OriginalPoster

Why does it cost you 100,000 to live here ?

Why would you want to live off less than 100K baht per month here? Just to prove that you can do it?

I want to have 1M a month to live on here ...... there is a difference between want and need.

And there also is a difference between cheap and frugal.

Why does it cost you 100,000 to live here ?

Why would you want to live off less than 100K baht per month here? Just to prove that you can do it?

You can buy cases from the distributor. If you're a big enough alcoholic and have cash they will deliver to your house

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Occasional bottle would suffice

You won't get single bottles at wholesale but they they may show up in the supermarkets after awhile.

Could you let us know the prices?

For most of them it's 215 baht for a 500ml bottle.

Or 185 baht at The Pub on Huai Kaeo Rd.

Anywhere selling retail?

You can buy cases from the distributor. If you're a big enough alcoholic and have cash they will deliver to your house

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Could you let us know the prices?

For most of them it's 215 baht for a 500ml bottle.

Or 185 baht at The Pub on Huai Kaeo Rd.

A sincere Thank You to Thailand, BB1955 and elektrified for your recommendation and support. I really appreciate it.

To Original Poster: the Happy Gamble is indeed a great place for dogs as well. The owners are very nice and professional. Two years before they opened their place they came to the kennel to introduce themselves. I thought this was very kind and professional of them. Unfortunately, I have a major problem with remembering names and recognizing faces (no joke). So, I’m still wondering if it was them that I saw at the vet a year or 2 ago. That light-bulb started flickering only after they left.

Neinke, I don’t mean to disrespect your dog boarding place. We used your place once and the dogs came back in good enough spirits. The main advantage that Happy Gambol has over you is also an inconvenience for some people, namely that they are quite a long way out of town and in a location where it’s not so expensive to buy a big plot of land for dogs to run around on. We are very serious about our dogs though, and if there’s someplace for them an hour away at which they will be pampered, that’s close enough for us.

Could you let us know the prices?

For most of them it's 215 baht for a 500ml bottle.

You're making a good effort but you might want to spend some more time with your staff explaining some of the basic concepts to them. For starters, when someone orders a bottle one of those ales they should assume that you want a pint glass and when they go to get a glass they should not need to ask the customer "do you want ice?" That might sound unrealistic given that this is Thailand and those are the customs, but you're running a specialty place and selling expensive beers to people that will presumably appreciate them, not selling Leo at a Karaoke lounge.

Staffing is a huge problem at the moment - not just for us, but all round Chiang Mai which has a chronic labour shortage. At the moment we have one girl who has been with us a fortnight and my wife's aunt who is kind of helping out. I'll certainly have a word with them, but on the list of things I'd like them to do, that is fairly low down the priority list!!

I'll remind them that we're not selling Leo in a Karaoke lounge (thanks for giving me that line to smile about on a Sunday morning!) This being Thailand though, it surely can't irk that much to say "pint glass and no ice!! "

Pedr, I'm sure you're a nice guy and all, but you're a bit too quick to throw your staff under the bus and you always have been. You own the place, the buck stops with you. Proprietors at other pubs somehow manage to train their staff.

Have to agree that Doi Saket is something special. By now there are quite a lot of farangs living there but nearly all of then are men of keen wit, sophistication, and wealth.

No women is it a gay community?

Whether it's a gay community or not is, as they say, "up to you". As in most places in Thailand, the farangs are overwhelmingly male.

I'd suggest that, while scenic, Doi Saket is a long way from any international-school, and therefore less-attractive to those of us with families ?

Also a long way from any real hospital.

Not to mention a long way from a decent Internet connection.

I stayed there for a while, my mrs. called it "Ban Mia Farang" ..... which is apparently not a nice term.

Oh yeh, and I hated it there, too far from town, too many abandoned houses in the moo baans.

Baan Mia Farang might be the nicest characterization but it's a step up from Baan Mia Noi.

You make it sound like beer is a drink to be treated like the more expensive wines.

Do you pour a little in a glass and swish it around smell it and then take a small sip?

Not being a wine conosour (obviously not a speller either) I might have missed a step or put them out of order. Sorry about that.

You'd have to be a Brit to understand our love affair with real ales, in an inherited/upbringing thing.

I'm not sure about having to be a Brit. Go brewery hopping in Portland, Oregon. One place had a chocolate cake with some stout and that stout was delicious with the cake!

One of my 'Real Ale' connoisseurs is from Portland, Oregon and he brought me back a brochure of real Ale pubs in Portland and,as you say Elaine, there is an incredible range of beers and hostelries!

As for Australia, well, fine beverage though VB may be, a real ale it ain't. Coopers from Adelaide is probably the nearest to the spirit of a real ale that we can get in Chaing Mai, but my favorite Aussie beer is the Golden Ale produced by James Squire's of Sydney.

We can certainly get Fuller's. ESB if there is a demand for it, but at the moment all our real ale fridge space is taken!!

You're making a good effort but you might want to spend some more time with your staff explaining some of the basic concepts to them. For starters, when someone orders a bottle one of those ales they should assume that you want a pint glass and when they go to get a glass they should not need to ask the customer "do you want ice?" That might sound unrealistic given that this is Thailand and those are the customs, but you're running a specialty place and selling expensive beers to people that will presumably appreciate them, not selling Leo at a Karaoke lounge.

You make it sound like beer is a drink to be treated like the more expensive wines.

Do you pour a little in a glass and swish it around smell it and then take a small sip?

Not being a wine conosour (obviously not a speller either) I might have missed a step or put them out of order. Sorry about that.

In some quarters, yes beer is appreciated in a similar fashion as wine. Though in the case of English ales the ritual would not be as you describe, generally a pint glass is used for them. Fancy glasses and raising your pinky in the air while sipping your beer are generally reserved for Belgian beers.

I'd suggest that, while scenic, Doi Saket is a long way from any international-school, and therefore less-attractive to those of us with families ?

Also a long way from any real hospital.

I might be wrong but I think it's perhaps the older generation of Brits who are the real conesewers (just for Dolly) of real ale, camera et al, that Fosters stuff and similar lagers, well, they're not really real ales, are they!

It's not just Fosters and similar lagers that aren't real ales. Even the best lagers are not real ales for a very simple reason -- lagers are not ales.

You overlooked the fact that my remarks ended with an exclamation mark and not a question mark.

OK, I see what you mean. A lot of people get confused between ales and lagers though, even some pub owners in CM do. For instance, I’ve seen both Leo and Beer Lao dark listed on menus at local pubs as being ales (though not at the Old Bell).

You make it sound like beer is a drink to be treated like the more expensive wines.

Do you pour a little in a glass and swish it around smell it and then take a small sip?

Not being a wine conosour (obviously not a speller either) I might have missed a step or put them out of order. Sorry about that.

You'd have to be a Brit to understand our love affair with real ales, in an inherited/upbringing thing.

Is that why fosters and 4xxxx is sold all over., the love has gone

I might be wrong but I think it's perhaps the older generation of Brits who are the real conesewers (just for Dolly) of real ale, camera et al, that Fosters stuff and similar lagers, well, they're not really real ales, are they!

It's not just Fosters and similar lagers that aren't real ales. Even the best lagers are not real ales for a very simple reason -- lagers are not ales.

Not American but was at Dukes that night, very American menu isn't it? Food pretty ordinary and bill bloody expensive, ripped off once was enough, plenty of better and cheaper options around. Before the loyal bite that is just our honest opinion.

I'm American but never cared for Thanksgiving dinners very much either. If you absolutely love turkey maybe it's a good holiday, otherwise I'd give it a pass.

I too, can give a big thumbs up for Lucky Dogs. We took our elderly Golden Retriever and 2 cats there for a week earlier in the year. When we picked them up they were clean, no fleas, happy, and in great shape. Nienke is a very nice lady and she really knows her stuff! I would not hesitate to leave our animals there again. Highest possible recommendation.

But Happy Gambol is plainly in a league above. Lucky Dogs is a sponsor of ThaiVisa, so it's understandable that they are recommended above all others. My advise to anyone who is in the market for a place to board their dog(s) is to drive to both places, look at them, and the make a decision. At the risk of saying something that might go against TV's rules, one thing that I can tell you for sure is that at Happy Gambol you won't see dogs being kept in cages.

Are you selling Fullers ESB also?

Dog Resort or Hotel? Five star I hope, room service, cable TV, spa with massage and pedicure preferable.

The Gold Standard is the Happy Gambol out near Mae Rim: http://www.thehappygamboldogs.com

It's essentially a Country Club for dogs. Only possible downside is that after staying there for a few days your dogs might not want to come home with you again.

Have to agree that Doi Saket is something special. By now there are quite a lot of farangs living there but nearly all of then are men of keen wit, sophistication, and wealth.

Secrets while alive - truth when dead. Funny.

Don't get the joke.

There recently was in interesting thread in this forum about password managers and strategies for keeping passwords secure. Basic premise throughout was that impenetrable security is desirable, but let’s approach this from another angle.

I’ve been thinking of this topic in terms of estate planning and what would happen to my wife & family if I died suddenly. Presently I track my finances in Quicken (which is passworded) and store passwords for all my financial accounts in Keepass. I also have pdf copies of most of my account statements on an trucrypted drive. Works great, but if I suddenly passed away it could be very difficult for my wife and family to find my assets. That wouldn’t be good because while I do want to keep my finances completely secret from them while I’m alive, I also want to make sure that they are able to inherit all of my assets once I pass away.

So I’m wondering – what are the popular solutions to this problem? Either high tech or low tech solutions are fine. It occurs to me that I could entrust all my financial records to a lawyer and let him hold them until my passing, but keeping the lawyer’s copy of the records up-to-date might be problematic.

The dogs in the markets are almost all very very sick. Might be there is some good market that i dont know about but i doubt it. They look good, but most are infected with Parvo virus or another deadly virus with a name i cannot remember. You take them home and in the evening or the next day they start to throw up, then starts the diarrhea which soon turns into diarrhea with blood in it. Without intensive treatment they almost all die, and sometimes the treatment wont help and they die anyway. Going to end up much more expensive than buying from a decent place, and a very bad experience.

Probably the other virus that you were thinking of is coronavirus. Can easily cost tens of thousands of baht in vet bills to try to save a dog affected by those viruses, as often by the time these dog merchants sell them they are to the point that interferon treatment is about the only thing that might work. And the person or shop that sold you they dog won't take responsibility for it either, most likely they won't even agree to give you you money back on the purchase of the dog.

Possibly, but I think it more likely that he was thinking about distemper which is much more dangerous for the dog and very often fatal.

Sophon

None of them are good news that's for sure. And worse yet is that puppies with distemper or other viruses are typically quite contagious, opening the possibility that once you take the pup home they might infect (and ultimately kill) other dogs with which they come in contact.

The dogs in the markets are almost all very very sick. Might be there is some good market that i dont know about but i doubt it. They look good, but most are infected with Parvo virus or another deadly virus with a name i cannot remember. You take them home and in the evening or the next day they start to throw up, then starts the diarrhea which soon turns into diarrhea with blood in it. Without intensive treatment they almost all die, and sometimes the treatment wont help and they die anyway. Going to end up much more expensive than buying from a decent place, and a very bad experience.

Probably the other virus that you were thinking of is coronavirus. Can easily cost tens of thousands of baht in vet bills to try to save a dog affected by those viruses, as often by the time these dog merchants sell them they are to the point that interferon treatment is about the only thing that might work. And the person or shop that sold you they dog won't take responsibility for it either, most likely they won't even agree to give you you money back on the purchase of the dog.