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2 hours ago, JHolmesJr said:

Guess they are sad that there are now fewer farangs to beat up.

Oh please cut the <deleted>.

12 minutes ago, Traubert said:

Oooohh! Hark at Lord Muck. ????

It is truth though. Clearly.  Good night.

7 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

sounds like stupidity to me. 

For those ignorant it would be. Most people are so no offense, that's why they work all their life to suck beers at 65 up.

7 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said:

So  perhaps  you  should  be in a different  place?

Yes proper expat places, ex Bangkokian and soon Phuket. Good luck to those looking for thin clean air.

1 minute ago, FritsSikkink said:

Another dumb assumption, I work here so get out almost everyday. Why should I come in the same establishments as you? Do you have any clue how many there are?

You are unknown but keep dreaming, 

Regards, Pinot Noir

17 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

If you know so much, you would know that tourism isn't declining. What is that drivel about haters hate, spenders spend? You at calling Thai's stupid, makes this you a hater? You could really use that course. As you don't even know what they were doing exactly, how can you value the urgency?

Obviously you commenting would be expected, being at home all the time, I am sure you know so much... NOT.

If you even went out once a week I known you, as you are on FB under the same name. Never seen you in any establishments over 8 years.

Buy a new one, 0% interest deals available. Friend just got the latest one.

I hate it when they do it so sneaky, happened to me at an already expensive place in CM 2 weeks ago. 

You would think that 290B for a glass of wine is expensive enough and then find out a service charge on top of it.

At least they could clearly write it, like you don't put the prices of food and drinks in the smallest font too.

(On top of that they changed happy hour times without notice, many returning customers were unpleasant surprised by having a bill double the usual).

I'm not sure what it is about to always talk about taxi prices in Phuket while there is a good Smart bus with fair offers. (https://phuketsmartbus.com/?lang=en)
You can get a unlimited 3 day pass for like 499 baht for example, as well buy a Rabbit card and have the next stop for 50B a ride. 

Aside of this it is also possible to rent a motorbike at the airport and return it there, this way you would not have to pay a heavy amount to the first door too.
Last but not least, who is going around in taxi's all day? I usually take 1 area per 1-2 days where I can manage to get around by foot and chill on the beach.

And if it comes to food and drinks, sure it easily is 50-60B per meal on bottom levels, 150-300B foreign mid range,
but those prices are asked in Central BKK and even many CM places too nowadays. Pattaya is sure cheaper but no good beaches too.

For the red lights you also pay insane amounts in walking street, 150-300B drinks personal and to buy are normal there as well in Bangla road. 
Cheaper and smaller bars still offer beers from 60-70B which is common around the country. 

Rooms seem a bit expensive if so many are half empty but for the location I find the average of 700-900B per night not that crazy too.
I easily pay 1000-1200 in Bangkok for a really standard room, easily 700+ in CM for a more new / decent room.

I ended up paying too much in almost every place I visited for the first time, isn't that part of being a newbie tourist?
You have to spend some time finding the good spots or do some research beforehand.

To conclude, seems a lot of the complaining is about comparing to 40B street food pad thais and stuff.
And not wanting to pay for entertainment as water sports OR expecting those things to all be 300-400B each only. 

For long stayers, really affordable housing available too, Makro etc cost the same, your own bike gets you around cheap, cheap flights to BKK etc.
Other islands might be slightly cheaper but often take much more time to get there or cost much more in airfares. 

Hope he is not too attached to his long hair, it is gonna be gone upon arrival in Hilton.

1 hour ago, DannyCarlton said:

Then you clearly never did comply. 65k baht monthly income was always the rule. With the British Embassy you had to provide documentary evidence of this and th source was indicated on your embassy letter.

It is 40K a month for marriage / child, I did not have to comply before as visas were a non issue / I spend quite some time abroad in each year before too.
I would also not live here anymore if no child, long gone. I can comply if going trough nonsense and setting up a company back home without any other purpose, wasting money along the process every month. Only in case of emergency and no other solutions, I would do that.

But it is stupid in the first place that it is so difficult / not available, for a biological parent to obtain a long stay visa of let's say a year.
Specially when they are under 18 or more precise, newborn. It takes another 22 years before I even hit 50 so forget about that.

I didn't even see the topic at all lol. Who cares anyway.

I am gonna be on the ground in a good week from now to do research, want to relocate the family to Phuket too.
So far the rental prices seem to be similar as Chiang Mai and Pattaya, eating mostly from home will not add too much costs as well + we own bikes already.

Wonder if the OP is still there by now? Or did you gave up on it?

On 1/3/2020 at 7:04 AM, Valdemar said:

150K/months, € or ฿?

Speaking about baht figures obviously but there is enough affiliate and platform owners who earn 1-3M baht a month. 

1 hour ago, userabcd said:

Now in Europe that is another story.

By European law and most domestic laws you have the right on a bank account thus banks can't refuse you to open one. Obviously if you are from Europe.
But even for 'foreigners' it is relatively easy so not sure where you get this from.

I tried various branches but Kbank doesn't seem to want me for another account anymore, even I do have one since 2013 with them. 
Bangkok bank in CM opened one without questions, I did have a 90 day non-o visa at that time though.

I know a friend who did manage to open one in Pattaya recently but only if he bought a insurance of a few thousand baht. 
He did so as he didn't have much time and wanted to deposit for yearly extension. As usual in Thailand, depends on the day, branch and employee.

Kind of super annoying though, as one needs a bank account with a job here as well to deposit and get the yearly extension / visa etc.

On 1/2/2020 at 4:31 PM, jak2002003 said:

How about the police violence in America?

 

Why single out Thailand here... when most other countries are hardly any more 'civilized'

The difference is the word Police, that generally can be trusted on, rotten apples are everywhere but in Thailand most are rotten. Huge difference.

Speaking about violence is something completely else.

Always found it weird too, specially since living here and being so near to Australia, being done already and then China, happy new year again on the 25th......

Guess it is just to entertain the working force, they get their free days and a reason to drink and behave insane while free people can do so any day.

Seems EU did everything to please him so far, would be interesting if they now turn against him. 

Not being able to swim and then going into a unbalanced canoe with 4 pax... I guess I said enough, RIP.

1 hour ago, madmen said:

how could you tell? were they walking around sucking on roll mops or was it their wooden clogs ? 

Speaking 4 languages, including Dutch as it is my home country, it is pretty easy to tell. Specially with those screaming feminists of today.

And the old quarters aren't really that big, there were a lot for real.

On 12/26/2019 at 6:52 PM, jackdd said:

So they let you work illegally for 4 months? I doubt they will ever get a work permit for you

Is not illegal if processing as far I know. Also it is quite a time consuming process sometimes.
Many BOI are careful the first months, many people still leave within that timeframe (by choice or forced due to lacking performance). 

I am a drop out too but my BOI company just took care of it with some nice resume etc (Maybe it was easier at the time, it is a few years back).
Guess as said your easiest chance is to get certified for something, even it is a joke. Dance to the tune they started to play or lose anyway.

They are all about degrees in this country, even we all know how easy it is to get one as you can't fail a year + low standards.