billd766

What? All 8 billion of us?

Don't forget Offa's Dyke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offa's_Dyke

My wife and son don't have the latest smartphones. The only reason that mine is new is simply because my old one died and I needed to replace it. It should be good for about 5 years I think.

Most of the posts I have read on this thread are somewhat negative. I agree with you 100% about trusting my Thai wife as NOT all Thai women are the same. We have been married for 23 years and I knew my wife for 7 years before that. My simple question is this. If you cannot or will not trust your Thai wife, then why are you still married to her?

In reality you need more than 65,000 every month to allow for forex variations, 80,000 gives you a safety net. If you only get 65,100 a month and the forex rate drops against your currency, then depending on your IO you may not get your next extension.

But it has to be provable income such as pensions etc.

Yes I did mean what I wrote. My Thai wife has access to our joint account and in the past had her own CC as part of my CC. accounts. It all comes down to trust. A simple question for you and the many others like you. If you don't or cannot trust your wife, then why are you still married to her?

No they don't.

It isn't cancelled at all. and is valid right up to the final day of extension, whatever day that is

yet when the Ukrainians send drones over Russia Putin cries and whines like a little child. There is a way out for Russia. Complete surrender, the return of ALL Ukrainian men, women, children and POWs, a complete withdrawal from ALL occupied areas of the Ukraine, reparations to rebuild the Ukraine that Russia had and is still destroying daily. Who or what is stopping this. In a single word, it is Putin. He is riding the tiger and he cannot get off or the tiger will eat him. Never mind that the tiger will eat him anyway. Meanwhile Ukrainian men, women and children plus the military on both sides are dying daily because of Putin and his damned ambition.

Thank you.

Is that just another of your wait and see promises, that you make most days yet never follow through with? quote "So what are we suppose to do?" Once again, who is WE? Or are you speaking for yourself once again. You certainly are not speaking for me or many other people.

If you don't like my posts then either don't read them or put me on your ignore list. I was responding to the OP and not you.

Are you the OP? What I offered, if you had bothered to read my post fully, was advice that did not include an agent.

IMHO if this is the first and only time something like this has happened I would suggest that you do your best to forgive and support your wife, but not forget what has happened between you. Also do your best to ignore the lip flapping posters who suggest that you dump your wife as they (and I) have no idea of your family circumstances. Most of them are losers anyway. They are like little annoying yapping puppies who know no better. If you can find an agent perhaps you could suggest to your wife that she tries to help you out with the agents fees, if she can. I have no idea how she managed to access your money as AFAIR it is supposed to be in an account in your name only, but that is water under the bridge. You and your wife alone will have to deal with it and try to keep it that way. One of the worst things that you can do is to open up on TVF where there are many posters who love to read stories like this as they feel it proves their point about Thai women. One last thought for you, there is a possibility that you can change your retirement extension to a marriage extension which only needs 400,000 baht or a marriage extension based on income which only requires that you have a provable income of 40,000 baht per month or 80,000 if you earn enough to keep your retirement extension going. I wish you the best of luck and I truly hope things work out for you. Best regards

My wife;s house was built 19 years ago and uses 1/2 inch pipes internally. Part way through the build we then built the MIL small house also using 1/2 inch pipe. The main water supply is a 3 inch pipe running outside the front fence and I use a 1/2 inch pipe from that tp fill my storage ongs. I started with 4 x 1,700 litre (1,500 usable) then expanded that to 20 ongs behind the kitchen and I got laughed at by all and sundry, including my wife. who stopped laughing when the water supply ran out and we still had 30,000 litres in storage. They are all cross connected in 5 rows of 4 ongs and a few years ago I got 7 more which the fire truck used to fill up and I would pump into the main tanks. Sadly 1 exploded after filling one day. Since then we have been connected to the big village water supply and touch wood, we don't have a water shortage any more. The ongs are still useful as a filter for larger sediment and I have put 2 inline filters to take out > than 2.5 microns of silt but the first one lasts about 3 weeks before needing replacement as it gets blocked and the pressure to the houses drops.

I cannot tell you that as I don't think I know many Thais with their own credit cards issued in Thailand. Most of the Thais I do know use a CC in their husbands name. and it is invariably a western CC.

AFAICS you are using your own money to finance your own credit. A CC does have its advantages but in Thailand I think it is a little different. You will be using your own money and I suppose that is similar to a debit card or simply cash. It means that outside of Thailand the CC should be covered by Visa or Mastercard as the supplier already has access to your funds. I have no idea if you have to pay charges or not. I got rid of all my CC years ago and simply us a KBank debit card or cash. That way if I don't have the funds available I either save for it or go without.

The owners of those car yards must get their finance from somewhere to hold such a large stock of vehicles. AFAIK that applies for farangs only. You can have as big a credit limit as the amount of money you deposit in a separate bank account tied to the credit card. The money you spend on the credit card is repaid from that account and if you don't replenish it your credit is reduced by the amount you spend. Another small problem, especially for the elders among us, is that when you die the credit card is frozen for 3 or 6 months before your survivor can reclaim the balance of the account. So here in Thailand, a credit card for farangs is not the same as in the west. You will be using your own money and not that of the CC issuer.

That is not necessarily correct at all. Whilst I may agree with you if you live in a city, rural Thailand is a different world. A lot depends on both distance the water has to travel, the height that it has to meet and the number of buildings it has to service. My Mitsubishi ER 305 water pump has to supply 2 floors of the main house, it also has a 30 metre run to my MIL old house, the toilet and shower plus the kitchen attached to the back of the small house. It also ran to another house some 40 metres in a different direction, but that is only used as a store now, so I cut the pipe off and sealed it. In the early days a 150w pump could not manage to supply that lot, so I had to upgrade the pump to a 300w pump.

I will let you know if I make it. I will be 106 years old by then.

Why is it an aberration? Medical insurance is made from the average age of deaths. The highs and the lows are all counted.

You do post such a pile of rubbish. My religion started out as C of E but by the time I was 18 I had given up on ALL religions. My spiritual home is now Stonehenge, and NO I don't need anybody's permission to change my religion. Muhammed Ali achieved a great deal in his life. He brought pleasure to millions of people worldwide. What have you achieved in yours so far? Apart from, that is, slagging off dead people who cannot answer back, and showing your ignorance. At least Muhammed Ali had the courage to stand up for his religion and go to jail for his beliefs, unlike all the white college boys who burnt their draft cards, then scuttled off to Canada to sit the war out. Were you ever in the military? I was a 15 1/2 year old volunteer, knowing that from the age of 11 I wanted to join the RAF. So I did, and proudly served my Queen and country from January 1960 until May 1984.

One of the things I was taught as a young man was simple and works most of the time. You take your foot, your mouth and your brain. Before you do or post something, try to imagine how foolish you will look sitting with your foot in your mouth. To avoid this, take a brief period and reflect before you follow through. It doesn't always work as I have found to my cost.