happydreamer

WE refers it Immigration agent... Spouse visa and regardless of what anyone has told me about it being simple...ive been here 10 years and it's never been simple. There's always been a hustle of some sort. Immigration has the choice of overlooking trivial oddities. They make no concession until they have a reason to.

I have no tolerance for immigration games or BS. D!cked over many times at immigration just for the sake of messing with me. We need color photos, we need a blue pen, we need a full year of statements, whatever they make up on the spot. My agent (she's a lawyer) does all the paperwork and running around for me and makes sure I get the abbreviated service at CW. No worries so far. 30k per year. No big deal

Its not only the Ploys, but it's always a Ploy.

The more you keep private information like how you make money to yourself the better off you are here. Really, if you can fly under the radar while you live here you will be quite happy.

Visited first time in Jan 2012. Knew I'd retire here. Kept talking about wanting to retire by 40. It happened in 2015. Got laid off. Never went back. I loved this place and started the migration over the span of 3 years going back and forth. The Thai dream is different for everyone. For me it was about being able to tune out the noise of big city US life. It was about having things I didn't have back home. It was a cost efficient place to plant myself in the beginning until I figured out what to do. My first place in Chiang Mai cost 5k per month. It was simple, stark, lacking in many ways but it all woke me up to what the actual necessities of my new life would be. As time went on the dream became more detailed. Some of it changed, some evolved, some was simply rubbish that was residue from US life. Honestly, life on my worst day here has not been anywhere near the dark, cold, misery I endured in my last few years at home.

I was wondering if anyone caught that

Ya except its not just the US...Japan and Korea have been known to reject Thai arrivals at the airport, especially women.

They need a gym membership and some toner on those bleached out mops. Probably a hot oil treatment while they're at it

I can't believe that in a time when there have been several previous financial scams that people are still so gullible to hand over millions to a hair salon basketball mom with no financial background. They all deserve what they have coming to them. I got into trading and investments when I was in my 30s. (20 years ago) At that time every friend I had that I spoke to about it was reluctant to advise me on anything. These people are so brazen in their delusions of grandeur and self-righteousness it's appaling.

The car didn't lose control. the dipstick driver has no idea how to operate something of this caliber. I'd be willing to bet 95% of the supercar owners here have inadequate skills to operate these types of machines. These cars don't just lose control. they're made to stick to a bank on a track. I worked as a promo model at a McLaren event a few years ago. It's absolutely astounding when you see the drivers actually get out of the cars. Dodgeball victims x10

Enamored with the idea of a ride in a Porsche. Even more enamored with the idea of taking a picture of it and posting it to one-up their "friends"

The pic is absolute gold. My friends would never let me live that down

1.2 grams of powder probably 20% of it actual blow

Egypt, Myanmar, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Thailand...sounds about as solid as BRICS

Its comforting to see that barber shops the world around are used as universal drug fronts

Ya if you think thats a valid comparison good luck in life

You mean the distorted reality of being up 25% in my port since election? Not a fan of the guy by any means but let's be realistic about the direction of the market. We're literally at all time highs

Never marry a woman you cannot divorce amicably. While it sounds like a joke it's not. After a few months of dating you should be able to tell if the woman you are with is vindictive enough to drag you or if she's self-sufficient enough to say "Fk U" I married at 28 to a woman who was like this. When things went sour at 35 we decided to call it quits. I had to split the bank account with her. My divorce cost me $500. We went on a Wednesday morning and then went for pancakes after. Dated a girl for 11 years with some overlap to that divorce. When the time came for us to call it quits, I was traveling quite extensively throughout Asia. I was in Tokyo photographing fashion week and she asked me when I was coming back. I told her I didn't know. We ended it on that phone call. We organized the move out of our California apartment long distance, I paid for the movers to move everything, Cost me about 2K but the key was that I had a safe that had about $15K cash and a cache of gold and silver numismatics. I needed to make sure I got that safe and that gold when I returned to the US. She picked me up from the airport in San Diego and I got my pinché safe and my old gold. Married a Thai woman in 2020. She is the keeper. I'd never consider leaving her. She has insisted that we keep everything we have as individuals. No shared bank accounts, no shared leases, no shared property or cars. She is not financially more well off than me she just told me that If I ever broke her heart, it's over and she wants no drama or anything to drag out Guys who get fk'd in relationships ignored the warning signs before, and during the relationship. Then they act like it came out of left field while everyone else is like...no we saw that coming the day you married her and she embarrassed you in front of your guests.

What does suspended sentence mean? That sounds like probation to me

So sick of these hi-so <deleted> thinking they're above the law. You certainly have a future in writing satire scripts

The irony of Michelin star street food is confounding.

I just have to wonder if people go to places like Amalfi or Santorini and are this brazen. I was in Ibiza in 2003 and I saw couples engaging in acts but for fuxsake they were at least trying to be discreet to a certain degree

I think there might be a minor misunderstanding in what I meant. OP claims most of the IT folk and nomads here are "bereft of social skills and psychologically afflicted." My comment was that the perceived social ineptitude is just an act so we don't need to talk with idiots.

Bless you dude. I feel the same way. Lived in two of the big three cities back in the US and don't want to go back at all. California was my last stop before I came here for good. People ask me all the time and they seem shocked when I reply that unless something tragic happens, I live here. You're right about missing culture. Thats perhaps one of the biggest things I miss. Seeing and experiencing actual art. This place is completely devoid of anything with substance although I was quite pleased to be able to take my wife to see West Side Story about a year ago at one of the theaters here. If you're fortunate enough to have the money to live life in California, it can be a pretty pleasant place but like you said, it would require being a millionaire to do that today. Had friends in Newport Beach and that was always fun. The surf competition in Huntington was always a blast. But the quality of life here far supersedes that in that it's always available, doesnt require a car (for the most part) and is within financial means especially if you have the ability to live an above average life here. Good for you dude. Hope life continues to bless you

Most of it is fake so we dont need to talk to idiots