JamesPhuket10

Many of us older guys have a wallet with lots of money in it, we could all have lots of 20-year-old girlfriends if we wished, after all, we are in Thailand.

Are you trying to make this forum any more boring, at least Bob is a good laugh with his piss takes. 🙂

Thanks, I stand corrected.

A good reply, but Bob is a laugh, he must be doing it to take the piss and see how many people react seriously to his serial comments.😃

I know it is great, long live inflation in the UK, the rent is only a Swift payment away each time.

It is not a pot, if so we could take it out as cash as is the case with a private pension, it is a tax, and we have to pay it when working, or if a person is on the dole they get free NI credits so even if someone does not work they still get free NI credits. You do not need 44 years to get a pension, you need to have paid ten years to get some pension and 39 for a full pension. But if that is the only pension you have and it is not full it is topped up to a full pension payment every four weeks. "if what I paid in NICs hade been paid into an ISA or a pension I am sure I would be much better off." The sensible thing would have been to have done both like most people did.

I agree it was easy to apply for my non-O visa online in the UK, it was then posted to me in the UK and when the 90 days had expired I had it extended three times, a year at a time, and it took one hour each time. But it is a lot easier for people to move and live in the UK. You get on a boat in France, land on the beach at Dover, say the word "asylum" and a taxi will arrive and whisk you away to a nice hotel for the next year or two all expenses paid. 😃

My reply when I am told something is possible but in all practical terms it is not, I say "Yes it is possible but highly improbable".

National insurance is not a pension pot, it is a tax to pay for the current oldies, when those people then become pensioners they are paid for by current taxpayers not from a pension pot. The state pension is a "nice little earner", it goes up every year, and it administers itself and goes straight into my bank account. It pays for beer and restaurant for the year.

You must be from the Isle of Woman. 🙂

He must have been talking about the Island of Jersey. 😃

The State Pension is described in legislation as a “benefit” in order to root it within the existing social security framework.

I see, I took it to mean if anything goes wrong, eg serious illness and we need assistance getting back to our own country (repatriation) then the cash will be needed in Thailand to do that, but of course, I could be wrong. I have a two million baht stash and access to 130k pounds sterling of credit available to use as emergency exit money as you never know what can happen.

I have lots of things to complain about. I had to spend an hour last week at the immigration office to get my one-year visa extension and at the same time get a multi-re-entry visa, I had to go back the next morning to pick it up where I was greeted with a big smile from the officer and was handed my passport back, that took another minute. I spend at least five minutes online doing my 90-day police report. I spend the same amount of time doing the TM30 When I got my car driving licence last year I had to watch a one-hour safety video while sitting in my aircon car on my iPhone. I then had to go back inside the building and step on a brake, it took two hours to get the licence. I bought a car a while back while on a 30-day tourist visa, it cost a few quid for it to be put in my name with a brown envelope, which took two minutes. I have to press a few buttons on my Swift app to send money over from my bank account in the UK and sometimes it takes a whole day to get here. Then if I wish to buy things from Lazada etc I have to press some buttons again on my Bangkok bank account app to pay for it, the items then get delivered to my doorstep but sometimes it takes a few days. It is all so frustrating but I manage to get through it all at the end of the day. 🤣

His career on AN is to be the prime piss-taker. I think he is hilarious. 😃

Seems like too much work to me. (Not a criticism) I must be the laziest shopper in the world, I buy online, and for example, I buy one Polo shirt I like the look of online, and if it turns out to be OK I then order 20 of them in different colours. Same with shorts etc, I just bought 25 pairs. Trousers I bought ten pairs online. Shoes five pairs, that way my clothes shopping is very infrequent. Now making one's food at home in Thailand using Australian beef for example and fresh veg is much better than eating out.

Even if he has not paid a penny he will still get a pension credit when he gets to 66 so if zero payments he will still get 11500 pounds a year at the current rate, plus he will pay reduced council tax and other bills but if that is all he gets as income then it will mean an old age life of relative poverty.

What is wrong with having a sense of humour?

You get a state pension in the UK when you are 66, how old is this guy I wonder? Someone said he is 60.

Not true, state pensions can be paid to UK pensioners who leave the country and live long-term in other countries, the annual triple lock rise will not be applied though so the pension amount is frozen.

Very possible. I know a Thai woman who has three houses for rent just opposite a beach in a village in the Nakhonsi Thammarat Region, I will not give too many details. She never bothers with the TM30 online system to report farangs dates and details.

I just checked, since he left average house prices in England have risen from 88,400 pounds to 300,000 pounds. If you look at the South East of England average prices have gone from 106,542 to 475,133 pounds. National average rents are now 1271 pounds per month. South East rents are 2000 pounds a month. He could be going back to a life of poverty.

Don't ask for the impossible, it is Bob you are talking about, the biggest piss-taker in Thailand.

His, mine, or your 'support' in that respect has no effect, it is the judges who decide who stays and who goes in the UK. Several examples: criminals are let out of jail and are due to be deported but are instead saved by Human rights judges. This has happened many times recently, one of the reasons a guy was not deported was because his very young son normally eats chicken nuggets from the UK so not allowing the father to stay would be a breach of his human rights. You might think I have gone potty but look at the link below, a national UK newspaper, it was also questioned in the Houses Of Parliament in a live debate. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/albania-deportation-chcken-nuggets-home-office-b2695233.html

This is Thailand, not England, put one foot in England, say "asylum" and a taxi whisks you off to a nice hotel with full board and lodgings for a year or two. The Thais are not that silly. 😃