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Since my wife 'broke her family's rat,cockroach,and all other lovely creatures,infested' house and built a modern bungalow style house with all mod cons,my darling MIL(77 years and no sign of expiring yet) refuses to live in it.She sleeps outside and even still washes herself in the back yard.

In the mornings she squats over a wood and coal fire producing plumes of smoke which find their way into the new house.She sits on her haunches prodding the fire and glaring at us(epecially me) with a demonic eye.She looks like a witch doctor preparing a solution for curing boil's.We suffer this because she likes to eat some of the isaan crap that,just to look at gives me the shits for a week.We also suffer the smoke that invades the house because she is my wifes mother.I can sympathise with the op that has to put up with the smog produced by the fires that he complains about.We have this every day all year long.I tried toget my wife to explain to her about the Massetueses witch trials,but to no avail,(my wife just laughed)

Cest la vie.

Excellent post, from someone who lives in "the real Thailand"

Have a brother in law who comes down from upcountry and sleeps outside on the balcony rather than the a/c bedroom..

For me, thankfully I dont live in the real Thailand, moved to a gated community, none of this crap takes place.

None of the family live anywhere near us.

Tats, so passe.

Body modifications, brandings and insertments are where its at these days.

Pamela Anderson barbed wire crosses, Ce;ltic crosses, George Clooney style markings, and tribal markings are so old skool.

Might look kool on KSR, dont forget your sak yant and elephant hair bracelet.

Yes in farangistan gone mainstream, here in Thailand, no chance.

Check out the girls next time you are in, ING, UOB, Aberdeen, or HSBC Premier lounge.

Check out the staff next time you go to a hospital, gov't office or govt building.

The LoSo will be tatted up, the HiSo wont.

How many have spent time in a locker room after 18 holes and checked out the Thai men?

Yes you may see the odd sak yant, but it aint on display, their career would be over.

Next time you are at Immigration, check out the tats on display by the staff.

Horses for courses.

Despite that in order to save Bht3,000,000m, you need to be earning enough to save in the first place, it is not a great deal of money.

While ever the answer to the question: 'How long could you survive on Bht3,000,000?' is less that the time between now starting to do so and securing a replacement income stream you are faced with the fact that you will, when the money runs out, have to go back to work.

In that sense, 1 year is probably better then 4 years. If you take one year off you could relatively easily pick-up work again where you left off, if you take 3 or four years off you are going to struggle finding work and fitting back in again.

My advice is two fold:

1. If you need a break, take a break, but fix a limit on how much you are going to spend (perhaps a 1/3rd or a 1/2 of your savings), when you've spent that money get back on the big silver bird and go back to work.

2. During your break in Thailand - keep the wee fella covered.

My advice is two fold:

Nof offence to either the OP or GH.

My advice is twofold, if thats all you have after so long in the industry, you need to either change your IFA, or seek a new profession.

Alternatively,use the money to cross train.

I dont know your skills,career path or profession, but in todays world you need to be a renaissance man, have more than one string to your bow.

Use the money to gain further skills, its back to school for you matey boy, get your head in the books and gain internationally recognised skills that are transferable.

NDI/NDT get cross trained and go and work on aircraft etc etc.

Get some HSE qualifiactions.

But dont sit on yer backside feeling sorry for yourself, been there done that, get qualified and get mobile.

Jeezo this thread dragged out some real cheapskates.

I'm with Don Mega on this one, but fifteen months for me on current lifestyle.

Much different story when the oil industry boots me out the door though!

Can't believe the 15k a month post, my electric bill, gardener and pool cleaning costs that.

Met your type before.

Spending 500k baht on an engagement ring for some Thai burd.

Buying her a 2 million baht condo.

Then its back to Alberta to cross off the days til you come here next, wondering if your teelak is still waiting for you, thats if she even remembers you.

Knew a mug called Wyatt, he was so pleased to tell us his massage parlour girl wasnt a "working girl", she had her own condo and car in Pattaya.

Yeah good old Wyatt,another mug.

Mincing? Doubling down on the homophobic code, huh? Fascinating.

stick to what you're good at. You do the mincing, let someone else do the stuffing

At this time of year some like mince pies, right now I am Hank Marvin, would love some mince n tatties.

Carry on, same old mince.

^^^, up to you..

Do you eat your salads tossed?

Love it, best served with mangos. ^^^^

While people in Laos are very aware of it and several I spoke are making plans to work in Thailand soon. Must be an absolute horror scenario for the Thai rulers if people from other countries come to work in Thailand, people who are way more motivated, well skilled and working harder then the locals.

Nice anti Thai rant.

JT, I demand an invetigstion, post #84, is there collusion amongst the blue rinse brigade?

Porn of a dubious nature is being exchanged.

Actually, I would like to see some real photos of the contenders so we know who we are dealing with (if they are willing).

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Good gawd man, you look as if you need a good feed, dont they have Sizzler up where you live?

^^^^ well done JT, when duty called you answered, at least you were man enuff to step up to the plate.

Cant be doing with that hippy crap you posted, was thinking more about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY

Zimmer frames rule.

Loving the pensioners lurve in, the blue rinse brigade still have it.

There are many hi-so expensive moobaans in BKK but you won't see them from the main roads.

You can just go there uninvited and see the baan-office. The salesgirls will drive you around in the golfcarts and show you the houses.

If you have never been into a moobaan then do it, it's not comparable with the rest of BKK.

Also don't get fooled by the pictures they put on their websites, they are all photoshopped.

LOL, so true about those golf carts.

I live in one, its great, no bloody karaoke joint next door, no Somchais motorcycle repair yard round the corner, no packs of soi dogs running wild, no itinerant vendors flogging ice cream or rice.

No upcountry types with their barking yappy dog farms, no motorcyle gangs tearing up the sois, no graffiti, no fake monks etc etc etc, how the other half live, blissful.

Beautifully manicured lawns, clubhouse, gym and swimming pool, all for 20 baht per tw per month, money well spent.

Head to the West of the river and check out the 200 million baht mansions.

Property up to 50 million not enuff, best you head upcountry.

Disposable income of 3k pommie pesos per week, LOL, must be Loso.

I know farangs working here who pick up , 750,000 baht per month just for being here, schools, accomodation and insurance etc on top.

Perhaps the OP could come back and enlighten us, I know of no Thai jail in Min Buri, is he sure he doesnt mean Chatoengsao?

Please OP let me know where is this Thai Prison in Min Buri.

Do you mean a holding cell such as Klong Tan jail in Klong Tan?

I've constantly got my jaw on the floor with the sheer avolume of unbelievably good looking Thai girls networking on Facebook.

They just make sure they do themselves up real nice and tag themselves on the photos the nightclub posts to its FB page.

The girl I spoke about in my earlier post just tags herself on FB pages for clubs like Insanity, Mixx, Sugar Club and one or two joints in Pattaya when she's down that way.

She receives - LITERALLY - 200 friend requests a week. She friends the ones she likes the look of and sees them when they come over.

She's a 6-7/10 and she absolutely cleans up. She's landed herself a few sponsors, got a nice condo on Sukhumvit and her mum's well taken care of.

It's a new world guys and it's only gonna get worse and more expensive for the older, fatter guys

The girl I spoke about in my earlier post just tags herself on FB pages for clubs like Insanity, Mixx, Sugar Club and one or two joints in Pattaya when she's down that way.

And there is the first Red Flag straight away.

I live in a boring moo baan in Bkk in a boring suburb surrounded by boring girls.

They leave home at 7 or 8 in the morning, they get home at 7 or 8 in the evening, they dont have time to frequent the places mentioned above.

If I mention places like soi 11 etc, the Thais know exactly what it is.

Most of these girls head to places like Bang Saen, or Nakon Nayok for the weekend.

They are usually too exhausted from working to go clubbing at night, makes me laff when I see the pretties exit the store they work in, first thing they do is take off their 6 inch spikes and put on a pair of flip flops.

Never mind, as long as ther are websites selling the dream, the dreamers will keep on believing.

PS, check out the bars of Lower Suk, hansam man, LOL.

Hansam man couldnt afford a bottle of Grey Goose in some place like soi 11.

^^^ Neil Young saw through this bawana white man colonial type years ago, lets go and save the natives, LOL.

They killed us in our tepee
And they cut our women down
They might have left some babies
Cryin' on the ground
But the firesticks
and the wagons come
And the night falls
on the setting sun.

They massacred the buffalo

He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun.

Thailand is full of these new age missionary types, trying to convert the masses to their western guilt riddled mind set.

Dr Livingstone I pressume?

The difference is Education, Training and awareness. That's what the "nanny" states drum into you..

Thailand, sadly, not so much.

Perhaps but I think it's much deeper than that here.

Thailand still retains a lot of the feudal culture mentality.

Peasant lives don't really matter much here, do they?

Look at the way pedestrians are treated here. They are seen as expendable peasants.

If you actually kill one assuming you don't flee the scene (so common here and almost seen as normal and acceptable) ... what does it cost you, 5000 baht, if that?

The man changing the bulb was an expendable peasant and for him to stand up and say I want the tools to do this safely, even if he had that spark of intelligence / self worth valuing of his how own life in him which is very doubtful, he'd be out of his rice bowl right quick.

Sorry, yes I live here and nobody is making me live here, but I'm never going to admire that part of this culture which is like that.

Cheers.

Ditch the western mindset, and consider how your average Thai views this life, the next life and the one before.

Thais arent burdened with concepts such as original sin, purgatory or hell.

This life is nothing more than a vehicle that carries them to the next.

Why is it that people blaming the sons its not their fault they are kids as well they should not be left with a child in there care

No offence, I am sure you mean well, however you are applying Western logic to an Eastern problem.

I posted on here before about neighbours having to rescue a 2 and 4 year old walking in the streets at night, husband on the back shift, mother off whoring and gambling, mai pen rai attitude.

Ive found some Thai women VERY arrogant , like they really are something special, the last one was renting a room from a friend of my Wife 's and hadnt paid the rent for 2 months, I was asked to evict her, I met her i n the lift and said she hadnt paid her rent, she looked down on me and grunted as if to say , who the <deleted> are you telling me.

10 minutes later I was telling her she had 5 minutes to get her stuff out or I would be chucking them out the window, the "hi so" then became the " its not fair" sob story, i didnt give a sh*t and out she went, stuck up little cow

Is it that easy to evict people here? No legal process to go through?

Legal process, you got to be kidding right! She hadn't paid her rent in over 2 months. If they are using a basic Thai lease she should have been out the end of the first month when the deposit was being used? Obvious the wife or friend didn't have the balls to speak up and got the Farang to do it!

There is a reason many Thais leasing/renting here dont have contracts, the story posted by kannot sums it up.

Not to mention tax avoidance on the part of the owner.

Gotta love the Asian think outside the box mentallity, pure capitalism, no Nanny State here.

Spend some time living with the Thais in their condos, locks changed, boxes piled up in the corridor etc etc.

Bar girls are the worst for paying rent, go on long time with some farang to the Islands and forget to pay the rent, out the door you go.

Thats what happens when you live for today.

Got asked if the UK was near Australia.

Maybe they meant Austria

Got asked in Amerika if my wife was Chinese, I replied no she is from Thailand.

Bubba said to his mate, see I told you, Taiwan is Chinese.

Nothing more was said.

OP needs to head to India, no sin sot there, in fact, the girls parents will pay him, LOL.

The OP needs to escape the falang enclave and head to the suburbs.

Ive found some Thai women VERY arrogant , like they really are something special, the last one was renting a room from a friend of my Wife 's and hadnt paid the rent for 2 months, I was asked to evict her, I met her i n the lift and said she hadnt paid her rent, she looked down on me and grunted as if to say , who the <deleted> are you telling me.

10 minutes later I was telling her she had 5 minutes to get her stuff out or I would be chucking them out the window, the "hi so" then became the " its not fair" sob story, i didnt give a sh*t and out she went, stuck up little cow

Is it that easy to evict people here? No legal process to go through?

1 Yes.

2.No.