Thaifriends

Personal evaluation:

1. Retirees are projected in the numbers and budget above. There is no harm or bad about that. However, many have fat ego to accept that

2. Working expats looks good overall with spendings 

It is Karma. When govt follow sanctions on countries and their children suffer due to lack of medication, food and always felt proud to do that.

So lets wait to hear the screams coming out of the UK. It is already coming out a PM is removed. Obligation money dont have, wow what a financial capital. No wonder Hong Kong is in chaos.

55 minutes ago, essox essox said:

so by allowing bars to stay open until 4 am and serve booze WILL BRING IN MANY MORE quality tourists.....which quality tourists is this guy aiming at??

Bagpackers ????????????

What a subject to debate again.????

More thrilling debate would be the US Presidential election ????

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Much less pour you a sip, in a nice wine glass, and ask you how it is? God forbid that you ask them a question about the wine. Would you recommend the 2012 over the 2014? How was that vintage in Tuscany? They look at you like you are from Mars. Ok, can I speak to the person here who is in charge of wine? Huh? What? Can you repeat the question? Say again? Sorry, nobody here knows nothing about wine. But, you have a hundred bottles on the list, ranging from 1,000 baht to 8,000 baht a bottle. And nobody knows anything?

 

It is no wonder wealthy tourists come here once, and near return. They walk away and say I just do not want to be surrounded by village people who are culturally illiterate.

Observation: Drinking wine for Thai, "Reflect wealth and more cultured" whereas the same person drinks whisky throughout adolsence and early professional life. 

Many dont even know the types of wine.

3 hours ago, altback said:

Why do so many beggars and criminals from UK and Australia come to stay in Thailand? Have they not gotten rid of their criminal and colonial mentality?

 

 

Wow 

22 hours ago, Peterbilt said:

• Bulgaria
• Cyprus
• Georgia
• Malta
• Romania
• Bhutan
• China
• India
• Kazakhstan
• Saudi Arabia
• Taiwan
• Uzbekistan
• Mexico
• Ethiopia
• Fiji
• Papua New Guinea
• Vanuatu
• Nauru

Source:

https://www.thai.lt/thailand-travel/thailand-visas/thailand-visa-on-arrival

Nauru.....?. Is this the Guantamo Bay of Australia ???? ?

More important is to control the pollution.

Pattaya is already 4am or even sun rise ????

Is it that Thailand now for low life farangs or bagpackers ????????????

32 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

Of late been there, done that, i.e. I park the car, wife goes in and checks-in, room booked in her name, then rings me when in the room and advises level and room number, my bad luck as I have been picked up on both occasions, long of the short, security in lift, what level sir, your swipe card please sir, um, I left it in my room, please come to reception, the hotel staff and security must be trained well at the hotels that we stay at, besides, when having breakfast, it doesn't take much to see me with the wife, oh that must be the husband, they either approach at the table, Kar, please make sure we have his passport details, or they ring the room after seeing me on the CCTV going into my room, wife answers, can you please bring your husbands passport to reception as we need to copy everyone's IDs that are staying in the hotel.

 

Long of the short, I don't get cheesed off as they are doing their job and of course they are paying attention to who is who and where who staying, call it good security or good book keeping to avoid being fined, so until the wife gets the password for the TM 30 app, I will be doing the driving to IO, but not for much longer, but will still be doing the bookings in the wife's name and trying to avoid having to report my whereabouts, just on principal if I can get away with it ????

  

Pls be careful. To stay at a hotel and not register is an offense so always register. If anything goes wrong in hotel, the person to catch is the one who is unregistered.

Repeat news as far as I remember. Well many are saying that over stayers are 90% Africans or Asians but record says plenty of Farangs also. The main reason not easy to catch, those law breakers hide behind Thai partner (wife) and all the docs are on her name including businesses.

Thats the reality.

Typical road rage with "unhappy ending".

Taxi driver should have hit him from side to the wall so that he might not have come back. Anyways looks serious crime.

Only solution is to convert on CNG and put fuel cutt off limit in the software of commercial vehicles. Buses have cng but they can accelerate to 100 plus. At least can start from buses to limit 80km/hr. Its a builti in software or could be added to limit speed. Driver cant touch or tamper ECU.

While riding on these vans which goes other provinces, one must keep an eye on the driver. Most are drinking redbull perhaps to hydrate or detox. Cant figure out but they are always above 120kms/hr

Bkk forecast for rain is not accurate in last one week.

1 hour ago, tabarin said:

It does not matter what visa you are on, if you stay for 8 months per year in Thailand, you are a fiscal resident here too.
The reality is that even most Thais do not pay taxes.

So new law says take insurance on Non OA then take it. Goes for everyone in this category.

Whether Thais pay taxes or not its not my concern but many foreigners are doing as well. Can they do back home, not at all. 

On 8/16/2019 at 4:45 AM, RichardColeman said:

How many criminals in say 30 million tourists have been caught due to - or on - tm30 reporting ? 

Many are among the farang community living on o visa and they should be in front que ????

12 minutes ago, gearbox said:

I'm on an O-A retirement visa here, and the last time I looked at the visa conditions they just define me as a long term tourist here. Not resident. I don't have a right to work here, or any more rights than a tourist on a 7 days holiday.  Heaps of banks refused to open an account for me.

 

I don't say it is good or bad, it is just the way it is. However the mandatory health insurance for the O-A holders is a money grab. If we have the same rights as any tourist, then TI should be good enough.

Yes this is main point Sir. There are so many retirees who run businesses on their spouse or friends name do not pay a single dime in taxes. Yes many banks dont open account and problems for exclusive retirees who only tend to retire by living on their limited income.

I wish you well and hope you will cope with this regulation.

4 minutes ago, transam said:

Don't understand any of that, try again..

Carrot juice in the morning is good before breakfast. 

Just joking, leave it like that, pls.

2 minutes ago, rabas said:

 

Absurd point of view, how can a retiree retire if he/she never worked?

Anyway here are the official 'expat' numbers for Thailand.

Foreign Expats by regions 2010^[30]

Region	Population	Percentage
Total population	2,581,141	100.00
Unknown	2,147	0.08
Central Asia	2,749	0.11
Western Asia	6,634	0.26
Africa	8,166	0.32
Central and South America	10,608	0.41
Australia and Oceania	13,233	0.51
Northern America	46,279	1.79
South Asia	78,454	3.04
Stateless	117,315	4.54
Europe	200,564	7.77
East Asia	249,204	9.65
Southeast Asia	1,845,788	71.51

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Thailand

ex·pat

ดูวิธีออกเสียง

informal noun

noun: expat; plural noun: expats

1. 1.

   a person who lives outside their native country.

   "a British expat who's been living in Amsterdam for 14 years"

Over a period of time in the last two decades retirees also joined the community. Why not then take a proper business registration on ones own name, hire locals, pay taxes and be an expat professional even if 80 years old, does not matter. Pay taxes for keeping business here. Thats the fundamental of this new insurance. It is not applicable to nonb.

I did not mean to offend anyone please, its my view and stay firm on this. The first member tried to portray that tourist are likely to bring more diseases. Anyways, my point is clear. All are welcome to their point of view.

7 minutes ago, transam said:

In the UK...?

Anywhere...... UK is not majority. All which us in UK can not be in the whole world.

4 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

Yep! I would believe the expats are not even in the running.

Expats are working class not retiree. This is reason its not applicable on others. 

4 hours ago, tracker1 said:

I would have thought with the millions of tourists flooding Thailand that they would be more of a medical problem then a few hundred expats living here !

Absurd comment on your part. When anyone gets a resident permit in the EU then its mandatory to have health insurance.

Oldies got all things easy and free before but not anymore. Numbers are not a few hundred by thousands retiree and not expats. Expats term is actually meant for working class????‍????

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