ThaiPauly

29 minutes ago, jayboy said:

 

You will.

What sort of answer is that?

It's a bullsh*t answer as you have not addressed the question.

Means I think you made it up unless you can give me any details I will assume its not factual

15 minutes ago, lordgrinz said:

Anyone know if the money we bring back when we come in on an airplane is considered assessable income? If I understand correctly, we don't even need to declare anything over 450,000 baht (or USD 15,000), correct? So no paper trail of where it came from, or would the issue arrive after I try to deposit it in my Thai bank account?

 

https://aip.caat.or.th/2023-12-28-AIRAC/html/eAIP/VT-GEN-1.3-en-GB.html#:~:text=1 Any person leaving or,when carrying over 450%2C000 THB.

Get a home safe and a security system

13 hours ago, bbi1 said:

Why y'all sheeting your pants worrying about the Thai gov taxing your foreign earned income? The hookers here in Thailand sure aren't sheeting their pants worrying about their locally earned income they pay zero tax on and don't declare any of it. They've never done it before and they never will in the future. If the Thai gov was going to crack down, they could get a ton of tax money from these hookers who don't declare their big income.

If the working girls have to pay tax they would just increase the fee you pay them to compensate. 

It's not rocket science

18 hours ago, jayboy said:

Some excellent pointers here, particularly for me 6.7 and 8.

 

It's probably sensible not to apply for a TIN now if you haven't already got one.Having said that, I know several people who have done so not because of the tax position in Thailand but because they are under great pressure from their (mainly) Channel Islands banks.

 

From what you say having a TIN number does not mean one is compelled to file a Thai tax return.

What pressure?

I bank in the CI and have received no pressure from them to do anything

Please clarify your statement

15 minutes ago, nglodnig said:

Actually I was using "visibility" as a measure - when I landed this time last year I could barely see to the edge of the runway, let alone  Doi Suthep itself - most days the mountains are clear so visibility ten times greater.

You have to look at the stats

On 3/2/2024 at 1:29 PM, OJAS said:

 

 

German TOTPs ...slightly different style, in 73 we had The Sweet, T Rex Slade.....

Imagine if you had to put up with this for your entertainment 😆 🤣 😂 

On 3/1/2024 at 6:11 PM, roo860 said:

Try this.

That's the funniest thing I have seen on TV so far this year........brilliant 😆 🤣 😂 😹 

20 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Stick to the mopping job, story telling isn't a calling

Sounds like he is trolling.

I have come across these "one hit wonders" before in the 20 years I have been on this forum....I was curious to see what this thread or any of his posts were like, now I have I'm off

18 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

I think you may have mistaken me as as the preacher son  , I want more of these guys !

I enjoy thinking about their heartbreak the sad life's they left behind.

 

Last night I'm walking thru the streets in Australia approached by a indigenous homeless guy outside asking for money ,I said I will do better than that and bought him a cheap bottle of wine so he can totally get smashed and cause havoc 😅

 

An alcoholic will not get smashed on ONE bottle of cheap wine.

On 3/10/2024 at 9:43 AM, ChipButty said:

I have to disagree with all of you, The local orbortor does a great job, down the beach there is plenty of bins when I go down to one of the beaches in the mornings there is a team of guys sweeping around, We go to Rawai for a coffee on the beach front, same there guys sweeping along the beach road, 

 

Where we live they come around in the night to empty the bins at least 3 time a week,

You as a Farang cannot go cleaning it up you don't have a work permit, 

You are divinely blessed Chip Butty 😆 

19 hours ago, TCAK said:

If you want to see garbage you only have to look at the Tab Tai park and across the road from the park. A lot of contractors dump entire pick-up loads that including sheet rock, broken concrete blocks, bricks, sacks, and other waste building materials. Then in the morning along the road, Thais throw the prior days garbage along the road. Of course they are only doing what the previous generations have done for many years. 

 

What a bunch of disrepectful people they are.

 

And what about around the 4 water reservoirs in the area. Don't have a clue about microplastics do they?

This was the area that I was alluding to in my original OP

On 3/9/2024 at 5:39 AM, Jimjim1 said:

Makes a change from Brits

Can you imagine the sh*tstorm if he had been a Brit.

We would all be packing our cases!!

On 3/7/2024 at 8:50 PM, bob smith said:

jaysus, mrs.smith is in the kitchen crying her eyes out and ‘how deep is your love’ has just come on the TV by bee gees.

 

lord give me strength tonight.

 

bob.

Do you HAVE to tell your wife that it's  over now?

Can't you just say you are going off to work in a new job, but you will be back.

In that time you can work out if you want the marriage or not

How old are you Bob?

On 3/7/2024 at 12:36 PM, expatnews said:

Ridiculous. post   

...I never experienced this problem in CM.

I never knew there WAS a problem with plastic bags in HH until I got here.

I am definatley not here because it's better.

It's different.

That's all.

You can save this post for a newbie trying to change the visa laws....not me, a 20 year resident

4 hours ago, Mike Lister said:

I also left cm in 2007 because of poor air quality, went to Phuket. Do you remember the swedish air force poster who used to champion the clean air cause at the time?

I do remember him.

I did meet him on quite a few Thai Visa get togethers  lovely guy ,but can't remember his name....shame

8 minutes ago, motdaeng said:

 

just because you don't remember doesn't  mean there wasn't air pollution ...

i relocated from chiang mai in 2005 because of the air pollution!

Maybe you were the first person to have a machine to detect it......but I didn't know there were any available  in 2004. I didn't even notice any pollution!!

You obviously left when the numbers were very low, you could see the numbers going up and opted  to save yourselves from it

But I don't blame you for leaving..save your life, that's why I left.

I have bronchitis as it is ,  and am sure it would be further agreived in CM

On 2/25/2024 at 8:36 AM, motdaeng said:

 

the air is at the moment not so terrible, but far away from good... It is still unhealthy!

 

A very good post

13 minutes ago, ThaiPauly said:

For me.....it's not acceptable and to avoid the "if you don't like it move" comments.

I have moved.

I spent 20 years gradually seeing the situation worsen in CM until it got to last year, the air quality levels were unacceptable to me. I'm retired I don't have to live there ,so I left.

 

I know more who will probably leave in time to avoid next years burning season.

 

What an environmental disaster

I've just checked the air quality right now and it's 198 in CM ...which is the worst AQ in the world!!

On 2/26/2024 at 7:50 AM, rexpotter said:

How can anything but clean air be acceptable?

For me.....it's not acceptable and to avoid the "if you don't like it move" comments.

I have moved.

I spent 20 years gradually seeing the situation worsen in CM until it got to last year, the air quality levels were unacceptable to me. I'm retired I don't have to live there ,so I left.

I know more who will probably leave in time to avoid next years burning season.

What an environmental disaster

34 minutes ago, sirineou said:

First, one needs to understand that the different populations in the US are more diverse than in Thailand.

The life expectancy of an American living in the east coast of Florida, is different than the life expectancy of an African American living in Detroit, but when taken all together on average they  present a different picture. 

  So which americans are we talking about?

But life expectancy world wide is also governed by a host of different variables, some of which will change when moving to Thailand, and others would remain.

 What will change and what will remain also varies among , individuals and nationalities. Some are more conducive towards change than others,

  IMO , no one has enough information to have an opinion. yet many will , an I am sure this thread will deteriorate into a, how things in Thailand are terrible and  are killing us. 

 

Personally I have a very good plan to live to be 100, 

I read some place that people in the island of Ikaria in Greece on the average live to be 100, 

So a couple of years before I approach the end of my life expectancy, I am moving there !!

Suckers!!

 

 

 

But there's no room there !!!

It's full of really old people that don't die

5 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Don't know if mentioned, but if looking at life expectancy, should be looking at charts with year born & location.  (saw different chart/67.7 yrs)

 

Myself, USA, 66.7 yrs, and 45 of those in USA.  Actually had an oops at about 67.7, and tech now, that wasn't available in Dec 1954, saved me, or at least would make things better or back to normal again.   That was last year and any complications usually show up in that year, so all good, again, maybe.

 

We're on borrowed time ... ENJOY

If you are 66.7...you would not have been born in 1954-"I was , in August that year and I am 69.3