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How on earth will anybody make any profit selling a meal for 10 baht?
I would think that the cost of the food, gas for cooking, shelter, labour and getting to and from some of the locations will cost more than 10 baht, unless the "Ministry" is supplying all the materials and not taking any cut down the line.
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Blows me away - I thought we were living in the tropics!?
If only people had the money or cents to install some big f### off water tanks on their roofs or under their houses.
Exactly
If only people had the money
Wassana Song-anand, a villager in Map Ta Phut, said there had been no water since Sunday, forcing her to buy water for Bt10 a bucket.
“If this continues for another five days, I won’t be able to afford it. Industries grab all our water,” she said.
A lot of people dont have the money to buy a big water tank on their roof or under their house.
My wife and I live about 400 km north of Bangkok and last year we got caught out and had to buy water so this year I installed 14,000 litres of water storage and I still had to buy water as there was a shortage for 3 or 4 weeks. It was not a problem as we can afford it but just think how much water you personally use in a day for washing, shaving, showering, cooking, washing up, using the toilet etc and then multiply it by 4 to use the same as a family. Figure that a bucket of water is a gallon and it weighs 5 kg and then multiply that by the number of gallons you use and that is how much you have to carry. Remember each gallon will cost you 10 baht and see how much that costs per day.
Then you can come back with a foolish remark such as you made above.
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No more nasty visa-runs to Thailand for her.Did some of you guys met her at Poipet yet ?
No, but she did turn up in a Sukhumvit bar once - not telling which, though.....
So thats who she was.....
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Congrats to you long timers. I hope to join the club one day. Share the secrets of your success with us.
MrBoJ
Beat the wife once a day before meals, or was that eat my pills? My memory is getting bad.
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Hi Guy's
Sorry if this topic has been posted before as I am quite new to this site.
I would like to know for the guy's whom have settled out of the cities and costal areas to country places....what was your motivation behind this and what do you most like about the areas you have settled.
I have been living in BKK for 4yrs now and occasionally visit my wifes home town but I find it very quiet and not a place where I would like to settle for various reasons:
Language difficuly.
Culture shock.
Not many places to chill and meet other farangs.
No home comforts, cable, decent shopping ect....
No recreational activities.
Maybe it's just the location as it is a village not too far from Satgeaw (spelling)?
My wife keeps saying that one day in the future she would like to settle back home, but I honestly can not see myself doing so, plus I would rather my son grow up in a more busy enviroment. Plus it would not be good for me as there is no way I could commute to work, or find any work there for that matter.
It would be interesting to hear some positive stories on lifesyles, likes and dis-likes of country life.
Look forward to your replies
TAF
I live about 6 km outside of a village with my family. My wifes family live down in Samut Prakhan about 400 km away but my wife bought some land up here a few years ago.
Language difficulty.
Yes but it helps a lot if you can speak Thai. I can a little and it is something that I MUST do to talk to our friends etc.
Culture shock.
True, the people up here are so much nicer and more friendly than most places I have been and definitely better than cities.
Not many places to chill and meet other farangs.
I dont need to chill out so much as I am semi retired and my nearest farang neighbour is only 12 km away and RC is only 175 away.
No home comforts, cable, decent shopping ect....
Home comforts are really what you make for yourself, cable no, Dsat TV yes, decent shopping depends on what you need to shop for. We have 2 local markets a week plus the daily one in the village, if you mean falang stuff then Nakhon Sawan is only 125km away in the pick up every couple of weeks.
No recreational activities.
What recreational facilities do you need?
I am lucky as I dont need that much.
We grow a lot of our own food and sell stuff we dont need.
There is a whole lot of fresh air and peaceful living and it is so quiet at night you can hear people talking 100 metres away. No pollution, no hassle, no water sometimes for several weeks at a time, friendly local people who know me in passing and we talk in their best English and my mangled Thai. Kids who laugh and smile a lot and talk to me, a good bank and a good manager, fresh wild boar every so often when the guy who works for us catches one. No rats since the snake moved in the field next door, that was fun for the dogs.
I love it here but at the moment I am working overseas so my wife can have a fish pond, build a house extension etc.
Hopefully in the future our son will learn to like it as well but as he is only 1 it all new and exciting to him.
Live in a city. Not for us.
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We had our 5th Anniversary in April but at a distance. She was at home in Klong Lan Pattana and I was away in Lahore, Pakistan.
Still there is always next year.
The really bad news is that I also mised our sons 1st birthday but I will be home in a couple of weeks. I wonder if he will remember me?
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How far do you have to go South before you leave the North.
I live about 400 km south of Chiang Mai and about 1400 km North of Phuket.
It is call the Central region and is only lightly populated with farangs.
It is very nice.
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>>>She went to various friends around and came to live with us in January
The Thai husband will show up at your place sooner or later, be careful
It'll be violent
nam
Well if he does he will not be on his own territory and he will be outnumbered.
Som Nam Naa
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My wife and I have an old friend and her daughter living with us and she was in a similar postion with her Thai husband so she took her daughter and left him. She went to various friends around and came to live with us in January. I have known her 12 years and my has known her for longer. As far as we are concerned she can stay with us for as long as she wishes and is a part of our family. She can be with us for 20 years or so if she wants.
I personally hate men who hit women but on the other hand he has to sleep sometime so she could get her own back in a very painful way. The drawback to that is that she may get into deep smelly stuff with the police, possibly go to jail and lose her daughter.
It may be better if the lady concerned leaves him to stay with family or friends to be safe.
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Hi yuyi
Sorry to ask questions but I am in Pakistan at the moment but I will be back home in a couple of weeks.
As long as you do not have some exotic hardware the switch should be smooth.
I don't have any exotic hardware.
A good idea is to start by trying a "Live CD" version of Linux. This let's you see how Linux might feel on your PC, without that you actually have to install it. Just don't judge the speed at that pint, running from CD is obviously slower than running from harddisk.
Where could I get a CD.
You could even continue using your MS Office, by getting crossover.
Where could I get a CD.
Or even better switch to OpenOffice. It reads and writes most MS Office flawlessly. Thus transferring your MS office documents will be an easier thing to do. (Except if you make heavy use of macros in MS Office. These macros might not run unchanged in Open office.
Where could I get a CD.
You could even start using Open office while still using windows, there is also a windows version of it.
Where could I get a CD.
Thanks
billd
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I am going to buy a new laptop when I come home next month and I was thinking about changing to Linux.
I am reasonably comfortable with Windows Office etc and thought that it should be fairly simple to cross over to Linux, HOWEVER looking at this and other threads about Linux makes me realise that I will have to learn a whole new language and work my nuts off just to do something different.
Unless there is some fairly easy way about setting Linux up and transerring all my stuff from Windows I will stay where I am.
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Does anyone know where I can buy 60's 70's and 80's UK music CD around Bangkok/
I could always try to download them but it sort of takes a long time using GPRS.
Cheers
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I have an account with Thai Military bank and was surprised to learn on my last visit that they have stopped paying interest to non-working foreigners. I used to get interest, but not any more.
I will have a look at BBL and SCB on my next visit. I plan to keep my Thai Military bank for daily living and use one of the above as a savings account which does get interest (I trust???). I have heard that a few scams go on and have decided not to have an ATM card, as I will use my ATM with Thai Military where I don't keep much money on a daily basis.
Anyone have any other good advice or views on my thoughts above?
Believe fixed deposit type savings account (if that is what you are thinking about) require at least a tax ID number to open and they probably want a work permit.
Not sure what you are thinking about re ATM card as that is normal to have for any passbook type savings account but suspect you are thinking of the talk of atm modifications/cameras reading card and input of pin. Do not believe that to be the "huge" problem that some believe it to be but you are correct that to keep money in an account without ATM access will solve that - only problem is getting money when you may need it (in hospital as an example). So I would keep enough in ATM account to cover normal emergency needs. Most normal ATM cards have a daily limit of 50k or so. If you obtain Internet access (or even use phone once a day) you can detect any misuse before major loss if you are that concerned.
I have a savings account with the Kasikorn (ex TFB) in the local village and my wife an I both have ATM cards, mine at 50K and my wifes at 25K. I also have internet banking which I use a lot as I am working overseas and I can use a Visa ATM to draw cash. The branch is only a small village bank and they know me in there. The divisional manager is a very nice lady, K Potchana who speaks good english and is extremely helpful.
She offered to give us a fixed deposit account at a better rate of interest (not much better but..) and I have no problems at all.
My salary is in the bank on the day that the company say it will be, I have internet access, they have even offered to lend us money if we want some and friendly service. I am the first person in the village to actually transfer money out of Thailand which took a little while the first time.
I would thoroughly recommend the bank but it may just be my branch that is very good.
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Why not Nam Kao? She's your wife after all. If you don't trust her enough to let her know your finances why marry her in the first place?
Don't your wife know how much cash you have?
Not only does my wife know how much money I earn we have a joint bank account and as I am working in Pakistan she has closer access than I do. My Thai wife takes care of the money and tells me (gently sometimes) not to waste money and now I listen to her.
If I want to buy something reasonably expensive I will ALWAYS ask her first. I never used to so that as I saw money in the bank as a waste when I could spend it on something or anything.
She has certainly changed me for the better in that way.
Besides if I didn't trust her then why would I have married her?
My former wife in the UK knew how much I earned and she looked after the money over there.
There is no difference between them at least in that area.
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At this stage as my son is only one it is not a big problem.
However firstly he is Thai and secondly he is English and he will go to the local schools up here near Khampaeng Phet.
I will teach him English and hopefully some of his school friends as well.
He will have dual nationality and as he grows older it will be his choice as to where he will go to school and what he wants in his life. We live outside a village and there are no english or international schools outside of the big cities so if he wants to go to one he will have to leave home and family and we will not force him to do that.
He was born and always will be Thai.
I take it you are a falang??? It seems to me that a child wouldn't have the capacity to decide where he wants to go to school. He needs guidance and help to understands his options and he/she must be exposed to different experiences. If he grows up in the chonabot, his/her English skills will be limited to 'home speak' with you and with "some" other half Thai/English children. Would he/she really be able to make a proper decision about the benefits of leaving home and family? Also I have heard that village schools are mostly, although not always, lacking in proper educational standards. Shouldn't he/she be educated somewhere that will better prepare him/her for the future?
I'm speaking not yet as a parent but as a parent-to-be in a few short months and therefore this type of information will be of importance to me very soon. Am I not correct in my thinking?
Yes I am a falang. We live near a small village where my wife owns some land and a house. Are you suggesting that we sell up assuming that anyone has the money to buy around here and go back to living in a polluted city where it will cost us a lot more just to buy a place and live there? Perhaps we should just find a boarding school that he can live at on his own away from the love and care of his family.
I am fortunate in that when I was young living in the UK I was not sent away to school but lived at home and went to the local secondary school. I have had a good life, lived well and worked in many countries around the world and managed to survive using english and as much of the local language as I could learn or needed to survive.
When our son grows up here in Thailand he will always have a good income from the farm and land and will inherit everything when we die. If he was to live in the city assuming that he got a good education he would spend half of his income trying to survive. A good education is no guarantee of a good job or life in Thailand as many of the university graduates would tell you back in 1997 when the baht crashed and graduates could not get a job anywhere.
In the Bangkok office where I used to work some of the staff were earning less than 15,000 baht a month and travelling 2 hours each way a day just to get that and they held Masters and Batchelors degrees. As for working overseas there are not that many graduates successfully employed in foreign companies compared to the numbers who pass every year and try to find jobs.
Most village schools are lacking in facilties and quality but if I can help the local people in any way I will. Also I dont have 500,000 or so baht to spend on education every year and I suspect that quite a few other people don't either.
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At this stage as my son is only one it is not a big problem.
However firstly he is Thai and secondly he is English and he will go to the local schools up here near Khampaeng Phet.
I will teach him English and hopefully some of his school friends as well.
He will have dual nationality and as he grows older it will be his choice as to where he will go to school and what he wants in his life. We live outside a village and there are no english or international schools outside of the big cities so if he wants to go to one he will have to leave home and family and we will not force him to do that.
He was born and always will be Thai.
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Did I blink and miss something here?
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BAR 12 years ago
Me too.
Met my wife in a bar 12 years ago, we married 5 years ago and our son is now 1 year and 2 weeks.
Best thing I ever did.
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Be grateful that you have a TT&T line even if it does not always work.
TT&T are the only suppliers of land lines up country where I live and I have been waiting for more than 2 YEARS for a land line never mind a line that does not always work.
Why worry so much as at least you have TOT to fall back on.
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To add a note of lightness to this thread, my Mum always told me to finish what is on your plate before starting something else that you may not be able to finish.
I think that she was right years ago and would be right today.
I think that we need a lot more women leaders in the world and there will be much less problems.
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Thanks to everybody for the information.
I will go through it all with my wife when I get back at the end of the month.
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I am not sure wich forum to put this in, general or central Thailand which is where I live.
Does anybody have a fish farm?
My wife is interested in starting a fish farm and we need to get some information as to whether it is a good idea and if it is profitable.
I have searched the forum and I can't find much though there is a fair amount on Google fish farming in Thailand.
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I don't know if you can buy them in Thailand but there is an air horn available which fits onto a can of compressed air.
If you can find one then use that rather than a whistle as it may blow his eardrums apart which will stop him doing it to you or antbody else.
I have seen them used on boats and at football matches.
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Far be it for me to state the obvious but I will anyway.
How can anybody be that stupid and still walk around?
I hope to join the club one day. Share the secrets of your success with us.
Tigers In Thailand
in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
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I live up near a national park and my wife tells me that there is at least one tiger living around there somewhere.
Good for the tiger.