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You must walk around with your eyes closed and not see how many very old cars especially pickup trucks are on Thai roads, they must have been well-maintained and cared for to last that long. My car in Thailand is now twenty years old but still runs like new, maintenance costs at Toyota are so cheap it costs next to nothing, that counts as maintenance. There is lots of old machinery still in use that would have been thrown away in the West, in my opinion Thais are maintenance experts.
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Me too, the idiots making stupid comments about him doing as he was told to and doing what the rest of us would have done think they have the right to abuse the guy just because he is Russian. I have come across many Russians in Phuket and they seem to be OK to me, not one of them had a bar-girl in tow, they are mostly family men with Russian wives. I bet half of the guys making negative comments do not have insurance for their 25-year-old 125cc Honda Dream bike. 🤣
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Why do so many Thai prostitutes marry their customers?
JamesPhuket10 replied to MalcolmB's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
The term is "Pooying Bar", you missed part of what I wrote. So, you get ten points for getting one of the words translated, now try both words together and then reverse the two words and you will have miraculously completed the Thai name for a prostitute in English. -
Why do so many Thai prostitutes marry their customers?
JamesPhuket10 replied to MalcolmB's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Well as far as I can tell, all young women are 'wrong' ones if they can marry an old fart for money. I find it funny these old blokes seemed to have lost their dignity and openly admit they have married a prostitute, I find it so funny as do normal Thai people as they point out to each other and snigger at the old fart walking down the street with a prostitute old enough to be his granddaughter. -
Why do so many Thai prostitutes marry their customers?
JamesPhuket10 replied to MalcolmB's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
"Pooying bar" for example is one of the names Thais have for them. -
Why do so many Thai prostitutes marry their customers?
JamesPhuket10 replied to MalcolmB's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Well, I suppose it is a natural progression, they are out to make money piecemeal to start with, and if they can get even more money out of the mugs then the thing to do is to marry them and make them spend all their money on just them instead of letting the old guy spend on others. Most of these guys could never pull a regular woman so a prostitute is all the choice they have. It works even better if the guy works abroad for a few months at a time so the woman can have two or three husbands in tow at the same time. I am amazed at how many of these guys fall for the old stories they are told, I am poor, have to feed the family, etc, many women are poor in Thailand but they would never resort to selling themselves in that way, but it does make me laugh though when it all ends in doom and gloom with the guy ending up broke. -
I just renewed my car insurance in Phuket for 7,800 baht for the year, I am insured against bodily damage, hospital care to other people for 10,000,000 baht, and 2,500,000 for damage to other people's property. I would just have said nothing and then called the insurance company who would send someone straight away to the scene of the accident and they then deal with it. Everyone would have had their say. I don't understand what is going on with the situation in this story. Is it compulsory to have third-party car insurance in Thailand? I have it anyway as it is the right thing to do.
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Well from what I have seen, the ugly old farangs with the young Thai beauties would not have a chance of getting such a woman if she did not have a lot of baggage to carry with her. It is their stupid fault, but they do make me laugh when it all goes wrong. 🤣 I suppose instead of paying the ex-bar girl on a daily basis they do it monthly instead via the parents etc.
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I don't see what the problem is. I have my UK banks on my iPhone as apps, the money is available anywhere in the world. My property is in the UK hence untouchable here, I only send what I need to live on to my Thai Bank account which is also an app. I have three thousand pounds in cash in case I need a quick exit. The 800k baht in my Thai bank account used to extend my annual visa can be sent to the UK at the click of a button. I have been living in Thailand for two years full time but have been visiting for thirty years, I know it is not permanent seeing as I am only allowed a year-by-year extension, and as the rest of us are temporary farangs, I have to report to the cops every 90 days. Anyone who thinks they are living here permanently is living in cloud cuckoo land.
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And so the exodus of quality expats begins. This time it's personal
JamesPhuket10 replied to Galong's topic in Phuket
I would not want to take a TukTuk anywhere, I drive my car, so why would I want to go in a death trap? Patong, on no not again, 1% of the total area of Phuket defines the other 99% of Phuket. I would stay away from Phuket if I were you and take the ten baht bus where you live as 2 quid for a taxi ride might be out of your league. -
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JamesPhuket10 replied to Galong's topic in Phuket
It is like Chiang Mai, you get free fags (cigarettes) for five months of the year, but good news to smokers, the number of months have been increased this year. I know a lot of people who move out of CM for a large part of the year. -
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JamesPhuket10 replied to Galong's topic in Phuket
I am going to have to complain as I am missing out on events supposedly happening in Phuket. I have been visiting here for 30 years, some of the trips were for six months and for the last two years I have been living here full-time. Yet I have never been ripped off once, I am missing out it seems. 🤣 Where can I find out where the Rippoff venues are? -
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JamesPhuket10 replied to Galong's topic in Phuket
No, keep places like that secret we don't want to be overrun by miseries. 😁 -
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JamesPhuket10 replied to Galong's topic in Phuket
Great, stay away from Phuket, negative boring people are not welcome. Do as you are doing and moan about a place you do not live in from afar. -
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JamesPhuket10 replied to Galong's topic in Phuket
Will I get the hat as well? 😄 -
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JamesPhuket10 replied to Galong's topic in Phuket
True, many Thais visit Pattaya for weekend trips, you will not see them in Walking Street, etc as they are in the restaurants in the 99% of Pattaya which is not girly-bar-land which a lot of the farangs on holiday never see and hence paint a poor picture of Pattaya amongst farangs. -
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JamesPhuket10 replied to Galong's topic in Phuket
Someone said in this blog, "Another friend is considering going back to Canada because he is fed up/bored with Patong and has been financially shafted by one Thai girlfriend, thereby losing his business, and his latest Thai girlfriend has decided to dump him! Not a happy chappy, so I expect him to leave very shortly." Anyone would become tired of Patong after a while, that is why most of us in Phuket do not live there, it is not the real world, it is like a real-life Disneyland. What I can't understand is the comments from people thinking Phuket is all about Patong, it is about six miles from where I live and I go there a few times a year as an outing, it is like going to another country for a few hours. Phuket is 543 square km in size. Patong makes up just a few sq km of the island. And if anyone is stupid enough to open a business in Patong and associate with the bar girls there who are 99% from other provinces, especially the North East then they deserve what they get, I do laugh when I hear of the stupid antics some of the farangs get up to and end up being ripped off. Luckily that type of person does not live in this area. I just looked out the window of the house and I saw no Russians or Chinese, I keep looking every few hours as we were supposed to have been overrun by them, but no sign of them yet so far. But the few Russians I have come across seem like nice decent people to me, not one of them had a bar girl in tow, the Russian males are with Russian women. -
And so the exodus of quality expats begins. This time it's personal
JamesPhuket10 replied to Galong's topic in Phuket
I choose to live in this area in Phuket as it is like living in a small village away from the rest of the world, the roads are all private, most of the residents are Thai, and there is a small private park for the kids of the residents to play in, plus as the roads are private there is almost no traffic so the kids can play in the streets as well. There are two manned barriers with CCTV so when I go away for a month or two the house is nice and secure. But outside there are banks, shops, pharmacists, etc close to hand. A massive Makro is a seven-minute drive away as is a massive Lotus and an even bigger Central Shopping precinct is a ten-minute drive away, best of both worlds. When friends are over on holiday I go out with them now and then to places like Patong, as I feel like I am going on day trip holidays as it is like being in another country, it is good fun in short periods. Then I drive over the mountain and life is back to normal, it is like those areas only exist in holiday land. -
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JamesPhuket10 replied to Galong's topic in Phuket
It is just another phase of the phases we have to go through. My two sons went to school and university in England, one is now married to a New Zealander, they have a child and he has set up a successful business in NZ, the wife is an architect. The other son is a biomedical scientist at a hospital in England. I have been living in the house in Phuket for the last two years full time, it was bought/built about twelve years ago, and it is in a quiet area with no girly bars, etc, they are miles away over the mountain. 98% of the people living in this housing complex are Thai and the roads are closed to the public. I do not have as many friends as I used to have as they move on or die. I will go back to the UK this week though, for a month or more, business class with a bed (EVA Air) is what I use now that I am older, health is worth more than money. It is just another stage we go through, but look at it positively, if you are not going through such stages it means you are already dead. 😄 -
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JamesPhuket10 replied to Galong's topic in Phuket
Yet you comment so you must have a chip on your shoulder about not living here. I do not live in New York or London but I do not make a special out-of-the-blue statement about it. Although I am going to London for a month next week. To the people who do not like Phuket, yes please stay away as we have enough winging ex-pats already (I avoid them like the plague). I laugh sometimes when I am in other areas for a visit, boring villages for example, some ex-pats tell me they do not live in Phuket for whatever reason and then they get on their twenty-year-old Honda Dream bike and ride off, I laugh and think, the real reason is you can not afford to live in here. -
Thanks for the info, I will give it a try and see what happens. I have to go to immigration in February anyway to renew the visa extension.