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Aren't all camels 4x4?

A few more hours and he would have been ripe for their submarine.

"Mind your own business, you f'ing nosey pillock" would have been the only reply necessary from him. Some people receive a smack in the mouth for such and still wonder to themselves "what the hell did I do to deserve that?", then carry on judging others.

I feel your pain. If a job can be f'ed up in any way possible, or in quite a few ways that we would think are impossible), it will be f'ed up good and proper. Sometimes I feel pity that the average daily wage here is so low. Some other times I think it is way too high.

Looks like OP is after a pickup and Honda don't offer one here.

I paid a touch under 110k baht a couple of weeks ago for a return J class trip to LHR on Gulf Air for the beginning of April. They have the Apex suites which is probably now the best J class hard product available. This will be my first time with them so I can't tell you exactly how good they are yet. I've flown Malaysian / Etihad / Qatar / Emirates / BA on the same journey previously and the Gulf Air flight stood out in terms of cost.

This photo is pure gold for comedic headlines.

It's funny how ownership of a soi dog is a transient thing. A couple of years ago my wife was driving back from the province in a hire car. A dog ran out in front of the car and was struck by the bumper. Luckily for the dog, the bumper did its job by destroying itself and the dog lived to chase another day. The "owner" of the dog was soon on the scene telling everyone who would listen that it was her poor dog. After the police arrived and concluded that my wife was not at fault, the matter of the damage to the car was brought up. Suddenly it wasn't her dog, she just feeds it from time to time. Her dog that is free to chase cars cost me around 10k baht all in all for a single day, which is probably more than she will spend on it throughout its life.

Wow... 50 rai! Hopefully with a third of the land turned into a lake (which will happen sooner rather than later depending on existing clay content) it will be manageable. A ride on lawnmower was always a bucket list item, so ideally that and a houseproud wife will keep things under control. Stay calm - great advice although it's not one of my strong points. I'm hoping this project will both frustrate and mellow me, if that's possible.

Thanks for this. They know that the complete stump needs removing and I believe their price includes the rental of an excavator, so yeah the costs can escalate quite quickly I guess. They seem like decent people and I'll look after them if they do a good job.

You make this point over and over, in this and other threads. It seems there is some deep rooted resentment underlying your posts. What gives?

Thanks Thanks Zero. Eyes wide open. Indeed. I might be asking you for advice then by the sounds of it. I'm expecting lots of ups and downs. The journey is the fun bit, even with all the stress / issues etc. The end product, hopefully, is an added bonus. Always dreamed of having more land than was absolutely necessary. Early plans are for a ~2 acre lake and a par 3 golf hole in addition to the main house, a large workshop for me and a separate games room. Will see how that actually pans out with funds available. It might just end up with a small hut in the middle of a large field. The land was mostly used for sweet potatoes and the last crop was harvested this week. There is still a lot of debris to clear and we want to further clear the land back to the boundaries, which are mostly just inside the tree line. We've been quoted 36k baht for the boundary work. This is literally just removing the trees / scrub so that we can build a decent wall at the front and a barbed wire type fence around the rest, initially. At first I thought this sounded a little expensive, but with a perimeter of about 700 metres and quite a few large trees to remove, perhaps it's not. Many thanks.

Had some aerial video of our new (to us) land done today and thought I'd turn it into a YouTube video. Not sure if I will video the whole process or the planning, prep and build, although happy to if people find it interesting enough. This is my first ever YT video, so do feel free to laugh 😉

Now that is a fact! 😉

Depends on circumstances. Many people say there is too much risk and you can lose everything. In the first 9 years of my living here, I spent almost 6M baht on rent. Rent is always money lost, even though it offers advantages (otherwise I wouldn't have rented for 9 years).

It's a little bit more than that as in you have full entitlement to use the property and reap the reward. ie you could create a long term lease to a third party (not a transfer of the usufruct itself). My understanding is that a usufruct has a fixed fee and no remuneration is needed between the person obtaining the usufruct and the chanote holder. I paid 75 baht last week for a 30 year usufruct on 14+ rai of land.

Moved from Pattaya up north this week. 2 lorries used (one 10 wheeler with tail lift, the other much smaller). The larger lorry literally scratched, dented or broke almost everything. Pack things yourself. Use PLENTY of padding. It's almost unbelievable how much damage they have done to our things. They literally couldn't give a monkey's. If you have the ability, load and unload the lorry yourself. Just use them to physically drive. From speaking to others, it's the norm.

Where in Thailand? Cranberry is widely available (at least it was around the Pattaya area when I lived there). Failing that, order online from Tops: https://www.tops.co.th/en/ocean-spray-cranberry-juice-1000ml-0031200449481

So the jury is in on this massive conspiracy too? ...but Dave the plumber didn't do it. Trump did. The large sum was for punitive damages. How would $20k be punitive towards the don? Perhaps if he would stop running his mouth off about how successful he thinks he is and how much he says he's worth, the punitive damages would reflect his real position rather than the fairytale he wants everyone to believe.

Is this land just the other side of the Mekong in Thailand? Which province? Get yourself a 30 year usufruct. I just did this in Nakhon Phanom province on the land I bought for my wife and it cost the princely sum on 75 baht. The downside is that the land owner (all those named on the chanote) will need to be with you. Usufruct will expire after 30 years or when you die, whichever is first. It's about as safe as you can be on someone else's land.

On the same flight on the same day, with separate bookings sat next to each other, with the same first and last name, living ~15 miles from each other. Those odds are pretty narrow. There again, so are the odds of winning the lottery, but it happens regularly. Doesn't make the odds of a specific instance any better though.

I think this is the place I've used before: https://hotelssupplythailand.com/

Kick them in the back while they're sat on public land?

Lol yes, that's what I found incredibly funny. They do this job all day every day but don't even have a spade/ Pretty much. Would only take a couple of hours with a mini digger to totally clear it so I'll likely do that the day before. There or there abouts, but doubled for an "express" service.

We'll be adding a boundary wall on the road side, about 100m wide. For the other 3 sides I want to put up barbed wire fencing initially and then at a later date a full wall that is set back roughly 1 metre from the barbed wire. Don't have the cash for a 700m wall yet without taking funds away from the house build.