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My retirement visa runs out on 6th December 2014 ....how early can I get my new extension ?

thanks.

I would not think this strange in Thailand.....been here too long I think this is normal !

I am going back to live in Australia my wife got her partner visa after 7 months ,

I have been living in Thailand for 10 years but had enough and going back to Aust and so I need to sell my toyota fortuner ,I have it in the classifieds on thaivisa but need a faster place to sell as I want to go to Aust in 10 days.....any one know where I can sell fast in pattaya ?

thanks in advance.

I agree with you I have travelled all over Thailand in the last 18 years and now I am bored of this country and all its problems so tomorrow I have my ticket back to farang land......I am very excited about leaving Thailand .

maybe after a few years back in farang land I might change my mind and return to Thailand..

once you are over the bar scene and its all borring I think its time to go back and thai people do not like us or want us here ....only want our money....bye bye Thailand.

who is owen ,,,,,,,what ever ? never heard of him.

The Australian government seems to be doing what the UK government does. IE promise you lots of benefits at the start of your working life and then remove them when you go to claim them. This would be described as deception or fraud if it were a private company reneging on promises. However, as it's our government, we have to take it on the chin. I think we are long due a people's revolution in many of our Western democracies.

The government should start to worry about grey power. It could be the biggest voting block in the country and it's going to get bigger.

Expats should threaten to move back home and that would put the fear of god into them. Thinks of all those medical and pharmaceutical bills. They should be paying a bonus for expats to stay overseas.

Exactly, we cost the country far less by living here in Thailand and other countries. I belivee that Australia maybe soon be experiencing reverse immigration because of the soaring cost of living.

Sydney is now the 3rd highest cost of living city in the world,Many years ago it probably wasn't in the top 50 What I had to got through with Centrelink to get my aged pension was unbelievable and that was after a working life of over 40 years. For anyone who has been living out of Oz for some time and thinks they can go back and get their aged pension,when turning 65, and return immediately, you are sadly in for a rude shock.

Yes, you're correct about us not costing the Oz Govt the various subsidies they pay for power, pharmaceuticals etc. Believe me, they know to the minute when your passport is swiped on the way in.

Oddly enough, my GP still bulk bills me each visit, twice a year, and when I questioned this with the doctor's receptionist, she phoned straight through to someone and confirmed then and there that I'd arrived back in Oz the day before and yes, I could continue getting the benefits of bulk billing.

However, my visit to the pharmacist was quite different, and he told me I'd been taken off the pharmaceutical benefits list and had to pay the vastly overpriced cost of medicine. Cholesterol lowering drugs were listed as $55.00 each, and in the UK I read that the same thing is around 3 pounds.

Fortunately, the cost here in Thailand is nowhere near those prices.

I can not believe anyone is still taking statins (cholesterol lowering drugs) after all the stories around about how bad they are.....every one needs cholesterol no one need statins with all there side effects.

After my wife was cremated I went back the next morning for a dawn ceremony and I had to pick her bones out of the ashes and then wash them in holy water then place in a basket for another 2 days in the Temple to dry then another ceremony to place them in a large glass jar before placing in the temple wall.

It is a very final act and you have closure and you know the person is dead and gone.....not like in the west when you see a coffin slide thru a door.

I tool my car into cambodia 7 days ago at the osmach/surin province border crossing no problems.Drove down to Siem reap 3 days then Angkor wat and then home via hwy 6...then 5 then hwy 57 to Pailin.

Last week i was returning to pattaya from Udon Thani and went thru Prasat near Surin and thought i would try to drive my car into Cambodia.I have asked before and they say "no can not take car into Cambodia."

So here is how to do it,at the chong chom border near surin.

Get stamped out of Thailand then cross to customs and give copy of passport and blue car book and they fill in some papers and i gave her 100 baht.Then drive car thru border into no mans land and then pay US$20 for Cambodian visa.Then cross to Cambodian immigration and get stamped in.

Then you are suppose to stop at another place to get final permission to enter Cambodia but i'm not sure if you need to stop there as they keep all your car papers and expect some big money,i just sat and waited and waited and then picked up my papers and said thank you and jumped into my car and took off into Cambodia.

4 hour drive to Siem Reap on hwy 6 good road,then after doing the Angkor Wat thing.

Went home via hwy 6 to Sisophon then left there to hwy 5 to Battanbang.4 hour drive.then right on to hwy 57 for 88 klm nice road trip to Pailin and then cross back into Thailand at Pong Nam.we just pulled up at the gate and they opened it and we drove straight thru to Thailand then had to go back to check out of Cambodia.

So if you ask then they will say no because they want you to use mini bus and they are too lazy to fill in the papers but if you give a 100 baht they do it.

http://youtu.be/9J3R2jgbscU

Buy your self a glucose meter....available many pharmacy in thailand.

then stay away from carbs (rice,bread,pasta and all wheat especially whole grain)

google jimmy moore and learn about low carb eating.

after you eat a meal test your blood glucose on your meter and you will soon learn what to stay away from.

easy to do in thailand eat lots of veg and No fruit and no juice its all sugar (glucose)

I was in Nakhon Phanom yesterday and came across an old hotel maybe called the river view hotel,Looks like it was big in the 1960 s with the US airforce during the vietnam war. and bombing of Laos.

Does anyone have any ideas or stories about this old hotel just a few hundred meter down from the big clock in Nakhon Phanom ?

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/525972-nakhon-phanom-bridge-into-laos/

when my wife died i was told i am the owner for 12 months ....i was told i have to sell it in 12 months after my wife's death,so a farang can own land and house for 12 months .so i gave it to her family and everyone was better off.

lost one in bangkok and 2 years later another in udon thani now i have a half use tread spare and no one wants its !!!

I asked the parking attendant near my hotel to please not use his whistle late at night he got very angry and told me it was his job.....Darwin theory....inaction.

I have driven all over Thailand and many places in Laos but when i ask at the Cambodian border they say no can do except at the border near cham Yeam/Klong yai....they said i can take my car as far as Sihanoukville,

i wanted to go all over the country is this possable ?

I know my thai insurance will stop when over the cambodian border.and i will have to hand out tea money to police.

Very popular at some burger joints in the US. This one from Fatburger, which is very good.

I guess it helps that they appear to have used partially digested ingredients - real fast food

the only bad part about this burger is the bread bun.....all the rest is good for you.

eat real food like your grand parents did.....meat ,eggs,cheese veg just skip the bread it's poison.

no one pointing at him.......

yes its easy to get fooled by these lovely thai ladies.....i have done the same as you......

i was travelling thru customs in farang land with my 24 year old wife, when stopped by custom.

can i look inside your bag please ?.....yes go ahead.....AHH what are these ?........they are packets of viagra !

the he asks me what do i need them for.........i just turned and looked at my young beautiful thai wife and could not think of a good answer other than errrrrm.

any more news on exporting a car from thailand to australia ?

It's currently taking two to three weeks to obtain a UK Visa, dtails are here, http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/countries/thailand/?langname=UK%20English plently of posts on the subject, have a read and come back with any specific questions.

The Schengen Area is a different ball game, you should apply at the Consulate for your main destination of if there is no main destination, the Consulate for where you enter the Schengen Area, they do seem to be getting a bit tighter on the interpretation of this rule, well some are.

Thanks for the link....it looks like a 3 week wait....but i did get a lot of info fron that site like where to lodge the forms and price etc...thanks again

now i will look into the schengen visa via the swedish emabssy.

I am Australian and i want to take my thai lady to UK for a holiday for 2 weeks ,then over to europe for 3 weeks,i want to know how long it takes to get a UK visitors visa.

then i have to get a visa for europe....thats another story.

I just realized Kris i sent you a private IM after i see a post from you on another post.

maybe i should just bite the bullet and do the partner visa,but some one said more than one year to get it done here in thailand.

i think she can still get a tourist visa while we are waiting for partner visa.