grumpyoldman

Curious,

a Chilean, issued a Swedish passport in August of 2010.

Any Swedes on the forum here (?), is it easy to get a Swedish passport if you are not from Sweden?

As you know mate, some people are prepared to sell there property and make a good profit.

Then they listen to a estate agent and make the property so expensive they have little chance of selling it in the current market.

I have talked to different agents and they do not seem to know how to value a property properly

Thus the difference in the market here and in the western world.

In the west, logic says price it so it will sell. Not here.

And since you have been looking for quite some time now, it seems that none of the sellers agree with your fair price.

But I give up Peter, you're not listening to what anybody is saying, only to what is in your own mind.

i agree steve he knows all..... he does not want to listen only talk..

I think this is just a favorite conversation piece of the OP's.

This seems to me just like an open conversation as if we were sitting at the bar making b.s. about the RE market here.

Does Mr. Callen have his views pretty solidified on this topic? No argument there. Is anyone in the thread going to change his views? Probably not, so if the conversation is frustrating for you, best to grab a beer and head to another group of mates ;-)

Completely different than in the west.

I guess the main thing is that there are few mortgages and no buying chains.

Because of this, there isn't so much pressure to lower prices for quick sales.

OP, also, you throw in the whole "face" scenario here and it's faaarrrr from doing business in the west.

Example- my brother owns a house in a silimilar neighborhood as mine in the U.S., he sells it for for 4 millionthb. My similar house, due to needing cash I sell for 3.5. In the west I don't "lose face" in my family, hell that concept doesn't even exist, we all do we we have to do, my brother probably needs to buy all the beers at the next family BBQ, but thats about it.

Here if Somchai gets 14 millionthb for his house, you can be dam_n sure that his related neighbor down the street is not going to get a satang less. That makes the equation very different.

Hi Simon,

I also cannot provide you with the info you need, but do have a suggestion.

When I am in Ao Nang for work, I use the high speed internet shop that is on the beach road, well, not right on but their blue sign is and it's next door to O'Malleys.

Why don't you ask the proprietor there who he is using? Typically i never have drops there and the speed is good.

Best of luck, GOM

Ricky's in Kata may also. I'll re-post here if he does.

It is nice to post something about your mate.

But if you don't have any information please don't

Its a forum and ScubaBudda is not breaking any rules of posting on it.

PC, don't you love the moderator wannabes? Yeeeeeeesh.................

Welcome to Phuket and 'paradise' :bah: ...get used o it

I say he mistakenly took you for someone else, or else just a nut job.

Nut jobs not being solely a Phuket occurrence ESB7 and BTW, where do you live?

Since Don's is gone, i don't see too many club owners that will consistently get up early morning to have them on.

Especially in a club/bar atmosphere.

I think we are destined to watch the games on channelsurfing dot net

Works for me.

ps. Hopefully someone will have a Super Bowl party though.

Go Eagles!

Yo FH !

Freebird Bar Chris has opened a sportsbar at the three way in Nai Harn, where the no-go defunct Latinos fiasco used to be.

He was probably high on ya ba

Also, that Rassada District is notorious, he might have followed you out of there hoping to clip your wallet if and when you went down.

Curious that this is in "fun, entertainment and Expat Life".............................

On another note, had one of these high on speed and steroid maniacs from Birmingham sneak up and knife to death an American serviceman who had kicked his ass in a fair fight here in Phuket earlier in the year.

Complete coward and pussy.

"Too many people who defend this so called Pearl of the Andaman do it through rose colored glasses"

Yep, let me shine up my rose tinted glasses and get abused here for saying that I like living in Phuket................

Chill Out is as pretentious as it gets - come on...a Wine Bar in Aonang????!?!

Try A1 - best Xmas Dinner in Krabi.

I have to agree with your assessment of Chill Out. What are those people thinking? Completely out of place.

A1 does have excellent food, you might check with Jeanette of Jeanette's I have to imagine she'll have something.

Another reason to head to Pattaya !!!

get IRS Form 2555 from their website (get the EZ version). It explains it very well. It's pretty simple to file. I've done it during years I qualified.

Ignore the post about needing a work permit. The folks go on about that also would say you need one to trim your own fingernails or do your own laundry as they also meet the definition of "work".

I second this.

Typical of the posters here to change the topic, unless I misunderstood you and you were asking about a work permit matter? Not.

LOVE this thread..................

Need to get all the wanke_rs and complainers that are here in Phuket, outta here ! One of you is probably the one that came up on me on the road with a bike so big you needed to take the whole lane, and then whistled in my ear as I'm just trying to get across the street with my laundry as I have done the last 5 years........

The poster that remarks about the water quality at the beach, what time of year was that? Understand wind and water movement do ya? How's that water quality in Pattaya?

I think the OP nailed it on the head, he'd rather have cheap beer and girls than go to the beach, Pattaya suits him better, no worries.

Keep up the Phuket bashing, for sure Pattaya needs you, go now, why wait!!!!

Hey there,

just back from a couple days in Ao Nang myself. As I am there regularly, some observations which will also be on topic, too lazy to open a new thread.

-first, not sure about the poster who said no girlie bars, there is RCA which is where all the bargirls who have washed out on the BKK-Patong-Kata-Rawai circuit have moved to. Nothing special there but there it is.

-food options in Ao Nang now very expensive as they have (at night time)removed all of the carts in front of the McDonalds mall, and my noodle soup guy who used to be out front of the minimart has been moved around the corner, and a different family is running it. Lo and behold, 5thb more (35thb for geow teow), but still pretty tasty.

-night market is Krabi town, and I really recommend the OP take an evening over there for dinner and shopping. Shopping in Ao Nang is a joke.

-Sunset on the Ao Nang beach wall mandatory, pop a big Heineken from the 7-11 and watch the sun dip behind Phang-Nga.

-daytrip over to Railay is in order for sure, I think one poster already recommended that so I second.

-OP I'd be curious about a follow up report, please repost with your observations and what you did.

Cheers, GOM

terrible, in Thailand jet skis appear to be cursed, something to be avoided along with the scam as described in another post

Shame Thailand your tourist will soon be depleted and people will stop coming to your country on holidays as they will get sick of being scammed by thai people who are dishonest and trying to rip of the tourist with jet ski scams trying to keep there deposit.

Your police department is an absolute joke these operators should be stopped from doing business and this needs to happen ASAP as there are many good people in Thailand and these type of people should be exterminated from operating businesses.

I am so sorry for this couple that had this accident but I am commenting on a previous post about the young Irish tourist in Pattaya that were scammed vfor 18 thousand baht for damage to a jet ski that they did not do and when they said they would not pay the operator pulled a knife on him.

SHAME SHAME SHAME THAILAND YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE NO TOURIST LEFT SOON.

The authority's in Thailand need to exterminate these pests out of the industry.

Tiger4 a tad overboard, pardon the pun, but where I do agree is the element that scams people out of money in false pretenses.

Some family friend's kids had the same happen to them 2 years ago in Patong, 36,000thb later the thugs who had surrounded one guy, in the face of a beating the women had to go get the money.

Absolutely right that in order to rent one you have to show a license. New industry for Ao Chalong. "Sure you can rent this jetski but first my brother Somchai is going to ride you to Ao Chalong (200thb) then take a lesson (1000thb) get your license, and come back and pay 800thb for half an hour".

Bye Bye Jetskiis..........

Central. Optican88.

2nd that if it's the name of the place on the same floor and across from SCB branch.

Two best teams in the NFL right now.

Glad you threw the "now" in there SB because................

RAIDERS WIN THE SUPERBOWL, RAIDERS WIN THE SUPERBOWL!!!!

There is one certain thing. No thais saw a white jazz and definitely no thai saw someone walking in on the propriety especially at midnight where most of them are either sleeping or drunk. It's just to be cool and interesting. Like a game of telephone where the guy nobody cares about changes the words on purpose just to get attention.

Sad thing though.. thats why i dont want to know any low paid expats in thailand, lots of them will be envious and steal.. If they were any clever they wouldn't be on a bad job, so they are definitely dumb enough to get into steal mode

It has to be a very, very low percentage of farangs in Phuket that would stoop so low, don't you think?

I mean, compared to other parts of Thailand, Phuket is not cheap, if you had a low paying job wouldn't you do that in a lower cost scenario?.

If you look at the Bangkok Forum, there you see threads about farangs down and out living on the streets, committing suicide cuz it's gotten so bad, etc. I could see those guys getting desperate, but desperate in Phuket?

Just my opinion, cheers, GOM

Yeah, the tickets on silkair are running around $500 each.

However, I just do not want to run the risk of getting my fuse lit in some way by tiger. Given my past experience, I'd give it a high probability.

Singapore air wins either way we go.

Best,

Have only heard good things about Sing air, so if comfortability on that flight is massive for you, you're right spend a little more.

Enjoy. GOM

minimalist: cant afford nice things, tells himself he is happy with crap

real minimalist: lives in a first world country's forest, hunts for pleasure and food, reads books.

if you're one of the 90% of posters in the bar scene, you're again really far from a minimalist.

Don't see where going to a bar fits in, I definitely draw the line at the cheap beers though, no Archer or Leo for GOM.

As far as your definition ilyelol, I think you are off, won't need to get you a dictionary as dictionay.com covers that for us.

My point is, if you don't flash, you don't draw attention.

Definition below doesn't seem to have anything about first world forests.........................................funny......

World English Dictionary minimalist (ˈmɪnɪməlɪst) — n 1. a person advocating a minimal policy, style, technique, action, etc

Actually, I've learned that the Krabi-Sing leg has been cancelled at various times. Friends of mine had their "daily" flight cancelled for three days in a row and never got a refund, ended up driving to Phuket and buying another set of tickets on a premium carrier.

At the end of the day, it would have been far better to have gone directly to Phuket and driven down and back.

That's worse than bus service...sorry to throw cold water on the idea.

Strange, as I met a couple of ladies from Singapore in Ao Nang in October that had gotten for 300$US roundtrip Sing-Krabi AND four nights in the Red Ginger Resort.

Cost wise for sure a direct Sing-Krabi is best, I mean how long are you on the flight anyway, you think it's going to be that uncomfortable?

FYI- when I was in a metered cab out of Phuket a couple weeks ago headed home, I asked the cab driver fare to Krabi, 2200thb. With a couple of quick sidestops for some tourist viewings, you could probably get that done for 2500thb. Cheers, GOM

Lets just end the thread on this.

Move away from rawai, drop 90% in chances of getting robbed.

So we've gone from bashing ausinpatong, oops I mean bangtaoboy, to bashing Rawai?

Been in the same house for over five years now, even leave the doors open for when the maid comes, never been robbed.

But.................I believe the reason is that I live pretty minimalist, no dogs or fleas !!! Lotsa a chinchoks and tokays though ;-)

Sorry to hear the story OP, hope you can get the heirlooms back. GOM

that was quite pointless

You're not gonna get robbed if you are poor, thats kind of obvious

There was a time when I was a kid and Dad had left us that I was poor for sure. Older brother, sister and myself had to get jobs, I scrubbed pizza pans at the local pizzaria, I was about 9 years old I guess.

We'd pool our money and cut coupons, could only buy at the supermarket what we had coupons for.

Maybe that's why now I don't feel the need to have a whole bunch of fancy things, happy with my life.

ilyelol, can I buy you a dictionary? There you might learn the difference between minimalist and poor.

Cheers, GOM

Depends on if you are planning on spending any time at all in Phuket or if you are just looking to go direct BKK-Krabi (?).

For sure closer to 2 hours time Phuket ground transport to Krabi.

That being said if just going directly to Krabi, no need or desire to be in Phuket, then fly BKK-Krabi.