JamesPhuket10

Can I add to your list please. Do not drive a horseless carriage, those new fangled things are dangerous, they can go faster than fifteen miles an hour. Don't use electric or gas lights, use candles, much safer, you might be electrocuted or gassed otherwise. Only use wind up watches. Well you will have no choice as you will not have any electricity in your house. 😄 Do not use TV's, they transmit repeated message lasting a few milliseconds and are secretly hypnotising you. Do not use doctors, use witchcraft. Look at how many witches have lost their jobs due to this new fangled medicine. Don't go in those flying machines, travel by bike.

I could come up with a very long reply pointing in details why you are so wrong on so much of what you wrote but I don't have all day. Most Western countries are almost cash less and have been so for a very long time, the only people in those countries who do use cash are the very old or the dim. Even when I shop in Makro and Lotus I seem most Thai people using cards, or their smartphones to pay. "They", "Them", "Those" are out to get us, then want to know what we had for breakfast, how long we spend in a supermarket and where we went for a beer with out mates, it is so funny to listen to all of this nonsense spouted out by the mad few, they think they are so important the governments wants to follow their every step. 🤣 Agent21: "Hey that guy just bought salt and vinegar crisps instead of cheese flavour, send an armed task force right at once, this could constitute a national security risk." And by the way AI does not exist at the moment, it might be achievable after another hundreds years, "AI" is just a marketing term as most people do not have knowledge about what real AI is and so have been fooled.

I am currently getting a new British passport. I paid an agent in Phuket 10,000 baht just for their service. They took my passport and forms to the office in Bangkok with the forms and applied on my behalf. That saved me one or two trips to BKK. After just ten days the current passport is now back in Phuket, the application is being processed in the UK. Total time should be 4 to 6 weeks. I will then go and move the visa extension to my new passport before getting the next extension in February 2026 at the immigration office in Phuket.

What is cash? In my distant memory I seem to remember it is the paper/plastic/cotton stuff people used to carry in wallets? People used the paper stuff while going to a town shopping area in their horse and carts. 😃

Some riff raff types creep in through the cracks. I bet this is a daily occurrence in Pattaya. 😄

Where and under what circumstances did you meet her?

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I have not looked up the details of an LTR visa until this point and I do not have their email address, I could look it up but instead could you please pass it on to me.

I have absolutely no interest in what goes on in Pattaya/Jomtien, I let the rif raf get on with it, I was there for half a day once and left as fast as I could. You wrote: "And by the way how is the Phuket travel business going." What travel business,?I do not have a travel business, where did you get that from?

Well I saw that and that is why I replied, it contradicted the reply another person had got from BOI so I was trying to see what had happened, I am assuming that English is not the first language of the BOI and I was trying to find which one of their statements was correct as if we can have the money in multiple accounts then I may apply for and LTR visa. I was not being argumentative.

Maybe it was just a wording mistake. It might mean for each bank account you have the money making up the 100k, the money has to have been be in each of those accounts for 12 months, that could be an explanation?

Re the bike. It was a 20 inch wheel bike and so the centre of gravity was not great, that is why I fell off it and then sold it.😃 I am converting my 26 inch wheel bike in Thailand to electric, I will only ride it on private land though. I have never fallen off it. As far as ladders go I get a Thai worker to do that sort of thing, labour is cheap here compared to the UK. Eg the tenant of my property in the UK said the hot water is not working in one of the shower rooms. It cost £85 just for the plumber to look at it and an extra £265 to fit the part plus labour, one hours job.

But you must have based your info on your own experiences in Thailand. And also in the West people tend to generalise, I was divorced in England a long time ago and I did not lose my shirt, we both got what we deserved as we both had worked hard. It seems the divorce rate is increasing in Thailand, about 40% of marriages end in divorce here. Plus about 20% of Thai women in a long term relationship are mia noi, so they will not be registered as wives when the couple split. The following are some basic stats on divorce rates from ChatGPT Country Rough % of marriages ending in divorce (first marriages / all marriages) Thailand ~30-40% UK ~34% for all marriages over long term; ~40% for some cohorts by 25 years USA ~40-45% for first marriages; higher for repeat marriages

Yes, the guarantee from any one bank in the UK is £85k, so I split my cash into different banks. In December 2007 I put my second house on the market as I felt the property market had gone too far, I kept the main house as we were using it as a family house long term. (I got caught in the 1988 crash, lost five properties in London, base rates at about 16%, I was young enough to recover financially). I completed the sale in January 2008, got a very good prices and a few months later the prices dropped and then accelerated downwards after the collapse of Leman Brothers. I decided to sell the family house in early 2021 as there was a race for space for large houses in commuter towns near London after the two/three years of Covid lockdowns were over and many people were working from home. I thought here we go again, I sold at a good price, put the cash in the bank as later on it was earning over 5% interest and I watched prices drop in the South East. I checked recently and it is now on the market for less than I sold it for over four years ago. I bought an apartment in a commuter town to London earlier this year next to the train station and it was rented out in ten days. I know the one day a week in the office would not last and so people would want to live near a station, the flexi time arrangements is now on average 2.7 days a week in the office, that will go higher as the job market is getting tighter and so employers will demand more time at work. I saw that interest rates were on the fall thus boosting the property market in the next few years, I bought it for 12% cheaper than the original price as prices again had dropped. I used the cash I had to buy it so now I do not have to be keeping a weekly eye on interest rates and moving money between a dozen accounts as I had to do for the last few years as most of the money has been used for the purchase. I also worked in Germany for a few years including Frankfurt, but I used to commute back to the UK every Friday and back again on Monday.

@pchansmorn was correct in his comment. Thai hospitals arrange for cremations through a charity they administer, I give to the charity once a year on my birthday. Was that reply short enough for you to grasp?

It took five minutes to write and would take three minutes to read, unless you have a problem with old age sight that is. 😃 Why did you bother replying to something you had not read. I did not go to the shop today, or eat a biscuit, the list goes on. What else did you not do today. 😄

There was no tinting in malibukid's era, everything was in black and white. 😃

What you saying is what all old people have said and will carry on saying as the generations go by, I remember my dad saying a similar thing to me when I was young. A letter, I have not written a letter as in post/stamp etc for decades, I use email which is more efficient, has proof of receipt etc. A book,? The last time I read a book was probably 25 years ago, text books etc are out of date as soon as the ink has dried, especially in my profession, software engineering. People can look things up a lot more efficiently nowadays, Google, the so called AI (which despite the hype does not yet exist, maybe in 100 years time), as long as you know how to filter and cross check the results, long gone are the out of date encyclopaedias etc, do libraries sill exist as I have not been to one in decades. I have two grown up kids, one has a family and successful business in NZ, one is a biomedical scientist in a hospital in England, not bad for a generation who do not know sh** I bet the young do not argue with your comments and probably just smile and nod thinking yet another old bleeder ranting on about the good old days. 😃 (Look up the Monty Python comedy sketch about the Four Yorkshiremen on YouTube) Or the following transcript https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wVtYXCzkdjkws7lniHclUZpl6Of9hrKQprb6_YzRYjo/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0 I will be 70 next year, I do not feel old yet and am still very active on a day to day basis and I am still writing software apps from home. Now it is the younger generations turn to do the grafting while I see back a little bit.

Thanks for your information. The money is in three ISA savings instant access accounts in the UK but are with different banks so they will not be accepted as the money has to be in one account.

Thanks for your input. I think I will stick with the current visa extensions. Plus as the cash in England is in tax free savings accounts, I am getting 4.3% interest on them plus saving 20% in tax thus producing a profit of 5.375%.

It is thanks, it is also in Thailand with nine million visitors a year, maybe they are all actors seeing as everyone else has now chosen Vietnam as their dream destination over Thailand. Phuket is reassuringly expensive and so the riff raff stay away.

I don't see any here in Phuket, most tourists seem to have money and are spending it as I can see in the very large shopping centres here. One of them had to expand to twice its size and is linked by an enclosed foot bridge, now that would not have happened if there was no high end money here.

I could offset your one or two negative images with hundreds of pictures taken of Thailand. All I would have to do is get in my car and go to the many beautiful beaches here in Phuket. Don't you think infrastructure has to be repaired in Thailand or do you think it repairs itself. I am not sure what the point if of your one or two pictures trying to make it look like those pictures are representative of all of Thailand. If I did not like Thailand then I would go elsewhere.

I have a few visitors coming this year and next year to Thailand, the few quid will not put them off. Maybe the lower end of tourists or backpackers may chooses Vietnam over a Thailand but I can't see it myself. It is like saying I should buy a Big Mac instead of a Whopper from Burger King as it is cheaper, it is not the same quality though. The same thing applies to Vietnam and Thailand, I doubt if the experience of visiting Phuket with all of its high end facilities can be available in Vietnam.