Even at 38 baht to the pound most retirees won’t and cannot leave Thailand

[HAKAPALITA]

Dont English Sheep Farmers fence their land to keep Welshmen out.As for English unless you sound like old BBC your dialects sound funny.[emoji86]


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[DILLIGAD]

By one count 74 languages are spoken in Thailand, including numerous Thai dialects. Ethnic and regional dialects also are spoken, as are various dialects of Chinese. In the north, each hill tribe has its own language or dialect. The members of these tribes usually speak Thai as well. How many more languages do you think they should learn?
 

Maybe worth with the agreed business language for ASEAN, if the people want to progress ‘up the ladder’


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[Andrew65]

Yes, there are always exc

8 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

 

 Could of fooled me ?

I'm amused by many of the way you see things in comparison to UK I pay less for electric in Thailand per month than I did 14 years ago in England.

I still love Thailand, 33 years after first visiting, and after 20 years living there. I'm not one of the rose-tinted glasses/pussy-whipped brigade though.

 

I'm trying to give a true comparison, I've been living back in the UK for a few months now, after living in LOS since 1998.  

 

Electricity isn't that cheap in Thailand, lots of things are not, some are.

 

An Aussie guy has just stated that he doesn't find Thailand that cheap any more, and is looking at the P'pines.

 

 

[Kwasaki]

15 minutes ago, Tanoshi said:

By one count 74 languages are spoken in Thailand, including numerous Thai dialects. Ethnic and regional dialects also are spoken, as are various dialects of Chinese. In the north, each hill tribe has its own language or dialect. The members of these tribes usually speak Thai as well. How many more languages do you think they should learn?

 

A good point I can only speak 7 languages and be understood in over thirty countries around the world, very little Thai but enough to get by. 

[Andrew Dwyer]

The Thais have long since got into the car parking scam, there are plenty of places in LOS where you have to pay to park your car.

My local market charges 10 baht to use their car park, it remains empty and people just double ( or triple) park making it almost impossible to enter the car park !!

[Andrew65]

38 minutes ago, mogandave said:

 

If your “poor” don’t run the A/C

 

I'm not poor. What I mean is that electricity isn't that cheap in Thailand, that is still a fairly poor country.

[Kwasaki]

1 minute ago, Andrew65 said:

I'm not poor. What I mean is that electricity isn't that cheap in Thailand, that is still a fairly poor country.

You speak from limited Knowledge.

All the family of  6 next door get electric for nowt on 5/15 except one who has an AC.

I've had zero bills from our land and farmhouse for years.

That just could never happen in UK. 

[Andrew65]

1 minute ago, Kwasaki said:

You speak from limited Knowledge.

All the family of  6 next door get electric for nowt on 5/15 except one who has an AC.

I've had zero bills from our land and farmhouse for years.

That just could never happen in UK. 

An extremely rare example, but I know someone in the UK who hasn't received a gas bill in the 10 years that she's been living at her place. I think it was once a single property that was split into 2 or 3. (It's like the botanical gardens there in the winter!!?).

 

My limited knowledge is just from personal experience. My electric bills used to vary between 1,000 & 2,500 per month in a 45sqm condo, not running the A/C 24/7 either.

[LivinLOS]

On 8/17/2018 at 9:20 AM, ChiangMaiLightning2143 said:

Better off here or the bedsit in Oldham?

Free housing.. Free healthcare.. Free all manner of stuff.. 

Mums on a minimum pension, lives in a really lovely 2 bed home with a river at the bottom of her garden in coastal devon, runs a car, has everything she needs.. I do chuck her a grand or two a year if she needs international flights or some other luxury, but honestly she needs nothing. 

[Chivas]

Hopefully with a Brexit deal of sorts will push Sterling sharply higher certainly to $1.40 and likely $1.45 as we transition. Once March 2019 is done and dusted would expect Sterling/Baht to move back into the 47/48 arena

[ivor bigun]

Depends, there is a 25 year old Thai guy at my gym in the sticks, speaks perfect English..
 
Had a bird at my house that has a Uni degree in English that could not converse, and l used my Queens English faultless lingo..

My wifes family all except her mum speak English, my wife and son speak read and write English as well,but then they have lived in the UK,
It suprised me how many of my wifes friends also speak english, i never have to sit in the corner when visiting anyone,mind you my Thai is limited,very limited B)

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[simoh1490]

30 minutes ago, LivinLOS said:

Free housing.. Free healthcare.. Free all manner of stuff.. 

Mums on a minimum pension, lives in a really lovely 2 bed home with a river at the bottom of her garden in coastal devon, runs a car, has everything she needs.. I do chuck her a grand or two a year if she needs international flights or some other luxury, but honestly she needs nothing. 

I'm in the UK currently and own a one bed flat here, my health care is of course free, my prescriptions are free, my bus travel is free, my electric bill last month was fifteen Pounds and the weather in my location was cold, my food bill averages four Pounds a day and I eat well but cook for myself, plus, Ruddles at  my local Weatherspoon is only GBP1.65. I'm back to our home in Thailand at the begining of Oct. for six months where the cost of living will be about the same, for us.

[Kwasaki]

23 minutes ago, Andrew65 said:

An extremely rare example, but I know someone in the UK who hasn't received a gas bill in the 10 years that she's been living at her place.

 

My limited knowledge is just from personal experience. My electric bills used to vary between 1,000 & 2,500 per month in a 45sqm condo, not running the A/C 24/7 either.

In Thailand free electric isn't rare it's common place around Thailand.

Yeah our bills in a house vary through the year from 700 to 1,600 I would say you were being ripped off and being charged a higher rate.

 

Everyone has different circumstances some are in a position and want to stay UK, that weren't gonna end well for me so I looked elsewhere.  

No-one could compare my life here to one I would of had, had I stayed in England.

 

 

[Henryford]

1 hour ago, Andrew65 said:

I'm not poor. What I mean is that electricity isn't that cheap in Thailand, that is still a fairly poor country.

I think electricty is cheap here. I have a 100 sqm condo and i run the 2 ACs when i need to. My electric bill this month was 619 baht 15 GBP.  In the UK it was sometimes 10 x that.

[georgegeorgia]

41 minutes ago, simoh1490 said:

I'm in the UK currently and own a one bed flat here, my health care is of course free, my prescriptions are free, my bus travel is free, my electric bill last month was fifteen Pounds and the weather in my location was cold, my food bill averages four Pounds a day and I eat well but cook for myself, plus, Ruddles at  my local Weatherspoon is only GBP1.65. I'm back to our home in Thailand at the begining of Oct. for six months where the cost of living will be about the same, for us.

UK pensioners seem to get it better than Australian pensioners!

 

no free transport here , its $2.50 all day, though its all buses ,trains,ferries.

no free prescriptions either i think currently $5.00 a script !!

As for electrcity ,yours at 15 pounds a month , ours in Australia just the Admin fee is about $30 -$40 a month  to start with !!

no pensioner rebate either. I am told.

 

Current single pensioner is $860 a fortnight,1620 a month about 40;000 baht a month ,not much to live on in Thailand for Aussie pensioners!

 

Specialist doctors visits  are not free in Australia either for pensioners,your  looking at from  $250-$400 for a consultation nothing back on medicare.

 

GP are free for consultation though and public hospital care free

 

The heat kills you but too expensive to run air conditioning,some pensioners die each year to heat because they cant afford to run air conditioning.!!!!!!

 

i am not looking forward to the next coming months scorching dry heat .

 

 

think yourself lucky in the UK 

Edited September 2, 2018 by georgegeorgia

[georgegeorgia]

This Australian documentary is 4 years old, I wonder if it still the same

 

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/story/paradise-pensioners

[mogandave]

I'm not poor. What I mean is that electricity isn't that cheap in Thailand, that is still a fairly poor country.

Doesn’t cost a whole lot less to generate electricity burning oil in Thailand than in the UK.

[mogandave]

You speak from limited Knowledge.

Is there anyone that does not?

[Naam]

2 hours ago, JaiLai said:

Local Phillipino food is shit.

a flattering comment! 

[JaiLai]

13 minutes ago, Naam said:

a flattering comment! 

I'm being polite as well....

[simoh1490]

1 hour ago, mogandave said:

 

Doesn’t cost a whole lot less to generate electricity burning oil in Thailand than in the UK.

 

Exactly, Thailand 4.6 baht (10 p) a unit, UK, 12 p a unit.

[sanemax]

On 8/31/2018 at 4:42 PM, Andrew65 said:

Tesco Crinkle Cut Oven Chips 1.5Kg

£ 1.50

£1.00/kg

 

Cheaper per KG in the UK, 84 Baht for 2 KG.

Of course if you are going to buy imported goods , they are going to be more expensive than in the country of origin , BTW , why dont you just buy potatoes and make your own chips?

[simoh1490]

1 minute ago, sanemax said:

Of course if you are going to buy imported goods , they are going to be more expensive than in the country of origin , BTW , why dont you just buy potatoes and make your own chips?

Er, one Pound a kilo in the UK is the same as 84 baht for 2 kilo's in Thailand, that's still one Pound per kilo.

[sanemax]

6 minutes ago, simoh1490 said:

Er, one Pound a kilo in the UK is the same as 84 baht for 2 kilo's in Thailand, that's still one Pound per kilo.

Yes , he translated the UK price in pounds to Thai Baht to show the difference between the 99 Thai Baht price in Thailand and the UK price to show that its more expensive in Thailand .

   1 kilo in the UK is 1 Pound (42 Baht) and so two kilos would be 2 Pounds (84 Baht) and its 99 Baht for two kilos in Thailand

[transam]

2 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Yes , he translated the UK price in pounds to Thai Baht to show the difference between the 99 Thai Baht price in Thailand and the UK price to show that its more expensive in Thailand .

   1 kilo in the UK is 1 Pound (42 Baht) and so two kilos would be 2 Pounds (84 Baht) and its 99 Baht for two kilos in Thailand

Tesco (Thailand) frozen chips are expensive, 139bht, think that's for a kilo, l hate to mention the cost of HP sauce ....?

[sanemax]

2 minutes ago, transam said:

Tesco (Thailand) frozen chips are expensive, 139bht, think that's for a kilo, l hate to mention the cost of HP sauce ....?

HP sauce is 100 Baht in Makro (2 bottles for 200 Baht )

[transam]

6 minutes ago, sanemax said:

HP sauce is 100 Baht in Makro (2 bottles for 200 Baht )

Last time I bought in Makro pack of 2 was more than that. Wonder what a bottle is now in the UK..

[simoh1490]

4 minutes ago, transam said:

Last time I bought in Makro pack of 2 was more than that. Wonder what a bottle is now in the UK..

A 285 gram bottle cost me a Pound at Poundland last week.

[Andrew65]

43 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Of course if you are going to buy imported goods , they are going to be more expensive than in the country of origin , BTW , why dont you just buy potatoes and make your own chips?

When I used to eat chips I used to make them my self.

 

I'm just pointing out that Thailand ain't as cheap as it used to be.

 

As I've pointed out, I'm sure lots of our European friends have been hurting, since the Euro dropped below 40 a few years ago.

 

The Thai Gvt manipulates the Baht to keep it strong, as Trump points out. They found out in 1998 what happens when they let their currency float freely.

[mogandave]

How about fresh pork, chicken, fish or shrimp?

Pineapple, mango, bananas?