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13 hours ago, Confuscious said:

There are mainly 2 kind of people travelling to Thailand and nothing has changed in this matter. etc etc

I found Thailand through working in Malaysia. Then with work in Indonesia Thailand proved to be a far more convenient base to live than Europe. I still do contract work regionally, Malaysia and Laos, plus occasionally Africa. It helped that I met a pretty lady 30 years ago who I eventually married and bought a house for. But the cost of living is not an issue and not something I consider or worry about.

I didn't reject the West, rather I found living in the East more advantageous.

4 hours ago, Confuscious said:

You paid for the house, so if you divide the cost of the house by the months you are here your rent would be very high.
And I am sick and tired of people on LOS saying that they build a house.
Yes, you build a house, but it is not yours and it will never be yours.
Lost investment.
The only thing you can legally have is Condo where 51% of the block is in Thai hands.

I'm pretty sick and tired of people whining on about it's not yours, as if it had never occurred to me that it wasn't! I know it's not mine, it's money I spent fully understanding I could lose it and was comfortable with that.

I bought the wife a 4 storey shophouse unit 20 years ago for Bht2.3 million, 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 350m², so that's Bht9,583 per month and falling.

You might correctly point out I needed to refurbish and furnish, and yes that was an additional 700k, so total 3m, so that's Bht12,500 per month and falling, I'm happy with that.

On 2/12/2025 at 5:07 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Think.....

MARS......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Oh please, the sooner he goes the better, hope he takes the whole First Grifter Family with him

12 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

Until the floods.

It's a tropical monsoon climate, so it goes with the territory. Traditional rural houses are built on stilts, towns and cities rely on flood defences. Thankfully Hat Yai's did their job last year and the city didn't flood, just some suburbs, our's included though not high enough to enter our house.

Air quality no so good today.

It's fine down south

4 minutes ago, Jim Blue said:

Bet Sarah Palin had some trouble with that one .....

I doubt she could find Denali / Mount McKinley (delete as applicable)

1 hour ago, AlexRich said:

WTF is homophonic? 

Sounding the same, from homophone, a word that sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning, and/or a different spelling; so like right, rite and write.

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

News flash for the OP - Bob is back, flush with bitcoin, hoping to woo his readers back from you.

There's rich Robert Smith, and then there's plain Two Bob Smith and his catalogue of errors

2 hours ago, Robert_Smith said:

beyond belief

You got that bit right

12 hours ago, merck said:

Updated version of your video

GB News, I hadn't realised anyone watched that

1 hour ago, topt said:

If there are any they would normally be taken at the time of the transfer. IE you would receive less money at the receiving bank end. 

How did you call the charges to be made - split or payer pay all?

It doesn't give any option to "split or payer pay all", the app interface is quite straight forward similar to Wise. You either enter the amount to transfer, or the amount you want the payee to receive, it then gives you the rate and calculates corresponding value. 

As for intermediary charges, "normally be taken at the time of the transfer", that's not my previous experience with HSBC, historically charges have appeared after the event; the reason I use Wise.

7 minutes ago, SiSePuede419 said:

In case you haven't noticed Mars is just another grift. 

Yeah but we live in hope.

I wish he'd hurry up, he can take Trump and that extended family of grifters with him too.

10 hours ago, Jack1988 said:

Always this female immigration. Nothing new. I always use immigration male and never had these kinds of problems

I always pick the queue with a female immigration officer, they're more often than not quicker than their male counterparts. 

4 hours ago, Purdey said:

Good for tourism, I guess.

The main beneficiary will be the truckers, they queue for hours to get through the border.