1 hour ago, Anagami said:

Maybe a little more self-respect would open your eyes. 

You were quite alright with it if your visa had been approved, so BS reason. Goodbye, won't miss you.

1 minute ago, FritsSikkink said:

You were quite alright with it if your visa had been approved, so BS reason. Goodbye, won't miss you.

Far from it. The visa rejection was simply the last drop.

 

Have fun living in a military state where the government controls you like a puppet! ????

I can understand you. I used pro language Bangkok like 5 years ago. What was supposed to be a 1 year trouble free visa became 3 month then 6 weeks. Each time I need to pay some agent and immigration fees. 

 

Stay positive. I'm sure life will bring you somewhere better for you and you will eventually feel lucky this happened that you. 

Just now, Tayaout said:

I can understand you. I used pro language Bangkok like 5 years ago. What was supposed to be a 1 year trouble free visa became 3 month then 6 weeks. Each time I need to pay some agent and immigration fees. 

 

Stay positive. I'm sure life will bring you somewhere better for you and you will eventually feel lucky this happened that you. 

 

Oh I'm not negative about life or my future. 

 

I am simply dumping Thailand and doing so publicly. ????

 

I suspect that I won't miss Thailand... or most of the people left behind here... judging by the quality of the posts.

4 minutes ago, Anagami said:

Far from it. The visa rejection was simply the last drop.

 

Have fun living in a military state where the government controls you like a puppet! ????

I have fun and won't be controlled like a puppet.

1 hour ago, Anagami said:

But the truth is that I am leaving Thailand because of self-respect.

Good for you! I hope you will respect your self much more now.

4 minutes ago, Anagami said:

Far from it. The visa rejection was simply the last drop.

 

Have fun living in a military state where the government controls you like a puppet! ????

Have fun paying around 50% taxes in your home country while freezing.

 

Life's always a tradeoff, there's no perfect place in the world. Even with unlimited money Thailand would be in the top 10 to stay for me, still.

 

And yes i am as annoyed by the guvment muppets here but i was even more annoyed by german paperwork and regulations slowly milking my business or NYC coming up with new BS laws once a week... 

 

The perfect place doesn't exist.

1 hour ago, marin said:

Adios amigo, stop putting the blame on Thailand. You are the one that chose or were unable to get the correct visa. Its that simple..

errr, no, he isnt 50+, its that simple

1 hour ago, Anagami said:

My ED visa was not renewed. They did not bother to even pretend. They said it flat out: we don't want you to stay in Thailand long time

You are a lucky man .. try Vietnam !

 

1 hour ago, Anagami said:

Take care Thailand. I am not coming back

I don't blame you my dear fellow. Thailand has changed, possibly forevermore and no-one at the helm seems to give two hoots.

 

Best of luck to you and let's hope where you land next shall treat you better than Thailand seems to have done.

 

cheerio!

58 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Rant .........

Just got some disrespect in Tesco Lotus superstore on  Chiang Mai ring road.

Wanted a tub of Tesco Onion Gravy granuales, they've reorganised the store so I couldn't find them.

Asked a shop assistant, "Mai mee", I told them they did have them and they started muttering 'farang always difficult' in Thai, had to buy them online for home delivery because they're too lazy and ignorant to do their job in the store. 

What I usually do in a case like that is to go inline for what I want in Google, type it out, go to Google Translate and print the item that I want, the Google Translated to Thai and a picture of the item.

If the person that I ask doesn't know, I generally go to the counter that deals with things (not the cashier at the till) and ask politely again.

That usually works for me 99% of the time and if they still say that they don't have it, then they probably don't.

In all fairness to the poster, I too would not becoming back if I could get my family back to the UK without the ridiculous income restrictions - even though I own my own house outright and actually have enough money to feed and clothe my family without needing access to benefits.

Leaving aside the details of whether a particular person can or cannot qualify for some visa here, there's a lot of truth in the OP's description of some of the various negative qualities of Thailand these days. And as most people here probably recognize, a lot of those issues have gotten worse, not better, in recent years.

 

I think the decision about whether people decide to stay or go -- apart from visa viability -- comes down to whether they can find and have enough positive things in their personal life here to offset/counterbalance all the negative things that the OP spelled out. And obviously, that's an individual calculation that's different for each person.

 

When I first moved here years ago, for quite a long time, I figured I'd stay here the rest of my life. Now, even with my own positives, I can feel my overall balance point shifting and lately see myself making plans for a future departure at some point... either because they'll do something that will force me to leave, or because I'll decide I've finally had enough.

 

 

I guess if a fellow falls out of love with a place, its better just to leave. But Kazakhstan or similar <deleted>, could not pay me to live there-I worked O & G there a few years ago. Bulgaria is lovely I summer but, like Estonia, freezing in winter. I suspect there is more to this story-maybe something like just found out bird getting pumped by Thai guy or something similar.

13 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

Have fun paying around 50% taxes in your home country while freezing.

 

Life's always a tradeoff, there's no perfect place in the world. Even with unlimited money Thailand would be in the top 10 to stay for me, still.

 

And yes i am as annoyed by the guvment muppets here but i was even more annoyed by german paperwork and regulations slowly milking my business or NYC coming up with new BS laws once a week... 

 

The perfect place doesn't exist.

How on earth did you get the idea he is going to a feezing home country and paying so much tax.

Why am I staying here? because it's much better than to freeze your ar_e of in a cold country and follow weird laws and pay huge fines for almost nothing.

 

As a single man, I'd pay up to 45 % of my income in tax/ insurance, etc.. to people who are too lazy to get a job. Would I want to help these idiots? No way. 

 

   How many girls back home would smile at you? I get tired of such topics why people go away from here.

 

So many on ED visas seem to have huge problems and that's okay for me. It's to study here and not to work at a school what many people do.

 

  

 

   An adult should know what's best. Stay, leave, or do whatever you think might be good for you. 

 

  

22 minutes ago, hackjam said:

I guess if a fellow falls out of love with a place, its better just to leave. But Kazakhstan or similar <deleted>, could not pay me to live there-I worked O & G there a few years ago. Bulgaria is lovely I summer but, like Estonia, freezing in winter. I suspect there is more to this story-maybe something like just found out bird getting pumped by Thai guy or something similar.

It's frightening for me to live in one of the ex- eastblock countries. 

 Most of us know that coming here on a ED Visa is a bit of a bludge.

I came here to learn Thai ha ha, you mean you came here to have a good time, knock up a few local beauties, enjoy the climate, cheap rent, cheap living and now your school report says you have been playing truant.

Bye.

 

26 minutes ago, Sujo said:

How on earth did you get the idea he is going to a feezing home country and paying so much tax.

Because there are not many countries that don't charge you for worldwide income, here in SEA it's mainly PH, TH, SG, MY.

Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and co you pay insane amounts of taxes.

 

Also none of these are really easier to stay and have better longterm visa options,

SSRV Visa in the PH in his age costs 50k USD.

Malaysia second home visa costs 100k USD 

Thai Elite 20 yo visa is 30k USD

 

 

So yeah i assume he's going back home....or he's making another mistake and tries to fly under the radar like he did here. Both of that, for me, far worse than Thailand.

Sorry, not falling for the reasons mentioned, it seems typical for ED Visa guys...

4 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

SSRV Visa in the PH in his age costs 50k USD.

Malaysia second home visa costs 100k USD 

Thai Elite 20 yo visa is 30k USD

 

There's a pretty big difference between the PH and the Thai programs you mention.

 

With the TH program, you're buying a visa for a fee, and the considerable money you pay is gone.

 

With the PH program, you're required to put the money in a PH bank as a deposit, and if you end up deciding to leave and go elsewhere, you get your money back.

 

Huge difference.

 

3 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

Because there are not many countries that don't charge you for worldwide income, here in SEA it's mainly PH, TH, SG, MY.

Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and co you pay insane amounts of taxes.

 

Also none of these are really easier to stay and have better longterm visa options,

SSRV Visa in the PH in his age costs 50k USD.

Malaysia second home visa costs 100k USD 

Thai Elite 20 yo visa is 30k USD

 

 

So yeah i assume he's going back home....or he's making another mistake and tries to fly under the radar like he did here. Both of that, for me, far worse than Thailand.

Sorry, not falling for the reasons mentioned, it seems typical for ED Visa guys...

You dont need a mm2h in malaysia. There are other options.

 

or he could be going to vietnam and not working considering he wasnt working in thailand also.

 

i wonder what freezing country he is from.

31 minutes ago, Isaanbiker said:

Why am I staying here? because it's much better than to freeze your ar_e of in a cold country and follow weird laws and pay huge fines for almost nothing.

 

As a single man, I'd pay up to 45 % of my income in tax/ insurance, etc.. to people who are too lazy to get a job. Would I want to help these idiots? No way. 

 

   How many girls back home would smile at you? I get tired of such topics why people go away from here.

 

So many on ED visas seem to have huge problems and that's okay for me. It's to study here and not to work at a school what many people do.

 

  

 

   An adult should know what's best. Stay, leave, or do whatever you think might be good for you. 

 

  

when i was on ED visa, not a single one

of my schoolmates were teaching,

teachers can get a work permit so they dont have to pay ED visa.

 

do you know of anyone on an ED visa that teaches ? i didnt think so, you just made it up based on nothing at all

21 minutes ago, Brer said:

 Most of us know that coming here on a ED Visa is a bit of a bludge.

I came here to learn Thai ha ha, you mean you came here to have a good time, knock up a few local beauties, enjoy the climate, cheap rent, cheap living and now your school report says you have been playing truant.

Bye.

 

....and what did you come here for ?

lemme guess, temples ?

6 minutes ago, Sujo said:

You dont need a mm2h in malaysia. There are other options.

 

or he could be going to vietnam and not working considering he wasnt working in thailand also.

 

i wonder what freezing country he is from.

Well, he doesn't want to spend time in a country that doesn't want him due to "self-respect". 

He doesn't want to live in a military/dicatatorship, so i guess that rules out all of SEA anyway.

 

I have some news for you guys, no foreign country wants you if you don't invest money at least. I know it hurts, but it is how it is.

 

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i wonder what freezing country he is from.

 

Canada.

2 hours ago, Anagami said:

Take care Thailand. I am not coming back. Good luck with your inept and pathetic 'government', your Chinese and Indian 'tourism', your <deleted>ty visa, your TM30s, your scams, your double pricing, your bubble condo market, your 'education' system, your perpetually rising baht, your corruption, your fake smiles.

Bye!

Obviously another living in a tourist expat ghetto.

I live where there is -

no double pricing,

no scams,

no condos to bubble,

no TM 30's,

no Chinese or Indian tourists,

and..... the smiles are always genuine and i don't need eyes in the back of my head.

Its called the Real Thailand, and still exists away from Tourist Ghettos and Expat Enclaves.

Bye!

 

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

In all fairness to the poster, I too would not becoming back if I could get my family back to the UK without the ridiculous income restrictions - even though I own my own house outright and actually have enough money to feed and clothe my family without needing access to benefits.

So visa rules in your home country are very much worse than in Thailand?

Take care Thailand. I am not coming back. Good luck with your inept and pathetic 'government', your Chinese and Indian 'tourism', your <deleted>ty visa, your TM30s, your scams, your double pricing, your bubble condo market, your 'education' system, your perpetually rising baht, your corruption, your fake smiles.

 

Shame you only mentioned the best and easy bits????

Living here how long on an education visa because he cannot qualify for anything else. Just leave no need to complain about Thailand. Anyone with a brain could see this crack down coming over the last couple of years..

Immgration police have a job to do and as a applicant we have a job to be prepared, 

6 minutes ago, moe666 said:

Living here how long on an education visa because he cannot qualify for anything else. Just leave no need to complain about Thailand. Anyone with a brain could see this crack down coming over the last couple of years..

Immgration police have a job to do and as a applicant we have a job to be prepared, 

 

many years. 

It's a shame that when someone contributes to a forum even if his post contains negativity others use it as an excuse to be insulting.

 

What sad empty lives they must have.