the leaves fall off the teak trees in the hot season when you need them the most. Also it is illegal to cut them for wood unless you have them registered and get a permit when you want to cut them. It would be better to have more fruit trees for shade.

If i had no money to live in my home country but was deported back, i would do a federal crime, daylight robbery, plead guilty and live out my remaining years feed, housed, medical care, make new friends, plenty of things to stay busy at , gardening, etc.at federal facilities

either that or stay in a boarding house (as i do have adequate pension to do so) close to a decent pub and discuss weather and cuss goverent with the other malcontebs/ attend the free holidays meals put on and the daily senior citizen free meal for variety sake.. and utilize medical care when needed.

Interesting you said that. Back in my hometown a guy threw a rock through a post office window the very day he got released from prison. When asked why he said the only life he knew was prison and the federal prisons are much nicer than the state prisons.

Friendships, like marriage need input. If not, they slowly fade away.

Frankly, if someone contacted me after being away seven years and asked me to put them up, I'd make excuses, too.

I wouldn't. I also have a friend that I contacted in the USA and asked him to do some thing for me that required him to drive a80 miles round trip and he answered that it was no problem for him. I haven't seen him for 10 years but we do chat on facebook every once in a while.

I guess it just depends on the person.

Sad to say.....but I guess your "so-called" friends weren't really your friends then

I went back to australia 3 years ago,i asked my oldest son if i could possibly stay with him and his wife.Was asked for "how long"...i said 1 week.The response i got was 3 days would be ok!

I hope my kids do not end up like that.

When my parents were still alive I told them they could come stay with us and we would take care of them in their old age.

My brother told me if I have to move back to the USA I can stay with him as long as I like but he isn't married.

There are some good schools here.

The school my kids went to P1-6 at taught critical thinking and how to do research. They scored well in the national tests and the principal went to Bangkok many times times to teach the teachers how to teach. After a while they moved him to a larger school and his replacement was pretty much not interested in running the school.

Now my kids are in M 1-6 and this school will give the kids a big fat zero for missing 1 piece of homework. They are given a chance to make it up but if the kid doesn't he does not advance. Also according to my kids there are a few kids that have taken the same grade over twice. So not all schools have a no fail policy.

However i am aware of teachers at other schools that give extra learning classes that cost money and give higher grades to kids that attend even though they do not deserve the higher grades. i sat in on one such class and the "teacher" simply read the answers from the book to the kids. The problem was the answers in the book were wrong and she got plenty peeved off when I pointed it out to her. Especially since the head of the English department was watching.

They did the same to me. They told me if i wanted to use the income affidavit from the embassy I had to switch to a retirement extension.

Going to the malls seems more like they are taking a shopping trip. Especially since most schools sell their uniforms at the school at any price they deem suitable. Only university kids buy clothes for school on the street or at malls. It seems this article is only trying to help the DIT director save face by making a show of this

the only clothes they sell at the school are the special uniforms like the sports clothes and the friday thai clothes. The shorts and white shirts are usually bought at stores like tesco and big C or markets.

will wd40 keep the ants from coming in the house if I spray it on the outside walls?

I go shopping twice a week usually.

Each time is about 2k baht.

Cheap really. Don't bother looking at the prices, you see some people scouring their receipt, what a crappy way to live.

Sometimes you get charged the wrong amounts. One day at makro my receipt ended up being 1500 baht more than I figured it should and found an item that was actually 150 baht was rung up at 1500 baht so it is a good idea to pay attention to prices unless you can afford to throw your money away for nothing.

I live in phuket and relatively young compared with most here and I hate songkran. So many stupid foreigners who throw a full bucket of water as hard as they can at your head and try and knock you off your motorbike!!!

This won't happen as I stay indoors all the time, but I can assure you that if any Farang threw water at me, he would be sucking his food through

a straw for weeks.

Anyone with half a brain knows it is going to happen so when I am out on the motorbike during sonklan I do not try to avoid the water that is thrown by speeding up or swerving. That is how most of the accidents happen. I drive slow and stop to let them poor water on me then go on my merry way.

Stopping and trying to be a tough guy would definitely not be the answer since there is always a group throwing the water.

What do you define as traditional Thai values?

Western values adopted by Phibun Songkram or Thai values that evolved over countless generations?

Or in other words, should girls be allowed to take their tops off?

To be fair if guys are allowed to take their tops off then girls should be allowed to. There is an old woman that walks around our neighborhood without her top every now and then. I guess she is either too old to remember her top, living in the past or just too old to care.

ceiling fans are a great alternative to air con...

I use ceiling fans but have had to resort to aircon the last few days in the afternoon. I can't wait until my shade trees get big enough to help keep things cool.

I guess that I am one of the very lucky ones. Me 66, fiancé 43. She loves lobster but won't let me buy it for her. I tell her "don't worry, it's my money". She says "I don't care, it's too expensive of a meal". We selected an engagement ring, she wanted to find one for less (it really wasn't all that expensive to start with). I hand her my money when we travel. I never have to think about disbursements or dishonesty. I want to tip for wonderful Thai service. She says "that is too much" and gives her country people less of my money (I don't approve). I offer to buy her clothes when we are shopping for me in Thailand. She won't let me. But I did buy her a tankless hot water heater (big deal, $250 of my money). I smile every time I shower in her little home and read the felt pen writing on the heater "Gift from Ray". But this Thai lady makes me smile a lot. I am the lucky one.

My ex wife was like that for the first 5 years of our relationship but it was drastically different for the next 11 years.

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Here we are...wishing more Thai people could speak english, but making fun of them when they do. I don't remember one Thai person that ever made fun of me when I mangled my Thai phrases. If they did, it would humiliate me, and make me want to stop trying.

Who studied in the USA?

I'm just glad that he tried to speak English.. More Thais should try it AND more foreigners should desist from commenting harshly when the Thais try it!

Couldn't agree more with you casualbiker. It seems all Thais, regardless of their station in life are going to mocked and ridiculed by some of the members here for trying to speak English. Of course these keyboard warriors know-it-alls speak Thai with 100% fluency and can't be ridiculed by the Thais and therefore feel no shame about hypocrisy.

You both make a valid point. We can't really expect Thai people to speak perfect English, and should be glad when they make the attempt. Dear Leader has been a military man his whole life and I wouldn't really expect him to speak much English at all. He's never had the incentive to learn it. I just gave the Yingluck example in the interest of balance; we shouldn't be biased about this sort of thing should we?

In order for the comparison to be balanced then the english education level should be the same. Yingluck is ridiculed for her lack of English because , as already mentioned, she has a degree from the USA. In my opinion it is not logical to hold any thai that has not obtained a degree from an english speaking country to the same standards. I have met thais that have lived in the USA for several years and had very little english skills because they came to the usa late in life and stayed around the thai community. However the thais in the same family that attended school for at least a year spoke pretty good english.

I would expect the same from any native english speakers in thailand. Those that live and associate with english speaking people will have very little thai ability but those that obtain a degree from a thai university should speak thai fluently.

Thank you for the reply wormfarmer. Wouldn't putting the worm casting directly into the tank plug up my drip feed system ?

I have been reading about the difference between leachate and tea but what I was actually thinking of at the time was what i saw at Mae Jo University where they had a tank of worms with no dirt that they put vegetables in every day and the liquid drained into a tank every day that bottled to sell for fertilizer.

I didn't think that method would allow for the worms to reproduce so I was thinking of having a worm bed that would also create the worm castings for leachate and tea.

The main question that I had was if I fed the cucumber plants to the worms when the harvest was complete would that take any diseases that some of the plants had and spread that to all of my other plants? Would the worms eating the plants destroy any diseases?

A hourly rate for pay would make more sense ,

so people working 12 hours will get more than people working 8

The labor law already states any one that works more than 8 hours already gets time and a half for any hour over 8.

Most of the life insurance policies I have seen are combined with a savings plan. If you pay for 20 years and don't die you get some of the money back.

Hello.

I am growing cucumbers hydroponically using a drip to waste system and every day have some that are not salable due to various reasons. I was thinking of getting some worms to feed the cucumbers to make worm tea then putting the worm tea in the nutrient tank. I was also thinking that the cucumber plants could be fed to the worms at the end of each crop.

I was wondering if this would be a good idea or would just cause any diseases to spread more quickly negating any benefits from the free worm tea nutrients?

Thanks for any input.

"Price of foreign coloured brandy will rise by between 5.23 and 8.49 baht per bottle"

Is this REALLY a crippling price hike?

I dont expect ANY answers to this, anyway!

Edit

I doubt the poor farmers drink this.

Last night I bought a few bottles of Leo....the shopkeeper told me that today, Sunday, she would be raising her price to 70 baht from 65.

Leo is 55 baht in all the shops around here.