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Ride Alone.

I'm sorry you don't have any riding buddies you can trust, but this is a stupid statement. I would agree with, 'don't ride with others who don't follow the rules of group riding and put others at risk'...

Have purchased rather extensively from Lazada with 100 percent satisfaction, in fact often above expectations as others have noted. No need for a maid as Kerry rings you when they are near and, again as others have mentioned, the delivery guy will meet u anywhere you wish!

Most of us have a maid available...

Really? MOST of us? How myopic we get in our own little cliques!

Depending on your settings by deleting browsing history you may be deleting the cookies needed to remember passwords.

Thailand gets boring after a while, I get bored towards the end of month long trips and can't imagine ever want to live there. Pretty sure many expats get bored after a while too.

55555 - we must have vastly different interests, you're bored in less than a month and I'm 9 years and counting and not a dull day yet!!

Membership is easy, do it in-store. The benefit of card over not is premiums.

Yep, just ask for a second card. I've never been refused.

...he got some "real" reasons with real TRUTHINESS and some of them were indeed embarrassing to admit.

When boiled-down his "interviewee's" "real reasons" add up to, "I don't like it here". None were insurmountable issues, they just lacked the will to truly become an expat. Can't cut the coat strings back to their perceived "normal" culture and society. Like a kid running away from home for the first time, or the young adult who goes away to university only to move back into the folks basement again until they're 35!!

I just decided after a 1 year's retirement extension that I preferred the first world amenities in the US. I don't care for bars, bar girls, or an excess of alcohol and Thailand is a craphole compared to "most parts" of the US.

Thailand turned into a nice place to visit about once a year for a max of 180 days but usually more like 90. Then I get on a plane and return to everything that makes a first world country comfortable, and to weather that doesn't melt me with heat and humidity.

I'm not sure what your personal experience adds to the topic...

I also don't care for bars, bar girls, or an excess of alcohol.

But, I find the US a craphole compared to most parts of Thailand.

I live in the south of Thailand yet regularly wear heavy pants and a hoody, so heat and humidity's no issue.

I cannot think of a single amenity/comfort that would improve my life at the moment.

Anyone else want to compare their opinions with NS?!!? LOL!!

The linked article in the OP is freakin' hilarious!! The author actually believes antidotal evidence from his circle of friends and 25 year old stats constitute "research"!! 55555

Judging by the author's "real reasons" for expats returning home the peeps he's talking to aren't "failed expats" they are idiots who had no concept of what they were getting into in the first place - maybe they thought they were in a "retirement" commercial... Freedom 55 and all that <deleted>! If you have to return home for the reasons he states, you are not an expat, you are a long-term tourist.

Better than I expected... Better than This is the End...

U could consider sending downloaded manual(s) to a printer - sized and bound to fit in glovebox... probably way cheaper and easier than ordering/waiting for dealer.

Don't, whatever you do get 'Bermuda'. I made this mistake and I'm thinking of digging it all up after nearly 8 years of TLC. It takes an awful lot of looking after with regular cutting/fertilising and watering. The 'Japanese' grass looks to grow beautifully and when given a decent haircut looks better than Bermuda. I've always been into my 'Lawns', but made one hell of a 'boobu' with this decision. Anybody got any ideas about the cost of the 'Japanese' in the Hua-Hin area please? I will probably need some 500+sq m of turf.

Lived for 3 years in a villa in Phuket which had over a rai of the most beautiful, lush Bermuda grass I've felt under my toes.... It was about 10 years old and doing awesome!

Edit: while we lived there regular watering, weeding and cutting was all that was required... never fertilized.

Is this debate strictly regarding the eating of humans? Constrictors have definitely killed people... eating them, very unlikely.

is a rider on a scooter a real rider ?

No Digitalmarmalade, but a rider..... who circumnavigates the world.... on a scooter is real rider.

I think a real rider is someone who gets out there and "boldly goes".....on whatever he can afford.

So that disqualifies most of you guys out there who spend all day long on this forum.......You know who you are.

The moving finger writes and having writ moves on............>

r u really that dumb?

is a rider on a scooter a real rider ?

Yeah, sometimes!!! I gotta get groceries ya know....

You're kidding, right? The tenant pays. Period.

If this is an issue between u and him/her give 'em the boot!!!!

Maybe I'm confused but I'm under the impression that when you get an extension of stay that the extension of stay for

1900 baht is good for extending for a year and one re-entry and the other 3800 baht extension is good for extending for a year and multiple re-entries.

Please advise if you know for sure that this is not accurate. I'm leaving in January and I've been thinking my re-entry is

covered with my last 1900 baht extension.

you DO NOT get a 'free' reentry. You must pay for a single (1000) or multiple (3800).

Making removable drives native format rather than FAT can help.

http://www.kennedythailand.com/products_brand_sec.php?&brand_id=137&page=6#nogo

I'd be insane to consider using it off road.

Not quite insane... after years of travelling together, I know there isn't a dirt or gravel road or trail that a GS1200 can go down that a bog-stock '99 VFR800 cannot go on as well!!!

It's to do with both. Unless Yamaha are selling the MT-09 at a loss.

Kind of apples and oranges, but what IS the list price of MT-09 in Thailand?

I heard that the dealer for Thailand kept those high prices because he wanted Triumph bikes to be a luxery item for the selected few.

Perhaps Triumph UK have pulled the plug on this guy as Ducati did, and just see how well Ducati Thailand are doing now.

This has nothing to do with artificially inflated prices and everything to do with taxation.

no, KTM is pulling the same stunt

Are KTMs manufactured here? If so, i did not know that...