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Your thirty year lease concerns me, if you bought the property with another person on the chantote i.e. Wife B/F. G/F and you have a thirty year lease, are you aware you have no security ? I.e. The person whose name is on the chantote can borrow money from a bank useing the chantote as a warranty, they don't pay the money back the bank takes the house and you are out, the thirty year lease is not with the bank and they now own the house.

Words of wisdom from my lawyer.

My immigration told me you have to do the 90 days in the district you live in.

Good luck.

Hello,

I have done a 90-day report at two different immigration offices but all I have

to do is hand over my passport to the IO, who removes the old slip from my

passport and staples the new one into it. I've never ever done any paper work

like filing in a form.

Lucky you , where if I may ask. ?

Is it not amazing that these crimes never seem to to hit the popular English language newspaper that I read every day, they may crop up nine or ten years in the future with a short paragraph saying after all appeals the BIB were exonerated, granted back pay, promoted, and given more medals to wear.

I have been dealing with the Korat Immigration office for years on my Non Imm O visa and have never had any problems at all.

The officers have always been very helpful and honest.

One of them even went way out of her way to help me on her day off.

I have never before heard anyone with anything but praise for the Korat office.

I can not help but suspect something is wrong with this post.

Get you head out of the sand read my last post from two days ago.

Am I alone in getting really fed up with korat immigration ? Went in to for a letter of my address confirmation in order to get a purple book to take my truck to Laos for a weeks holiday, I have been told by TVF members the cost is 280 baht. Korat immigration told me we can give you this but it's 500 baht and no receipt. I am aware it is not a significant amount of money but I could tell many stories where immigration scam money at every chance.

Send the crazy cop to "attitude adjustment camp"

and have him begging for mercy.

A fair and just trial and prison sentence would be enough.

Dream on.

Can I suggest one of the early reports should be on the atrociously appalling short dresses and tight shirts that some Thai university female students are prone to wearing.

Yes I would like to see this at length, too short length not long length, and those tight shirts certainly need looking at..

Shouldn't it be the schools responsibility whether to accept or reject food or beverage sent to them? So why blame the manufacturer or distributor? Each school that gave expired milk should be sued and fined by the health board for failing to check expiration dates prior to serving that.

All the manufacturers or distributors have to do is say that milk was fresh when it was delivered and the school must have held it past that date before giving it to the kids

You are so ignorant, a know all know nothing, these companies have been delivering milk to schools ( they come in a small cardboard box with a push in straw, with a best by date of several weeks in the future, however the milk was sour on arrival at the schools.

It's called your basic simple to understand corruption, graft scam , take your pick.

Money is God here. Get real.

Why was attention brought to left index finger? Had a dog once pee on an electric outlet Saw an arc from outlet to pecker dog never peed inside again but that only 110 versus 220 here. But judging by photo pole is cement not a conductor unless this guy had 20 inches or was peeing from top of a ladder no way he could of had this happen, so must have leaning on pole to steady himself either or not a good idea.

110 volts is more dangerous than 220 volts ;

it's because of that it was abolished about 50 years ago in France

It is not the amount of voltage that results in a fatality but the amount of current. Currents between 100 and 200ma are lethal.

Shocking news, now go back to sleep please.

Any documentary with Stacey Dooley in can only de described as shallow at best. The issue of rife yaba trafficking and consumption has everything to do with slapdash enforcement, targeting little fish and inactive posts.

A disgrace

She's a total retard. She's pronouncing it incorrectly, wrongly translating it's name to English, using ten years' old footage, to support a new drugs craze premise. All this when it's been massively curtailed for over a year, it's already been replaced by ice, and the only person she can get to support her lies about it being dangerous is some visibly genetically impaired low life from England who she's probably promised a minute on the TV if he supports her script.

So you think it's not dangerous , another buffoon.

I don't think sacking the man is sufficient he needs to be charged with attempting to rape the girl and given a sentence of at least 5 years and his testicles removed that should keep his urges down .

As none of us were there, we are not aware as to the extent of the alleged assault, so to suggest he be charged with attempted rape, given 5 years goal and castration is a little over the top at this time, unless you know more than the rest of us. So you are one of those who convicts an alleged offender based on an allegation. Thank god you're not responsible for the application of the law. Sensationalise without knowledge does not imply justice.

When was he sacked? According to the report he was suspended after being charged by police so at least stick with the information, as reported, again unless you know more? Also, before jumping to conclusions, let's wait and see what he has been charged with before going over the top with what or what shouldn't be done to this alleged offender.

Not condoning anything this person has allegedly perpetrated but why do many keep going off and suggest that all types of actions be inflicted or charges laid without having full knowledge of all the circumstances.

Now, if he carried out a sexual assault on this young girl, as alleged, then, as some have indicated already, many Thais do not trust the RTP and would turn up and dish out some summary justice before calling them. They know how the law and justice works here, so if the situation is as alleged then he has received a precursor of what he might expect if convicted and gaoled. Paedophiles are not taken lightly inside prisons any where in the world.

Jesus what a twerp.

With the attention I have observed on Air India flights to keeping to;ets tidy, service up to mstandard on 10 hour flights, I think I will pass on this oppurnity to be part of a history making event.

The experience I have had with Air India is right down there with Indian airlines, Gurada, etc Ok Air India does not allow carry on goats, chickens, etc.which may give them a slight edge to the other 2 mamtioned

Are you saying one cannot fire up ones stove and cook a curry in economy class ? Jeeeez do they still allow cardboard suitcases . Travel is becoming such a drag.

When I started reading this article, I wondered why would anyone take a puppy away from some poor homeless person. Well, the homeless person is a gypsy, using a puppy to get people to feel sorry for him instead of working for a living. These people rescued this puppy from a dirtbag who wants something for nothing. The gypsy's are like a plague in western Europe.

You are such a dick where on earth do you gain such foresight, are you any good with lottery numbers. ?

OK instead of the usual clever half line webforum Mark the snarky lark o.p. topic dismissal I'll be equally annoying in the opposite direction and actually attempt to give an in depth answer, going on and on at length in my trademark epic run on sentences about the obvious as though it were a revelation or about things you'd disgaree totally with, ha ha!

As has been said, what you spend per month there's a lot of variation depending on your luck, your preferences etc. I don't live in Udon but in Isaan and don't mind living in my wife's village an hour away from the nearest city , so I pay no rent. But I run the air-conditioning all the time so that's 2,000 baht a month electric. My wife isn't into draining her husband's bank account just because she can, not that I would allow it, and healthily paranoid enough that it is not likely, even if I were poisoned by an in-law or what have you, there'd still be no way to get much out of it. So I suppose that's also luck, not meeting a woman who turns out to be a ruthless blood sucking pipe from you to the rest of her family. Honing your perceptive abilities regarding people's characters can save you a load. But the wife does like watching western movies so we pay True another 2000 baht a month. Glad to pay it because she gets a lot out of it. Really don't enjoy very much of anything they put on and never watch TV hardly at all myself. Who needs it when you have face book and Thai Visa! Internet from TOT is 450 per month, much better value and has been pretty good and consistent since about New Years, terrible last year though, atrocious internet actually in 2014. I don't own a car and never have in my whole life so the car cost maintenance fuel money holes don't exist for me . Don't even need a car, even way out here in the sticks. If worse comes to worse tons of other people have cars here and I just offer them 400-600 baht to drive me somewhere, that happens on average only about once a month. Our village has an ambulance service that is prompt and works pretty well for the monthly heart attack or apoplexy spazzings outs, the odd jaw bone popping out and onto the floor, or leg dropping off from disuse and needing prompt reattachment etc.. When not faced with a medical emergency, usually I just take Songthaews and that's 25 baht for an hour ride into town. Our food bill is high because I don't eat local style and try to eat as healthy as I can given everything is GMO and the fruits and vegetables are sometimes so soaked in chemicals you have to toss them. 6000 baht a week and random household purchases bill for two people. But included in that is some food we give to our struggling family members, our dogs, a couple bottles of nice wine and a 500 ml bottle of Singha per day, that is beer and wine for us not for the dogs. I buy a lot of books on line and music production software and other gizmos sometimes hardware so that's about another 4,000 baht a month average. What really kills us is going to Bangkok or somewhere to get away for a bit, which is pretty essential, the walls start to close in and it feels pretty claustrophobic every 4-5 months. Perhaps living in town is a way to save on that, but for me I think even Udon would be nearly as boring as in the middle of pesticide strafed rice land, but that's just me and I suppose it could be an absolute blast for some to live in Khon Kaen or Udon. A week in Bangkok easily runs 60,000 baht all in. Sure, I could do better on that account, and not eat in any restaurants or in less, not buy nice imported beers and wines, not buy books, not do any shopping for non-essentials you can't get in Isaan, but I don't have to presently so I don't.

Medical costs run me another 60,000 per year and I happen to think Thai doctors are mostly not very good,nearly all are hopelessly arrogant, too many of them seem mentally unbalanced to me, it is not uncommon to hear frankly stupendously insane comments from them regarding myself and my condition which I won't go into here. Personally I need to research other countries to travel to for medical, there is no trustworthy help available for the likes of myself. Of course your mileage may vary and I suppose it is partly down to your personality and how cool you are with ingratiating yourself to your superiors. I don't think I am arrogant, but I am not into grovelling, I am straight forward but with a ready smile when there is reason to smile, not as an exercise extreme discomfort and eggshell walking jsut to satisfy somone's sense of superiority. Rather the wrong attitude to have with Thai doctors they won't help you if you approach them as equals, I have found anyway.

So to sum up:

1 month expenses for me and the wife:

2,500- electricity & water

2,000-True Visions Sattelite

450- internet

1,000-local transpo

24,000-food and miscellaneous daily expenses

10,000-vacation funds

4,000- books and software

6,000-medical (chronic minor skin cancer, eye and foot problems)

10,000- miscellaneous nasty surprises, gotta buy its and ufo landing pad upkeep and maintenance

= 60,000 baht/month.

If it were just me it would be probably around 40-45,000 a month. But then I'd be renting so it works out about the same.

60,000 would about cover rent for a crap apartment in a violence plagued neighborhood in America, so maybe my budget looks stupid to you but I am OK with it and live just how I wanna on it.

Of course I could eat crap food and have more health problems and feel like <deleted> all the time, but I do not enjoy feeling protein, vitamin and mineral depleted. Nobody does but I don't think half of even the western countries populations understand that they have an issue with their diet. Good food keeps you feeling happier and more resilient to the challenges of living in Thailand, so I think it's well spent, and I don't think eating on the cheap here is wise at all, you'll probably cut a decade off of your life with all the salt and grease eating cheap dishes at food courts and on sidewalks and so forth. I keep on my wife's back about proper nutrition as well and that makes her a happier and a much better person to be around. Though she still says, "God, I feel like a <deleted> parakeet today! What happened?!" "Well, what did you eat?!" "Oh...some rice, a doughnut and a few nam prik dishes and I had a Leo beer with my sister." "So, no fish or chicken, no fresh herbs or anything?" "No." "Well there you go. That's why."

Hope that answered your question. Thanks for the space! Do not push like, do not pass go, turn off the computer and get some boiling hot fresh air!

Love and Viva La Revolucion,

Commandante Guido "Do-Not Say-'That-is-Sooooh-Gay-Again'" Suave, Second Commander of The Anti-Flippant Dismissive Internet Witticism Liberation Front

p.s.- How can one have another nutter butter roto rooter double trouble shooter in they life, baby baba, when there ain't even none yet anywhere, anytime no how no way, Super Sugar Crisp Bear! Unless you talkin about your own self, Jose! And who's he anyway?! Yabba Dabbah doo, sir!

God you must be bored coming up with this .

Leave the beach area and it gets less touristy the further you get away from the beach. Food prices will go down too. Not sure it's worth a month as a tourist, but I LOVE living here. Different being a resident and a tourist.

What areas would you suggest?

Perhaps we're just in the wrong part of Pattaya...

The bus station.

I used to live near Los Angeles. The homeless situation is one of the worst things I have ever seen and I have been to some of the poorest countries in the World. How can a country that tries to brand itself as the World's greatest continue to spend trillions on defense and its military while its citizens have no place to sleep and have to beg for food?

For the same reason that it can't take care of it's disabled veterans in their pathetic VA Hospital Administration.

Well, that, and then shipping the majority of middle class and blue collar jobs overseas thus creating over 100 million people without jobs. The "real" unemployment rate in the US is 23%.

Utter rubbish.

I had a card cloned here last year, they waited 4/5 months before doing it, took around £1500 from my account in one day even though my daily limit was £500. I don't know how they managed that also it was taken from the same ATM in Bangkok, they kept making withdrawals until it wouldn't give them anymore. I had never been to Bangkok that trip so must have been cloned in Patong. All the money was refunded as it was a Visa Debit Card. I will only ever use an ATM outside a Bank now.

Why use them at all ? Many branches of Bangkok bank are open seven days a week.

really? How come, is this Schwab a bank? I need to withdraw via paypal to the bank and than use money in Thailand via ATM

will they send new card if I loose it?

I doubt i can open one because I am an European, not usa citizen, so probbaly I will not be able to open SCHWAB bank account at all, but i would love to buy some stocks and shit....

Using an ATM in Thailand is fraught with danger.

And how much was she paid to do these drug runs I wonder? few thousand baht and petrol money? The risk doesn't seem worth it.

Can you read ?

If a Muslim God

forbid ever ran for president, he would be dead meat in short order, USA is the land of the free not of murdering scum uneducated nomads who wish to return the world into the bronze age

Of course it's all fantasy, the very thought is a joke . I could go on but fear the moderators.

Have stayed at this resort, he must have been brain dead r drunk, no sympathy,

Ginger ???

brits carry the hair color card very seriously.

An American saying, quote

I need that like I need a red haired stepson.

Note all red heads not my saying,

NOPE ! Going on 11 years and mine still laughs at accident scenes, watches

Thai totally indigestible shows and any movie with no plot but death, puts

sugar on toast and uses 12 rolls of toilet tissue a week !

Mine too, plus sugar on beef gravy.

But I like a man in uniform

Different strokes for different folks.