BobinBKK

On 3/14/2021 at 11:22 AM, Eindhoven said:

It's actually not that bad there. Just stay away from the touristy areas and obtain your own transport.

Thanks for the tip ????

On 3/14/2021 at 10:49 AM, petermik said:

I,m sure Phuket is hugely relieved...????

I try to draw as much negative attention to toilet-land as humanly possible ????

On 1/10/2021 at 4:16 PM, PGSan said:

Why not ask the Consular officials directly?  Why ask on here? 

I'm a US citizen living in Thailand and asked this question of my embassy directly. Some moron replied back and told me to check with you Thai government and follow what their plans are for foreign nationals as the US state department doesn't have the funding to ship vaccines all over the world to take care of us. Oddly enough I read in the news today that America has a surplus of vaccine and will be helping foreign countries with Mexico to be the first in line. I'm sure everyone will get the same ???????? answers from your own embassies as well.

20 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

Move to here.

If seen very little info about when they will be available.

The best option may be to get them at private hospitals that are working on ordering the vaccines now.

My concern is how these vaccine passports will be required for tourists to enter the country. Shops, stores, attractions, public transport are likely to be asking foreigners to show the vaccine passport before entry or providing services. This has the potential to make life difficult for those of us living in Thailand as we are at a disadvantage to receive our vaccinations being low on their priority list. We live in this country the same as Thai people who my or my not be vaccinated, but we all know that Thai people won't be asked for any documents to provide proof of vaccination.

On 3/13/2021 at 8:48 PM, tomazbodner said:

Good news. And if this doesn't make Thailand Number 1 in the World for road deaths, then just remove all the speed limits altogether. Thailand, The HUB of Road kills.

The good news is is that there will be more Covid-19 vaccine for the rest of us ????

23 hours ago, ChipButty said:

I think it's a lot worse than we know a lot more business's are on the edge they just need that final push, 

Right now this weekend we have 6 family members down here in Phuket for a few days holiday they got a good deal I think also with the government subsidy Half Half,

They are staying in a well known 5 star hotel, Im not going to name them,

Our family have said the food and drink in the hotel is soooo expensive and it's ++Vat last night they didn't want to eat in the hotel but needed a minivan it was double the price, My wife arranged a minivan for them but it was not allowed to enter the hotel they had to walk out to the main road. 

This hotel is closing down in the next week or so and maybe re open October,

I think these hotels and the Taxi's need to re evaluate themselves if they want people to come back, I know my family wont come back to that hotel and what happens.......? they go back to BKK and tell all their family and friends to stay away from there and how expensive it was.

 

I never have nor will I EVER set foot in puke-ket ????

On 3/12/2021 at 10:50 AM, Pilotman said:

Please keep (it) up?  Why, does the virus make you impotent? ????

VIP? ????

18 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

So the bigger question is who will be fighting at Lumpinee.  If it is foreigners instead of Thai's then the stadium will be empty.  If it is Thai's and only foreigners can be spectators, well then the stadium will still be fairly empty.  Thai folks want to watch their own countrymen and women fight, and Lumpinee has always been the premier top stadium where Champions are made.  That's like saying only young children can go and watch the big boys box in Las Vegas.  It is always and always has been built on revenue from both gambling and selling seats.  Good luck, might as well start to tear the new building down and return to the old one.  Fools, or are they Tools with this new brain fart of an idea.

I have no desire to go and have better things to do.

9 hours ago, Aussiepeter said:

In 1992, aged 39 & a divorced farang army Officer, I was in the same boat. I found a stocky but pretty lass of 20 mixing concrete by hand for 80 baht a day, in Udon. Single mum - baby living with grandma. I needed a 'house-keeper' to clean house and feed me for 6 months - with 'other duties' as required. I speak Lao. She jumped at the chance and then, jumped on me. I paid her 10K a month but she always knew I was farang military and would leave after the 6 months. She told the entire suburb swiftly we were "as good as married" & that ended any other female activity for me. I bought her anything she wanted/needed for the entire time as a bonus, as I could more than afford it. I was an Officer & single & I liked her a lot. Then I was posted to C Mai and she refused to go with me. End of story.

Mine only asks for 4k baht a month ????

On 3/8/2021 at 10:05 AM, digibum said:

It’s certainly within the realm of possibility that this person makes 12,000.  
 

The numbers you cite for 7-11 workers seem to be based on the 300 baht per day minimum wage.  
 

That would be for the lowest level of employee. Obviously a shift manager would make more.  
 

Working at 7-11 is like working at 7-11 or McDonald’s back home. It’s a minimum wage job that requires near zero skills or physical abilities that is intended to serve as a temporary job for younger people who are still in school or until they can find a better job.  
 

Some stay because the job may be flexible or they have little ambition, but it’s quite foolish to base one’s view of Thai household income based on the lowest common denominator job.  
 

I read some statement from Grab that Grab drivers, on average, make close to 18,000 baht per month. Not every low skill job makes minimum wage.  
 

The median household income in Thailand is about 27,000 baht per month (pre-Covid) which would imply most Thais make more than minimum wage.  
 

There’s a reason why Thailand relies so heavily on migrant labor from Myanmar and Cambodia.  Many Thais refuse to do hard physical labor for minimum wage.  
 

Factory workers are not just unskilled labor.  Even for the unskilled, the jobs may require working around dangerous machinery and-or lots of physical labor.  
 

That’s not even taking into account the fact that Thailand has many factories that require very skilled labor.  Hard drive manufacturing requires very well trained factory workers.  I have a farang friend that manages a microchip factory in Thailand and all of his employees are well trained.  
 

Why do you care so much about what your friend makes?  
 

Are you trying to convince her to quit her job to become your full time GF and you’re negotiating how much it will cost you?  

 

Maybe you need to lower your sites to 7-11 employees ???? 

I think you're right about his motives as I did the same thing myself. I also factored in what I would be providing in lue of salary. And yes, I found someone that understood how the math works ???? 

On 3/12/2021 at 12:46 PM, colinneil said:

Laughable really, i commented 2 days ago about Prayut not getting his jab today, saying what excuse will he have this time, appears i was spot on.

He is ???? ????

On 3/11/2021 at 2:28 PM, SomchaiCNX said:

PLease can somebody stop this nonsense and blacklist every immigration officer at all Embassies if they ask for a visa, that would be my day.

LIve at less than 1 km from immigration, provided x numbers of detailed maps yet nobody showed up the last 25 years to check. And what about those people with a second house in a part of the country were  they don't have a burning season? 

Don't expect any help from our respective entirely worthless embassies. They are assigned to a 3rd world country and are more useless than the people you (we) are complaining about ????

On 3/8/2021 at 12:10 PM, sammieuk1 said:

Looks like Boris doesn't want Brits going to dirty unvaccinated counties ???? 

Quite honestly I don't understand why any country would allow its citizens to travel to a filthy nasty and vaccinated country, period!

On 3/6/2021 at 2:27 PM, Orton Rd said:

why do you think it's great?

I think it blows...

7 hours ago, Don Chance said:

Marijuana is hardly a medicine. Even if it is, why would you want random locals supplying it to hospitals? They are sending out a mixed message, it's legal, it's not legal, it's medicine, it's not.

 

The fact is marijuana is an addictive drug that people use to get high. Smoking weed every day is not a solution to life. If you've got cancer or aids and want to smoke weed, then who are we to deny you that.

Keep the peasants stoned and they won't care or have the energy to protest in the streets ????

On 3/6/2021 at 9:51 AM, anchadian said:

Why don't they cancel it again instead of receiving more reports leading up to Songkran, or is that too easy?

 

Further planning, under discussion, form a committee, etc.

 

Same applies to a lot of these topics, especially tourism.

 

Pathetic.

 

With or without water count me out!

On 3/4/2021 at 9:15 AM, Thaiophil said:

Could  have been a lot sooner if they had moved faster on getting vaccine supply.

 

Vaccinated Thais will get the passport, but no word on the several million foreigners living here as ever...????

Yes I was going to ask what this clown shoe intends to do (besides nothing) about all farangs living here!

10 hours ago, mjakob007 said:

no no no

 

we have to RE-invent the wheel.

every time

The rest of the world is wrong don't you know ????

23 hours ago, phetchy said:

I renewed my retirement extension in December and was told by the IO to return in 3 months with proof of my account having the required 800,000 Baht for the 3 months following the renewal

 

As usual there are conflicting requirements as to the proof needed depending on the local office.

At the time of my renewal, the IO simply pointed to the relevant date on her desk calendar and said "come back after, not before ".  No form to sign or stamp in my passport.  This was at Jomtien.  I have been away from home there for a while and diddent plan to go back for 2 or 3 weeks after the date she indicated.  

Some I have spoken to have said you don't have to go on the day that the 3 months are up as the IO just said 'after' with no limit.  There are also differing opinions as to the paperwork needed - some say just take your bank book, others say photocopy of book and/or statement and others have said they will require a certified letter from the bank. When I did it last year, a cursory look at bank book and that was it .

 

Any info from anyone having gone through the process at Jomtien would be much appreciated.

 

It's whatever the IO feels like asking for at any given time on any given day. It's like a "Magic 8 Ball" with those people.

23 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

Number 1...of course.

Yet another racist survey. Number 1 can be taken as a racist statement as it doesn't mention mandatory vaccinations of Thai nationals. I will be getting vaccinated as soon as it becomes available to me for my age group (over 60) free or otherwise for the sake of my own personal health and safety, not because of what "ANYONE" thinks or wants.

On 2/28/2021 at 7:55 AM, worgeordie said:

Postponed indefinitely ....that creates a lot of confidence for the Thai population,

how long would it take them to get the proper letter of certification from AstraZeneca,

never it seems....will they dump the 117,600 doses 

regards Worgeordie

 

I think he put all of the AZ on hold until the vaccine is manufactured in Thailand for their own benefit. My question is who do they plan on testing it on if at all???

22 hours ago, Jeffr2 said:

Trump is a racist. And misogynist. That's been proven.

 

Do some research on why his closing borders was a failure.

Hilarious!!! ???? I love people like you, thank you so much ????

19 hours ago, Moonlover said:

 

Thailand was placed 4th in the world for its handling of Covid 19 and when one considers that 6 of the top 10 are island nations with no pesky land borders, that is a very credible performance indeed.

 

Of course the country is going to lag behind the developed countries in its vaccination program. It lacks the infrastructure and experience to come up with its own vaccine so it has no choice but to rely on others. 

 

But I'm very confident that once the programme gets rolling, it will be handled as professionally and efficiently as has the irradiation programme been to date. And here of course, with so few cases, there isn't the urgency anyway. They can take their time and do it right.

 

I am currently living in rural Thailand, a place which I regard as just about the safest place to be in the world right now.

I assume that you called Donald Trump a racist for closing America's borders and then a month later criticized him for not closing them soon enough. ????