Dragonmode

I worked in a high-end Japanese hotel as a bellman/concierge here in NYC years back (RIHGA). I dealth with every race and denomination there and they all tipped well, from blacks to the Japanese, French & Canadians. I conclude that when you go down to the Denny's level of environment and service & moreso clientelle then yeah, you will unfortunately see stereotypes affirmed in regards to tipping & race. I don't know what kind of Jews are being talked about here, but the NYC-Wall St. fair tip better than any race/class bar none IMHO.

Nor my greenbacks either, bub. I definitely am not going all the way from the USA for these girls; I prefer the local cuisine. Also, these sort of girls are far more hotter back in the USA anywho.

I have not been able to call, nor receive calls from a few people in both Phuket and Pattaya. Is this to be expected? It's been almost 4 weeks!

PS - I'm in New York City, USA by the way.

I have not been able to call, nor receive calls from a few people in both Phuket and Pattaya. Is this to be expected? It's been almost 4 weeks!

Well ######. At least he didn't get robbed of any organs.

The whole thing sounds very Airwolf-y. But hey, it works for the LAPD.

.....Base to Red Leader, "Have you spotted `em?"

Red Leader to Base, " I thought I saw `em briefly!"

"There goes one of `em!"

You can always count on Fox for making you spew your drink out of your nose.

Not for nothing, but how common is the name Khun? From the 2 girls that supposedly drugged the 2 indians to the girl who got groped on Walking Street to this lady here........possibly all related?

respect

Gents I believe a One Minute round of applause would be appropriate.

/salute

Meh. Same sorta crap happens to them here in the USA also; go figure.

Honest Baht Bus driver returns lost bag to the delight of its Scottish owner.

a silver necklace worth more than 2 Million Baht. -Pattaya City News

Friday 26th May 2006

LaoPo

My sentiments exactly. $50,000+ for a silver chain? GTFOH!

Meh well I heard that the girls there weren't all that anyhow

As white folk there, we get away with a hel_l of a lot of behaviour that would result in a good smacking at home. The thai against thai crime rate is far lower than the thai farang crime % ( well maybe apart form pattaya )

What basis do you have for this particular statement? My gathering is that the situation is exactly the opposite.

Your comparison of BKK with where you live in the west now also depends on what city you live in. If I were choosing between Bangkok and SE Washington, DC, then yes, I'd choose Bangkok from a safety point of view. If it were between Bangkok and any point in Manhattan south of 110th Street, then I'd choose Manhattan. Crime in most major US cities has gone down substantially in the past decade, while I'm much more wary of going anywhere after dark in BKK than 10 years ago.

I agree, having seen Manhattan, NYC go from "Fort Apache"-style in the 70's and 80's to Broadway-Disneyland in the 90's to present. We still have our rapes/murders/mass shootings like any big city but far less than 2-3 decades ago. I'm sure he meant thai on thai was higher with exception to in Pattaya.

Well recently becoming single is really tempting me to throw caution in the wind and doing a 3-6 month stint in LoS as soon as I leave my current employer which is within 3 months. I'm excited!

He probably stands behind the door because it's the only space in the toilet no being used

Nah. He is just getting himself closer to the urinal where he can better inhale urine fumes.

According to him it is much better than sniffing glue or petrol.

I wanted to post a reply the last time when i saw your question but the forum was down for a while. And now it's like 3 pages long???? Interesting topic yeah?

Anyway, I live in Sriracha and I've got two kids too. I've got a maid provided by the condominium. She handles two appartments. Starts work at 8 in the morn and finishes at 5pm. Takes a lunch break between 12pm-1pm,works from Monday to Saturday and the only public holiday for her is songkran (2days off only), does all the housework except cooking and is paid by the condominium at 165baht per day which makes up to about 3900baht per month.

And every wednesday we'll go for a dinner as a couple and get her to take care of our kids at 50baht per hr. And usually offer her a lift back or an overnight stay in our guest room.

For your information, there's about 30maids working in this condominium getting paid at about the same rate. So yes, 6000baht is kinda well paid for them.

Agreed based on all the #'s on this post. If 3k is going rate and you're already paying her 4500, bumping her up to 6k is a very nice gesture without spoiling her. See how you feel in another 3-6 months if you think she deserves more still.

I'm allways amazed at how fast the police catch these people.

I suppost that it helped that the only two who were stood infront of the Shell Petrol Station were dressed in fishnet tights, were 6 feet tall and were bashing each other with their handbags as they squabbled over the loot.............

HA! Quite the site you vividly paint. Reminds me of Manhattan/Times Square/42nd Street in the 80's.

I was at Baboona Hotel around Soi 3 for almost 2 weeks in April and was amazed at the lack of police presence at night along the Road. Of course the one time I did see one by there was during day when he was trying to intimidate me into giving up loot for not wearing a helmet on motorcycle during Songkran. Luckily, a thai girl friend I was with called him on it and he just left rather pissed. He was rather tall, on a motorcycle, and unusually aggressive.

Oh he was cruising alright.

This has got to be true, you just can't make this stuff up. Sometimes, reality is stranger than fiction. I had to send this to my international friends, can't wait for the reply.

OIP, the only place truly stranger than NYC No wonder I'm hooked on it.

Amazing what 2 punks get away with in LoS, robbing an old woman. I'm also learning more & more from these forums that it doesn't pay to even get involved (being a farang) if even witnessing something like this; more headaches. I'm staying in NYC where vigilance is revered even by the cops to a degree.

My prayers go out to all impacted by this.

Hear Hear!

I've been Working as an Engineer for the last 15 years and getting terribly tired of it all. The money is great, the hours are long and challenging with 4 weeks of vacation time accruing, but, OMG DO I HATE IT.....

My wife of 12 years keep telling me " be patient honey our house will be paid off in 3 years and we'll be able to enjoy ourselves without any worries"....OMG I don't even want to wait anymore

I just want to sell the darn house and take the house equity(decent amount) back to Thailand, buy a house, and take my chances for the rest of my life; Ofcourse, I can't do it because I have the other half to worried about... hurrrrrrr...

Life at 42 can really sucks somtimes. I guess we all haev to go through it.

I hear you!.....another engineer?....welcome to life after 40

I'm 44, in the same boat as you and yes, another engineer (structural) running my own firm close to 15 yrs, life is mai sanuk anymore….not much challenges left for me….. so I'm packing my bag, dragging my wife (thai) of 20 yrs, back to thailand at the end of this year and very much looking forward to many new adventures and challenges in the next chapter of my life.

The second most compelling reason has to be the equity of our house in this bloating real estate market. We built it 2 yrs ago and since then it has doubled in value, so I think it’s a ripe time to cash in before it burst. But for us, we’re planning to come back to the US again in 5 yrs. I just need some time off to write a few technical books and create a few intellectual property projects. So this is the big break I have been waiting for and in which very badly needed.

Haha. Network engineer here.

I'm 31 have something like this as many of us do. It was worse before when I had an idiot boss and a tech suppot job that had early morning hours and required I talk with angry clients all day. Yes I got burnt out fast. My job now is as tolerable as a desk job can be. I work for a University in finance, my boss is reasonably chill, and I can take classes and use all the University facilities. I still have many days where I feel something close to burn out. I recognize I have a good job but it's not in Thailand where I want to be. Where I feel I can be living life to the fullest rather than all of this biding my time. Even with this strong sentiment unless I get a great job in Thailand with an expat salary or even better some kind of telecommuting setup with my current job I'm going to sit tight and just feel the pain. I'm trying to pack away as much as I can into my 401k. I also am trying to save what I can. It's likely I'll get a decent inheritence right around when I'm 40. If that happens my plan is to stop the desk job daily grind and head to Thailand and find what work I can. I'll live best I can off what money I have until the 401k kicks in. So I'd basically need enough to make it 20 years accentuated by whatever wages I can pick up in Thailand then cruise off my 401k until it's the end of the line. I can't bear the thought of working a desk job for the rest of my life and am willing to take some risks and some salary cuts to get out of it, but not now it's just too much of a gamble.

I hear ya. 34 y.o. here with the taste of my first trip to Thailand still on my lips (Songkran '06). Being recently single, having sold my brownstone and cashed out of a bunch of stock options from the buyout of a company I worked at these last 6 years, now seems as good a time as any to plant my roots in LoS. But even with over $350k cash and no debts, I still find it hard to just throw away the opportunities I have here in the states. Yeah, the Wall Street (IT) scene is truly a burnout, but it also pays topnotch. I'm just fishing for expat work in BKK in the meantime, otherwise I'm holding off for another 10 years. Until then, it's just 2-3 trips a year there.

Some of you hit the nail on the head in regards to Bubbles. I went to CM for the first time during Songkran and was baffled with Bubbles and how ass-backwards it was as far as the ugliest, sleaziest farang seemingly getting the action there. I was there with a bunch of quintessential NYC clubaddicts and we were nauseated as well as perplexed by it all, but hey TIT