That deep breath you take when you arrive back home

[JamesPhuket10]

3 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Sorry, you are probably wrong.

 

In Australia, after one year of marriage, assets are split evenly in the event of divorce.

 

In a defacto relationship, living together for 2 years is sufficient for a 50:50 split.

 

It's called palimony in America.

 

Thailand does not recognize defacto relationships.

 

Yet another reason not to go to Australia.

 

In England, if you bought the property before you lived with the girlfriend she will get nothing. 

 

My property back in England is all mine.

 

My partner's eight houses in Thailand are all hers, we are both financially independent of each other which must be the best scenario to be in, I am not a walking ATM like most farangs seem to be in Thailand. 

[Lacessit]

On 3/11/2025 at 9:45 AM, DonniePeverley said:

 

You seem quite traumatized by this subject. Has something happened to you in the past ?

I have moved on.

[youreavinalaff]

On 3/11/2025 at 12:30 PM, JamesPhuket10 said:

 

Yet another reason not to go to Australia.

 

In England, if you bought the property before you lived with the girlfriend she will get nothing. 

 

My property back in England is all mine.

 

My partner's eight houses in Thailand are all hers, we are both financially independent of each other which must be the best scenario to be in, I am not a walking ATM like most farangs seem to be in Thailand. 

Most law firms state "generally speaking" with regards to your comments. Nothing is cast in stone.

[Bohemianfish]

Hope that when we move there we can adapt okay. Wife is Thai, but she doesn't like hot. She prefers the cold of Puget Sound. Doesn't get too hot or too cold, but colder than Thailand. She had a hard time on a trip there and I was perfectly happy with the sun and heat. But after 3 weeks, we looking forward to leaving.

[newbee2022]

On 3/5/2025 at 9:15 PM, DonniePeverley said:

Arrived back in the UK. Took a deep breath with clean fresh air. That first breath really feels good after a year in Thailand unable to properly breathe. 

 

For nearly a year now whenever i have been outside in Bangkok, walking the 'sidewalks', surrounded by some of the worst vehicle pollution i have ever known in the history of any country, black diesel emissions in your face, stationary traffic just blowing weird emissions out, red busses with smoke coming out of them like they on fire - clearly Thailand doesn't enforce emissions on their cars (something even India is very strict about). As a result i have developed a pattern of a bizarre slow breathing so i am not fully inhaling the emissions. 

 

Honestly, arrived back in the UK yesterday and felt i could finally breath again. The air is beautiful. Crisp. Clean. Amazing. 

Agreed. But who wants to live in Bangkok?

Even living in Chiang Mai I have to move for at least 5 months to our beach house in the South.

The reason? 

Clean, fresh air.