GinBoy2

Thankfully I have never experienced this, both my American and Thai wife's are roughly the same age as are our assorted adult kids, and we all kinda work it out. But I've got a couple friends, who's adult kids never spoke to their Dad again. One especially after he had a child with his younger than his farang daughter Thai wife. He now lives back in the UK, 20 miles away from his daughter, and the last time I spoke to him, she still refuses to speak to him

Boring is so subjective. I could be bored in many places in my younger years I could equally be in love with the same places 20 years later

So my Thai son now has a one year old baby, with his American wife. He seems to have inherited red hair from her grandad Skin color is all my son's Thai/Hispanic Mom & Dad, so talk about how wonderful the mixing of races can be. He'll grow up as a tribute to all of his heritage

Noooo, I think the OP needs to up his game. Buy half of Isaan in preparation for Bangkok being under water. That been the prevailing myth for over 20 years, so Pattaya just invest in a hooker bar and good luck with that!

Actually the emoji things are a pain in the ass. I'm a big boy and generally will fess up to my mistakes if folks point them out. The emoji thing, well I leave that to the kids

Not all of us marry bargirls, but that being said.... My wife in an engineer, she works on B1 bombers, and honestly sometimes after hearing recount her day, I don't really care if the damn wings fall off, just be quiet and let me watch Star Trek, much more educational lol So maybe it's just life, we all put up with each other either married or single in some shape or form, and hopefully it all works out

So what exactly is the point of this thread? I don't think many of us lose our various linguistic abilities, unless there is some underlying medical condition. Another weird Gamma thread I fear

I don't 'get' tattoo's, never have. Would i wear the same clothes I wore in the 70's, which I was sure made me pretty damn Hot, Hell No I'd look like an idiot today. So why I would get some ink, that isn't a pair of 1976 flared jeans that I could discard but be with a tat to my dying day? But it's a cultural thing nowadays. I pleaded with my kids, I told them pierce whatever you want, but for God's sake don't tattoo it. Made absolutely no difference, all three of them are tattoo'd, one at least more than the others. But they are all decent human beings, and Heck that's the job of a Dad to be outraged by his kids lol

To add to my previous post this is just insane I work for an airline in the US and no one can access the airside (sterile) area of the airport without security clearance. The idea that folks are wandering between runways hitting golf balls, which in itself I find problematic, is a security joke. No one is a security risk, until they are. No one considered the 9-11 hijackers a security risk until they were. Maybe a Southern Thai dissident was to infiltrate the military and the golf club, we could all speculate how that could pan out!

The golf course is the most bizarre part of DMK. Never quite got how someone who has not gone through security can be on the sterile side of an airport, albeit on a golf course

My major problem as I age is separating my my two native languages. English and Spanish have swirled around in my head since I was a kid. Today I will have instances where I know should be speaking English and vice versa where I just blurt out in the wrong language. My two daughters are also bilingual and we often swap languages as we talk. My Thai son doesn't speak Spanish, and I have to catch myself sometimes. He will sometimes speak to me in Thai, Lao or Mandarin, just because he knows I need to focus on learned languages, and my frontal lobes take over

Maybe some of us have a higher tolerance to it. Thai's discriminate within their own country. My wife grew up and educated in the US, but as obviously Lao will be looked down upon by BKK Thai's. I'm Hispanic and I can be looked down upon in a whiter than white lily white State in the US. If you are brought up in an environment like that, you sorta grow thick skin. I couldn't give a rats ass what Thai folks think about me or my wife. Most of them assume you don't speak Thai, I do and have heard some pretty appalling comments sitting on Skytrain. Do I care? No Can I even be bothered to response? On occasions but mostly I just roll my eyes and think 'moron'

I think as we enter the final phase of our lives, many of us want familiarity more than anything. Somewhere in the back of my head I'm pretty sure that drove me along with a son moving to the US that made us move too. Yeah I speak Thai and Lao, and I can be comfortable, but it takes effort. I sort of want no effort nowadays. Without those pesky kids, I could easily have moved to Mexico for a no effort life

We may be conflating two things here. Many of us are loners, which often means we live somewhat at arms length from the mainstream. I'm an odd duck, only child of an only child mother in an Hispanic family. I grew up to be very self sufficient and never really made true friends, in fact I can count them on one hand, all from my early childhood Folks have come in and out of my life, in the US and throughout the world, I liked them but when we moved on never thought about them again. Now as for integrating into a society not sure given my personality I could do it even if I wanted to. I can skate of the surface and play the game, but at the end of the day I don't really care less if people accept me or not

I don't dream about my ex since we talk at least once a week. Not all marriages end in acrimony She's the mother of two of my children, still love her and she me, we just kinda got bored of living together. Now in our twilight years we're fine being together with new partners, in fact we go on vacations together. All my kids, with American wife and Thai wife all get along. My Thai son lived with my eldest daughter when he went to the US for college. So No, I don't dream about my ex, because I still have a life with her

I think you got that spot on. I met both my wives (American & Thai) at work. I was never very good at the bar/club pickup scene even when I was young, and the work, slowly getting to know someone vibe just worked for me. So then you get to Thailand where the vast majority of Westerners outside of Bangkok are retired old farts, so no work hookup there. They don't frequent 'normal' bars and clubs, since to be brutally honest a balding 60 something strutting his stuff on the dance floor is kinda cringe worthy. But those are places the 'nice' girls go. As for the question of freelancers, my wife's niece did it. She's now a flight attendant for Emirates, but while at college she'd work the bars at the weekend for money, and not the clubs frequented by the young 'hansum' men, she was doing it for fee paying customers, which her eyes were most definitely not her type!

It doesn't matter if your transcript's are just all zero's, you just need to provide them. Bank accounts, houses anything that can be liquidated can be used to pass the asset test

This is really a no brainer. US passport at checkin Thai passport at immigration, US passport at port of entry in US Thai passport back in to Thailand I guess the only fly in the ointment here is the assumption that your ex will give up his Thai passport. You also need to get her to go to the amphur and get the consent for him to leave the country. No, that's not always requested, but you don't want to be dealing with an stroppy immigration guy on the day. I've travelled alone with my son many times. He even went alone when he was 14 or 15 to spend the summer with his Grandparents in California. Me and Mrs G took him to BKK, got him all checked in, then the airline took care of him through immigration and the transfer in NRT. Grandma picked him up in LAX, no problems, but get passports and that letter from the amphur

Now it's been a while, but as I recall it was 3 or 4 years of tax transcripts, not copies of your 1040. If you are using assets, you'll need to provide copies of home or car title documents and 401K statements, plus whatever else you are using to make the income requirements

I don't think any foreigner is ever fully integrated into Thai society. I'm fluent in Thai and Lao, and even with my wives family I'll never be quite there. I've had this conversation with my my son. He was born and grew up in Singapore and when we moved to Thailand he also said he never felt totally accepted

Loneliness is a curious concept, which I've never really understood Strangely for my generation I'm an only child, with a Mom who was also an only child, and my Dad's brother had no children, so I grew up without siblings or first cousins. So I grew up to to be totally self sufficient. I can count the number of real friends I have on one hand, everyone else acquaintances at best, and they have come and gone over the years. So in Thailand I never really made any friends, a few falangs and some Thai's who I was friendly with but that was the limit I would go

For me it's cats. The cats, we have three. They hate my wife, and basically hide, wherever cats hide since you can never find them until I come from work.. After I'm home they play together then wrap themselves around me Bedtime, I got them on my head and legs. Mrs G those cats will defend me to an inch of their lives!

Well, we're all probably partaken in some ridiculous hair and clothes trends in our past. I tried to whitewash out of history pictures of me in the 70's & 80's, although my kids gleefully seem to bring them back!

No, the interview was always at the embassy, not USCIS, and just to say, it's a formality if you've done the paperwork correctly it's already approved so long as she doesn't fess up that she's a hooker, drug dealer or mass murderer.

Cabo is little America, and nothing wrong with that