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13 minutes ago, Tilacme said:

I build/paid for a BANGalow on the wifes chanote land in Issan.  Been 3 years now and no problems.

Little bit of a difference is that it's your wife. One would assume that you have chosen a bit more carefully to whom you get married and naturally, you are more committed to it. Building a bungalow in this case is not the end of the world. 

(Hope this doesn't open a can of worms now;-)

4 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

From what my wife tells me, is that you have to have a house there, that said, he built a little one bedroom house with external bathroom, no living area, it's probably about 4 x 4 excluding the external bathroom, he had the electricity connected and the water and then applied for the blue book.

Ok, thanks for clarifying, that was the missing part ... he subsequently applied for his own house book for that little building on your wife's plot.

9 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

She don't need a title to get a blue book, the house book has nothing to do with a title, just so you know.

Just out of interest, no idea myself how that works exactly. 

But your missus already had a house book, based on what? On a valid title deed? What are the requirements to get a blue book?

Is it really important that he has built a little tent on the plot?

This guy might just as well have moved in one of the rooms of that house temporarily and could register his address there?

26 minutes ago, ThaiRebound said:

Thais aren't shrewd enough to earn money from Chinese tour agencies and tourists. 

I'm pretty sure the Thais from my local mom & pop shop and restaurants are more happy to see me than yet another Chinese tour bus passing by. There is a Hotel in this town where I live which exclusively accommodates chinese ppl and it has 10+ tour busses every night parking outside. 

They come at 8-9pm ... and leave at 7-8am in the morning. You never see them walking anywhere or buying anything from any local shop. They never even see the beach. Sad kind of touring really, I could never imagine doing something like this.

Also pretty strange, the beach is only a short 10min walk from that Hotel. 

I would go an explore the area by myself a little, but they don't do that. Complete herd mentality.

4 minutes ago, Youlike said:

9 hours ago, a3tsw said:

 

That's all over the world, chinese buying loads of brandnamed goods and of course they want to have a refund for the VAT which causes huge lines.

 

My wife also was in that line but she gave up after 30 min....

Happened to me at Munich airport also a few years back ... too long queues to get your VAT back, either wait or miss your flight.

I think they do this on purpose.

Only time this worked for me was in Singapore ... fully automated everything, with guys/girls next to you to help and speed up everything.

Took all less than 10 min and done

15 hours ago, ThomasThBKK said:

They would just give these management positons to the vast amout of overqualified trustable thais - yeah sure.  No they pack up and go, killing hundreds of thousands of thai work places.

On the flip side, the farangs holding those 'high valuable' positions on an 'expat package', and get paid monthly ... these are not the Farangs leaving Thailand if they feel the pinch of the exchange rate (or any other immi regulations). 

They are doing fine.

It's more about the Farangs who are retired, living off savings, rely on income from abroad etc. Or just the tourists who see are getting more value for their money elsewhere 

The crazy thing is, at this crossing/traffic light, you either turn right or left, 10 meters after where that tree is.

There is no 'straight on', unless you want to drive right into a Navy campus. 

I've passed this crossing 10thousand times, no idea how you can end up against that tree? lol

Unless you are super drunk or text messaging while driving ....

19 hours ago, bankruatsteve said:

My wife is considering renting out a room or two in our house. 

You want to get 2 strangers living in your house? Or is it a separate house from where you live in?

19 hours ago, pieeyed said:

That is right at the lights where he would be turning towards Pattaya. The stop light are right in front of where he hit the tree?

It remains a miracle ???? The traffic lights are just about what, 10 meters further ahead? 

Maybe he was speeding up to catch a 'green light' and tried to overtake cars on the left side, bumping into the tree instead?

3 minutes ago, berrec said:

It all starts at the requirements elicitation process, an agile development process, early modular user testing and acceptance and finally reentry modular integration.

Arai na?

1 minute ago, SuwadeeS said:

You know what I mean

I know, my edit was too late, sorry. But your comment lightened up the discussion a bit ????

6 minutes ago, SuwadeeS said:

Even the motorbikes on the sidewalk can not be uploaded. 

You can't upload a motorbike on a sidewalk in Germany? Amazing ????

(I know what you meant, just joking)

16 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

All this country cares about is money and if they see money drying up and TAT, Hotel lobby and co complaining it will be gone sooner rather than later.

Yes, correct. Because then it's a Thai (or Thai authority) saying it ... not a Farang (or Farang petition).

So what Digger70 said is not Rubbish, but spot on.

A better way/strategy would have been to somehow get a Thai authority on your side and have them do it for you. But of course, how to do that or get this accomplished? Very difficult.

That's the Thai way ... find a Thai with authority and have them do it. You have a pause in the background. Best chances to get something accomplished.

12 minutes ago, Parsve said:

So you mean that if you are sitting on a beach eating a sandwich and get it full of sand, you not complain, just go on and enjoy your food?

That comparison doesn't even make sense, when you know that people on here are talking about Thai Officials vs. Farang complains, and how they are handled. We're not talking about a beach vendor ???? There is reality and wishful thinking.

It's going to be so much fun riding the bike around Thailand and to the GP this year through 3 provinces ???? Clocking in every 24h on your phone where you are ????

2 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

I watch it in school with my kids

Yes, I've edited my post above to include this ... I see & experience the same thing with the kids and school.

10 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

Yes, we are in our own category with them. All one can do is a little hope here and there. 

yes, xenophobia, plus all that bowing down, pee here, pee there, the obey for uniforms and higher ranked or richer people, hammered in from childhood, is all just too deeply embedded in this culture. Let's be realistic about this.

I personally would have loved to see a different outcome of this, but it was never going to happen.

3 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

But nowadays Thai are protesting and making petitions and are gaining some ground for real change rather than from the old days as it was not suggested nor feasible.

Yes, but these are Thais ... there might be slow progress.  I agree with you.

But for Farangs, let's be honest, it was a nice try ... but a few more decades to go before any of this changes, if ever.

12 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

There are almost over 5000 and climbing who signed the petition! Is that relevant as in complaint enough?

No it's not relevant, because 5000 people are barking up the wrong tree. Maybe not even the wrong tree. But in a wrong way.

You can see it, and read the response, right in front of your eyes

7 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

I wouldn’t sign the petition as I felt it was the wrong way to go about it . Thai officials resent been told what to do I now believe that they will make it even more difficult by being inflexible when it comes to TM 30 . 

I agree with you. In essence ... now it's like there's been a stick shuffled right up into the hornet's nest. 

On the bright side, with short focus & attention span and future changes of commands, it might cool down ...

30 minutes ago, kellersphuket said:

well as this was posted 5 hours ago I was doing what most normal people would be doing at that time.

 

Drinking! 

Fair point ???? It was tongue in cheek, I apologize.

You surely lived here longer to realize with whom you are dealing with than those few 5hours this thread is old ????

14 minutes ago, kellersphuket said:

Now we all know exactly what we are dealing with!

What took you so long? ????