tabarin

18 minutes ago, Ron jeremy said:

I constantly tel them this. Why would I pay you $3 plus barfine?

$4 too high, I can get same same you for $1 k.

you asking waayyy too much. Then I ask them for their line ID.

works every time.

Thing is, even for 1K they are still too old and too fat most times hehehe. Better buy a bottle of red for that in a club with students and get laid free.

2 minutes ago, Isaanbiker said:

Is she really too old for you? 

He wants one without luggage, still prospect for marriage.

7 minutes ago, GeoMill said:

There are no other Europeans on this forum? 

 

Since I am Dutch and for sure there are Germans here too, your whole argument turned to trash.

There used to be around 20,000 - 25,000 Dutch people in Thailand, not sure as of today. For holidays much more (100K up). And a lot more Germans.
Have to say, I saw Dutch people everywhere in Hanoi 2 weeks ago. Much less here today.

Also know 10-20 years, yearly returning ones that picked another destination in 2019 and likely again this year.

15 minutes ago, oldhippy said:

You may have a point.

But did you concider that the average age of the customers has increased, so that servicing them has become more repulsive?

Funny to say that as most older guys I met prefer younger ones too. Same time the over aged and weight working girls think they can score a 25 year old and ask 3K.

Guess one must be stuck (house / financially / emotionally) to keep denying how bad it is and still stay here on the long run. 
There is not really another argument or logical reason to stay otherwise unless insane / living in denial.

Been coming and living here now for like since 8 years, originally planned it to be for life, but I can't accept this with a working brain.
That said, there are still a few good months to make it a holiday destination instead.

36 minutes ago, DaRoadrunner said:

Yeah, some of the bar girls are also past their sell by date. Yet they still think we are going to pay em 3000 for a short time. I predict a wake up call is coming for the Thais.

It is insane isn't it? You would think they became at least smart enough to lower their prices, as nobody is taking them. Many are fat as well.
I wouldn't take them if they paid me, well.... maybe if I am drunk enough for 3K just quickly. 

For less than 2K you can get some very very pretty Bulgarian girls in Varna (beach town) too.
But seems they try to get the 3K once a month aside of a minimum bar salary (if any) and the few drinks they still collect. Lazy and easy money.

12 minutes ago, Yom said:

 

' living near the beaches, the tropical life and doing water sports / fishing and more '

Wonderful.  -  And no smog, usually.

 

' the south is the best option ' - I would agree. And switch from the west coast, if necessary

to the east coast. But never would buy/build a house...

 

Good luck!

Thanks, not planning to buy or build something easily indeed.
The irony is that I planned moving to tropical beaches like in Phuket before I even lived here, but ended up in CM.

My son is also still young (1year), so we have a few years left before school etc starts, so better to enjoy it now in case we change our mind later on.
Got some potential job offers (parttime) down there too, so all in all there is good potential.

34 minutes ago, Yom said:

@ 

tabarin

You should have a look there:

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1140267-surat-thani-air-quality/

Thanks but already checked manually for a year and the south is the best option on average. That there is some less nice days, is anywhere. 

Doubt is not much about that, just about which place is the nicest to life and moving there in X months (once I rented a house or condo to start from).

Will most likely go for Phuket as it is the biggest island, many flights as well fast shipping etc for my wife's eCommerce business.
Gonna be accepting the higher cost of living and we also eat at home a lot, so not much changes to that. 

Big winner is to be living near the beaches, the tropical life and doing water sports / fishing and more. But nowhere is perfect, that's sure and fine.

That one thing is sure, is that I will not be living in CM in 2021 anymore (many with me, all though, most left already since 1-2 years).
Bored to become one of the last man standing here and drinking alone too, starts to be too much of a village with penny pinchers.

I prefer to drive fast rather than slow, keeps me ahead of all the problems and idiots. Sober or drunk. 
Each time I drive around slowly and relaxed I get near accidents from all sides, cut off by others and the list goes on and on.

(Motorbike perspective)

Just let a visa company / lawyer translate and legalise it, only around 1K baht to get that done. 

Ha, no way that is gonna happen with my body. Certainly not at that hospital, very bad experiences with them. My spirit would haunt them.
I also doubt it would be possible to make it within the 24 hour time limit as previous poster said.

They stopped previously at Rimping too, then had some carton boxes in case of emergency instead. They stop soon enough after customers complained and now handing them out again freely. I doubt 7/11 will really stop with plastic bags but at least it could be a bit less than before. 

I think it is also funny everyone is focused on stopping to use plastic bags while it is all about properly dealing with waste instead. 
The use of plastic does not have to be a problem. 

Expect the worse if you are already experiencing problems now. I and almost anyone I know have the same, eventually divorced (some after 2 years, some after a decade). I think family therapy would be a joke in CM / Thailand as the therapist most likely knows just as little about your culture / western culture.

10 minutes ago, Elkski said:

It's so nice to have a knife and cutting board and coffee machine and toaster and microwave and refrigerator so you do not have to eat meals outside every meal. 

This is the reason most people I know prefer to use airbnb, specially a few who work out a lot and need to make their own meals. In hotels this is almost impossible.
But yeah, it is annoying as Fk to have tourists in your apartment building and using the otherwise almost empty pool and fitness. 

They should just make it illegal under a month, I mean, enforce it. And the hotels etc should start offering better rates. 

I hope us to see some action next year, I guess starting in Q2 or Q3. Same time the guys in power could easily delay it for another year...

Personally I do not think Thailand is cheap at all, groceries are generally more (if including snacks etc too) compared to Europe.

Rent is only cheap because of poor sound isolated / low quality, if wanting a decent place with 3-4 bedrooms you pay as much as in Europe too. 

It is more than doable for me and I am not complaining about it too much but it is certainly not cheaper than most of Europe.
Not even starting about alcohol, proper meat etc. Good news is that Makro finally lowered the cheese prices from 150B per pack to 130B hehehe.

Thailand is only cheap if you drink local whiskey, eat rice with egg  and other unhealthy fried foods with pesticides
+ live in a shoebox apartment / drive around a motorbike. I call that survival, not a living (but that is great if you wanna save up money).

Should at least offer 40-50% commissions as every competitor offers that. Funny how clueless some members are tho, thinking that is a pyramid scheme or fake. 
Have many friends in Thailand who earn above 150K a month doing affiliate marketing, since a decade, of which a fair part is dating. I also have income from it.

Well I have been trying to not drink and drive at all but since Grab fares went from 140B to 260B *one way* I can't help myself sometimes, when not having had that much. Tuk tuks wouldn't even drive me that far away. 

Can't imagine it to be affordable or doable for locals at all then. If drinking twice a week with the current fares I can earn the 15-20K bribe back in 4-5 months.

2 hours ago, snowgard said:

Sure!!! Because the Thai traders sell exactly the same chinese product with a winning of 300%. And because people here can buy it now cheaper on Lazada direct from china the Thai traders are the big loosers. 

300% in your dreams maybe, for psychical shops, they need to pay the real taxes etc aside of sky high rent in malls, staff, etc. etc. 

For the online local sellers, a 100-200% margin would only happen on a non brand C quality HDMI cable, or other crappy products like that. The normal products it is almost impossible to get 50% gross margin, GROSS is not NET and neither profit.

For quality products like Xiaomi and Youpin, you are looking at 7-20% gross margin max nowadays, it used to be a fair amount in the beginning of this year though. 

From next year they are gonna increase the costs more for sellers on Lazada so it will be even worse.
Also note that local sellers often offer some service and warranty, that costs money too.

18 hours ago, chama said:

Getting involved with China at any level is a recipe for disaster. They are the masters of flooding a market with poor quality merchandise but the real problem is the products are often dangerous. 

Actually they started warning for gas coming out of boxes from China, to be very harmful. 
They advice you to open the box in open air and let it stand for 12-24 hours first now with TVs etc in Europe.

All my non-o visas since this year state that handwritten note  "I take care of a child or have a Thai child" in Thai. Perhaps it makes it easier on random checks to see what the specific reason of the non-o is, nothing bad I guess and it does seem the IO read them, only seems to process me faster.