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6 hours ago, Gecko123 said:

To illustrate your point, here are a couple of current day Thai restaurant window menus from Paris. A plate of vegetarian fried rice in the first restaurant costing 6.50 Euros + 10% tax + 15% tip, for a total of 8.125 Euros (or 317 baht), can commonly be found in Thailand for as little as 35-40 baht or about one tenth of the Paris price. 

You compare prices Paris vs Isaan? I haven't seen 40 THB fried rice in a proper restaurant in Bangkok.

Not to mention the Paris portion is likely twice as big, and from significantly better ingredients.

2 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

What is stopping you applying for PR or even citizenship ??

You must be working 5 years for a Thai company to be able to.

No F way I want to find a job in Thailand.

I would recommend to look at Vietnam as well. Much easier visa conditions, much cheaper and amazing. You have also many city choices with less hot weather if 40 degrees isn't your thing.

5 hours ago, Emmess said:

The money given should be at least a little bit more than they are spending on you, by inviting you. Roughly a 5 star resort would be THB 2500 per person. Also because the party is in 5 star, they would also be serving expensive liquor. Do the math mate.....

Yea but at the same time I'm not a fan of spending 10k THB per night out. We are good friends, but I had to work hard for my cash. They got everything on golden plate from their parents. Non of them had actual real job in their life.

Obviously I don't want to look like a tight ass. At the same time it's not in Bangkok - we have to travel there. The resort is 9000 THB per night for the cheapest room and not much around = pay 9k THB for room or pay mafia level taxi charges to somewhere else. Even without the gift the expenses will be high.

I'm invited for a wedding too... he is from the UK, she is Thai.

Both of their parents are VERY wealthy, the ceremony and party is in a 5* resort... How much is appropriate in such situation?

Stable democratic government

Booming economy and GDP per capita

World class police force and justice system

The poor, sick, and elderly taken care off

... I sure understand why THB is and WILL get stronger

Defamation and Internet act charges incoming? lol

6 hours ago, Russell17au said:

Australia is no different in the farming industry, many of the orchards have trouble getting workers when it is harvest time. The farmers try backpackers or anyone but some farmers have even cut down their orange trees and burnt them.

The story of life now is that with IT and mechanization no body wants to do manual labour they all want to sit on their asses and get blisters on their finger tips from pushing buttons. The modern world has become lazy

Do you know how much they pay backpackers in rural Australia?

You spend living and working in the middle of nowhere Queensland, save $1500 a month while have absolutely no life.

The OP's offer seems extremely generous considering average wage in TH

19 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

So the employer pays them minimum wage say 350. Times 2 is 700. How much profit would you think is realistic? 35% would seem a bit light?

she was a freelancer from the building manager, probably family or friends and getting kick back

btw the building manager and managing company got sacked because of high number of complains

Same almost anywhere in SE Asia... Man I hate when order Grab/Uber and the driver calls me where am I.

The dot that you can see it on your bloody phone! Not to mention they can't speak/understand English as well.

I needed to move between condos in Bangkok - 15km and just few bags/boxes of stuff ... but bit too much for regular taxi. Gf called several companies and they were asking for 3000 - 4500 THB - ridiculous!

In the end I've got mini van from Grab for 500 THB.

Also move out cleaning - quoted 1000 THB for two workers half a day. Only one worker showed up and she left after half a day. But the owner forced her to come back for another half day. She and the building manager would call us 30 times that 1000 THB is not enough, we have to pay more. We didn't pay more.