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Why all the discontent?


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3 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Yes, you can hide away in a little village and be uneffected by all the changes going on out there in the big wide world .

   Nothing has changed for you and you have no reason to voice your disapproval of anything .

  Thailand has changed beyond recognition over the last few years , maybe you havent noticed ?

Er, i don't hide anywhere dude.

My home or base is in the middle of nowhere, that is how i like it.

But believe me, i still get out and about when i want, where i want.

Of course Thailand has changed, some for the worse, some for the better, but that is the same as pretty much every country in the world in the last 10-20 years.

Time waits for no man.

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10 minutes ago, Gecko123 said:

coming from someone who is half-Thai.

Sorry, who's half Thai i missed that?

 

Oh wait....you thought.....

 

Have you heard of clickbait/wumai?

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People like to get stuff off their chest instead of carrying it around with them and getting depressed so this forum ends up working a bit like a city's sewer system which is very important for maintaining a healthy population and like a sewer it can get a bit on the nose and when you go to a sewerage treatment plant all that stuff is treated and comes out smelling like roses.That's why it can seem a bit negative and it may also seem like some of the posters may seem a bit negative if people meet them somewhere else they might not see or notice these things.

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8 hours ago, elliss said:

Good point ,  i expect a large number of Tvf members have inherited baggage ,

    women and children , from a thai man , who has done a runner .

    Thai culture , i should know ...

 

I've inherited a Thai step-daughter, 20 years old now and she's lovely.

Dad didn't exactly do a runner, he's been in jail since shortly after she was conceived, he'll be out in another 5 years.

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13 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I've inherited a Thai step-daughter, 20 years old now and she's lovely.

Dad didn't exactly do a runner, he's been in jail since shortly after she was conceived, he'll be out in another 5 years.

I've inherited a son and daughter now 30 and 26 daughter is a beautiful young woman who last week missed carried when six months pregnant and the son is a typical drinking yaba smoking Thai young man with the added problem of dealing with some severe mental health issues and has spent the last ten years in and out of mental hospital which is pretty tough to deal with for my wife especially and puts a fair amount of strain on her which of course can sometimes be directed at me so I just act like a sponge (most times) and soak it up so I come here to get some light relief and read about other peoples traumatic experiences dealing with TM30ies and go away thinking that I don't have it so bad after all.

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12 hours ago, mauGR1 said:

Yep, nobody likes that.

If i have a friend sleeping in the house, i am supposed to report that. And the opposite.

Mind boggling if you ask me.

But who actually reports where they are staying? I always assume the hotel/serviced apt does that.

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10 hours ago, sanemax said:

Eh ?

All Thai females are slim and all Females from every other country in the World are fat ?

And you think that I dont get around much !!!!!!

No, I didnt bother to learn Thai

It's a matter of percentages. Compared to the Western world, the average Thai female is much slimmer and much more appealing to me. Take a walk through shopping malls anywhere in the West. The obesity levels, male and female, are disgusting.

I thought so. You never "bothered" to learn Thai. How on earth do you expect to communicate or enjoy the culture and people of any country you are in if you can't even speak or understand their language?

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8 hours ago, GreenCurryorDie said:

But who actually reports where they are staying? I always assume the hotel/serviced apt does that.

Yes, licensed hotels and guest houses are supposed to report you staying there.

If they have not a proper license, i'd guess they don't.

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23 hours ago, jpeezy said:

Of course I wasn't expecting for someone to predict what it would be like in 10 years, that would be silly. Just trying to track the trend, whether up or down. I like to plan things out and set goals, I don't like doing things on a whim as it could be costly.

 

I would assume my experience would be different if I get my Thai passport (being half-Thai) and all that, correct? 

 

My experience has been only as a tourist, maybe been to Thailand about 20 times since 2013. The food and accommodation is cheap from that experience. But I can definitely empathize with the changing of rules for persons on retirement visas.

 

My home country is the USA, although there are some good things about it, I just don't really like living there. Crime rate, politics and costs are just not to my taste. Mind you, I was living out of the US from 2007 until 2019, and when I came back to work there it was like a totally different country to me. Maybe the whole world is going downhill lol

And you like the crime rate, politics, pollution, of Thailand?

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23 hours ago, AussieBob18 said:

Dont forget the TM30s every time you go see or do anything away from the wife's village for a day. 

Lets get some perspective on this.

If you go away somewhere and they report you, you MAY need to do a new report. Many posters are indicating that their Imm Office do not require this unless leaving the country. If you go and visit friends and stay a few days Immigration will never know and there will be no need to do any report. Worst comes to worst plead ignorance and cop a smallish fine.

Apparently with the TM30 app its a piece of cake, but I wouldn't know.

I've been visiting the wife monthly for 5 years and haven't done any TM30 report at all. And nothing for the 4 years before that when we both visited Thailand from Oz.

It's not the show stopper some people make it out to be.

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22 hours ago, kenk24 said:

And I think that says it all... 

 

In the West it is difficult to save enough for retirement and an unhappy situation is created where a large % enter elderly years broke... 

 

I think many of the complainers here would not feel as discontent and 'discriminated' against if they had more income. If the posters here put their income levels and savings, I think it would tell you the story... 

 

I am sure very few of us here could have predicted such a currency depreciation as many have experienced... but, calling a 200 baht national park fee 'racism' speaks of a much deeper discontent... 

If it is so difficult, how do you explain 10,000's of Thai's living and surviving Financially in Florida in 2019?

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23 hours ago, MyTHaiMyKe said:

Thailand Thai-India is not a retirement friendly country! They do absolutely nothing for retirees, but treat us like <deleted>!

Thai- India is not a country.

Why should a foreign retiree expect anything - they went were they went by their own choice. A lot of countries don't do enough for their own retirees which is why some choose to live elsewhere.

Why is this a concern for someone living in Mexico?

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