happydreamer

You dont get safe spaces in night clubs man...not even in the US. Start a fight in a club...getting stomped is a given. There's shootings in and around nightclubs every week in my hometown. You might be mixing nightclubs up with festivals

What are you talking about this isn't America?...if you take a swing at someone in the USA prepare to be shot. You start sh!t in a club...the bouncers will f'k you up and leave you for dead in an alley

Only in Thailand will you make headlines over your salary

I came here for this comment. You said it nicer than I would have. Kudos

I had apprehensions about sticking 400k into a bank for the spouse visa but after seeing what the true cost of agency visas are...you're better off moving your money to a bank here. More of a chance to keep it than mess about with anyone official, unofficial, artificial, or formerly official

Volunteer org visas provided by agents were being cancelled upon arrival in Jan of 2022 with holders threatened of deportation on the spot...no tourist visa given just threat of deportation. Conversations can be had and isunderstandings can be cleared up. With enough grease a sticky situation becomes unstuck.

I wouldn't advise that practice. First hand experience with the fallout from agent visas. Your days with that are numbered and don't even think about leaving and trying to get back in with one of those

I think if they made the LTV accessible in smaller denominations theyd have more success. problem with that tho...they swing for home runs every time trying to get that big bag upfront instead of taking in smaller sustainable sums over time. Also I think in the eyes of the people who wrote this...and I may be giving way more credit than deserved...they see the larger upfront sum as a sign of stability which "may" align more with attracting a financially afluent population... I still don't understand thai logic even after 10 years

What visa extension is 20k per year?

50K THB for a Rolex is pretty damn cheap

"Joe Ferrari has entered the chat..."

I made a comment about American tipping culture a few weeks ago and had someone here lecture me about how it began in Europe. For what it's worth if there's not a 10% service charge I'll add 10% to whatever the bill is. Or if it's a large group like a party and the wait staff worked really hard keeping up with our table then we'll leave 10%+. We were out to a wedding afterparty last week and the young lady who worked our table (8 people) took really good care of us and there was 0 service charge on that bill. There's actually quite a few places Ive been in Bangkok that don't include the service charge. If it's superior service like a bartender at a speakeasy who pours me slightly over on bourbons then he gets extra.

Asean...such a clever way to start another pissing contest

When you sign up to join the police force here you know what you're getting yourself into. It's not like they were bamboozled into something they were against. They were just the ones that were made examples of. If your personal ethics didn't align with doing something this wrong in your life you wouldn't have signed up to be a cop. You'd have chosen another career. Most get into this because they know what the fringe benefits are. And if you're a subordinate to a well-respected higher rank you're gonna print all day every day...

Its funny...the ones who often cant afford it tend to be the ones who are the most honest. All three times I've lent money I've had to repeatedly remind the borrowers that they need to cough up. The sums were a bit more substantial ...between 30 and 40k so my sympathy levels are lower than yours. Two of them drive BMW X1s and one carries. Celine handbag. All women...for whatever that's worth

Or until you lend one money. ????

As I've told my wife countless times...if you're ever worried that a situation may cause you to lose face...don't do something that would cause you to lose face. I mean...i know the education system here is a bit antiquated but i learned about cause and effect in 2nd grade. Hard to imagine the concept not catching on by adulthood

On their knees

Forgot about that. Good point.

Certain conclusions are likely to be arrived at, I suppose ????

This place just hasn't learned their lesson. No tourism for close to 2 and a half years and the damn country nearly goes bankrupt and finally tourists come back and the first thing they do is extort them. I usually don't take the side of influencers or media personalities because of their flair for drama but given the two sides of this coin my chips are on Ms. Taiwan

Ya but that does nothing for the rest of us. those who live here and / or visit regularly. You become kinda trapped in their BS even if you try to avoid it. When this happened to me a while back I was warned by the people who did it that if I said anything it would cause problems later

Yes...this will be the outcome of this situation. There will be a law made just like the anti-defamation law that says if you "out" anyone here you will be banned from the country for a set amount of time. Totally expect this to happen within the next few weeks

Is it possible that this was some sort of retaliation from RTP for the scenario where they were outed about off-hours escorting duties? Maybe not the same person but something to deliver a message....?

Common occurrence. Was threatened with deportation last year upon entering with one of those "agent visas" Cost me 20K to get out of. My lawyer was on the phone with immigration and couldn't do anything about it because I was in the wrong. They could have just cancelled the agent visa and issued me a tourist visa for 30 days but the opportunity to extort presented itself and thats what they do. The entire country is opportunists....some out of necessity some because they can, others because they know no other way.