Bday Prang

The figure of £38,000 seems fine to me when bearing in mind the obscene cost of living in the UK. If I was Abdul I would sell my house and be on the 1st flight back, and enjoy what little time I have remaining, with my childhood sweetheart, £25,000 a year does not go very far in the Uk. Don't forget half of ot will be taxed at 20% and don't forget his poll tax. His money will go a lot further in Pakistan

That is not exactly true, your link is from the open borders brigade, think you might find this government website a little more informative .. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c321340f0b674ed20f74d/Sham_Marriage_and_Civil_Partnerships.pdf

Do you differentiate between medical and recreational use of alcohol ? If not why not ? Do you also help totally drunk guests out if their beds and onto their scooters? If that is the case, not only should you be thoroughly ashamed of yourself, you are partly responsible should an accident ensue Perhaps you might like to tell all of us here the name of your budget resort so that we can avoid it

Another geriatric keyboard warrior, give it a rest you are scaring nobody, and sounding rather ridiculous.

Good advice where ever one finds one's self, certainly not just specifically for Thailand.

"you think too much" is a common retort by Thais, In this case I agree with them

Its not exactly normal to apply for a visa, online or otherwise, to gain entry to a country where one is already residing. Although its not that difficult to find away around this, some have suggested the doubtful possibility of using a VPN. Personally I can think of another way, if one has a friend living in one's own country. Just be careful if the stamps in your passport prove you were in Thailand at the time you applied, as a keen eyed immigration officer might notice this

Not surprising really and I don't really blame them. Many countries around the world have problems with foreigners evading immigration regulations by getting "Married" I am from the UK and it is a problem there, It would be a bit hypocritical of me to suggest it should be allowed continue over here or anywhere else, just for my own personal convenience

It happens everywhere it is not unique to Thailand

Have you ever actually been to a village? I ask because you appear to have no idea what you are talking about.

Luxury where I live we dream of garbage collection, we have a recycle guy who removes the bottles, but everything else just gets burnt There was some sort of proposal to start garbage collection but the locals decided they didn't want to pay such extortionate fees ( I believe it was estimated to be about the same as yours 300-400bt per year)

Are you applying from the UK ? If so you need to look a little more carefully at what kind of tourist visa they might give you, There is indeed a multiple entry tourist visa option available if one selects "Tourism and leisure activities" as the reason for applying , BUT..... If you state on your application that you want the visa in order to visit "family" then you will find that the multiple entry option is no longer there, and only a single entry option is available And for anybody thinking of disagreeing, don't bother as I have just checked on the UK e-visa website On the positive side, the application process for METVs seems a bit easier than before the recent changes, there was no financial evidence required, or tax return or employers letter, and no need to do a selfie holding ones passport, at least that's how it was a month ago

"An exorcism of the wrong spirit" !!!! what on earth are you talking about ?

Absolute rubbish, from somebody who has never lived in a Thai village

Another who chooses to base his opinion of people on what he reads in the media, you know pretty much nothing regarding this incident, or either of the people involved

Its irrelevant where they are from there are enough "students" who never attend any lectures to warrant rounding up and deportation. That would send out the right signals

Sadly true, we are constantly bombarded with news reports of threats from the " right" but the threat from the "left" is never mentioned, presumably because the "left" have now moved beyond the threat stage and are currently conducting an active campaign. It is not just the media, don't forget the major contribution being made to this mess by the education system too

No it is not. and that is not how you spell it either

Not true as we remember neither i don't think either is intended to be a team event under normal circumstances

He's described by many as "extreme far right" although I'm sure that those who refer to him as such have little knowledge of such matters, its just a label they stick on anybody who speaks a bit of common sense, But he is not far right and not far wrong either

A big fuss is made in the UK about illegal immigration particularly those coming in the small boats (around 50,000 per year) but now its been revealed that is just a distraction to divert attention from legal immigration which is around 750,000 per year mainly from abuses of the student and other visa schemes. Today the authorities admitted that they have "lost" 17,000 illegals who have just vanished into the country. What a disaster

Looks like everywhere is suffering the same fate, I was always an optimist until relatively recently, but now I'm pretty sure the writing is on the wall, Every civilised country seems to be getting run into the ground, to me there seems to be a sort of grim reality about it all, The curse of mass uncontrolled illegal immigration coupled with the misguided notions of diversity and wokeness will be the undoing of the modern world as we know it It will happen an awful lot quicker than the climate change disaster that has been invented to distract us

I would respond "I personally do not have a government but the UK government......."

They would have you sussed and given you a perjorative nickname in seconds

I have heard westerners telling Thais they mispronounce some words Conversely I have had Thai english teachers correcting my english