Spoonman

It 's easy to live or retire in Thailand.

Let's say you have a house in USA. Worth 300k $, sell it and place it on stock with a return of 6 percent, you make 18k a year.

Live cheap, and don't touch the rest, it s called compound interest. Jeez! Now you know my deepest secret!

Need a visa? Get a tourist visa show your interest to thai embassy, and ask for 2 entries. Once in thailand, go Lao and ask for another 2 entries,... You got now 4 entries, repeat the process for 2 to 3 years, the time you have done that, compound interest is working for you. My god, you just reached over 1 million dollars at 50 with a tourist visa only.... Time to retire.!

How does the compound interest thing work when you are spending that 18k (6 percent) to live on ?

Funny how everyone wants the immigration rules to suit their own personal circumstances and if it isn't done, then immigration are are stupid and/or short-sighted and the country will "suffer".

Better than reading the funnies with my cup of Java in the mornings......

I for one, dont see this as my personal circumstances....

But I raised this thread/Topic, to highlight what others need/or would like to see. The reality I feel, is that if your married and LIVING here, why do you need to renew your visa yearly and report every 90 days ?....5 yrs is a good idea for people like that....dont you think?

If you are married and living here the visa is not the only option. You can become a citizen (not an easy process I know but not impossible).

I cant see you would be able to make even 20B on each phone Apple is pretty much the same price everywhere, any Thai in Thailand if they can afford 30,000 plus for a phone wont be buying it in an MBK stall.

I did manage to get my ipad2 $AU50 cheaper there when i bought in Thailand but that was due to currency's rapid movement up at the time.

They are selling on facebook for 50k for the 6 and 100k for the 6+

good lookin machine.

Will it make it here

Maybe as a grey import

receive any tax breaks?

Not a chance.

is already here. around 12 mio bath. http://www.bmw.co.th/th/en/newvehicles/i/i8/2013/showroom/index.html?gclid=CjwKEAjw14mhBRC0vdSNkI2l7CASJAC8OFS0TapI1lyjfZN1iVPDzjhGYisVEljsgw2_HjBHFwCpxhoClc3w_wcB

Amusing to see it is priced at 8 million more here than the USA........ guess that answers the question about tax breaks then !!!

looks like Thailand does not recognise defacto relationships at all so I guess that answers my question.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/345228-does-thailand-recognise-defacto-marriage/

Mods, please close.

Is spouse secifically defined as your marriage partner or does the term also cover a Defacto partner.

If defacto what proof is required ?

What i wrote is correct, also, i havent rebuilt any tonka toy engines since the mid-70s, so what you say might be right, im not disputin that, so in colusion to most of your posts, you might be good at pulling people out of the river, but you would never think about going upstream to see why they are falling in,,,

Firstly i must say i dont know of any engines that the distributor drives the oil pump, the pump usally runs straight off the cam, it also has offset slots in the top to drive the distributor, some engines had a removable drive so it could be pulled out and turned so the distributor position could be changed,

Secondly, to wind over a diesel engine without it starting, take the connection off the solenoid on the injector pump, or find a fuse that does the same,,,

There are millions of engines out there where distributer drives the oil pump.

Just for you... The distributer gear engages with the cam gear, the oil pump drive "rod" slides inside the distributer, so, cam turns distributer, dizzy turns the oil pump. Ford used a hex rod, Pontiac used a slot.....

Sorry chum but you, as a mechanic, didn't know of any engines where the dizzy drove the oil pump, all I did was point out that there have been tens of millions driven this way. No need to argue when you were wrong....

Yep Iam with you Transman, plenty of the old stuff had the dizzy driving the oil pump. Mainly the V8's though.

What does "’" in the thread mean ?

How about that new BMW i8?

good lookin machine.

Will it make it here

Maybe as a grey import

receive any tax breaks?

Not a chance.

Not how it was explained to me when I looked into it.

Visa

- A renewable 5 years multiple entry visa with one-year-stamp at each arrival

- Stay as long as you like with 1-year-extendable - length of stay

- Extension fee of Baht 1,900.00 paid to Immigration Bureau (The fee is directly charged by Thai Immigration Bureau.)

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/726441-thailand-elite-easy-access-500k-thb-card/

Well there it is in black and white but that is not what was explained to me.

Thankyou though cause If I look at this again Iam now better informed.

you have to exit/enter the kingdom once per year. Whilst you are here it is 90 day reporting.

No you don't have to leave. Get one year extension at immigraion, Bt 1,900.

Not how it was explained to me when I looked into it.

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More time off / holidays for the masses --- this should really bring out the grumpy old men here.

But it is not paid time off for the masses. The majority of Thais do not get paid for public holidays and get no annual paid leave. They get paid for the days that they work and that is it.

I disagree. but seeing as though you mentioned it Iam sure you can prove me wrong, you can can't you ?

Employees of the big companies and civil servants get paid public holidays.

The majority of Thais are either self employed or work on a casual basis and they do not.

Can you prove me wrong?

The subject is about those who get paid public holidays. Now can you show me where they won't get paid for this extra day off ?

Just wondering about it....

Didnt know you still had to do the 90 days. The way i read it you only have to report once a year...guess I read it wrong.

you have to exit/enter the kingdom once per year. Whilst you are here it is 90 day reporting.

More time off / holidays for the masses --- this should really bring out the grumpy old men here.

But it is not paid time off for the masses. The majority of Thais do not get paid for public holidays and get no annual paid leave. They get paid for the days that they work and that is it.

I disagree. but seeing as though you mentioned it Iam sure you can prove me wrong, you can can't you ?

Who quoted you the price that is "almost as much as a new paint job" ? I was under the impression the cost was about 12,000.

I plan to get mine done moreso to correct paint imperfections (bad swirling and orange peel), the nice smooth shiney finish is also nice to have as I find it too damn hot here to polish the car every other weekend.

Jeez - by now I've forgotten who's for and who's against......and I'm not reading through this mess again to find out.....now that we are down to the biting and hair pulling I think the OP has enough info/food for thought to decide what he wants.....

I actually think the OP got one answer, and that was ARB.

Overfilling the oil is not a problem on dry sump or total loss systems. The issue with over-filling is usually the the reduced airspace in the sump causing it to pressurise slightly. That reduces the pressure differential between above and below a piston on it's power-stroke. It also means that oil-seals which are designed for an unpressurised situation will be subject to this sump pressure and likely fail fairly quickly.

positive crankcase ventilation (PCV), you should read up on it.

How many engines fitted to vehicles in the past 15 years have a distributor ?

Why are so many people on this thread so angry about people getting a holiday from work?

Seriously this thread is just absurd

Not only that this additional day is a Friday, all staff will either have it is annual leave or a sick day anyway regardless.

So people don't believe story, interesting. Why would I lie about a thing like this?

It is not that people don't believe, moreso their disgust at your attempt at a very trollish thread.

If your cousin does not have a smart phone how will he recieve the message ?

Nice catchy headline that has zero to do with corruption.

My case is extortion.

So why glorify your thread title then ?

Pretty pathetic really, much like throwing up over someone elses property.

Nice catchy headline that has zero to do with corruption.

Battery Blah. Waste of money. .They cant make Laptops to last 5 Mins

Really. is nothing you won't whinge about ?

BTW my laptop last 6 hours.