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There are so many ways organisations can access you account to advertise their services that hacking seenms the least likely option
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3 minutes ago, The Farang said:The problem is not the high baht. If you come from a western country its still way cheaper then where you live. It's a few main reasons why (I have lived in Thailand and come back and forth since 2016):
1.) They don't do enough to get big businesses to come to Thailand. If you bring businesses that brings jobs and more farangs will come thus spend money.
2.) The way foreigner's are treated here is not that great. Starting from the moment you come to the border and deal with immigration, to when you get to your hotel, drive down the street and get stopped by police daily being extorted for money.
3.) Taxis overcharging and businesses overcharging foreigner's trying to get as much money out of us quickly before we leave from our holiday. Short term thinking.
4.) It's just not safe there. So many people die either on the road in a accident because the roads are lawless, or the tourist activities like jet skies. Every week someone dies. I remember the group of Chinese tourists about 40 people diednot to long ago because of poor safety. I get it if people get drunk and dont follow the rules but they have to do a better job at enhancing safety.
I travel frequently and this is one of the only countries in southeast Asia that I have seen this level of greed. If I am a tourist and come here and those 4 things happen to me, I wouldn't come back and tell everyone about my bad experience and then they won't come.
None of the above is as worrying as the corrupt police and army 'swooping ' on foreigners to imprison them in third world hell holes for petty overstay or drug violations.
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14 minutes ago, BoBoTheClown said:Guys, what's the point of complaining about every decision Thai authorities make? We should wish nothing but the best for the country that has allowed us to live.
The people yes. The junta no.
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3 minutes ago, Just Weird said:"The way immigration clowns are acting will only deter tourists".
What does that mean? How are IOs "acting" that invokes so much ire in you?
"This so-called government have absolutely no idea how to run a country, tourists are put off by that as well".
I doubt many tourists give a damn about how well you think the government does it's job!
Potential tourists do research on the Internet. Currently Thailand is in the news for all the wrong reasons and putting people off. Mass police actions against overstayers, deaths of foreigners, armed police and army thugs marching around entertainment areas intimidating foreigners, over crowding of roads and streets and heritage areas caused by Chinese mass tourism, the lack of rule of law, military junta is just scary for some potential visitors, insane drug laws, and the expense due to the currency.
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Tourism thrived and grew before the the dead hand if the tourist board and the military got involved.
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19 minutes ago, theoldgit said:
In the UK, Immigration Enforcement Teams carry mobile scanners, about the same size os the mobile terminals that some restaurants use for credit card transactions at the table, they connect not only to the UKBA database but to EURODAC, the EU Database.
Not sure if Thai Immigration have these, but if not I suspect they will have at some time in the near future.
What are these databases you refer to? UKBA? EU..EURODAC?
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12 minutes ago, Sheryl said:
In many countries liability is automatically ascribed to the motorcycle or car in a collision with a bicycle or pedestrian. This is so in the US and also in Cambodia.
May or may not be like that in Thailand, this is what I am trying to ascertain. Both the law and normative practice.
Not in the UK. Increasingly cyclists are being prosecuted for a variety of traffic transgressions.
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10 hours ago, asiamaster said:
Still a bloody rip-off
No its not. Its good quality, international education at a reasonable price. It allows kids to return to their home countries and continue with the relevant curriculum.
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9 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:You are living here and are a tax resident, get a proper visa.
Not your business to tell people what to do. Who made you our lord and master?
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On 11/17/2019 at 4:34 AM, GeorgeCross said:
NHS is free for UK citizens so no, not cheaper at all.
Not free! We pay for it via taxes!
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On 11/22/2019 at 2:53 AM, SunsetT said:
But the sickening bass can travel for miles and still penetrate a building. But maybe this is one situation where being in a city can actually make it quieter because you are surrounded by so many other concrete buildings absorbing the noise and bass frequency.
Yes cities are quieter..building work only 8am to 5pm. music finish 12am to 2am in Pattaya...also safer and less crime, robbery, burgalry house breaking theft from gardens etc. Pattaya aint the wild west..
Issan is!
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17 hours ago, Denim said:
This song was so popular in Thailand at the time it was hard to avoid. Played almost non stop in Thermaes. No surprise then to see a Thai cover :
Becomes .......Last train to Udon ????
What year was it played at Thermae? I used to drink there till 7am in the old days....before it moved.
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An issue is what is he using the agents for. The provide numerous services.
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16 hours ago, BritManToo said:
Brexit will never happen.
Even if it does, I can register as a permanent resident until the end of 2020.
Does the 2020 limit apply to all EU countries?
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On 11/22/2019 at 5:32 PM, moontang said:
Notice I rarely post in this forum, where most are whining about TM30..complied three years ago, never a problem since. While many more are whining about the 800k...had mine here at age 42. And obtained yellow book four years ago, without buying a house for a prossie. So now some clowns are accusing me of scaremongering..while a few posted 100 tearful times about being forced to deal with an agent, because they didn't have the resources to obtain a Visa good for two years before they arrived...and even more are simply touts for Visa agents...of which I have not used in 22 years of trips here..Now, that I am within two months of an extension, I am attempting to get to the bottom of the situation, as I have always been 100% legal. And, yes, there are credible reports that my local IO, which has been 10 times better than CM, is indeed requiring the proof of insurance.
There is no denying people are hitting the exits. Exchange rate might even be number one. Obviously way fewer Euro and Oz here. But, meanwhile, there is so much empathy for posters on here, denied and rejected, telling their stories with thick Russian and middle eastern accents..but they had a Canadian passport...Meanwhile, I try to compare notes and survey the situation, and I am scaremongering?
Who accussed you of scaremongering? But in general would you agree there is a lot negativity, rumour mongering, complaints, falsehood, inaccuracy etc sometimes on this forum?
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15 hours ago, BritManToo said:
I'm buying a 3 bed, 3 shower house (from new) in Chiang Mai for 10k/month (90% mortgage).
Pointless to risk your own money up front in Thailand.
But as a foreigner you cant own a house or rather cant own the land. So is it and the mortgage in your wifes name?
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15 hours ago, BritManToo said:
I can buy a rundown farm in France for 10,000-15,000 Euros.
They can't give em away.
Yes but the local village will have no shops. These places are dead zones. But if you like a solitary life....
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15 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:Can't see a bubble, perhaps an excess of property coming onto the market for many a reason.
As for foreigners buying property, I would think not especially when some currencies have dropped a minimum of 20%, suffice to say if your looking at purchasing a property for 5m, it becomes 6m.
Coming from a property background of 25 years, I would NEVER purchase property in Thailand, especially when you do not get any permanent residency status and can only buy into villa's, condo's and the like which are 51% owned by Thai's, that's just my take, add to that there is no control over how much development can be done within a particular area within a particular year, oversupply does help in bringing prices down as new becomes hard to sell in a down turning market, and then they have competition with the 2nd hand market to worry about on top of exchange rates.
As for Hua Hin, I would have thought if one purchases at the right time, i.e. in mid 20 with the new airport being built or built, that might help property prices in the future as the baht comes back to earth, change of government and farangs starting to return, but who can see into that crystal ball, just my speculation of course, and still dicey when you cannot obtain permanent residency unless you meet a certain criteria, i.e. having worked and paid taxes, plus, plus, plus and the only allow so many per year, Vs retirement/marriage extensions.
I believe rent would be a better option, unless your prepared to off-set the rent per annum from the purchase price, year in year our given the above.
The new train service from Bangkok to Pattaya might improve things in Pattaya but the whole of Thailand has a serious problem: the wealth gap. This is not a matter of social justice but economic efficiency. For economies to grow there must be a burgeoning middle class with sufficient wealth to buy things. Thailand does not have a growing middle class either big enough or growing fast enough to help fuel the economy. Without a native population able to buy condos the market will decline. Where I live in Pratumnak there are two or three 90% empty condos but three new ones have been built in the last year.
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On 8/31/2019 at 7:47 PM, gk10002000 said:
you. Don't tell me to chill out just because I asked a question, Jesus you people make stupid assumptions
Its amusing when high strung people tell others to chill out!
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2 hours ago, HHTel said:
You obviously know NOTHING about Rwanda and it's success in tourism, jobs and a healthy GDP. I wonder why the rest of the world is looking at Rwanda for guidance in their own plastic waste control.
Rawanda and The Democratic Congo and Nigeria and Somalia..The west is rushing to emulate them and falling over themselves to book holidays there. Are you a missionary there?
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You will have to find somebody else to do the ironing!
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Plastic bags were introduced to protect the environment cutting down on tree based paper bags. I remember as a kid everyone took shopping bags before plastic bags were introduced and they were and are a great blessing which have a multiplicity of uses. The idiocy of shaming people for using plastic bags is playing into the hands of the manufacturers who neatly avoid responsibility while continuing to make profits. Loads of environmental directives are nonsense. The biggest con trick is recycling at home! Total waste of time to keep idiots busy.
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21 hours ago, HHTel said:
You can get jail time in some countries for using plastic.
Some 127 countries have some form of legalising the control of plastic.
Tens of thousands of marine life die annually from ingesting plastic.
Plastic has already entered OUR food chain.
Plastic can be found in human excrement.
When I was a kid, people managed fine without plastic.
Many countries that have banned plastic manage fine and their environment has improved.
Look at Rwanda and the difference it's made to their lives.
There are no valid excuses.
Rwanda! Yeah right! 555
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7 hours ago, 4675636b596f75 said:
Certainly not encrusted with cat litter.
Cat faeces, like human faeces will be cleansed at the sewage farms. So dont put the litter itself down the toilet just the faecal matter.
Why you want to come live in Thailand?
in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
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Wrong question! A more appropriate question is: 'Why dont you want to live in or visit Thailand?'