JamesPhuket10

Does anyone have any medical checkup recommendations for Phuket?

Out of interest, what is the name of the top university you mentioned, Harvard, Oxford, LSE, MIT etc ?

But you are also replying so by your measure you are also pathetic. 😄 My excuse is I am on my computer for many hours of the day writing software so I take a break now and then to this simple blog as a change is as good as rest and the comments make me laugh. What is your excuse?

That proves my earlier point right away, no more to be said as it looks like I am taking to a brick wall.

I wonder where these millions of Russians who have taken over Phuket live, I have been here two years full time now and have visited for long holidays for the last 30 years and I have yet to see the swarms of Russians. Of the three hundred houses on this secure gated estate I think there is one Russian family, you have to go out of your way to spot them. Of course that is the opposite to what the media write about and for the simple minded readers to believe. 99% of the houses in my estate are owned and occupied by Thais.

Very true, a friend of mine bought four houses as a miniresort around a swimming pool in Phuket twenty five years ago and owns the properties/lamd through a business with the correct proportion of Than and farang shares and as they are rented out it is legitimate.

I wish I could pay rent on a house and give all my money away to a Thai, it must take a lot of skill to be able to do that. 😃

Yes, they might be next as it seems they are after the small fish, the average assets of what has been seized is only £13,396 per cpompany, I suppose the large fish have got away with it. As far as the dodgy Farang homeowners go it must be so easy to prove if they bought the house using a company with a 49% share and they live there then they will lose the lot.

Right, I give up, you must be sitting there laughing your head off while reading all of the replies that are taking your comments seriously, you should be a politician, or maybe you should work in marketing. A giveaway comments, for example, "The first 3 months of 10k/month is fine since im living in her home and sex daily." Keep going, the humour is making me laugh.

I think if you change the word 'love' into 'lust after' then you will maybe realise the real situation. Maybe in a few years, you might come to find the true meaning of the word 'love', it does not mean knocking out kids just for the fun of it.

And you are looking from your farang perspective, it is what everyone in the world does. Phuket is great, but it does depend again on people's perspectives, I have come across a lot of farangs who said they do not like it as it is full of girly bars, etc, which is more a reflection on their low lives and it shows what they spend their time doing, they have that opinion as they never went to the 99% of the island which does not have girly bars, etc. But that is good as we like the rif-raf low life to stay away. 😃 The difference between you and me is I can see why and how people's view of Thai culture is different, you seem to think your version of it is the correct one and so you try and take the piss out of people who do not share your view, that approach will always fail.

Why are a lot of people arguing about whether this guy should pay sin-sod or not, he just wants to have a kid for some reason as some sort of lifestyle that will fit into him visiting Thailand now and then. Either this kid is mentally ill or he is having us on and is laughing while some of us leave serious replies to his nonsense. He must be joking I bet.

I think none of us understand Thai customs, I think most Thais do also not understand Thai customs, the reason being there is such a huge class difference in Thailand and so many different customs for each class. During my wedding feast, the ex-vice-prime minister made a toast at the hotel reception, and a photo of him, my wife, and I was in the Bangkok Post Society section, I think that is not standard, it had nothing at all to do with me, so I am not claiming anything, I am merely stating a point about Thailand and its class system. It is an observation. People from Issan like to eat fried crickets etc, I asked a brother-in-law who was born and schooled in Bangkok if he ate them and he said no chance, I would not eat such food, I am not from upcountry. They had chauffeurs, servants, the lot, wealthy, and looked down on the more uneducated Thais, that made no difference to me as my wife and I were already living in the UK and we were only in Thailand for our wedding so what they did in Thailand had no bearing on our lives in England. A friend was talking to me a couple of years ago and he mentioned how his Thai wife crouched down on her heels down to the floor and ate, he said you know, in the manner Thais eat, I told him I have never seen any Thais eat that way, they use a spoon/knife/fork and table and chairs just like we farangs do. I found out she came from a small village in Isaan, with so many different standards and ways of life in Thailand, one group never mixes with the other. In my experience most farangs I have come across mix only with the poor Thais and for some reason most of the women are from Isaan. Any farang who claims to know about Thailand and its culture is kidding themselves, they also generally mix with the same group or class and so do have many years of experience as they claim but in one level of Thailand, the level they are living at. I have been living in Thailand for two years now although I am visiting the UK for a month at the moment. You mentioned money and my lack of understanding of it, I don't need to know about Thai money whatever that means in this context, I send bank transfers to my Thai bank account when I need to, and my wealth, and property are all safe in the UK in my name and under my control. We never know when temporary year-by-year visitors like us on yearly visa extensions might have to run for the hills (well in our case the airport) so keeping the majority of what we own in a safe country is the only sensible thing to do. Although it must be very tempting to marry a poor Thai woman, buy her a car and a house, pay for her parents and the sick buffalo as a lot of dim farangs do, and then think it is the norm, a while later they find it has all been taken, they do make me laugh though, they are so gullible. 🤪 I don't think I would like to live in a typical Thai village as many farangs seem to do (or maybe that is what they can afford), it would be so boring, I prefer Phuket which is international and has international standards (but I do avoid the tourist areas), I can't see what people like about living in the back of beyond in a poor Thai village, why not go one step further and live in a cave.

Yes, I have just arrived, I arrived in 1987 when I got married to a Thai woman in the Dusit Thani Hotel in Bangkok. 😃 A wealthy family, sin-sod was never mentioned but I did pay for the wedding which had three hundred guests and a private hall including food etc. I think it cost around £1200 at the time, which was nothing. If I had been asked to pay sin-sod then I would have told them to sod off as I am not a silly sod. 😃 I do not know what goes on with Thai on Thai marriages though. Maybe it is just a village thing where things tend to be a bit backward, I say that as some people here have mentioned 100,000 baht as a sin-sod payment, which might seem a lot and impress poorer folk from up-country (as the Thais say) but it is an insignificant amount to many Thais.

"Top Western university" Which one, Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton ......... ? I doubt it was any one of them, either you are very stupid or this is just a spoof email that a lot of people are taking seriously, so maybe you are not that silly after all. 🤪 And why would any Western man ever pay sinsod (I think it is called) I had never heard of it.