TheJoker12

Multiple non immigration O visa.

$175 money order made to Royal Thai Consulate

Copy of Airline Ticket

2 pictures

Self Addressed Stamped Envelope

Marriage Certificate Copy

Your Passport

Florida Address

Politician H in Thailand does not go to jail because that would mean that Politician I would end up in jail too and then Politician J.

The system is based on keeping a precedent of rob the country blind for as long as you can before you get kicked out.

Thailand's problem seems to be that government is controlled purely by bureaucrats and not by industry/large companies/capitalism, therefore those in charge do not benefit by economic progress in the GDP but by robbing the country.

Thaksin = Enron. He sought to create an America style business dictates politics. See ya!

Its only 230 voltage not 110-230 voltage. I have found some converters online:

1. http://www.amazon.com/One-Voltage-Converte...ef=pd_sbs_hpc_3

2. http://www.amazon.com/ConairPro-CP952-Volt...109&sr=8-19

but they often say things like:

"Converters should not be used with power tools and electronic circuitry products, i.e. computers, fax machines, typewriters, TVs, VCRs, etc. exceeding 25 watts."

And i am not sure where a breast pump falls into that. Thanks.

aptly named.

I bet you guys are a real hit with the ladies back home, though.

Yeah if she has a uniform you won't have to waste so much time trying to convince other people of where she works.

Who talks about driving aggressively. The guy was just passing a parked car and the door is suddenly smacked open into his face. I have lost counts on the times I've had to swerve around cars who seem to have a blind spot for anything on less than 4 wheels.

Try driving in a straight line, you know, like a car. Weaving and driving on the side of cars is both illegal and aggressive driving behavior.

You don't see that in the West do you? Its your life, stop fooling yourself that car drivers who cannot keep up with your location every second are being irresponsible. Automobiles have blind spots. Its very difficult to drive in Bangkok. You guys are everywhere. Again, its your life. There is more than likely an accident with your name written on it. You comment how many times you have escaped an accident, well I guess you already know its coming sooner or later.

Does America have one of those hot lines? That sounds more like a personal friend who knows or works at the embassy's cell phone number.

If you drive a motorcycle in Bangkok aggressively, you should expect to be injured at some point.

Thanks, I wouldn't blink at that and if anything reasonable under 200k was mentioned I'd not be discussing it here.

I'm not sure if I care if I offend them anymore, but I wouldn't want to do so to my GF, but I suppose that is inexorably linked.

Yes the point is that just the receptions and honeymoon etc will run well past the 1m I guess, so I am also guessing I can see they are very greedy and care not about much else than the money. So common here.

A general comment here. The whole sin sod thing has a lot to do with status in the community. But where is a farang in the Thai social structure? Usually, because of income and education, by default he gets about the same status as a fairly well-off urban middle-class Thai. But in Thailand urban middle-class Thai guys don't marry a rice farmer's daughter! So the rules and norms go out the window. You can't ask a rice farmer's son what he'd pay because you aren't at his level. You can't ask a middle-class urbanite what he'd pay, because he wouldn't get into that situation.

I guess that makes you the mark.

What does it matter, it has to be returned to you at the end of the day right?

I hope there is a ton of mayhem (I be out of the country) and there are two or three more coups, airports shut down and the baht floating around the 55 mark when I get back. Fingers Crossed!

I actually have several very very good ideas that a farang could use to turn a very little amount of money into a lot but my business is going to well and I don't have enough time or energy or desire to give them a go.... but still, I just have no desire to share them with you! I think if you are smart and aware and looking around you will find an idea on your own.

There are quite a few areas where Thailand is absolutely wide open for the pickings.

Cool. Not sure if I believe it was $10,000 to $100,000,000 in 10 years. That sounds like some English teacher math.

Several pages in this topic and nobody has mentioned well known success story:guy came to LOS at the beginning of 80's with 10k$,ten years later he had closed his shop,took all monies and left.How much? - about 1000 million bucks.Today he is owner of Fashion Channel and he lives in Paris enjoying himself and his lines of models.You can enjoy them as well - watching

True Tv on your plasma HD screens - but it is not the same as real thing...

Excellent example!

Plenty of local fun to be had with Fashion TV in the background that in many ways it probably better than what the model/jet set scene has access to. No annoying paparazzi either.

Until the doctor asks you to come in, sit down and instructs the nurse to shut the door.

can you give some more details of whom you are talking about fantuzi? what shop did he run in Thailand and how is fashion channel related to Thailand?

lol @ saying the USA has no collateral.

the sticker on the back of the power supply of my desktop says that it can handle 110-240V... but the power cord which plugs into the wall socket says 10a 125V.... what does "10a 125 volts" mean? shouldn't i be using a 220V cord?

If they were your kids Kadafi I am sure you would send them to public schooling and keep that money for yourself eh?

Schooling for my children would obviously be important but i would not fork out 7,000 baht a month on a maid to keep a 18,000/month apartment clean (thats what wives are for)....

mortgage payment, he said.

My expenses in Thailand :

- Apartment in BKK, 18,000/m

- Travel (car, taxis, etc) 8,000/m

- Food & Drink (supermkt) 20,000/m (weekly supermkt trip usually 5k)

- Dining out/ready food 9,000/m (we probably eat at a restaurant once a month)

- Telephone/Internet/TV 3,000/m

- Clothes 8,000/m

- Bars/Ladies 0/m

- Kids School fees 65,000/m (International school, aged 4 & 6)

- MiL/family 12,000/m

- Maid 7,000/m

- Electric/other bills 4,000/m

Total : 154,000

I notice a bit of an imbalance in how much I pay for food and how much I pay for bars & girls!

Unfortunately I also have a mortgage to pay in the UK and I have a company in Thailand (I didn't count the cost of visas and WPs) which has employees and office rent, accounting etc to pay. The wife has a pension scheme here in Thailand, that I pay 5k a month into, but that's not a lot!

4years from now the Thai mortgage will be paid off, then the apartment will be about 2k/month, other than that, I don't see much room for economy until the kids go!

Still, it's less than 40k/person...

dam_n you spend £3000/month living in a third world Country! you must have a lazy wife with all that ready food and maids cost. None of that budget goes on yourself either, as i see no budget for activities such as golf, gym, bars etc. No fun makes manjara a dull boy....

I buy food for 5 people for around 100 quid a week (including the ready food/restaurant), there's no way I would manage that in the UK!

My wife spends no money on herself either (you see no budget for hairdresser, spa etc), so neither of us are being extravagant.

We live well, in terms of food etc, I'll drink 2 or 3 bottles of wine a week and we go on trips to the beach but, yes, it shocks me that I spend 3000 quid a month in Thailand. I used to wonder if she was supporting some Thai guy, but then I tracked everything and found out it did all go on 'legit' expenses.

I play golf when I'm away on business, but it would be good to play in Thailand sometime!

Fair play, good to hear you have hobbies and your keeping on top of your expenditure....

If they were your kids Kadafi I am sure you would send them to public schooling and keep that money for yourself eh?

i am pretty sure OP is looking to do a runner.

i don't get why these threads have so many bragging about how little they spend like its a contest or noble to be broke!

we don't have air condition, we fan ourselves with banana leafs **claps**

Where are all the people sending their (multiple children) to 300k+/year international schools? are these really the minority? are these 40k a monthers just bachelors living in scuzzy studios and eating in food courts everyday? i am pretty surprised as i would have thought the 40k baht a month guys were the minority.

i rarely see a luk krueng in non-private school attire ????

cut them coupons kids.

They have been spending the last year and a half playing video games and eating junk food all day, the US government paid them about 40,000 baht a month to do so as part of their unemployment benefits (Isaanites eat your heart out) and now they are looking to come to Thailand. He has a degree in Chemistry and she has a degree in philosophy but neither have any teaching experience. What will they need to do to be able to get one of the higher paying (degree) teaching jobs in Thailand?

thanks

btw, its sort of funny to think about how the differences between thailand and usa. in usa, you can get paid 20k baht a month for not having a job. that is more than the average thai even makes.

The tiny little hut was worth 8m baht.

Maybe on the insurance claim.