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Ever heard of the brown paper bag full of dog shit, light it on fire

and leave it in front of the door.

The thais use the word "jak" to talk about chinese people, and this is derogatory. Makes

chinese people angry. The word falang makes me angry, especially when there is a disagreement

and the thais use the falang word between themselves to refer to the white dude standing

right there, this is obviously derogatory and looking down on the white dude.

I asked my wife not to call me falang, i told her when we go to australia people will not

refer to her as thai, but simply as a person, so i dont like to be labeled as a falang as well,

but as a person.

Now that i have a thai car licence, when they refer to me as falang, i shove it real close to their

face and say mai falang, pom phen khon thai.

Thanks again for all advices,

I have think about it, It's hard for me.

Because I has no friend to talk, my parents are died last year. I do have sisters (which is selfish and greedy),

I think if I have someone to take care of me (mainly support me). May be I am wrong??????

If I am not try it, how I know it?? (silly thinking.......)

I will think harder and prolong our relationship.

Thanks again

Greedy and jealous sisters?

Dead parents?

No friends?

Are you Cinderella??? looking for your prince....

There is no way that you should go to Canada, based on what you've written here.

I also wouldn't put too much faith in the Thai embassy there, if it's anything like the Thai embassy in the Uk - which is hopeless, they don't answer the phone, reply to messages or emails.

Is there a reason he can't come to Thailand to meet you? The cost to him would be about the same, and you'd be far safer, on your home territory, plus your family would get chance to get a good look at him, and give you advice. I accept that you're 39, and not a child, but you could end up in real danger here.

How much English do you speak? Enough to get yourself out of any unforeseen trouble?

Sorry, but I can't see any decent man offering to pay for your trip, without there being some comeback on your part. Nothing is free, there is always a price to pay somewhere down the line.

Stay safe.

Price to pay? he will demand SEX for the airfare, come on, grow up! What, he will accept a hug and kiss? I

dont think so, for $1000, he will want bjs galore.

Sounds like a dirty guy to me.... somebody hungry for ****

I can assure you 100% you are not the only girl he has "invited"

or is chatting to, he probbaly has a long list of girls, whoever is

stupid or desperate enough to go will probably be shagged and

dumped, then he will move onto the next girl.

Wheenver a guy is on a dating website, he will generally have

from 5 - 15 girls all lined up, he will shag the first one that puts

out...

good luck!

Read carefully all the problems and crap in phuket - i recommend you

go to chiang mai instead....

i hate tuk-tuks, //Deleted by Admin//

i have lived in thailand for over 10 years, and am happy to

say i have only had to use them 4 or 5 times, every time

they attempt to rip you off.

as an example in chiang mai, they try to charge foreigners 600

baht for a 15 minute trip out of the city to the local small

airport, take a meter taxi and its a little under 300 baht.

tuk-tuks assume all foreigners are either super rich and loaded,

or completely stupid.

you walk along the street minding your own business, they keep

beeping and following you and "tuk-tuk where you go".

i urge all foreigners to boycott them and not use them.

to hel_l with tuk-tuks and their looser drivers.

DONT USE THEM.. teach them a lesson, and send them to the poor

house.

We talking whores or tuk tuk drivers here ? ..

they act the same - they treat foreigners as ATM machines, are

abusive, rude, money hungry and cannot be trusted.

avoid and boycott both!

i hate tuk-tuks, //deleted by Admin//

i have lived in thailand for over 10 years, and am happy to

say i have only had to use them 4 or 5 times, every time

they attempt to rip you off.

as an example in chiang mai, they try to charge foreigners 600

baht for a 15 minute trip out of the city to the local small

airport, take a meter taxi and its a little under 300 baht.

tuk-tuks assume all foreigners are either super rich and loaded,

or completely stupid.

you walk along the street minding your own business, they keep

beeping and following you and "tuk-tuk where you go".

i urge all foreigners to boycott them and not use them.

to hel_l with tuk-tuks and their looser drivers.

DONT USE THEM.. teach them a lesson, and send them to the poor

house.

i hate tuk-tuks, they are worse than the thai whores...

i have lived in thailand for over 10 years, and am happy to

say i have only had to use them 4 or 5 times, every time

they attempt to rip you off.

as an example in chiang mai, they try to charge foreigners 600

baht for a 15 minute trip out of the city to the local small

airport, take a meter taxi and its a little under 300 baht.

tuk-tuks assume all foreigners are either super rich and loaded,

or completely stupid.

you walk along the street minding your own business, they keep

beeping and following you and "tuk-tuk where you go".

i urge all foreigners to boycott them and not use them.

to hel_l with tuk-tuks and their looser drivers.

DONT USE THEM.. teach them a lesson, and send them to the poor

house.

wow, 600,000 B is alot, but then again 3.6 rai is also alot.

i have a block of 3 rai, but want to raise only the middle

1 rai where the house + garage will be, hence give a little

downslope effect from the middle towards the edges - will

search for more soil tomorrow.

thanks for your help... i will keep trying to find soil at 300 baht per truck, otherwise

it all turns out too pricey!

The tractor work is to spread the soil. You will probably need twice this amount to raise the level a meter (640) truck loads. The compaction is usually done by letting the soil set for one year before building.

i would want to start building a few weeks after raising the soil level, how about using a rammer or roller

machine to compress it?

Your going to need about 320 truck loads at the specs that you quot. Fill goes for 250 to 500 baht per load with tractor depending on quality of fill.

thanks for that, so about 300 trucks can fill 1 rai to 1 metre height?

can i let the soil settle naturally, or does it need the tractor to compress it? also, if

it settles naturally or is compressed, how much does the soil compress? from 1m

to 70cm or so?

thanks a lot...

I need to raise the level of the land I have bought. It is currently a rice field, about 70cm

to 1m below the road level. The land infill area is 1 rai (1600 metres squared), and I figure

I need a height of 1 metre infill.

We have a quote of about 350 baht per truck (one of those blue trucks always racing around),

maybe each truck is about 4 cubic metres of soil. Hard to get exact answers....

My question is, how much have other people paid for soil infill, say per 1 cubic metre, or per

1 cubic rai (1600 metres squared up to 1 metre height)?

Thanks...

Get your thai spouse to obtain a gun license, and buy a gun.

There is no better deterrent than a few shots fired into the

air! But practice first.

On a more gentler note, IR sensor lights on the house or fence

perimeter, once movement is detected all the lights turn on,

not many burglars want to hang around when the property is

lighted.

One more I have - separate your indoor motion sensors into 2 sectors -

upstairs and downstairs - when you go up to sleep activate the

ground floor sector, make sure there is a very loud piercing alarm

piezzo speaker connected (with separate battery backup). Once this

goes off, all the soi dogs will start howling, the house will have 100 dB

piercing noise, the burglar probably will not want to stay.

Then fire a few warning shots about his head, he will crap his pants

and run.

yes beautiful kitchens, well done.

however i still have the argument with my wife on 2 points - why can't thai people learn

to cook in a normal kitchen, and why prepare and eat food on the floor.

i tell my one not to cook on the floor, when she goes back to her country side village

they can all sit on the ground with the dogs and kitchens, and eat with their hands,

but i want my kids to grow up civilized and not prepare food on the floor.

riding down the soi, i see thai people sprawled out in the driveway with 20 dishes on

the floor, looks like the 1800s to me...

maybe i am wrong, i dont know.

The Brazilian girls have a bit of the "crab" mentality - if one of the crabs is trying to

get out of the bucket, the other crabs reach out and pull it back in.

None of this with the Thai girls. So I have noticed...

Try along the hwy south to Sanpatong. Several Al shops on the west side. two rather 'upscale ones' are the one across from Farang Whatever. and the 2nd just before the HangDong Post office. Prices vary according to thickness. Colors are industrial silver, bronze and white. Shop around. Many small villages also have their own alumimium supplier. Best try a Thai friend to scout the prices while you stand aside only to slyly signal the one you like.

As for carpets...been there, done that - best NOT, due to infestations, damp rot, and the like. Cheers

thanks, found some suppliers.... no carpets i agree about the insect concerns.

thanks...

Thanks for the reply everyone, we are getting a lawyer to do the due diligence:

title search = 2000 baht

transfer help at land office + all docs into english + dealing with vendor = 5000 baht

seems reasonable, so we take that course to make it safer & easier!

what is the thai name for usufruct? i have to explain it to my wife, a thai name for

it would be good... thank you

สัญญาให้สิทธิเก็บกิน = usufruct agreement (done with google translate). If you do a google search with google.co.uk and search with สัญญาให้สิทธิเก็บกิน then you find a lot in Thai and you can automatically translate it to your language. If you are Swedish you search with google.se and you can automatically translate the webpage to Swedish. I learned this trick from a bar girl next to me in an internet shop writing to all her boyfriends for money

thanks oracle.... i saw that once too, she was writing a detailed email to her man overseas talking about their apartment and some repairs that are needed, and asking him to transfer money, then a few minutes later some guy called her, then came to meet her at the coffee shop... real nasty ho...

what is the thai name for usufruct? i have to explain it to my wife, a thai name for

it would be good... thank you

Found a nice piece of land 15 km from CM city, 3 rai, 1.15 million baht total.

Got a copy of the Chanote title, seems to have no encumbrances listed on the back.

Measured the land with the tape measure, the markers on the ground match the chanote

and the calculated area also matches the chanote, so all looks ok physically. Its a rice field

but the land is high, will use 1m concrete slab so no need to infill (builder verified this).

Will go to TOT to make sure they can extend the telephone line, and check if can have ADSL,

the telephone wire has to be extended maybe 1km.

The electricity poles on the street are good, another westerner 1 km away says he has

2 x 15 Amp meters connected, and power is ok.

Can people suggest what are the next steps please... i am thinking of the following, have i

missed anything:

Steps:

1. get a solicitor asap to do title search.

2. transfer money for deposit from overseas to my thai account

3. once title search is ok, get solicitor to pay deposit to the owner, or do i pay deposit myself?

if there are any issues, is the deposit recoverable?

4. transfer the rest of the money to pay for the balance of the land.

4. solicitor, my wife, and the land owner, all go together to the Land Office to transfer the land.

Questions:

1. how much is the deposit? is it 10% of the property value?

1. Is the balance of the money paid to the land owner while everyone is at the Land Office, once

the title is transferred?

2. Money should go from my wife to the solicitor to the land owner, on the day of chanote transfer?

3. Bank cheque or cash? I prefer bank cheque.

4. How long until the new chanote is issued?

5. Have to pay tax for the land, i believe its 5%, or with a lower declared sale value should be

about 1.5%

Have i missed anything?? Thanks a lot....

And the reason that those of you who detest the smells of certain favored Thai foods still reside within the Kingdom is what exactly?

A.) servants

B.) wives half your age (actually a subset of A)

C.) affordable pay-for-sex opportunities (actually A and B are a subset of C)

D.) never did fit in at home country

E.) all of the above

Johpa: every country has its good and bad points, for me its a matter of the good outweighing the bad, and the bad being tolerable, which for thailand it is.

for me personally, i am married and have a baby, and never engaged in the activities you speak of. my wife is 4 years younger than me, i dont have a maid (my parents taught me to vacuum and clean the house myself), never engaged in ©, i fit in australia quite well, but came here to obtain my pilots license and liked it enough to stay...

so please johpa do not generalize too much - there are in fact several dishes in melbourne that are not palatable, but they dont have the pungent aroma of the fish sauces here, or in other parts of asia. i stayed and worked for 2 years

in singapore, but didnt like the durian smells at some food courts there, but singapore has nothing to do with the

points oyu mentioned above.

not liking dishes with pungent fishy smells has nothing to do with the points mentioned above, but maybe those

are your personal reasons for staying here. how about your wife and maid? they the same?

be happy dude

khao kluk ka pi really stinks. My wife once took it in our room. Smell of dirty feet in the room for days. I forbid her to eat that anymore.

What a lucky lady to have such a strong, domineering husband

i do understand the man, but i asked my gf to prepare it outside, didnt command her but asked

her nicely, it really makes me want to vomit, and i promised if i ever eat some food that makes

her want to throw up, i will eat it outside on the patio also.