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  1. Thinking about getting one for the missus and will check it out when I get home but was just wondering if anyone knows off the top of their head if 5 foot bugger all would be tall enough for the 300, really wanted a 500 but no chance with that...

  2. I do not particularly care whether you agree or not but for me a person whose entire income including the house they live in being provided by other taxpayers free of charge is already a burden on the state. As I said life is not fair moan all you want but people have given you lots of advice on where to go next, you have chosen not to take any advice and instead to come back arguing that UK Plc should instead re write the rules that lots of other people have to abide by even though you are not actually adding anything to the tax pot, in a perfect world everyone would have everything we want, guess what the world aint perfect and never will be...

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  3. Doesn't matter where you live or what passport you hold all that matters is that you want to bring a none EEA spouse to the UK to be with you, there are rules about who is deemed as able to do this and it is stipulated that if you do not meet certain criteria or that if you or the spouse are or may become a burden to the state then permission will not be granted, seems straightforward to me that if your income is purely state benefits then you do not meet the criteria and your spouse would certainly become a burden on the UK taxpayer, not what you want to hear but life aint always fair and as a British citizen personally I think that is the right decision

  4. The options to get your wife to the UK as I have seen over several different posts are firstly to apply for a UK Settlement visa as a British Citizen, you have already tried this and it did not work as you are deemed as unable to provide adequately for your family as your only income is benefits from the UK Govt

    The other option you have brought up is to renounce your British Citizenship and apply for Irish Citizenship and then go through the Irish system and the EEA method, it still appears to me that your only method of income is through UK Benefits so I am really struggling to see how you can suddenly provide adequate support for your wife and family as an Irish citizen when your sole income and housing is paid by a country whose citizenship you will have renounced

    The only other option I can see is through the Surinder Singh method of you moving to another part of the EU as a working self funded person for a given period of time to qualify, seems you cant do this as your only income is UK Benefits and you cannot work, see the common link here.....

    Will be interesting to see how this ends up but as they say on Dragons Den, I am out...

  5. Sounds to me like you have your answer, the British system has said that you fall outside the regulations on being able to support your wife due to your only income being drawn purely from UK Government Benefits, doesn't matter when the rules changed or how often the rules and guidance change they appear to be the rules right now

    Like you said you now have the option to renounce your British Passport with all its benefits and get yourself over the border and use the EEA method with your Irish citizenship, it will be very interesting to see if the Irish Benefits system is quite so generous with the money they give out especially to someone who has voluntarily chosen to become homeless.........

  6. Not having a go but I am trying to work out what happens if you renounce your British Citizenship, if as you are saying people on the Island of Ireland can choose to be either Brit or Irish then if you choose to be a citizen of one and renounce the other surely you have no claim on tax and benefits from the country you have renounced. I am not talking of duel citizenship as you could conceivably hold both passports but of what happens if you choose to renounce something you have already held in order to get around a rule of that country, doesn't seem right that the UK taxpayer should have to pick up the tab for a person who has voluntarily revoked citizenship, would you have to be assessed for benefits through the Irish system...like I said certainly not having a go but it does seem like a potential minefield

  7. Family on the move I have had a CBX for about 5 weeks now and have already put 2800k's on it.

    I have to echo what ll2 says as I have found it to be a really nice comfortable easy to ride bike and though I don't live in Bkk I have done quite a bit of riding through Pattaya over Xmas and New Year with traffic gridlocked and the the bike goes through the traffic just as easy as the RKV does but with much better visibility being as you are higher up. I have not really had any issues with the clutch in heavy traffic and it is pretty much impossible to stall, I initially thought I might miss the gear indicator but that has not been an issue at all

    The seat and ergonomics are comfortable for prolonged riding and tbh the bike has got better and better, it feels way powerful enough for me and if you want to open it up it gets up to speed fast enough for most of the conditions that I have found and getting up to 150 is quick and easy

    The bike is very stable on the roads and highways in heavy fast moving traffic and being 2 up does not seem to affect the power as far as I can tell. The brakes are really good overall though the back needs a bit of pressure applied but the ABS works really well

    Overall I really rate it and I am struggling to think of any negatives and other than the position of the horn button and indicators that others have mentioned I cant really think of any, other than that I reckon it is pretty much perfect for Thailand and would highly recommend it, if you buy one I am certain you will not be disappointed....

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  8. I have just picked up my red CBX this week and for the bike with the protection bars and 40 litre topbox, extended windscreen and first class insurance it was B250k, it is a bargain and there is way enough power for 2 up and safe overtaking. It is really comfortable and easy to get through traffic and will get up to 140 really quick and easy. The CBR is the same engine so it should be basically the same, there was also a tricked out CBF at Pattaya Big wing with the bars and panniers and it looked really good and I was tempted to get that instead, if you are not a speed freak there is plenty of power and speed in the new 500's

  9. Get yourself a usefruct costs only a few hundred baht and in the event that your wife dies before you then you still have the right to live in the house until you die, all legal and all above board with no need of dodgy shell companies and lawyers, very easy to do and only takes a couple of hours at the land office.....

    I finished doing this today. I have a lease on the house until I die, even though it is 100% in my wife's name. 2 channots both have my name on them, though not as owner. I had to get a translation from a solicitors office signed by me and the solicitor and wife stating that I understand the conditions. The lands office don't keep this, they only wanted to be sure that i understand. Costs were 75 Baht per channot.

    It was explained that there were 2 options. [1] that I could get 30 years that COULD be transferred to my child if I died, and wanted that, until the 30 years event was reached, or [2] until I die, in which case the wife can sell or do whatever she want's then. We agreed on option 2, as I'm sure my Aussie kid won't need to holiday in Udon after I shuffle off this mortal coil.

    Any break up of marriage means the house cannot be sold until I die, or agree to the sale, in which case, compensation can be agreed to, legally.

    Keeping an eye out for any strange chemicals or other potential poisons that might suddenly appear from now.rolleyes.gif

    I think you are wrong reference not being able to sell the house if you divorce, I was told that if you divorce the usufruct can be broken but that said you still have the same rights such as your entitlement to a fair settlement on the sale of goods exactly the same as anybody else Thai or Foreign who gets divorced here, getting that fair share could be an issue but that is the same anywhere else in the world as well. The only way around that appears to be by not getting the usufruct off your wife or doing it before you marry, I am no expert but all these sort of questions where covered in the earlier thread I mentioned and it is well worth a read

  10. The main reason I bought the 3.2 is nothing to do with engine size it is about safety and you quite simply cannot get the same safety features on the 2.2, it is not an option and there is no after market way to change that, couple that with the other extras in the 3.2 package and for me it was a way better option

    I was lucky to order right at the beginning but still had to wait, that said we did visit Chonburi Ford and offer them 30k if they got us what we wanted first but as it happened Pattaya got delivery first of the colour we wanted though Chonburi had offered us other colours of 3.2 prior to this. When I buy another car from Ford I will 100% not use Pattaya Ford as their customer service is complete <deleted> and Chonburi were much easier to deal with

  11. There are lots of people giving hypothetical advice here but I have been in the same position worrying about the same things but it is now sorted out and I do not worry about it any more as I have safeguarded my home for my lifetime, there is absolutely no need to speak to a lawyer in my experience they couldnt tell you what day it is most of the time, the usefruct is legal and binding in Thai law if you have this the family have no recourse as the chanote is annotated to say you have full rights to the property till you die and nobody can change this without your say so, the get out or sell within a year stipulation can no longer be used, that said if you are living in the sticks with the in-laws they could very well make your life so unbearable that you choose to leave, that is one of the reasons I keep a good few hundred miles between us and the in-laws

  12. I keep seeing Tara Pattana mentioned and the reason we did not consider there is because it is a sister school to Phoenix sharing some of the Teachers and management I believe, it is a very nice building and appears well set up and when we visited it seemed like a good option at that time

    ROBBINPATTAYA I also had a lot of the same thoughts as you especially with the fact that my daughter will be staying in Thailand and not Europe hence why I first tried the English program Thai school option, for us this was not a success hence why we are going to MIS. I believe that the first few years are important and if she can learn properly from the outset then that can only be an advantage when she goes to Maryvit in a few years time, just a thought as a parent who has been going through the same issues....

  13. We have just taken my daughter out of Phoenix in Jomtien and we have decided to start our daughter at Mooltripke Intenational School (MIS) in Nong Plalai, we found Phoenix to be more interested in money than education coupled with a complete disregard for the Parents demonstrated by changing the Teacher and assistant at mid term without even telling the parents. We have decided to try MIS as it is British Curriculum and only very slightly more expensive per year (10k baht) also there is no enforced sleeping time during the day which was always one of my bugbears, we are also looking at Maryvit in a few years when she turns 7 but at the moment we have found Thai schooling very frustrating and certainly not worth the money

  14. Seems like some LTO's do it differently we used Mukdahan a few months back for a trip to Savanakhet and it was 75baht but we were only given the passport and a couple of sticky Thai stickers but no number plates, wonder if that is down to the country you are visiting's requirements either way Mukdahan where very quick and easy and the other plates where not required to get into Laos

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  15. I have 2 RKV 200's one at 5000 and the other at 4500km no problems at all, nothing has fallen off or broken and no problems with the lights or electrics since altering the headlight beam. Lots of people seem to like the look of them and seem shocked when you tell them the price, I would recommend them to anybody and it seems that all the Keeway bikes are pretty good value and quality when you realise that most of the alternatives are twice the price, I would like a bit more speed now and like the look of the Benneli 302 if they had a proper dealer in Pattaya I would seriously look at that or the 600 but I will probably end up with a Honda CBX purely because of the dealer and servicing situation

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