sandgroper2

Watch for the big hand bag placed on your lap, by someone sitting next to you, been tried on me and my son. Lady boys and a girl, didn't work.

Thhe hospital requests your passport, if you dont hand it over, they will not treat you .Happened to my mate. (Im  talking about big ticket items. ).  Fact, not just  my personal opinion of which there is too much of on here.

2 hours ago, Halfaboy said:

Can you give some examples and comparisons ?

 

Thanks....

Google it.

Been checking the cost of condos, a hell of a lot cheaper than here. (Patts)   rent, that is.

8 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

Vung Tao is a coastal city in Vietnam with an oilfield support base that is growing as a beach resort for the locals but isn't fully on the international beach resort radar yet..

 

Thailand is a whole country.

 

How can we compare these?

After 15 years here, Thailand to me is Pattaya or Phuket. But I know what you mean.

1 hour ago, optad said:

You're back!!

 

With a question this time

My first topic wasnt simple enough for some to understand.

If you have visited the place but still prefer to live in Thailand, why?

So, why dont you move there?

Jomtien or Patts?

5 hours ago, Jingthing said:

That happens to be a dry dish without a wet curry gravy. Different dishes, different characteristics.

Why can we get a 10% discount? P.S. Autoc said the dish was dry!

9 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

 

Further to my previous reply, what do you mean I chose not to pay the ferry man ?

 

I worked for over 35 years, paid at least a million dollars in taxes and when out of the country for 183 had to make a decision, to return or to sell my property or face the music, i.e. pay 32.5c in the $ tax and full capital gains tax on the future increase of its value, at no time was I provided with the opportunity to contribute to keep my Medicare entitlements up and running, and am not allowed to vote, after all, Australia is the place I was born, and I am an Australian citizen, how appropriate of the government to cunningly work this out, i.e. if they want to have a better life overseas, we will grant you that, but no entitlement or opportunity to pay into Medicare so you can keep it, we will take away your voting rights because you are no longer a resident, therefore you don't count, keep your property and we will make sure you sell it or we will tax you to the eyeballs so as to force it upon you to sell it, we will however let you keep your Australian Citizenship in case you change your mind, that, and we wouldn't want a public outcry for cancelling your Australian Citizenship, because you probably have family here x hundreds of thousands of votes.

 

Don't become a raw prawn with me, oy !

You claim to have paid over a million in taxes over the last 35 years. That is $25000.00 a year . The average wage 35 years ago in Oz was only $30000.00.  You dont need the OAP,  You have beebn earning a fortune all these years, good on ya mate.

2 hours ago, SaintLouisBlues said:

I always thought the law was very clear - you must be in Australia on the day you lodge your application. The only exemption of which I'm aware is that you're resident in a country with which the Aussie government has a reciprocal social services agreement and so you're entitled to the Australian payments through your existing government's arrangement eg. an American who has worked in Australia but goes back to the US may be entitled to a part-pension from the Australian government (as is a friend of mine)

 

Centrelink: "On the day you submit your claim you must be an Australian resident and physically present in Australia". An Australian resident means "an Australian citizen or a permanent resident" https://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelink/age-pension

My mate , Davo, was in a coma in an iron lung with 15 intravenous tubes stuck in him ,we simply wheeled the lung into the Oz Embassy Bangkook, Ozzie territory, and signed him on. No sweat mate.

2 minutes ago, chiang mai said:

 

Even though the Australian pension is non-contributory it is paid for somehow, presumably through an allocation of tax money? That being the case all people who pay taxes must surely be equal and all should be entitled to share in however those taxes are allocated.

Why? No tax dollars are put aside into a OAP fund. The OPA is paid by working Australians to help out the needy. Again, Oz, not UK.

On 12/7/2016 at 10:36 PM, Jingthing said:

I agree besides being super delicious and an unusual style, they are a great deal. Yes, you get four smaller size samosas. Some places do them much bigger and perhaps serve two. 

 

10 percent discount if you mention Thaivisa too ... 

I have tried 3 of the dishes you are advertising and didnt find them overly enticing.

4 hours ago, scorecard said:

 

Can any Oz members share any details of agencies / consultants etc., who work in this area. Please share.

There are 6 pages, and still counting, of us right here.

5 hours ago, chiang mai said:

 

If those immigrants were forced under law to contribute to those pensions during those ten years, they should receive the benefit just like anyone else would - their role is not to provide contributions to help swell the pensions of native Australians.

Nobody contributed to "those pensions", It was and is noncontributory. They paid tax , thats all. We , or rather, i am anyway, talking about Australia, not the UK.

5 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

 

When your entitled to something i.e. a pension for all your years of working/serving your country, you should be entitled to it, not f..k around by governments trying to put further restrictions on getting it, don't you get it.

 

How would you feel if they promised you a disability pension if you got injured for your services to the country, then moved overseas early, and when it was time to get your disability pension, they said, you have to return to the country for 2 years, I am sure you would spit the dummy then.

No dummy spit from me. Would it help , no. The law is the law, I would man up and take it on the chin. (dont forget this is TV)

Im outa here. The bottom line is, if you had worked in a decent job , and saved, your whole working life, you would not be crying abut not getting the OAP.

4 hours ago, louse1953 said:

You do not pass go,You do not collect the pension.

Read what Louise 1953 wrote.  Stop talking about things yu  know nothing about.

4 hours ago, louse1953 said:

A pommy mate living in the next village signed on over the internet.Aust govt are paranoid we are gunna get a dollar we don't deserve as opposed to all their rorts.

Why are you allowed to get away with saying pommie, i did once and a mod blocked my post.

4 hours ago, louse1953 said:

You can be on the dole your whole life and still get a portable full pension.As long as you were available to work for 35 years,

You got it. Nobody else woke up to that. Or, ran a business at a loss for many years.

I will put a spoke in everyone's wheel. You dont have to have paid tax for 35 years to get th e full OAP. I didnt and i get the full pension, means tested, I I will explain ,if anybody is interested, after i watch Millionair hotseat.

11 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

 

Thanks for the details, I would suggest in your case, you are deemed a resident as you paid taxes your military pension, albeit you got the OAP at 65 and could leave straight away, no 2 year waiting period.

 

Good for you, oy ! 

Me thinks you hit the nail on the head. However to muddy the waters a little, my military pension is a disability pension.

8 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

 

And you can back this up from ?

Let me get this right, " If you can prove you are medically unfit to return, you  cannot return, ".  And yu say "

And you can back this up from etc"..  I dont really think I can possibly answer your question. Try again.

16 minutes ago, Grubster said:

Yes about ten returns and I think that is nonsense someone told you, The only drawback I know of is that if you need Medicare later you have to back pay for some of what you didn't pay.  I have a VA disability and not a twenty or thirty year military pension, that could be different I don't know, but VA benefits can not be taxed. That said the only way anybody can touch VA benefits is if you owe taxes to the IRS, or if you go to prison they are canceled until you get out. You cannot lose them in a law suit, divorce or anything else. If you have Tricare because you are retired military then you must keep your Medicare.

By your terminology, your USA, not Oz!