JamesPhuket10

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

Well there are a lot of tiers in relationships not just two. But as far as I have seen most of the guys I have come across who are married to a Thai are partly in the second category in that their wives are with them as the wife does not work and the farang husband pays for all of her expenses and in many cases they think it is normal to support the wife'e family as well, they make me laugh. So I am in a probably in a mutually beneficial category I suppose, in that my Thai partner of 20 years owns eight houses which she rents out, she bought them though her travel tour business in Phuket, four of the rental houses are in Phuket, hence she has her own income, I have my own income and so no money changes hands, we get on really well and have a good laugh together and so it is fun and mutual happiness for both of us to live together. There must be a lot more other type of relationships where the man is the boss, the woman is the boss, loveless categories, in it for the money category, the list goes on.

I fit into neither of those two generalised categories, I am probably in one of the other dozens of sub-categories which exist. People are not just black or white.

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.

I don't tend to hang around noticeboards in Big C etc, it seems like a losers pass time. My Thai partner has four houses she rents out in Phuket, she does not know of the existence of such notice boards etc and she has managed to keep her house rented out full time for the last 15 years. The rents are going up not going down. Offshore bonds, well if you are talking about living in England then the tax man will get you, if you are not tax resident in the UK then you do not need to hide any bonds you have offshore as income outside of the UK for such people is not taxable. You seem to talk in random words which do not make much sense, they probably do to you though EG "those Hunkie Russkies are after little boys wearing tight shorts" That probably makes sense in your world. 😃

There must be two Phukets. Whenever I have left or entered the Island through the bridge I have never had to stop, I had to slow down of course, so it took two minutes longer than if the check point had not been there. Were you riding on the back of a snail? I can walk to dozens of restaurant etc from where I live in Kathu, Phuket, I can also drive to many in ten minutes. I agree Patong and other tourist areas are busy and the traffic is slow but there are plenty of other areas in the rest of Phuket which are easy to get to, but most of us do not live in the tourist areas, we go there now and then. We are also surprised how busy they get but there are many other places to go instead. I suppose it is great to visit Phuket as at least you have things to do while here, living in the back of beyond, no thanks.

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I suppose that is what I would say if I could not afford to live in Phuket, plus a lot of guys are living in Issan etc as they have no choice, they foolishly bought a house a car and a buffalo in their wife's area and have no control over it at all as nothing is in their own name.

Try going to the 95% of the area in Phuket where there are no bars and nightclubs. People's view on Phuket is a view of themselves in a way. Some people come, only hang around the small areas with girly bars and then go back and tell everyone about what they have seen and that is their view of Phuket, no I laugh, it sums up those people. A family from the UK came for a week's visit earlier this year, we went to the beach, Aquarium, temples, fed the elephants in the refuge etc, they though it was wonderful as they saw what most people come to Phuket to see.

We live in places which suit each of us, no answer is the best, I do make jokes of it sometimes but it is all for fun. I like Phuket as each area is a different contrast to another. Example Kathu where I live, as I state before I live on a closed housing estate with 350 or so houses and 99% of the houses are occupied by Thai families so that does not at all feel like a tourists areas. So they are settled down and there are plenty of jobs available to them and many have their own business. They do not need to go north to settle down. The only cars passing the houses are driven by the people who live here, no access to the general public so it is very quiet. There are banks/chemists/ 7/11 /and many other shops in walking distance outside the boundary of the housing area, Massive Makro/Central Shopping/ Super sized shopping areas are within ten minutes drive. The beach fifteen minutes. Sometimes but rarely I go with my partner to her area near Nakhon si Thammarrat, it is a small village, she goes there to check on her house rentals. I am ready to leave after two days as it is boring as hell and feel great when I get back to Phuket. So Phuket is what people make of it, it is ⅓ the size of Greater London and so is a massive area, many people come for a few days, visit the darker side of the island and then go back with a false idea of what Phuket has to offer. In my area there are lots of bars and restaurants where both Thai and farangs go and none of them are girly bars like some of the areas in Patong. Ten minutes drive from me is a reservoir with a cycle/walking/jogging path around its six miles route, we go walking there every day, of the walkers/cyclists etc 98% of them are Thai.

When Germany invaded France, Poland, etc., local resistance fighters: Sabotaged, ambushed, and killed Germans Blew up bridges, assassinated Nazi collaborators Were often celebrated later as heroes by the West Today, the French and Polish resistance are seen as legitimate defenders of their homeland. After 1948, many Palestinians were displaced having their land forcibly taken from them (about 700,000 in the Nakba, or “catastrophe”). Over time, Palestinians began armed resistance, especially after: 1967: Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Some groups, like the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) were created to fight back Their actions are labeled “terrorism” by Israel, the U.S., and much of the West. So we decide who are terrorists or not, double standards it seems. The US in its support of Isreal who are killing women and child by the thousands at the moment are not terrorists it seems. Let them be recognised, give their land back to them and end this war created by the West.

I am in the UK for the next month. My Thai visa extension is valid until February 2026. My British passport will expire in May 2026. We need to have a passport valid for six months or more in order to get a further Thai visa extension I think? So I suppose I should return to Thailand with my re-entry permit in my current passport and then before I go to extend my Thai visa in February 2026 I get a new British passport while I am in Thailand. How do I apply for a new British passport in Thailand? I live in Phuket.

I think most live there as they can not afford to live anywhere else where there are things to do and a bit more going on. I for example live in Phuket but not in the tourist parts which most visitors do not know exists. Three hundred or so detached houses built on a private estate, security controlled etc. There are only about five houses occupied by farangs, the rest of the families are Thai so even in Thailand we can avoid farang expats if we wish, we don't need to stay in the arse end part of the country to do that. But I like the international atmosphere of Phuket, you even get a better class of Thai there as all the Thai losers are still stuck at the arse end of nowhere as they do not have the brains or the drive to escape.

Your words seem a bit random, were you drunk when you wrote them? I and probably you are not involved in the top end of the market as described in your article, we do not have tens of millions to buy such properties in London so it is irrelevant. Which part of Thailand do you live in? Notice boards with flats for rent in supermarkets, what is all that about? "Come old age returning to UK,social services will cripple you for charges,..." If you are saying we need to pay and the NHS will not be free that is nonsense, it is a falcacy pasted about on such blogs by uniformed bloggers. How do you hide bonds etc, is there a secret bond market out there that we do not know about? 😃

Yes go and see a doctor as 150 is too high and 50 is much too low, organs can be damaged due to lack of adequate blood supply, you need to have your medication changed or adjusted. I was 152/70 six weeks ago and have been in touch with a doctor here in the UK who I give my readings to. My medication was changed and I went down to 142/65, still too high as the doc wants me to get down to the 130's, I am 69 and so that is regarded as OK. I am due another chat with the doctor in two weeks time. Take your readings in the morning and evening. Sit down for ten minutes and read the news or something, then take the reading, wait five minutes and take it again. Over seven days you should add up all of the readings and get the average. Do not take the readings if you have eaten in the last hour. But see a doctor, we can't take our money with us when we go. Good luck and do something about it.👍

I was comparing the F16 to the old Gripen as this was the subject of the comment, no relation to new fighter aircraft. The reason the F16 sold much more than the old Gripen is because it was more flexible The F-16 was known for its large-scale combat experience, extensive logistical support, and ability to integrate into NATO systems.

As usual with these posts, vast generalisations are made without thinking of the details. "You're asking too much of people, the vast majority of the planet is utterly self-absorbed..." What survey performed or what data are you using to come to this conslusion. "...Conservative politicians have made it fashionable to be both disinterested in, and to deny science. " What nonsense, science is still going on, science is developing at a fast pace as it always has, for example there is a new 18 month study on some medication which cleans the plaque out of a human brain thus halting Alzheimer's and may even prevent it. Think of all of the vaccines developed which have save hundreds of millions of lives over the decades. It is religion which denies science. "The universe is truly amazing, cosmology is fascinating, astronomy is mind-blowing, and my heart goes out to anybody who doesn't appreciate those fields of study. " How do you know how many people are not interested in such subjects. I write my own iPhone apps which I sell for example, I am interested in many subjects and learn new things on a daily basis, but I do not try and ram them down peoples throats. Another thing I do not do is in a social situation, in a pub or restaurant for example is expect other people to have my interests as they will have their own, I do not bore them with rambling on about my interests and expect them to have the same interests as me. I think a lot of people do not have any social skills maybe due to Asperger's for example and do not know what to talk about in a social situation and so bore others with what they like and do not like. TiKTok and ArseBook are not new in principle, they have just allowed the gossipers and village idiots of the past to unite, they will not affect any part of science as the village idiot did not in the past, science and the study of it will continue no matter what these TikTockers say to each other.

I am neither for nor agains apathy. 🙂

Can I borrow it as well after you have used it, I wonder which part of Thailand he is referring to as rents in Phuket have not crashed, they are rising as are house prices. Maybe in the back of beyond a villages in Issan they have decreased from 3000 baht a month to 2900 baht a month 😃

And if the flat is not three storeys? Is in an area which is expensive and near a station, is in the South East where people have money, can afford the rent, likely to appreciate over time, and has a lease remaining of 992 years? Two lifts directly from dedicated underground parking spaces. Built by an award winning company, is solid, has an EPC of level B and has an A1 EWS1 certificate. Rental income £1800 per month and rising. A good bolthole for when I am too old to live in Thailand anymore, we all get old and sick at some point and will not be able to get medical insurance at that age in Thailand. A lot of people I see sell up and thirty years later are locked out from buying back into properly in the UK. For example, I bought the family home in the 1990's for 175k and sold it a few years ago for £750k, give it a few years and it will be worth a lot more thus that would have been a lock out if I had not reinvested it in smaller properties to rent out.

I was about to say leave Issan out completely, go straight to Phuket if you want things to do. Why not save time and not go there at all. 😃