You just arrived to Thailand

[Celsius]

After you land you are given a paper where you can get a tax number and a free unlimited health card use.

 

You go to open a bank account and they give you 2 years of free banking and a platinum non secured credit card just because you arrived yesterday.... just because "we trust our clients". 

 

There is no other place to report....ever. You are free to stay indefinitely.

 

You join one of many programs....like how to find a job, free language courses and they even pay your bus ticket to come and chat with them.

 

Speaking of bus drivers, they wait for you to enter and exit. Disabled are treated with respect. 

 

You find out that everything the others spoke about Thailand is a lie. The country is not going down the toilet and is actually doing pretty well. The streets are clean and air is breathable.

 

Welcome to Thailand. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[stoner]

15 minutes ago, Celsius said:

The streets are clean and air is breathable.

 

you forgot to mention the super low taxes and cost of housing. i know i love renting a closet to live in for 2k plus a month. riveting even.

[Celsius]

Just now, stoner said:

 

you forgot to mention the super low taxes and cost of housing. i know i love renting a closet to live in for 2k plus a month. riveting even.

 

like livin' the dream in a super cheap 22sqm Thai condo.

 

taxes = millions of baht in lifetime health care savings.... and no need to fret about insurance paying or not

 

or

 

Still paying taxes and doing 90 day reports....including yearly visa extensions and no access to any benefits whatsoever.

 

Let's ask Warren before he croaks

 

 

[BenStark]

5 minutes ago, Celsius said:

12 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

you forgot to mention the super low taxes and cost of housing. i know i love renting a closet to live in for 2k plus a month. riveting even.

 

like livin' the dream in a super cheap 22sqm Thai condo.

 

 

 

Only that the 22sqm condo in Thailand doesn't cost 2K plus CA$ a month

 

For that kind of money you rent a nice pool villa

Edited February 17 by BenStark

[stoner]

2 minutes ago, Celsius said:

like livin' the dream in a super cheap 22sqm Thai condo.

 

got a nice 2 bedroom house in phuket right now for 13k baht a month. so with conversion to funny money that's 9 dollars canadian. 

 

health care savings like waiting 6 months to see a specialist for recommendations to have surgery 8 months after that ? 

 

i hear family physicians are in abundance now throughout canada. the lack of fentanyl in canada is very appealing as well. why not take your wife for a stride down east hastings in vancouver. she will love it.

[BritManToo]

2 minutes ago, stoner said:

got a nice 2 bedroom house in phuket right now for 13k baht a month. so with conversion to funny money that's 9 dollars canadian. 

 

health care savings like waiting 6 months to see a specialist for recommendations to have surgery 8 months after that ? 

 

i hear family physicians are in abundance now throughout canada. the lack of fentanyl in canada is very appealing as well. why not take your wife for a stride down east hastings in vancouver. she will love it.

And I've got a good enough 3 bedroom house for 10kbht/month just outside CM.

My healthcare costs for a 'hit and run' (broken collarbone, 5 broken ribs, collapsed lung, hospital  stay, 8x physio) are around 10kbht paid by government minimum insurance. No waiting lists at all, though sometimes it takes as long as 4hrs to see a doctor, and physio once made me wait 15 minutes.

 

[marin]

Pravda was one heck of a liar, and from Pravda came Celcius who will be bitching about Canada in a few months as well. Got to love losers. 

 

The 22 square meter place was his wife's. She is going to be surprised when she finds out Celcius is expecting her to support him in Canada as she did in Thailand. He is a naturalized Canadian as well. 

 

Edited February 17 by marin

[Celsius]

8 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

got a nice 2 bedroom house in phuket right now for 13k baht a month. so with conversion to funny money that's 9 dollars canadian. 

 

health care savings like waiting 6 months to see a specialist for recommendations to have surgery 8 months after that ? 

 

i hear family physicians are in abundance now throughout canada. the lack of fentanyl in canada is very appealing as well. why not take your wife for a stride down east hastings in vancouver. she will love it.

 

so two or three blocks in Vancouver look like a dump.... kinda like On Nut on a good day.

 

Plenty of real estate in Canada that is cheap as chips. Edmonton comes to mind.

[stoner]

11 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

And I've got a good enough 3 bedroom house for 10kbht/month just outside CM.

My healthcare costs for a 'hit and run' (broken collarbone, 5 broken ribs, collapsed lung, hospital  stay, 8x physio) are around 10kbht paid by government minimum insurance. No waiting lists at all, though sometimes it takes as long as 4hrs to see a doctor, and physio once made me wait 15 minutes.

 

 

many years ago my parents came to thailand to visit me. upon landing at bkk airport my dad had a heart attack. he was whisked to bkk hospital where he had numerous cardiologists to help as soon as he arrived. at which point he had another heart attack as they were working on him. 

 

he survived and made it back to canada. still alive today. had this happened in canada i have no doubt the care he would of received would of been garbage to what he got here and that he would of died. response time. availability of proper doctors. medical facilities. etc. 

 

ps....my dad was also the VP at the big hospital in our city. so i have  pretty good insight into the canadian hospital/medical system. my brother has also worked at that same hospital since he was 16.

Edited February 17 by stoner

[stoner]

8 minutes ago, Celsius said:

Edmonton comes to mind.

 

hahahah. 

 

edmonton is a dreamy place to live you are right........

 

Edmonton's violent crime rate increased by 8.79% year-over-year and 19.8% in the last five years, according to the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. In 2017, the city had 12,701 violent crimes committed.¹ In the first quarter of 2023, violent crimes increased by about 6% compared to the same period in 2022, according to Sean Tout, Edmonton Police Service's executive director of information management and analytics.⁰ From January to September 2022, Edmonton saw a 13% increase in the overall crime rate and a 10% increase in crime severity compared to the same period in 2021. The first three quarters of 2022 saw a 17% increase in the rate of violent crime, a 6% increase in the severity of violent crime, and a 12% increase in the severity of non-violent crime compared to the same period in 2021. However, from 2018 to 2021, Edmonton's total crime rate fell by 21% to 7,888 incidents per 100,000 people from 9,967 incidents per 100,000 people.²

Edited February 17 by stoner

[rabas]

 

You could literally freeze to death in Canada, ... Celsius.

 

No way.

[Celsius]

17 minutes ago, marin said:

Pravda was one heck of a liar, and from Pravda came Celcius who will be bitching about Canada in a few months as well. Got to love losers. 

 

The 22 square meter place was his wife's. She is going to be surprised when she finds out Celcius is expecting her to support him in Canada as she did in Thailand. He is a naturalized Canadian as well. 

 

 

You should stick to Prego recipes.

 

Stalker alert!

Edited February 17 by Celsius

[cdemundo]

22 minutes ago, Celsius said:

 

so two or three blocks in Vancouver look like a dump.... kinda like On Nut on a good day.

 

Plenty of real estate in Canada that is cheap as chips. Edmonton comes to mind.

 

"Distance between Edmonton, Canada and the Arctic Circle

1448 km = 900 miles"

https://dateandtime.info/distancearcticcircle.php?id=5946768

 

Close to points of interest.

A weekend trip by snowmobile.

[noobexpat]

I don't think anyone here is thinking ...oh envious, wish it was me.

Hope your general attitude improves anyway. 

[ChaiyaTH]

The only thing that is free, is the sun coming up every day. All those freebies actually ruined western countries, as well causes the taxes to be so high. Not sure what this even is about, the promotion of some ice cold country nobody wants to go to? That's why they beg for foreigners to move there right? I'm getting job offers to relocate there all the time too in IT.

Edited February 17 by ChaiyaTH

[Celsius]

3 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

 That's why they beg for foreigners to move there right? I'm getting job offers to relocate there all the time too in IT.

 

oh, you are Indian?

[sirineou]

1 hour ago, Celsius said:

Speaking of bus drivers, they wait for you to enter and exit

who is speaking of bus drivers?

[ChaiyaTH]

5 minutes ago, Celsius said:

oh, you are Indian?

No, but it is indeed true that most graduates are Indian or Asian nowadays, that itself is another worrying subject.

[KhunLA]

I like Toronto, but, no thanks.   A little too chilly half the year, though not a big thing, as good time to explore southward. Or northward to Toronto when USA is too hot.

 

Not a Canuuk so would have to rely on OTT USA healthcare   Housing prices and reasonably priced EVs or solar the other negatives.   They total up to way too much monthly expense to justify change of location.

[Fat is a type of crazy]

Melbourne's nice too. A bit warmer. As I plan to go to Thailand and read all the wonderful things about it on this site it does make you appreciate home a bit. Maybe 50 50. 

[anyone]

 

I'll just leave it here 😚

[CanadaSam]

Only someone who is stoned can figure out what this post is about.

[OneMoreFarang]

Imagine how many additional idiots would be here if above would be true. 

[mokwit]

3 hours ago, Celsius said:

After you land you are given a paper where you can get a tax number and a free unlimited health card use.

 

You go to open a bank account and they give you 2 years of free banking and a platinum non secured credit card just because you arrived yesterday.... just because "we trust our clients". 

 

There is no other place to report....ever. You are free to stay indefinitely.

 

You join one of many programs....like how to find a job, free language courses and they even pay your bus ticket to come and chat with them.

 

Speaking of bus drivers, they wait for you to enter and exit. Disabled are treated with respect. 

 

You find out that everything the others spoke about Thailand is a lie. The country is not going down the toilet and is actually doing pretty well. The streets are clean and air is breathable.

 

Welcome to Thailand. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This sounds like the UK rather than Thailand, although you have to arrive by boat to get that deal.

[GammaGlobulin]

4 hours ago, stoner said:

upon landing at bkk airport my dad had a heart attack. he was whisked to bkk hospital where he had numerous cardiologists to help as soon as he arrived. at which point he had another heart attack

 

Bangkok might be stressful, is what you are saying?

[Sigmund]

Far to many tourists from the USA, UK, Australia, NZ who land in Thailand with absolutely no health insurance back home.

 

The western Europeans on the other hand all have compulsory health insurance by law, that fully covers abroad.

[GammaGlobulin]

3 hours ago, Sigmund said:

Far to many tourists from the USA, UK, Australia, NZ who land in Thailand with absolutely no health insurance back home.

 

The western Europeans on the other hand all have compulsory health insurance by law, that fully covers abroad.

 

How were the western Europeans able to get this insurance coverage?

 

Seems miraculous.

 

 

[Ben Zioner]

7 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Imagine how many additional idiots would be here if above would be true. 

It was true in Australia, in the eighties. I was given most of  what is mentioned by the OP, plus an airfare from Europe, plus unemployment benefits until I landed my first job (couple of weeks..). "The jobs in demand" scheme was working like clockwork.

[Ralf001]

9 hours ago, rabas said:

 

You could literally freeze to death in Canada, ... Celsius.

 

No way.

 

Iam currently a 20 mile drive from the Ambassador Bridge..... can see one easily freezing to death here in the USA too !

[Celsius]

A bunch of grown a$$ men scared of a bit of cold.

 

Anyhoo, I am coming back. 

 

Anything new about that tax that I won't be paying?