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trainman34014

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  1. I've used them twice and they've been ok but I wish they would use a larger aircraft on the BKK Mumbai section and make things a bit more comfortable. As for the farting; well I've always been able to give as good as I get.

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  2. Let me see... sugar on everything, deep fried everything, lack of exercise all going square faced at computers iPhones and tablets, fast food invasions from international and attitude. Yep that will do it. Look forward to looking like the American populace within 10 years.

    Maybe another "Hub" possibility for Thailand.

    Yep; that's it.....Hub of black strips !

  3. Well, this is something that I've been thinking about , who the hell cares if the number of people on retirement visas increases or decreases, or if the most of the applicants r britishers or russians, they, they are not the real problem, the elephant is the huge number of foreigners( of all nationalities and colors) that hav thai families( married to thais, or that have thai husdband/wife) and don't even have the right to earn a living in this country unless you hav a bachellor degree, or lots of money in the bank. we r thousand of people in this situtatuion, and it seems that no one in teh goverment care about us or about the well-being of our thai relative who in most of cases depends on us, at least give us the chance of work freely, eliminate the income requirements to our visa or make it equal to the normal income of a thai 15000 bath/ month ( 400,000 yearly = 33,333/month), and pleace lower the income requirements for pr and citizenship as well, we r human beings and our thai families too.

    If you don't have the degree or skills to get job here, you could always take the family back to your country and see how you go there.

    Do you think you could live on 15,000 baht a month here with a family?

    First of all, yes, you can live here with 15000 baht/ month, most of thai people that i know live with that and even less, and secondly not allways your thai family want to leave thailand, after all is their country, and in my experience for thais learning english is difficult so just imagime how much more difficult must be learning, spanish, portugese, italian , french etc, is not so simple as you think.btw i do have my degree, and earn enough but i do know many foreigner that r suffering because of these absurde rules.

    I too can live happily on a limited budget,I have a retirement visaand great immigration people[udon Thani] 16,000bt pension,a small car,a motor bike and a TukTuk----- yes a Tuk tuk for general messing about.We live in a small house on a "falang Estate",have good neighbors both falang and Thai,and a great wife of 5 yrs.Kids are grown up and have flown the nest long ago[27 and25] and fone Mum and me on a fairly reg basis.I can have a beer in our local bar with falang friends and Thai wives,and really I am so happy to be able to leave all my money problems behind and just settle down to a peaceful and happy life----Thats what I came here for and thats what I got. A lot of falang come here for sex only.OK it is easy but they also want to continue joining the "rat race" here same as in their homeland.Keeping up with the Johneses means you still have to have a big shiney 4wd [mainly to put all the vllagers in the back of !!!!] The wife has all the right labels on her vast wardrobe ,and the 2 storey house is full to the brim with gadgets that work great for a few months,and drive the once proud owner to a heart attack trying to get Thais to replace or repair with parts from O/S. OK some of this is said with toungue in cheek but the picture of Falang chasing "happiness" in Thailand i am sure is a familiar one with many of you. The broken and dejected man who's ambition was to own a bar and became that bar's only customer,and ended Thousands of Bt in debt. The Falang who picked a gorgeous YOUNG girl to marry with disastrous consequenses------ I could go on. I think mainly I am trying to say this.By all means have an initially good time,but try to keep an eye on reality.It is possible to live a happy life here.That life is normally very favourably compared to what it would have been "back home" in all aspects of your new life. Settle down quietly ,make Thais your friends. Maybe find a wonderful loving and caring older lady------ My wife is pushing 50 and she is still worth a dozen of my initial 20 odd year old gold-diggers---- both day and night,and being 76 myself and still active all this is a bonus. Be Nice to Immigration and they will respond likewise.Treat the trip as a day out to see familiar friends ---- its not a trip to the dentist----With a change of attitude and a change of lifestyle I am sure you can enjoy peace abd happiness in this land of smiles.I wish that to all of you that are having difficulties,good luck---------Dougal the [happy] Kiwi

    Agree with the majority of what you say Dougal. Just wish you could paragraph a bit more and make it easier to read instead of a complicated chore !

  4. Had to get the manual version because wifey terrified to drive automatic. Come to think of it she's terrified of driving at all but there you go ! Was wondering about getting an English book; must go back and order one.

    Have to say it's a wonderful smooth little motor car with pleasing looks and on a run its doing a little more than 60mpg which is terrific. Petrol might be cheap in Thailand now compared to Europe but it's only ever going to rise over time so economy is the best policy.

  5. older vehicles would get really messed up with the gasohol.

    It'll eat away at your rubber hoses and seals in the fuel system, leading to major repairs. Right now I think that the best would be Vpower95 (gasohol) since I've heard that the % ethanol is lower than 10%.

    You'll definitely need retuning the engine since gasohol isn't as efficient as pure petrol. Newer EFI with computer control stuff, could adapt to a certain level, but older carbs will have problems.

    My wife's old Daihatsu Charade ran on Gasohol since it was invented. She had the car from new for 19 years and I don't know how many of those years it ran on Gasohol but it never caused a single problem in the almost five years I used it until replacing it last year with a new car. It performed just as well after 96,000 klicks as it would have done for all the years before. Apart from normal servicing it only ever had brake pads and engine timing belts replaced as you would with any car. Most Japanese engines have been built down the years to take the lowest grades of fuel.

  6. Some sort of problem in Hang Dong area today. Seems like forever to get any website up and everything is painfully slow. Could be last nights storm has caused problems as we lost all power for about 70 minutes.

  7. We eat there from time to time and like the food. Plenty of choice, easy prices and sit downstairs. Never had a bill for more than 450 for two and always full up when we leave. I know three other restaurants in Chiang Mai that charge a small sum for Aircon; but you won't see it on the bill, they just add it to the food prices. Amazing that people don't notice it isn't it?

  8. Hows the pork knuckle / leg there Ricardo?

    It can often be deep-fried and dried-up at some places, but we both found it here to be moist & tasty, it's one of the middle-of-the-table items in the buffet. thumbsup.gif

    I'm not recommending them highly though, as being super-wonderful or anything, just that it's a reasonable option, and much closer & easier to find than out-in-the-fields is !

    Sounds good enough for a try as I always get hopelessly lost looking for the the other one. Upside is I always find yet another new place to eat when I'm lost !

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  9. The one behind Big C seems ideal to me. I can drop my husband off to eat whilst I go shopping and I don't have him following me, sulking and saying 'Are you finished yet? Are we going now?'

    I really need to get a bike of my own......

    Or an alternative husband !

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  10. Most aircraft crashes are due to pilot error . Asian culture does not transfer well to the cockpit, with the complex relationship between

    the captain and the co-pilot. Whole books have been written about this, where the co-pilot is not allowed to question any decision

    by the captain. Korean Airlines was a perfect example. They were having so many crashes a number of years ago that they were

    no longer allowed to fly in American airspace. An outside expert was brought in who completely revamped their cockpit culture, so the co-pilot now acts as a back stop to any decision by the captain,

    and now they are fine. So in Thailand I am sure they face the same issues, and then add in nepotism and crony-ism, so the final result cannot be good. I personally love hearing an American drawl from the flight deck over the intercom system. :-)

    Drawl no good. I prefer the clarity of a British Pilot's voice any day.

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