4 minutes ago, PGSan said:

Do the head doctors have a word for this disease of needing to constantly tell others how you spend enormous amounts of money! 

It is called truthfulness, you might try it.  You can always block my posts, but you seem to like to read them and still try and bait myself and others.

10 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

It's my life and I am happy with it.

So keep it to yourself please.  Sounds awful, but we do not wish to know about it. 

10 minutes ago, PGSan said:

Really???  And please spare us having to hear all about how good such disgusting US-based profligacy is!  

Might be reckless extravagance to you, but to me it is my way of life.  Not everyone is the same.  Ignore is now on do to continued baiting by you.

1 hour ago, Brierley said:

Just because that's why you came here, don't assume everyone else has the same reason, they don't.

That reminds me of the guy who supposedly came here to research the temples. 555 

1 hour ago, starky said:

I don't need to explain myself

So please do not say anything.

Just now, OneMoreFarang said:

That reminds me of the guy who supposedly came here to research the temples. 555 

temples of the erotic, that is! 

4 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Might be reckless extravagance to you

Not at all.  But whatever it is, just shut up about it please! 

5 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

do to continued baiting

??? 

10 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

It is called truthfulness, you might try it.

Why is that a good name for it?  We just called it showing off tastelessly, not much related to truth (or to interesting content).

17 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

it actually started out on the issue of visa extensions against money in the bank.

I must have missed that bit.  Please repost this.

my girlfriend is a smokin' hot 20 year old gogo dancer from Prachin Buri and she is way more expensive than leaving 5 air conditioners on 24/7. 

34 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Nice couple but very unhappy.

How do you know about people’s happiness? 

35 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Bill Gates

The only one of these three whom I have known at all well: he always seemed to me to be a normally happy person.  

 

Do you have other information about his welfare? 

28 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I'm fairly sure 99% of all people on this entire forum ....... moved here for the cheap sex with younger women.

(no matter how much they protest)

I am a 1 % er I just came here to get away from UK, ????

This thread is just about people saying they spend ,

what would be a fortune, to most people,but really

rich people talking about money is not done,bad

taste, this is like that post recommend a 4 million

Thb car for the wife....really, just buy one.

 

I don't spend a lot ,but have the funds to do so if

I wanted to, think I have everything I want, back

in the UK I had business ,flash cars,big house,

holiday homes in Florida, and Ireland, could  

spend 100 quid on groceries in Sainsburys on

a Saturday  and that was 45 years ago,got

rid of the lot ,don't have to impress anyone,

anymore, just live the life i want. ,different

people different strokes...Amen

regards Worgeordie

 

47 minutes ago, starky said:

Are you trapped here poor fellow.

Please cut out such patronising drivel! 

About 280,000 a year for the 2 of us in a normal year.

 

A year when we holiday in England .... Plus 100,000 every 3 years or so.

13 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

but really

rich people talking about money is not done

Indeed it is not in our (UK) culture, but in the US this convention is reversed, even when one is abroad, in more civilised countries. 

 

This is why we have to suffer here from hearing the every detail of our penthouse-dwelling members’ gut-wrenching extravagances.

A few nasty, baiting posts an replies removed.  Continue and face a suspension.  

 

ok - this time i get the humor.. trying to correlate apples purchased w/visa requirements as if the rules were made with you alone in mind... very funny...  I see that here all the time... people who complain abt regualtions then want individual regulations custom made for their situation... 

 

As you tell me, you are a funny guy.. 

17 hours ago, Pilotman said:

my annual contribution, in hard cash, to the Thai economy is circa 2.3 Million Baht, ex tax.  Surly that's worth a annual extension with no questions asked.

 

So a country should welcome in criminals, drug dealers, scammers and human traffickers with no questions asked just because they spend $1500 a week?

No idea since I handed the accounting book to my wife

34 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

A 186 sqm 3 bedroom condo

Tiny then!   Mine is twice the size with the same number of rooms (excluding the slave quarters), but utilities are less than 1000thb most months.  

I think it's very possible to spend what the OP says if you are living in a very nice house and paying very nice rent. 

 

By the way, the 800K baht in the bank, if you leave it there permanently for the interest and visa qualifications, is an opportunity cost that you probably should figure into your calculations, to some degree. 

13 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

rich people talking about money is not done,bad

taste,

totally agree. but middle class people trying to lord over less fortunate is what? Pompous? Pomp w/o circumstance? 

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Are you claiming not to be sleeping with the natives?

If you sleep then you do it wrong. ???? 

1 hour ago, starky said:

Would you like me to post a pay slip and my tax return because I wont be doing that either!

Much relief! Many thanks.

24 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

my girlfriend is a smokin' hot 20 year old gogo dancer from Prachin Buri and she is way more expensive than leaving 5 air conditioners on 24/7. 

GF? - I thought that would be called employee w/benefits? 

58 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I'm fairly sure 99% of all people on this entire forum ....... moved here for the cheap sex with younger women.

(no matter how much they protest)

And I'm pretty sure you're projecting your own image onto others because it reinforces as right, your reasons for coming here.

 

Personally, I'd been living in Hong Kong for several years and finally reached a point where I was burnt out from working, had enough money and was at the end of a significant piece of work. I'd recently divorced and couldn't see the point in going back to the UK so I decided to take a year off and spend it somewhere fairly inexpensive that I knew quite well. Far from wanting to come here for the women, my motivation at the time was to never get on another plane again in my life and to spend time in a culture that was very different from the West, sex and women couldn't be further from my mind. A year later I was starting to become normal again and I decided I liked being here, the following year I dated for the first time and at the end of that year I met my wife. Three years later I got on a plane again, for the first time.

500k baht per year, but 200k of that are "business expenses", so if immigration were to check that would be 300k per year.

If the law changed or/and I manage to get PR or Thai nationality this would triple (1.5m baht/year).
 

50 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

It was actually a comment about immigration rules, not about perceived or actual wealth.  I probably didn't make that clear enough at the start. But its been entertaining reading

Again FUNNY GUY!!!

 

you write about how your "wealth" or spending habits should buy you privilege then say it is not a posting about money... 

 

but it has provided some interesting quibbling amongst posters...