JamesPhuket10

Is Isaan in Thailand, do I live in Thailand, I think that is the simple connection. Whenever a person calls the other one a troll it means they have nothing else to say and have lost the discussion. What are the limits around Thailand which I should be interest in writing about, 50 miles, 100 miles. 😀

Yes, I spoke to the girls and expats many years ago, I don't expect for the bar scene to have changed now, the bargirls are there to make money you know from the customers, if as many do, get a customer for a decade or two they will do it. I know quite a lot of farangs in the past who did meet Thai bars girls and went to live in Isaan with them, so I can image there are more farangs married to Thais in Isaan than in other areas, as I can see a lot of farangs never come into contact with a standard Thai woman, so they buy them from bars.

Erm, you are wrong on all counts , I have been with my Thai partners of 20 years, she and I are very happy thanks, good fun on a daily basis. Both financially independent and so not a partnership based on money as many are it seems in Thailand and no 20 to 30 years age gap. I wrote about the Thai Isaan and farangs as the stories make me laugh, I think they are funny. 😀

I see your ramblings based on nothing are ongoing, you make me laugh. I spend the day programming and testing my apps and so when I need a break now and then to read something at a noddy level I can read your posts and laugh. I don't need to do the apps but it keeps my brain active and I learn something new on a daily basis, perhaps you should try something which keep your brain in gear as you seem to string words, thought and sentences together at random. Perhaps you should star with learning about grammar, punctuation, the formation of sentences and paragraphs to start with. 😀 No I did not contribute to my Thai partner in the purchases of her houses, she had the brains and drive to run her own tourist agency herself and so first bought the land and then built on it. I have income from a pension and property in the UK (I am in the UK buying one now), so my partner and I are both self sufficient re ,money, it also means we are not sponging off each other. I wonder how many farangs in Thailand would suddenly become surplus to requirements if they told their Thai wife then had run out of money, I can image a rat up a drainpipe scenario. You got rid of the UK property a long time ago, that means when you are sick and old and have to go back to the UK for free NHS treatment you will have no where to live as the price of property will be well outside of your reach, that was a good move I see. 😀

I suppose living in Phuket in a non-tourist area is different to being a tourist. The area is quiet, it has its own private park, outside it is busy during the rush hour but easy to get around the other times so I can do my shopping and things then. Kathu and is an easy to get around, after living there for a while the fun of the noisy areas like Patong and other busy areas are not fun any more so I go once or twice a year, when I go there I feel like I am on holiday as it is not like the rest of Phuket So I do not have to travel that far to do the daily things I wish to do. I am not sure what people mean when they say Phuket is expensive, do they mean expensive compared to the villages at the end of the beyond or compare to England for example. I have been in England near London for the past few months wile buying a property here to rent out. Comparisons, a three bed detached house in Chelmsford where I am at which is a 30 minute commuter belt area to London would cost £500k to £650k, the house I live in, in Phuket with thee bedrooms and two bathrooms cost 4.2million baht 15 years ago and are now selling for 6 million baht. I went to a restaurant near by a month ago with a friend, we had a one course meal each, she does not drink so had two cokes, I had a few pints of beer and the bill was £110 A beer in a pub costs £7.80 So as far as I am concerned Phuket is dirt cheap, my daily spend allowance in Phuket is about, 4,300 baht a day, some days I spend nothing, I would have to eat and drink all day long to spend that amount.

I have met many, many guys who did live in Isaan with a Thai wife, they were crying into their beer or meal while telling me how they had met them while the woman was working as a bar girl, she fell in love with him, he was the only one etc. The fact the women are 20 to 30 years younger than the farangs does not seem to cause any surprise to the farangs. Later on they moved to her village in Isaan, he bought a house ,car, paid for her family. The story ends a few different ways, the guy visited his own country for a month or two, comes back and the house has been sold and the wife was gone, he ran out of cash and was then kicked out, there are variations of this. I think they prefer much older men as they do not have to wait that long before they are dead and can then claim the rest of the farangs wealth. Before anyone suggests I am bitter and it has happened to me, no, I would never be stupid enough to think a woman 20 to 30 years younger than me could find any guy in the world desirable apart from the money of course, but it seems like a lot of farangs really are stupid.

You will be surprised how the technology is in Thailand. We had some land inspected by the a surveyor from the government land office in 2019, they have a satellite system, it points out exactly where the official marking posts were underneath the ground, they were spot on so if anyone tries to claim the land you call in the government surveyor.

I don't care what the tax rules are for farangs as I do not earn any money outside of Thailand, honest. 😇

Cheers, have a good day, I will get back to you tomorrow, I have done too much skiving over the last few days, I need to do a bit of work to make up. 😀 I will reply tomorrow.

I have a question if you don't mind. At what point during your stay in Thailand did the government freeze the amount they pay you from the pension?

He didn't mention he did not leave the country, it could have been the case.

Mine was rejected once as went out of the country and so my 90 reporting was reset when I came back into the country, so I had to wait 90 days to report from that day in person. I went to the drive through immigration office in Phuket, it took five minutes, no forms to fill in, I just handed over my passport.

I am in the UK for a few months at the moment, but during the last 2.5 years of living in Kathu most power cuts lasted seconds. I will return next month. Once or twice the power cuts lasted ten minutes so I just sat in my aircon car, no problem. If Phuket is so crap, why do you keep on going there? What I like about my experience of Phuket is of the 350 houses in my gated community is there are only about three houses occupied by farangs, the rest are Thai, hence I do not have to listen to moaning farangs going on about how they do not like Phuket. My Thai neighbours seem very happy to live there, they could sell up and move to a cheaper area like Isaan, but they would hate to have to do that. The easy solutions is to stay away, you will not be missed, nor your moaning.

I have in a way I suppose. In my own experience most of the bar girls working in Phuket/Pattaya are from Isaan so I have visited the place indirectly I suppose. But no I have never fallen for one of them, bought a house, car, moved into her Issan village and subsidesed the rest of her family including her mum and dad, not for me.🙂

Yet more random unrelated nonsense. As the article is about renting the property out the tenant will pay all of the bills.