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Here is what they think of us lot .... after 3 middle fingers, I was asked to exit the vehicle

You're actually proud of sullying yourself with behaviour a ten year old should have grown out of over a couple hundred baht?!? Baffling...

Phark these reporters and their adjectives. And anyone who makes fun of his age or girth, her former profession or their respective motivations for being together. I like them. Good luck Harold and Nat!

I've been chasing around this issue as well. As far as I have got is a chicken and egg situation whereby the tax office in Pattaya won't give me a tax number without me having a work permit. I also have to be very careful as my tax authority outside Thailand does not have a double taxation agreement with Thailand and as such I could end up paying tax on worldwide income in both jurisdictions.

I have had a consultation with the an accountant who confirmed the problem.

After much deliberation I have decided to go the way of the mushroom kept in the dark.

You certainly don't need a work permit, we are non resident only on 30 day visa (currently only spend 28 days in Thailand each year). Though not sure if this is different for those on 12 month retirement visa.

They will ask for work permit but we explained situation and we each had a tax file number in about 15 min after supplying copy of rental agreement & passport and the next day we supplied copy of our title deed and showed them the bank account to confirm in joint names then they issued us with a partnership tax no as well and completed the Tax return for us

Not sure on the dual tax situation between home country. Something we need to look into.

For Australia, technically you're supposed to declare the rental income as foreign sourced income. There is a JTA between Australia and Thailand, so whatever the OP pays the Thais will count as a foreign tax offset on his Aus. tax return.

I've never bought property here, but it occurs to me that people are pretty open about the rent they're paying. So if buying a second hand condo you can probably figure out what similar units are renting for without too much difficulty. That might help you figure out how much the thing is really worth - if they're trying to charge you 50 years rent or something then you know the thing is overpriced.

Going with wife and daughter I explain that I live and work in Thailand, pay my taxes here, live with my family here, that we are not rich (I might tell a small lie about my salary being 21,000B/month) and that if I have to pay that ridiculous fee, I won't be able to go in and my family day out will be just my wife and daughter, whilst I sit at the entrance waiting for them to come home.

It has worked once (Doi Khun Tan National Park) but not at Doi Inthanon, where I sat for three hours with the staff to ensure they felt suitably embarrassed at the entire situation.

I imagine that sucked for 3 hours, but the important thing is that that you didn't lose face by backing down. Nice!

My other option is i do have a contact who can sort my overstay out inland and I wont have to leave but he will take 5 days to do that which means holding the police off until my passport is back.

Is this legal? If not, do you really think it is wise to break yet another law at this point?

Sounds like it might be a more serious law too. Right now the OP has committed an overstay and what sounds like a fairly minor DUI (you're still a bloody idiot for it - but that's not the point). "Fixing" the overstay (corrupt civil servant? forged Government documents?) might count as pretty serious fraud in the eyes of a court though.

Trying to clear the overstay at the airport sounds like the best way to go. Perhaps the OP could use his connections, or some legitimate service if they exist, to figure out if he's going to get stopped at the airport or not.

If I were the OP I wouldn't worry too much about the local cops seeing the stamps after I returned. If they do notice, come clean at that point and acknowledge you firetrucked up. From what he says, they sound like reasonable enough guys.

70% approval? Hmm, best he stays on as PM for several more years then!

Only a fool would suggest otherwise!

I feel really uncomfortable buying from Thai companies.

How much does shipping and customs inflate the price?

Obligatory:

http://www.invadeit.co.th

The service these guys provide is as good as anyone in the world. Search the forum for "invadeit" and you'll find nearly everybody in agreement.

International schools cost 600.000/year and up

Most in CM do not cost that much.

Do you have fun just making up "facts"?

Friend from USA paid 600k/year for his son's int school in CM, actually his wife her son. How much they cosy following your sources? There are different levels int schools perhaps basic/premium?

600K/year sounds like the last couple of years at Prem, the most expensive CM school. So this figure is probably pretty close to an upper limit.

Seems to me that there is a proportion of the US population who care more about their ancient constitutional rights than the lives of their friends and family. Seems to me that any American who takes the same stance as the NRA, or worse donates money to it, has his head stuck firmly in the sand.

Your country has a serious problem which needs to be solved, wake up!

But I'm just a Brit so what do I know?

Not much as you still genuflect before your betters, The Queen and her retinue, and aren't even a citizen of your own country but a "subject" of said queen.

Incorrect since 1949.

In an endeavour to stop this topic immediately descending into ill-informed commentary have a read of Australian gun laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Australia

I don't give a rat's turd about Australia's gun laws...if that's what they want that's fine. Americans will adopt gun laws in line with American law, cultural traditions, and historical experience.

Would that be the cultural tradition to shoot everything that goes "bump" in the night or the historical experience of 355 mass shootings in one year?

It's the historical experience of settling a frontier, a cultural experience of fathers teaching their sons to hunt, and finally saving gun-fearing countries like Oz from an imminent Japanese invasion and rescuing a gun-hating continent like Europe from the clutches of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

And your figure for "mass shootings" is so bogus...what's it down to now...two or more injured or killed is now a "mass" shooting; and the majority of these so called mass shootings are drunken bar brawls wherein people get injured or killed by a gun. These are hardly the type of incidents most people associate as a "mass shooting" event.

They do sound like the type of incidents that stricter gun laws would reduce though.

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Have you any idea of the conditions in which many Thais live?....or the fact of what one is acclimated to? "Back home" really is irrelevant.

Many of my friends are farmers and I don't live in Pattaya so I know how most or may Thais are living, I have even visit my students home villages up in the mountains, you know when first you take the "pickup bus" for 14 hours and then walk another 2-3 hours... I live in a house that have wooden walls and floor and a concrete roof it's similar to how most of my friends live... BUT I have AC too. The problem is the excessive drinking, otherwise a temperature of +15C is not enough to kill only to be unpleasant:

• Alcohol and other drugs alcohol makes people feel cosy because it relaxes the blood vessels, allowing more blood to flow near the skin, providing a flushed appearance and a warm sensation. This also puts people who are drunk at significant risk of hypothermia if they are outside in cold weather, as this increases the rate of heat loss. It also slows down the metabolism, so slows down internal heat generation. Alcohol also impairs judgement, so the person is less likely to recognize the environment and their own physical condition, and less likely to take protective measures against heat loss. This is also a concern with any other mind-altering substance.So yes you can get hypothermia if it's +15 degrees but the thing is that in Sweden (where I'm from) that would mean that you could die of hypothermia if you sleep outside during SUMMER in nothing but shorts and with alcohol in your blood but I have never ever heard about anyone dying from hypothermia during summer either in Europe or US... But hey, we can't blame the alcohol because then most of us here would be in the risk zone...

Hypothermia occurs when your body loses heat quicker than it produces heat.

Your theory that most people who die from it have problems with alcohol is complete and utter bollokkkks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia#Alcohol

I realize it's a translation, but I nearly choked when I read the word "plight"!

If they're going to send these poor people anywhere send them to South Korea.

If they are sending them back to North Korea I doubt very much whether asking the South Korean embassy to help will work!

North Koreans are actually automatically South Korean citizens. It's in the SK constitution. So all they have to do is make it there.

It's actually why there are no virtually North Korean refugees anywhere. Europe and the US consider them SK citizens and so they usually can't apply for asylum.

You can't present your visa in an expired passport. You get it transferred

Nonsense!

Inexperienced "travelers" should refrain from making ill-informed comment

Visas are never "transferred" ....................

Have you ever had a Visa transferred?

VALID VISAS remain valid even if contained within an expired passport.

Valid visas in an expired passport will be accepted by immigration officers world wide.

To use a valid visa contained in an expired passport one presents both the expired passport containing the valid visa together with a current valid passport.

Possibly!

But in this case if your passport has less than 5 years to run they stamp it with a PE visa that expires the same day that your passport does. When you get the new passport you have to go back to Chaeng Wattana and they will give you a new visa that expires 5 years after you picked up the first.

Source: The girl must have explained it to me a dozen times when I went to get my visa.

To the OP: It appears to do what it says on the box - you hand over the money and they give you a visa. I haven't tried using any of the other services they offer.

I grew up with roosters for neighbours coming from the countryside. Crack of dawn every day.

Made me feel alive and the noise therapeutic.

I also like to hear the birds twitter and sing.

Best feeling in the world.

There are a lot of birds where I'm at, very natural setting but I'm not appreciating the roosters and the rude awakening- anyway can anyone read this? Thanks in advance.

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I'm missing a few words here and there, so I'm not 100% sure...

It basically says that all sorts of animals need to be kept in "suitable" places in order to avoid causing problems for the community, owner or environment. It expands on this mentioning problems that might be caused by dangerous animals, disease (including some specifics) and allergies. Then says "as well as this, annoyances (should be considered) - for example smells, the sound of the animals calling or waste water from washing the animals etc.".

So I'd say you've found something relevant here. But it seems more like guidelines for an official or resident to consider more than a law or by-law per se.

Foook all roosters as far as I'm concerned

Edit: The main word I was missing is "intent". Which explains why it seems so vague. The main heading of the posted section is "The control of pets and other animals" and the sub-heading is "the intent of the law". So there might be more specifics over the page...

How can you enter Thailand illegally unless you ran the border somewhere at night or swam

across the river from Laos.....

I think you could probably get a boat to take you so you wouldn't have to swim.

There are these massive unguarded borders with Laos, Burma and Cambodia that if you knew the right people it would be easy to get across. I know there is essentially a path between Poipet and Arun that the locals use when they don't want to bother with the official border. It must be easy in say Sakhon Nakhon province for example.

That bit sounds easy enough. You would think getting out of Australia when you're not supposed to would be tricky though. Or do they not check outbound passengers?

Edit: Just noticed in a post above "There have been calls to never permit convicted paedophiles to travel overseas in any circumstances, but as yet legislation has not been enacted.". Huh...

"though if it is a young infant (too young to remember) you might want to consider letting the adoption agency take the child back until you have gone through the required paperwork"

Sorry a bit off track, but I don't agree w the above. The body remembers all. Through a particular healing work I was able to feel trauma going back to birth and in the womb - multiple times over 20 years. The most vulnerable times of life can register the deepest traumas. I have no doubt the child already carries, unconsciously at least for now, the separation from her birth mother.

You took too many New Age pills. Science does not support your statements whatsoever.

Certainly he is speculating a bit.

But perhaps so are you. Do you have a link that documents any attempt to scientifically verify or rebut the idea that events experienced when very young affect ones personality later on?

Price fixing leads to shortages. One of the few actual facts in the field of enonomics.

The solution to the inavailability of taxis that want to drive across town in peak hour is not to force drivers to do so, it is to create a system that allows passengers to offer a sufficient fare to entice them to do so.

Compared to whom are they met with negativity?

Those on education visas? Those nasty people with the gall to teach English? Digital nomads?

This site is filled with hate and negativity. It's the nature of it. Either get used to it or log off would be my sincere advice!

Edit: Oops, nearly forgot! You're too poor, your religion sux and you're ruining it for the "rest of us". Also, you're fat and only care about whores. Yes you. Personally!

You're only 18 years old? Let me give you some advice young man:

First - learn to defer self-gratification, which means develop self-discipline;

Second- save your money, in Thailand you can still make a couple of percent on your deposits;

Third - Pay cash;

Fourth - Be asset rich and debt poor - The most debt you should carry is 1 credit card that you pay off completely before the due date.

Do that, and your be richer than 80% of your fellow Thai citizens.

Never pay interest on something that depreciates...

After you shop him, do you intend to volunteer to teach the same kids for free?

Playing amature gangster in order to recover a few thousand dollars would be exceedingly foolish. The potentially life-ruining risks far outweigh the frankly trivial rewards.

No databases in the world are safe from hackers.

I disagree, but will leave it at that...

Yes or no on "It is virtually impossible to say for sure whether or not any specific database system is safe from hackers."?

Great naming of the initiative after recent events...

On September 11 as well. Someone's taking the mickey.