JackGats

A bank will only return your card if you carry full proof that the card is yours, like your passport + savings book. And even then it's not a sure thing.

Funny how romance scams only hit the news when women are the victims. Romance-scamming of men is systemic yet nobody cares.

Isn't Dengue what Thailand should be worrying about?

I confess getting your card swallowed is infuriating. ATMs should be swipe-only or cardless: problem solved. As to fraululent use, it should suffice for ATMs to be equipped with cameras that take a mug pic as soon as a transaction feels dodgy.

This is interesting because my regular short-time girl told me one year ago soon we might not be able to meet any more as she was offered a job on a golf course. Eventually it didn't pan out for her, but there may be some "golf connection" for top-tier working girls.

The Spaniards killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. After they drive away the tourists, those demonstrating crowds will demand government hand-outs which the goverment will not be able to pay: Spain is a country without natural resources and with few profitable industries.

As though you didn't know that the emphasis was on Indians in Thailand, not on Indians in the slums of Calcutta. Indians are now big spenders in Thailand.

If they'd fought for Germany instead, you would have eros centers in the UK and India and wouldn't need to travel to Asia for sex.

I bet your picture on Thai Friendly is over 6 years old, so a 6-month old pic for a visa shouldn't be a problem.

Gorge on papayas and dragon fruits! I noticed fruits were no easy to come by in Isaan though. Many markets didn't have any. Had to drive all the way to the nearest Big C or Lotus. Some people develop serious constipation as they get older because they never got into the habit of eating fruits and greens while they were younger and didn't suffer from any constipation.

Maybe Trump is speaking like that on purpose? He is a great communicator/manipulator.

Farangs in denial. Flying half-way round the world to speak broken English with post-menopausal women in beer bars.

I think India-Pakistan is more critical for flights in and out of Thailand.

Peadohypocrisy has nothing to do with being right-wing or left-wing. It has to do with peadohysteria as a whole.

You should know what is going on. Indians have WAY more money now than Farangs. Even unemployed Indians do sex tourism in Thailand these days. Muslims? The crowds disgorged by flights from the Middle East outbid and outspend Farangs. So do Russians and sundry Asians. Those guys regularly pay up to 10 thousand Baht for short time. Farangs invent stories of Indians gang-banging beach road girls for 800 baht a session, stories of Korean being popular because they're quick and small. Farangs are in denial.

It's not that there are fewer young hotties now, it's just that young hotties no longer give Farangs the time of day. This is what has changed.

Since as you say we don't need MORE evidence, why don't you sh*t up?

The butt-spray: one thing about Thailand I miss everywhere else I go! Sometimes in Europe you find a spray next to the toilet. However the length of tubing is unsufficient to use it as a butt-spray. What is it for then? It's for cleaning the toilet! Unbelievable! Why is there a spray to clean the toilet bowl and none to do the more important job of cleaning your butt? This is when I think the Western mind is not as bright as I thought. I find toilet paper AWFUL.

What difference does it make if the woman who takes you to the cleaners before the family court is "bar" or "non-bar"?

Alas, immigration policies in the West are 100% under fem sexual trade-union control. Young personable females likely to attract Western men's attention are unwelcome. Geezers of all descriptions are welcome, especially Coran-retards who can cater to the fems' crypto-rape fantasies.

Really? I'd have thought it was just a magnet for expats fed-up with the retirement visa hassle as well as for those who fell short of qualifying for the LTR.

Thank you for spelling it out: "from an employment, or from business carried on abroad, or from a property ". My foreign income is a pension + capital gains and savings, how does that fit in? Maybe (just maybe) part of it is indirectly "from an employment", but definitely not from business or property! The Royal Decree seems to me like it doesn't just leave out a few things. It leaves out a hell of a lot! A far cry from the LTR hype trumpeting "no taxes on foreign assets/income"

My saga started with my signing up with a tax-filing agency. Said agency not only ignored my LTR status in their filing draft, but on top of that they wanted to file imaginary amounts that matched neither remittance nor dividends! After I decided I'd much better file myself, it was an uphill struggle to get that agency to hand over to me the password of my own eFiling account (loss of face you see). The long and the short of it is, I'm in no hurry to get involved with any (tax-filing or law) agency in TH ever again. In TH you "take a lawyer" and before you know it you find youself having to sue your lawyer. As to the Royal decree being Law, yes it is but what Law are we talking about? With the help of a friend who is proficient in Thai, we endeavoured to find out what kind of income the Royal Decree is actually exempting (quite apart from the "following year" charade). Well guess what? It is as clear as mud. A world away from the blanket tax-exemption on foreign income/assets you see plastered all over the Internet. All it would have taken is for the Royal Decree to specify: "foreign income exempted" (with the possible caveat about the following year). It doesn't though, instead it waffles about "assessable income" and such like.

I did. I "paid" the tax with the dividend refund TRD owed me. Luckily I had only remitted about 12k USD last year. Had I remitted twice or three times that, the dividend refund would only have covered about 1/3rd of the due tax. This year (2025) I'll duck the 180-day mark while availing myself of my non-resident status to transfer more cash. Next year (2026) I'll thus file no taxes but I'll remember to get a "certificate of travel record" for 2025 from IO just in case. As of 2026 my plan is to live off my hoarded cash for 3 or 4 years. Later, if need be, rinse and repeat. I cherish my LTR visa for the immigration hassle it spares me but I now know its much-publicized "tax-exemption of foreign assets" is a non-starter.

Acutally, you can also snort it, smoke it, or even plug it (booty bumping). Even with these gentler methods, overdoses are possible. The media like to project the bogeyman image of the syringe-wielding heroin user.