dimitriv

2 minutes ago, Sticky Wicket said:

You keeping kidding yourself, it's highly amusing!

We have to spend a fortune on nuclear weapons to keep you safe in your beds! 

You haven't got any!!

 

And your football team is shìt????

Don't try to change the subject please...  Let's keep to the point. Economy and not football.

The UK economy is 3 times the size of the economy of NL.

But the UK has 4 times more people.

Basically the UK is 25% behind NL for income per capita.

In the EU the UK it is a bit lagging behind. Together with countries such as Italy and Greece.

And please understand that I did not start this topic.

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Glad you agree with me,

And NL, that Dimitriv feels is doing 100% better?

Why not list the stats for there, and give us all a good laugh?

Ok, lets have a good laugh.

The UK GDP $2.83 trillion

NL GDP $1.005 trillion

The UK has 66 million citizens

NL has 17 million

Do the math and laugh. The UK is 25% behind NL.

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Your country was beaten by the Germans, and stayed beat.

 

UK, on the other hand is still 5th largest economy in the world.

NL is not even listed so in what way is your country doing better?

I see economy is not your strongest side.

The UK economy is 3 times the size of the economy of NL.

But the UK has 4 times more people.

Basically the UK is 25% behind NL for income per capita.

In the EU the UK it is a bit lagging behind. Together with countries such as Italy and Greece.

We do need those jackets in Bangkok. I was so cold today.

2 hours ago, Sticky Wicket said:

Most proper countries don't treat it as a criminal offence and treat the offenders like serial murderers in the process. Then dumped in squalid conditions until they cough up or are left for years in filth and degradation. 

 

Are you sure about that?  I saw some horrible things on tv about people staying illegally in the US. They even put children behind bars. And overstaying a tourist visa also has very nasty consequences.

13 minutes ago, petermik said:

I,m guessing he stopped giving his girlfriend her "salary"......

No TM30 jokes?

7 hours ago, Moonlover said:

Get down to your bank @lust and have your debit card (which it surely is) replaced. These old magnetic strip, 4 digit PIN cards are all being withdrawn and you need to have it replaced with a chip and pin 6 digit PIN card very soon. I think it's January, but check on your bank's website.

 

I'm surprised that your card was instantly improved by her swiping it! ????

 

Swiping or chip doesn't really make a difference. I have Mastercard and Visa debitcards, both with chip. I can pay with them at the Big-C and Tesco Lotus without entering a pin code. 

Sometimes I need a pincode. And sometimes a signature is enough. I never understood why it is different every time.

The biggest difference between a card with magnetic strips or chip is that magnetic cards can be cloned easily. The equipement to clone a card you can buy on aliexpress. A chip is impossible to clone (till now) so should be more safe. But this doesn't help if you lose your card.

1 hour ago, KhaoYai said:

However, I stupidly ommitted to bond the metal parts of the showers and kitchen sink to the house's earth circuit.

In my condo these things are also not earthed. At east not visible. Is this really needed ?  The metal parts of the shower feels like plastic. You only need to earth them if they are metal and connected with steel pipes. And if you want to do that I am sure you can do that by attaching earth to the pipes somewhere else. 

44 minutes ago, thrilled said:

I believe employees should carry a weapon no matter what the store says.Maybe not a gun but possibly a knife or made.Most of the time if a person pulls a knife on you and you pull your own knife or made out they will think differently about The situation.

 

2 small girls with knives against an adult male with a knife. 

Do you really think that's a good idea?

Now, at least, nobody is hurt or dead.

Try Tinder. Half an hour on Tinder is enough to have dates every evening for a week. 

On Tinder you will mainly find ladyboys, prostitutes and Thai women who are unable to find someone because they are mentally ill.

But if you continue then you will encounter someone. It takes some time. But I thought it was a nice way to meet a lot of people.

1 minute ago, ChipButty said:

Why do they have to mention the name of the staff and where they are from?

Maybe they want you to visit them at home?  ????

Many sellers on Lazada are located in Bangkok. For larger purchases it is sometimes also possible to make an appointment, even if that option is not mentioned on the website.

My experiences with Lazada were good till now. But I heard also a lot of bad stories. 

1 hour ago, jackdd said:

So let's say i rent an apartment in the Netherlands which doesn't have a fibre line already, but decide to order one. You say the telco just comes with an excavator, digs up the sidewalk, driveway and front yard of the building, throws a cable in, closes everything, drills a wall in the house, maybe through my neighbours apartment as well, and then i have fibre. All this doesn't require approval from the house owner and the telco also pays this out of his own pocket? Somehow i highly doubt this.

I get 500 Mbit in NL without fibre. But I know in Spain they do. I had an apartment there for some time, and without asking they installed fibre from the street to my apartment at the 7th floor. And all that for a E40 a month subscription.

This is not so bad as it seems. usually there are already pipes/connections from a central place on the ground floor to each apartment. It is just a mater of bringing in a new line. Usually there is already phone/ tv cable. No drilling required.

The problem in my condo is that my internet is <deleted>. AIS sold me a package. And when it doesn't work they refuse to take responsibility. And this is very different than all countries I have ever lived in. There you buy a package, and the telco is responsible for what happens. They are responsibile for infrastructure till behind your door. If it doesn't work there is only 1 company who is to blame.

13 minutes ago, Myran said:

You, on the other hand, claimed that "and you will neve find a place here that has better internet connection than France", which is categorically wrong. 

Mayb eyou are confusing me for someone else?  I never tried internet in France. I don't like France very much. 

20 minutes ago, jackdd said:

The situation in your condo is like this because the developer was too cheap to invest a few hundred baht more per condo to have the building equipped with fibre when they built it, or they just didn't care.

And now the owners are too cheap to do this investment or just don't care as well. So for this you can't blame the telcos.

If you live in a house (or a condo where the owners care about their internet) you can usually get gigabit internet, try getting this in Europe ????

For me it doesn't really matter who is to blame, there is nothing I can do to change it. Just wanted to say that you cannot say that internet is always good in Thailand.

And where I come from, NL, I can get 500 Mbit without problems. And the telco is responsible for the connection till behind my front door. The owners of the building have no involvement with this. It's the telco who is responsible.

I was a little bit surprised about this in Thailand. The telco sells a package, and if it doesn't work they can blame something else and they are not responsible.

I remember even in Spain the telco installed a new glassfibre wire from the street till my apartment at the seventh floor without even asking or mentioning that it was a problem. The costs of the work was included in the E40 monthly subscription.

1 hour ago, Tayaout said:

I agree with most of what you said except internet connection. Thailand has gigabit fiber internet nearly everywhere even in remote area: https://www.3bb.co.th/3bb/product/internet_package

 

I live in a rural area 3h from Bangkok and I have nothing to complain about. My internet is much faster and stable than my sister living in Normandy. 

 

The issue I experienced was with shared WiFi connection in condo building or hotel because they pay for the cheapest package and have too many clients. 

I live in Bangkok, not far from the centre. All I can get in my condo building (which is only a couple of years old) is a 50 Mbits connection which disconnects often, gives a lot of timeouts and never gave me the speed they advertised with. Overall it is a bad experience. If I have to upload some big files I often wait for that till I am in the Starbucks where I can use good internet.

It is for sure not so that you can say that "internet" is always good in Thailand. It is more a matter of being lucky or not.

47 minutes ago, bkkcanuck8 said:

You have to sever ties to your home country, and the assumption is that you become resident (for tax purposes) in another country.  If you reside here on things like tourist visas, you are not resident here and thus the country will and can deem that you did not become a non-resident lawfully.

These are things which are different for different countries. Some countries are more strict than others.

Usually you are a tax resident in the country where you spend most of your time. If you are able to stay more than 180 days in Thailand on a tourist visa you are a tax resident in Thailand. It doesn't matter what kind of visa you have. Thai law doesn't mention specific visa. My home country uses the same criteria for deciding where you are a (tax) resident.

8 minutes ago, rwdrwdrwd said:

Go to Bali - much cheaper right now, and an enormous digital nomad community!

I have been there only once. But also there you will not survive with E 400 a month.

If I had to choose now I would probably try Da Nang (Vietnam).  Nightlife is less. But if you want to concentrate on work and you are on a budget that shouldn't be a problem.

5 minutes ago, madmen said:

Not important as the running debate is how much they spend per day and mastercard have that info in a few mouse clicks. 6k baht a day something TAT would be clueless about

Let's try again.

Mastercard has the info about THEIR visitors to Bangkok. Mastercard cannot have info about visitors using Visa, UnionPay or cash.  So Mastercard has info about 22.78 million visitors to Bangkok. Let's assume that Mastercard has a 50% market share.

22.78 million visitors to Bangkok using Mastercard

22.78 million visitors to Bangkok using Visa or UnionPay

10 million visitors to Bangkok paying cash

55,56 visitors visited Bangkok

Total number of visitors going to Thailand: less than 40 million. Do you see that this is not possible?  How can 55,56 million tourists visit Bangkok, if only less than 40 million visit Thailand?

It is much easier to believe what Mastercard writes:  This Index and all accompanying reports are not based on Mastercard volumes or transactional data. 

That word "Forecast" does not apply to everything they write. It just applies to 1 sentence.

The numbers are what TAT is hoping for, these are the numbers they need to keep their jobs and to get paid for foreign travel.