JimmyTobacco

oh get the <deleted> out of here mate what do you know about our relationship? you're probably in a bad mood cause you can't even speak with your missus at all

Well, isn't that normal? That you think: "omg there she goes with her present tense instead of the past tense again" and get slightly pissed off? I mean I know my gf knows how to use the past tense. She just doesn't. Not very interested tbh in women from my home country.

In the previous relationship, I was just so sick of her English after a while. Every time she said something, I got so pissed off. Another language we both spoke was German: me to a very decent level but not quite like English, her fluently. But I didn't like communicating in German so much. I feel the same thing is happening here. Every time I hear her speak, I get so frustrated already, before she's even completed the sentence. I think it's not a personal thing, as I have the same when I have to speak with random people who have broken English. A few years ago, I also had a Filipina girlfriend who was (of course) fluent in English, and also good with words, and we did not have this same issue. There were plenty of other issues though, which I luckily don't have with my current gf 😄

My gf is actually a great communicator and very honest and direct usually. Her English is definitely above average for a Thai person. I find though that as the relationship progresses, we seem to have more and more communication issues. We mostly communicate in English, as my Thai is currently not good enough for deeper communication. I find that as the relationship progresses, I seem to understand her less and less, up to the point that I sometimes have no idea what the hell she is saying. She puts it down to me already pulling my annoyed face when she starts talking English which makes her nervous and unable to communicate well. I guess that that's definitely true, but it might not be the entire reason behind the communication issues. It might also be a natural progression whereby in the beginning of the relationship you just try harder to make proper sentences in a foreign language and after a while you just don't have the energy to keep up that effort. For me English is also a foreign language but I use English in my job on a daily basis and have studied it since I was about 10, so I am almost just as comfortable in English as in my native language. I feel like maybe, since I professionally work with languages, I am too critical of her English and get annoyed too easily by small mistakes. I know this happened to me in a previous relationship with a western girl who had very decent but far from perfect English. With her I communicated in about 4 languages, but after a few years it felt like we didn't know what the hell the both of us were saying. I notice that with my current gf, she is just not great at explaining or phrasing things. If she tells me something in Thai and I don't understand, she will just repeat it, thinking that if she repeats it, at some point I will understand. She won't use different or easier words to facilitate my understanding. I am wondering how people here handle these kind of issues with their partners. I definitely feel the effort should probably be coming from me, meaning I should learn better Thai as soon as possible so we can switch to Thai. However, to communicate about feelings and complicated issues in Thai might be something that is a bit further on the horizon.

What do you call abuse if it's a multiply entry visa for 180 days at a time with a validity of 5 years?

I think it's probably great, but you need to find yourself a good one, just like in every country or with every nationality. I do think one advice that stands out for me is that it is wise to stay away from the family. My girlfriend prefers to keep distance to the family without my asking it, so that's a good thing.

Well if I'm not mistaken, the METV is a visa for a maximum of 6 months, with the possibility to stay up to 60 days at a time and the option to extend on every entry as well. So METV does not give you real long term access to Thailand. I believe most people who attempt to stay in Thailand for a longer period of time on METV combine it with visa exempions, etc. Also, the purpose of the METV is to undertake tourist activities while using Thailand as your base or returning to Thailand several times in any case. This is very different from DTV, which actually requires you to show (for most options) that you can work remotely. Therefore, the Thai immigration/government should be aware that most people on a DTV are already working from Thailand for their company or clients abroad. This is one of the requirements and purposes of the visa. Not necessarily to work, but to show that you can work remotely and have savings (therefore guaranteeing that you don't need to take up a job in Thailand). So it would be strange to deny someone entry for suspicion of working in the Kingdom. Also, the DTV requires you to show 500k baht in a bank account, so Section 2 would not really be likely either. There is also the video online of the interview with the high immigration official or minister who claims the DTV holder basically only needs to spend one day outside of Thailand every 360 days. So come in for 180 days, extend for 180 days, spend 1 day outside, come back and get another 180 days, etc. Anyway, I know in Thailand the reality might be different sometimes. So I will also be following the reports on this in the coming months. Nobody has stayed more than 180 days on a DTV yet, but that will soon change.

I don't really see on which grounds they would refuse entry to someone on a DTV. The visa clearly states it's multiple entry, valid for 5 years and 180 days at the time.

Are you talking about not having to file a police report? Why do you say that? I literally called the transport office hotline on 1584 and asked them; they told me to just come into the office.

Maybe not? What I mean is: if the Thai government is assuming certain people to be tax residents who are on certain types of visas that do not allow them to open businesses or bank accounts in Thailand, thus forcing them to open businesses and bank accounts elsewhere, how do they expect to succesfully tax these people? Certainly it would be easier if they allowed people to setup self-employed businesses in Thailand with bank accounts to make it a little easier for them to file taxes as well. Ok the person in question would need money to live off. But let's say he uses a foreign credit card and gets money from the ATM only. Hard to trace. Although at some point the Thai RD could ask for bank statements proving some kind of transfer or money into Thailand. Anything to go at. If they see that the individual is not declaring any income. But what if this person has 5 million baht in savings from previous tax years. That's a lot to live off for a long time in Thailand without earning anything.

Well, how would the Thai RD even find out that the person in question has a business elsewhere, say HK, Dubai, Estonia, etc., one of the countries where non-residents can quite easily setup a company? Probably in order not to have to pay tax in those countries the nomad would have to show tax-residency/tax documents from Thailand. But the nomad might even consider doing that and filing 0. Or the nomad could consider paying tax in a country like Dubai also, which might be 0% or close to 0%. Ok, we are talking about possible tax evasion here, which I would not recommend to anyone, but it is quite proposterous that the Thai RD thinks it will collect taxes on all expats' foreign earned income, when it is not easy or even possible for several categories of expats to legally open a business or even a simple bank account in Thailand.

I am thinking about the following situation: Let's say an expat on a DTV visa were to spend more than 180 days in Thailand in one calendar year. That would mean they would legally be required to pay tax in Thailand. However, let's say that this person is a digital nomad, with a self-employed status somewhere in Europe. Since this person is not living in their own country anymore, they would be required to give up their domicile and self-employed status and/or business in their home country. However, they would not be able to easily open a business in Thailand for the same purposes, because they wouldn't even have a working permit. Also, I believe opening a business in Thailand for an expact involves the obligatory hiring of Thai nationals and quite a large some of money that needs to be put into the company at first. This means that if the nomad were to want to send invoices to companies and continue their business, they would be more or less forced to setup business somewhere else, or "offshore". Say Hong Kong, Dubai, etc. So how is Thailand expecting to reinforce taxation for someone who is not doing any work with or for Thai businesses and is not even allowed to open a business in Thailand or even open a Thai bank account? I find the whole situation rather absurd.

Do you think it would be possible to renew it without having an actual por ror bor? I think that would still require a trip to the transport office. So anyway: today I called the transport office and they told me to just come in with my passport and the greenbook and a copy of my passport and visa stamp. The guy at the information desk filled in all the forms for me which I signed. Then I had to wait for about 10 minutes and they issues me a new por lor bor for 25 baht. So no need, it seems, to go to the police.

Actually got stopped by the police today and they noticed the por ror bor was gone ... I managed to show them the receipt from a few weeks ago when I got the por ror bor on my phone and they accepted it and told me to go.

My Filipina ex was about the easiest girl you'd ever find. Truth be told, she was wonderful in the bedroom, couldn't get enough of it, but somehow after letting me get her two or three times daily she still found opportunities and energy to cheat on me with other guys. Also, she was good to me but nothing like a royal treatment at all. She was lazy around the house too. My Thai girl treats me like a total king. Also, Thai culture and food in general is far superior to PH.