Felton Jarvis

The REAL Thailand is worse than the lowlifes in Thai society. HISO Thais are horrible people and would have you killed if they could.

Anti-white racism is nothing new. It has been going on for quite some time. We whiteys are responsible for ALL of society’s ills.

Fortunately, I am almost beyond my years of sexual activity. That frees me to tell them to be satisfied with room and board and to <deleted>.

Use an agent. “Seasoning” is something you do to enhance the flavour of food. Only the Thais use it to mean parking your money in a bank for a predetermined period of time. Agents solve all problems, unfortunately they usually charge too much so they can bribe Immigration.

Bob is in touch with reality. The crowd that thinks Thailand is paradise are the problem. For now. Thailand is cost-effective for this American, but things are rapidly changing. Thailand wants to gouge foreigners for every last baht they can get. It won’t end once they bankrupt us.

Thanks for replying. I had overlooked the “ignore” tab which will send you to “Felton’s Phontom Zone”. The sheer idiocy that suggests that I DID NOT “plan” my retirement, shows the depth of your stupidity. I planned based on the available information at the time and the prevailing Immigration rules in place in 2015. I cannot possibly predict the changes in policy that mostly depend on the Thai “cash grab” mentality. Now that you are safely on “ignore”, you can mumble to yourself.

“a mere 400k or 800k a year”. Another Ritchie Rich farang who wants Thailand as his private country club. Not all of us were born with a silver spoon in our mouth. Just another snob who looks down on the average retiree as if we were asking him for a handout. Whether I leave or stay, WILL NOT be up to you and when Immigration decides YOU need to go, who will speak for you?

I am very aware of the benefits of Cambodia. It is basically my “Plan B” if Thailand should continue its policy of ousting farang in favor of the high dollar.

I am aware that Lazada does not deliver to Cambodia. What is the replacement used in the country? Is Shopee operating here? Is there a chance that Lazada may operate here in the near future? Living in Thailand, I have gotten used to using Lazada to acquire many items. Obviously, I’m looking for a replacement if I should relocate. Your thoughts???

I am not impressed with the food in Thailand. I can’t eat fire. The women are certainly a plus, very attractive. Their motives are another matter. I am here for the cost of living, but Immigration is hard at work to drive out foreigners of only modest means. 65 thousand baht a month is considered too low. Fortunately, my next COLA increase in my pension will lift me to 100 thousand baht a month. Even THAT figure is too low for “Big Joke”. Racism has simply replaced common sense in Thailand.

I haven’t seen a single post that meets that criteria. “Corruption” is more than just a small bribe to get an otherwise legal document. Sometimes hundreds of thousands of baht change hands to get things “handled”. Many procedures are deliberately made more difficult in order to extract “tea money”.

My agent is my landlady. It is highly unlikely that she will pull a fast one. She has been very reliable for three years. Immigration seems to know her well and they go out of their way to expedite things for her.

The first time I came here was 20 years ago, so that must have been YOU that the bargirl was bragging about. She told me that the first farang ever had just won the lottery. She seemed proud of that fact. ????

I “rescued” a department store buyer with a college education. Total loser who spent too much and was nearly as duplicitous as any bar girl. If they have a vagina, they are untrustworthy.

The same as you would pay for rescuing a prostitute in America. She should be paying YOU!!!!!

Totally speculative post. I was accompanied to the bank and my agent handled everything. I was just instructed where to sign. There was no option to refuse the withdrawal. This was a very smooth process and the bank and the agent had obviously done this hundreds of times. Obviously if I refused, I would not get my renewal and would now be living in Cambodia. That is part of my plan anyway because the Thai renewal process has become too expensive and dodgy to continue. I should not be paying more than 1900 baht for a renewal and there should be someone at Immigration that can read enough English to ascertain that my income is what I say it is. This is not brain surgery. There is very little room for fraud in this process. My documents are straightforward and easily verifiable.

It’s not my fault that I don’t have 800k to park in a Thai bank for NOTHING!!! These rules came about because the Embassy imperiously decided that it was not their job to certify income statements. I moved here under an entirely different set of rules and would have gone to Cambodia if I had been able to see what was ahead. Your arrogance almost stretches the bounds of credibility. Not all of us retire wealthy. I still make eight to ten times the average wage in Thailand, I qualify to live here and Immigration apparently agrees after you grease their greedy palms. Get your nose out of the air. You are nothing special.

You are apparently developmentally disabled. If I HAD the 800K, I might consider depositing it but I DON’T, so it’s a moot point. I still qualify to be here based on my income. When I came here in 2015, none of this was an issue. I was apparently “grandfathered” in to the old income rules which did not require a local bank deposit. My landlady has hinted that this is the case but I have never had it confirmed by Immigration. They keep approving me for another year and the same Immigration officer has signed off on my renewal of stay for every year I have been here. They know exactly what’s going on and they ENCOURAGE it, by routing retirees to agents. There is no other explanation.

Merely having the income is not enough. You are required to deposit it in a Thai bank (something I refuse to do) and the envelope that’s being pushed is the income requirement. It is now 65 thousand baht a month and they are discussing raising it to 100 thousand.

Not me. So-called “corruption” makes it possible for me to stay here. There is no doubt that I have enough income to justify my residence here, but they keep pushing the envelope. With a three percent cost of living raise in Social Security, I will be making 100 thousand baht a month. There are STILL those who insist that I am underfunded and am a “backpacker” (whatever the HELL that means). The number of elitists on this forum is off the chart.

I pay my landlady 14 thousand baht every year for a renewal. Her son does most of the work these days and walks me through the whole process, including a trip to a Bangkok Bank branch office, where they deposit, then withdraw money on my behalf. The poperwork showing the deposit is then taken to Immigration along with my passport and bank book and I get the passport back in about a week with my new renewal date inside. The landlady seems to be highly popular at IO, and no wonder. I get the feeling that this cannot possibly continue this way.

I agree with this. All I have to do is compare my life with that of the average Thai and mine looks pretty good. You can’t pick and choose your supervisors and that has been 90 percent of the problem. I have watched people succeed who would do as little as possible while I put in extra hours and endured humiliation that only a wage-slave would tolerate.

As opposed to WHAT???

So sad what is considered patriotism by many right-wingers. You cannot threaten elected officials but you have the option of voting them out.

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