JamesPhuket10

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.

But @watthong is trying to make sure the door does not slam into his face. 😃

And of course, we are only hearing one side of the story.

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.

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.

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.

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?

That is because you are spending your money on the new girlfriend and not on them, the Golden Goose has been kidnapped. 😄

No, keep places like that secret we don't want to be overrun by miseries. 😁

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.

Will I get the hat as well? 😄

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.

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.

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.

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. 😄

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.

I have lost zero. Phuket is great as long as you do not live in a typical tourist area. It is a third the size of greater London, there are lots of nice areas to live in. I would hate to live in a small village where nothing at all goes on especially in Isaan, too backward for me, why not go one step further and live in a cave like a primitive? 😁 Oh and the other fallacy is it is overrun by Russians, people believe anything that is said/written on ArseBook, etc, so dim. The roads in this estate are private and so I hear a car go past the house maybe once every few hours, it is so quiet, yet the banks, chemists, convenience shops, etc are just a few minutes walk away. And it is reassuringly expensive to keep the riff-raff away.

I am going to go to the UK for a month from next week. My next 90-day report is due in December after I get back. I will try and do the usual 90-day report online from that due date instead of 90 days after I get back as it might be accepted online, I will see what happens. I doubt if anyone is checking these things, it is just a means of generating money and creating jobs. It is the same with the re-entry visa, I have already proven where I live, have money to live on, etc while getting the one-year visa extension, and so when I went to get the re-entry visa I had to show some of the same things again, no new information, it was 1000 baht for the three officers sitting in front of me for thirty seconds 'work'.

Set a reminder on your iPhone to repeat every 90 days, set it a week before the report is due. Then do the 90-day report online, it does not work every time as due to typical Thai nepotism a nephew of some politician probably wrote the website that handles the reporting, which means you have a week to try a few times to report online if it does not work first time, you will get a receipt, print it out and keep it in your passport.

Yes, I get them when I do the 90 report online, don't forget to check your spam folder on your PC for the receipt.

It is an honest and open transaction, you get the sex and the girl gets your money, it happens all the time all around the world daily, it is not something I would make public though, hey look at me I buy my sex. 😄

Those types of idiots make me laugh, I don't know anyone personally it has happened to as I don't hang around with guys who are married to exbar girls, but I have come across many over the years while having a beer at a bar (non-girly bar) and the story is always mostly the same. Met a bar girl, most of the time much younger as we all know very good-looking bar girls love old farangs (🤣). Get married, move to the girl's village which is usually in Isaan, buy a house and car, pay for the sick parents and maybe the bar-girls two or three kids from a previous Thai marriage. Once the bank account is empty the bloke is out on his arse or while on a trip abroad he comes back and finds the house has been 'sold'. I think if the girl was not worried about selling herself every night in Pattaya etc, then why would she think twice about ripping stupid old guys out of their money?

You can find out by, "contact immigration immediately"

It takes about two minutes to do the 90 day report online. (TM47), you get a receipt for free, print it out, and put it in your passport, what is there to moan about? It takes a whole three minutes to do the TM30.