What are most Russians doing here and how are they financing themselves?

[Liverpool Lou]

1 minute ago, bob smith said:

 

It is my thread that you are commenting on once again.

You invited me to comment...once again.

[bob smith]

6 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

You invited me to comment...once again.

No.

 

YOU just couldn't resist, could YOU!

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, bob smith said:

does anyone know if they are infesting Cambodia same as they are thailand?

Does anyone know if you are infesting other forums same as you are here?

[bob smith]

Just now, Liverpool Lou said:

Does anyone know if you infest other forums same as you are here?

are you Russian Lou?

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, bob smith said:

cos im always on the beach surrounded by hot women and that's just how I roll!

"...that's just how I roll!".

Typo, you missed the "t" off "roll". 

[Liverpool Lou]

10 minutes ago, bob smith said:

16 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

You invited me to comment...once again.

No.

Yes, you did.  It's a public forum, you posted, I'm a member. Q.E.D.

[Liverpool Lou]

11 minutes ago, bob smith said:

are you Russian Lou?

That would be telling.

[papa al]

4 hours ago, bob smith said:

I have MANY properties scattered throughout Thailand.

 

Some located in tourist ghettos, others not.

 

bob.

More than 5.?

 

[bob smith]

Just now, papa al said:

More than 5.?

 

a lot more.

[Seppius]

1 hour ago, freeworld said:

Haha yahoo news posts almost 100% anti russian news. It seems to be the mouthpiece of that news source the ''New Voice of Ukraine''

We will just have to wait and see then

[Presnock]

32 minutes ago, gearbox said:

The Thais have much better deal than most of the countries in Europe,  they don't pay anything, only collect. Compare this to Europe where millions of so called refugees from that shole Ukraine are collecting benefits for almost 2 years. No wonder the far right is rising fast everywhere there.

I think the move to the far right is hitting most of the western countries as they are the favorite countries for those fleeing the autocrats as the immigrants keep finding govt to give them something for nothing while the citizens get taxed higher to pay for the bennies for the immigrants and for making the schools bi-lingual!

[beautifulthailand99]

They are mostly minding their own business and keeping themselves to themselves and hassling no one that I have seen. Good advice if you want to stay in Thailand long term. Overseas beefs are best kept there.

[xeniv23]

In my little corner of Chalong Raion, Phuket Oblast, my next door neighbors are Russian.  They have been here quite some time and are not part of the latest diaspora getting away from Putin.  I could not ask for better neighbors.  Very sweet people.  

 

Late last year at Phuket Immigration there were regiments of Russian military aged men applying for extensions.  I have no idea how they intended to support themselves legally in Thailand.  Not my business.  I look at like this:  If they are here they are not in some trench somewhere trying to kill Ukrainians or being killed by their own blocking troops.  

 

Biggest problem I see on a daily basis is the motorbike nihilism:  I realize that many of the new arrivals don't know how to ride motorbikes.  Phuket Island traffic is perhaps not the best place to learn.  It pays to be cautious, defensive and predictable driving here.  I have lived in Russia.  That is not Russians.  

[bob smith]

7 minutes ago, xeniv23 said:

I have lived in Russia. 

condolences.  

[newbee2022]

6 hours ago, bob smith said:

I see many russian families in my project these days,

they seem to be here for months on end

 

kinda got me thinking.

 

what are the vast majority of them doing here?

how are they supporting themselves and their families without working?

how long are they going to stay here?

 

they make lots of noise, especially late at night,

their kids are the worst, shouting and screaming till all hours.

they leave trash everywhere,

i've witnessed their kids spitting on the floor numerous times.

 

will they ever go home?

why dont they just go back to russia, put on their army uniforms and face the music.

they started the war after all,

best go back home now and fight it imo.

 

bob.

A good way to answer your questions: ask them🎄

[Furioso]

The Russians are doing the same here as people from other countries are doing. They're enjoying the low prices and relative peace Thailand provides. I do think they mostly keep to themselves in public but if you went back to their condo they'd be a lot more open. 

 

Yes, a few act out in public but every foreign country has a few that go a little wild. I remember last Dec about a minute after the World Cup final a westerner sped his bike down Soi Buakhao and crashed into a 7/11 killing himself and an innocent bystander. Around the same time a Russian Berserker singlehandedly destroyed a different 7/11 on walking street but nobody died which incident is worse? 

[bob smith]

4 minutes ago, Furioso said:

The Russians are doing the same here as people from other countries are doing. They're enjoying the low prices and relative peace Thailand provides. I do think they mostly keep to themselves in public but if you went back to their condo they'd be a lot more open. 

 

Yes, a few act out in public but every foreign country has a few that go a little wild. I remember last Dec about a minute after the World Cup final a westerner sped his bike down Soi Buakhao and crashed into a 7/11 killing himself and an innocent bystander. Around the same time a Russian Berserker singlehandedly destroyed a different 7/11 on walking street but nobody died which incident is worse? 

Russians are aggressive, violent and totally unpredictable.

 

and that's just the women 

 

in all seriousness though, you only have to look back at years of russians behaving badly in Thailand to see what I mean

 

Did you see that naked bloke the other week punching that Thai who was just sat on his scooter with his mrs?

 

shocking.

[Furioso]

14 minutes ago, bob smith said:

Russians are aggressive, violent and totally unpredictable.

 

and that's just the women 

 

in all seriousness though, you only have to look back at years of russians behaving badly in Thailand to see what I mean

 

Did you see that naked bloke the other week punching that Thai who was just sat on his scooter with his mrs?

 

shocking.

Thailand's got a lot of foreigners doing wild antics - what you can't handle it? 

[beautifulthailand99]

20 minutes ago, bob smith said:

Russians are aggressive, violent and totally unpredictable.

 

and that's just the women 

 

in all seriousness though, you only have to look back at years of russians behaving badly in Thailand to see what I mean

 

Did you see that naked bloke the other week punching that Thai who was just sat on his scooter with his mrs?

 

shocking.

Are you a professional troll or just someone who attracts trouble?

[Fat is a type of crazy]

Some of the posts are moving from what I thought was an attempt at humour to silly racism. I have known a lot of nice Russians so there.

They can come across a bit grim in Thailand sometimes, at odds with the culture of the thai smile, but every countries people have faults. It's a small world after all. 

[bob smith]

3 minutes ago, Furioso said:

Thailand's got a lot of foreigners doing wild antics - what you can't handle it? 

Thailand doesn't need an uncontrolled influx of strung out russian thugs!

 

we have enough problems already.

[bob smith]

Just now, beautifulthailand99 said:

Are you a professional troll or just someone who attracts trouble?

im not the one walking down the street naked and attacking an innocent thai for no reason!!

 

[Dan O]

2 hours ago, bob smith said:

cos im always on the beach surrounded by hot women and that's just how I roll!

now your always on the beach.  short memory Bob of, where you are,  what you own, who your with.  

[bob smith]

3 minutes ago, Dan O said:

now your always on the beach.  short memory Bob of, where you are,  what you own, who your with.  

im everything, everywhere all at once!

 

[BusyB]

5 hours ago, bob smith said:

I have yet to meet a nice one.

 

Even allowing for your (sometimes quite hilarious) borderline trolling, that is a pretty sad comment.

 

The war refugee intake I've generally found quite polite (as opposed to the old guard who I found pushy and impolite) if reserved. And I've also met a few very pleasant ones, as neighbors and one landlord and one landlady. 

 

It strikes me that Russia is losing a whole generation of largely young, talented, capable and decent people who have no intention of fighting Putin's criminal war. And all power to them.

 

The ones who didn't get out for whatever reason are not to be envied.

[Lacessit]

The first part of the OP's question is easy. No person of military age wants to be sent to a meat grinder where they will be led by corrupt idiots, poorly fed and clothed, and expected to fight with questionable ammunition. All the time under the threat of being shot by their own side, if they retreat.

 

The latest intelligence from the US, with their all-encompassing surveillance capability, is that nearly 90% of the initial invasion force has been killed or incapacitated. It would be a miracle if that kind of information could be suppressed entirely.

 

How are they financing themselves? Some from savings, or investments outside Russia. Some from criminal activity.

[CanadaSam]

Bob, if you will care to remember, most russians were quietly living their lives in russia, before this so-called "military operation" in Ukraine.  Now, thousands are dying weekly, trying to put Putin's dreams to reality, which ain't gonna happen.  They are here, escaping certain death due to one madman, and I would feel a bit of pity for them.  If they are misbehaving, discipline them.

[GypsyT]

I know where you can meet/see Russians everybody loves (except other women):

 

On North Dongtan beach playing volleyball. Aaaah.... so pretty, so sexy in floss bikinis! And they play well too.

How do I know? I walk there and happen to take a 2h brake just that spot. That's why.

[anandra]

5 hours ago, bob smith said:

does anyone know if they are infesting Cambodia same as they are thailand?

not as much as Thailand, but plenty of them are there as well, because Cambodia has better and cheaper visa policy.  China is Hainan island only but just tours, to South Korea russians go to work as Cambodians or Lao go to Thailand to work at the factories or agriculture, lots of them are in the Phillipines. But the most infested country is Turkey

[ChipButty]

13 minutes ago, anandra said:

not as much as Thailand, but plenty of them are there as well, because Cambodia has better and cheaper visa policy.  China is Hainan island only but just tours, to South Korea russians go to work as Cambodians or Lao go to Thailand to work at the factories or agriculture, lots of them are in the Phillipines. But the most infested country is Turkey

I heard also Bali has a few, Russians