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Give him 12,000 imo

My wife had family members that were basically getting money from farang using dating sites. Multiple different women sitting in front of the computers but only one that could type English well and that lady ran around typing and helping type staying out of camera view. They picked up money transfers often and some of them have gotten married and collected sinsod one of them twice and one of them three times, but the others just once. The entire village goes getting free food and bottles of alcohol they run off with then complain saying they are out of it and everything looks great to the farang.

That said out of this I've seen relationships seem to work. One in particular they been married since New Years Even 2010 (Jan 1, 2011) and she lives in his country 6 months per year, home alone 3.5 moths and him in Thailand 1.5 months. And they are happy. Another is an older lady that had a farang husband for 19 years living village lifestyle without much money and he died. I didn't know her well but she was stressed and collections paid for the funeral. They had no marriage paper and she had no money for funeral. This group managed to find her a guy in 60's from UK whose wife had died a couple years earlier and now he lives with her same style old husband did. A couple both in their 60's that look happy. Most the others I see come in and out, except one more success story (maybe?). The entire ring pretty much fell apart when the lady running it met a super rich farang that bought her a big home, a fortuner and gives her 250,000 baht per month spending allowance. Oddly enough, she seems happy too.

The only husbands and wives I know there sleeping arrangement don't sleep together.

My Thai Mom (lived in US since a child) and her farang husband, their kids are grown have nice house and sleep in separate bedrooms. They are all kissy kissy too for old people. (married for over 20 years).

In my wife's village: 3 generations on same large mattress on floor. Long time ago I bought a bed no one used it.

My wife's aunt and uncle (oldest kid is 35) Separate neighboring what I guess you can call houses (or separate wood shacks).

Not related Thai couple we know the most in our city, middle class business people, they have 3 bedrooms but his wife sleeps in living room with multiple kids

At home when it was just us me my wife slept together. Now my wife sleeps with the kids in a separate room.

(perhaps the other 200 couples I know living here do sleep together, I never asked )

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That in mind, and just putting it out there. If all other areas of relationship is well. Any problem with just sleeping in different rooms?

I'm going to this for the first time also. Will get there sometime tomorrow and staying 2 nights.

Every haircut I have used those razors. In Udon Thani price is 80 baht at both shops I'm familiar with. In 2009 both were 40 baht but prices are up on most everything else too.

withdrew 300K from the ATM?? I am only allowed to withdrawl 20K per day.

right, is that even possible? i guess its more quality thai journalism.

Yes it's possible in Thailand. Can withdraw at the ATM all the money you have in your account.

I'm not sure about changing the limits that you can withdraw whilst at an ATM, even if it is your home bank. On my Krungsri account I can withdraw up to 300,000 a day, but only in 30,000 baht increments. In practice this means withdraw 30, take the card out, put it back in again and another 30 and so on. With my Bangkok Bank account I can do the same but the daily limit is 200,000 and per withdrawal is 20,000. These are published on the written bank literature so although I am sure you can voluntary limit your daily allowance, this must be the bank's own maximums.

SDM

PS for would-be kidnappers, I ain't got no money, these are just what my banks would let me do if I had.

I can do 25,000 per with Bangkok Bank, but only to a maximum of 50,000 per day.

That's not the correct stamp for a 1-year extension.

I own several bitcoin myself and read coindesk almost daily

I live in Isaan also, and have three times sat watching a family member die in their home. The latest one was liver cancer. He went to the hospital but once diagnosed came home to die. As someone said in a previous post, it is very common.

All I heard reported was that it missed reporting in Ho Chi Minh (thus establishing the lost contact time?). Many major sources (example: reuters) have reported "last had contact with air traffic controllers 120 nautical miles off the east coast of the Malaysian town of Kota Bharu, the airline said on Saturday."

So sometime between that check in and Ho Chi Minh it was lost? If so, What's the time frame? X.X hours to 2 hours (could that be where the confusion is coming from?)

Yahoo Malaysia Reporting Same

Navy Admiral Ngo Van Phat reporting crashed in sea; Malaysia Airlines not confirming or denying when contacted.

Malaysia Airlines says the last point of contact with the plane was 120 nautical miles off Kota Bharu, over the China Sea.

Source

Airline confirmed the Nanming, China landing is false and that they have no idea where the plane is.

4 children, the thought to use one was never had. Each was eating food before having teeth could be the reason or maybe perhaps because both parents had light work schedules most our time was about them, or maybe just lucky. No clue.

Queue the usual 'Thailand, hub of...' posts and other crap.

I have safely driven maybe three quarters of a million miles in Los between 1977 and now. There's probably some who have done even more.

Sure it would be very risky for someone who had never, driven in LOS to get behind the wheel of a car at Suvarnabhumi and drive to (say) Pai on the pre-Songkran weekend... but who on earth does that?

There's loads of stats on what kills the most foreigners in Thailand but I don't recall it being driving related. Even if we look at the very high risk motorcycle accident victim, outside the tourists spots, you don't see a lot of foreigners on 2-wheels.

Seriously? I've only done a tiny fraction of that mileage in seven years here but I've already been crashed into once while stationary. I've seen a pickup lose it and go cartwheeling down the highway. I've seen a truck jack knife and i've seen about half a dozen motorbikes get taken out at traffic lights as I watched. And then there were all the near misses. I rarely drive in this country if I can avoid it and I never drive at night.

I guess it depends where are driving. But yeah my experience is similar to yours. I've driven by dead bodies from auto accidents (motorbikes) many times in Udon Thani. Out in the sticks on way to Ban Phue every so often have someone seriously injured or killed by a gang that flings large rocks at windshields in order to rob the driver after the crash. While traveling, I've seen cars flipped over (on way to Chiang Mai see this every few trips), roads disappeared in mudslides, and almost was hit by one of those 'falling rocks' (better described as bolders). The saddest part is I don't have enough fingers to count by hand the number of people I know who lost one of their children to an auto (usually a motorbike but know both) accident. Over 5-years I've driven a lot, had only minor accidents, but for sure can understand Thailand ranking high for automotive deaths.

A little more than your budget is Thong Ta. When booked through Agoda single occupancy is 735 Baht per night and includes round trip shuttle to and from airport. I've stayed here at least 15 times over past 5-years. In the past the rooms not ground floor had connectivity issues. The most recent time I stayed I stayed the internet was greatly improved. There were connections available for every floor. Small sample size, but I watched full slate of NFL games toggling back and forth and keeping it open on both my phone and laptop via NFL.com Game Pass live steams during layover using that internet connection without problem.

eddyxwb, if you are not familiar with low-cost airlines here check out AirAsia.com, NokAir.com for cheap options. The reason I say this is because chances are it will probably be okay to travel Bangkok in June. However those are discount airlines and there are a lot of places that are cheap to travel to if you need to make late contingency plans. For Bangkok, there will be plenty of hotels available last minute regardless so don't prebook. Then if it comes June and Bangkok isn't looking like a good idea you can head somewhere else. If big city is your thing, I personally like Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. But there are so many low cost travel destinations once in Bangkok. Unless your plans are so highly bangkok specific don't cancel. You'll have plenty of options when the time comes for rerouting that single week of your trip. Is a ton to see in Thailand too. Many people legitimately spend months touring this country.

Never heard of cash on delivery in Thailand.

Always cash upfront.

Are you new also?

Central, Index, Lazada etc. all have offered this for quite some time now. Can even get this in Northeast.

May he soon rest in peace.

Typically the police don't help Thai people either.

I'm in Udon Thani so maybe is different, but I've never known gifts to be a big deal for Valentine's Day. Going out is generally the thing.

edit: Actually, not sure if linking that article is illegal so maybe nevermind.

Have seen these hanging in a couple barber shops.

Where are you all from? In the US hundreds of people are sentenced to 30-years in prison, suspended with 1-year probation, every single day. It is not even close to abnormal, it is routine.

There's an insane amount of ridiculous advice in this thread. OP lets start with where in Thailand is she from? From my experience in Issan very close to Lao border, if there is a wedding ceremony, sinsod is always paid, as in 100% of the time. Parents with male children, and I'm talking poor farmers and the ones not addicted to lottery but rather good parents, actually budget for this over their sons childhood as they are the ones that will someday pay it. Now, the parents are not really paying for it second and third times. And likewise, many of the ceremonies for someone who has already had a large one are smaller and sinsod is less too. But, if there is a ceremony, there is always sinsod. People with no stake involved discuss and talk about it too.

As for the expectations. Of course someone who makes more is sort of expected to pay more. It similar to the whole an engagement ring should cost 1 month salary in Western culture as opposed to it should cost an exact amount. But some other points to understand. Sure there are many scams. And yes it is done different in other areas. Only you can answer how much to pay, is it a scam, what's appropriate in her culture etc. If that doesn't work discuss whatever is appropriate in yours. Maybe you would rather buy her a diamond costing 1 month salary or whatever it is that fits.