Expat Discontent in Thailand

[ChaiyaTH]

1 minute ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

 

You have misunderstood my post.

The visa is good for 10 years.  Initial permission to stay is for 5 years.  
 

One must report to the BOI once per year. No 90 days reporting.

 

If you depart and return during the year, the one year reporting clock starts over.

 

After the initial 5 years, one must resubmit the same qualifying paperwork to BOI for another 5 years permission to stay.

 

Difference is the second five years is FREE.

 

 

Well yeah i always fly a few times a year so no issues on that.

[ThreeCardMonte]

4 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

they don't post on this forum then.. most here seem to be one the bones of their arse fan room living whingers!

Once I’m away from the political threads I have (try) to be nice.  

 

 

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

they don't post on this forum then..

 

probably 1% of expats in thailand post here on any kind of regular basis.

most people you never hear about and you don't know what they're doing. 

 

[Thailand J]

 Basically Thailand is imposing taxes on the foreign remittance of the lower income expats, while those with LTR visas are exempted.

If I didn't have LTR-P I will not be here year round.

 

Earlier this year I filed for the refund of bank interest withholding. After waited for months I went to the fourth floor of the JOmtein revenue department to check on it.

The nice lady gave me a form to fill in, items on the form included a list of all foreign transfers. I said i have LTR visa non the info requested on this form is relevant.

 

She then gave me a different form for LTR holders. Basically the same  but fewer questions. I told here info requested are just irrelevant. I just wrote LTR VISA across the form and left.

 

I think i will never see my refund.

 

ANyone else been to the forth floor lately?

 

[NanLaew]

On 7/30/2025 at 11:15 AM, proton said:

 

Some don't really have the choice, it's often either bribes or going home, they should go home if they can't meet the financials

 

Some don't have a home to go back to, so stop hating on the less fortunate. It's not a good look.

 

I have several friends who are in that position, and they're all decent people who don't have a bad word for anyone. You should try it sometime.

[ThreeCardMonte]

41 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

probably 1% of expats in thailand post here on any kind of regular basis.

most people you never hear about and you don't know what they're doing. 

 

“most people you never hear about and you don't know what they're doing”

 

After reading many of the posts on this forum, that sounds like a dream come true.

[jaideedave]

On 7/30/2025 at 10:22 AM, SAFETY FIRST said:

Your topic makes sense, I see discontent amongst some of the foreigners living here in Thailand

I'd say it's a financial thing for most, unable to enjoy life on a meagre monthly budget. 

As mentioned above most of these guys probably haven't got the funds to go back home so we must all put up with their constant whinging and whining. 

 

No Discontent from me. 

My decision to live in Thailand was to be close to my employment.

Working Songkhla on a rotation (28/28), travelling to and Australia every month it was a no brainier for me.

Now travelling internationally every month living in Pattaya is convenient to Bangkok airports. 

 

 

 

 

 

My situation in LOS was similar to yours. I was doing various rota jobs overseas (read s---holes) in O&G.Been retired now for over a decade but will remain here probably until the end.

Absolutely no desire to return to my native land. None.

[ThreeCardMonte]

14 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

 

Some don't have a home to go back to, so stop hating on the less fortunate. It's not a good look.

 

I have several friends who are in that position, and they're all decent people who don't have a bad word for anyone. You should try it sometime.

I don’t see any bad words by that poster.

Some sound advice.

 

One should have a “way out “ plan BEFORE coming to live the dream.

 

For many the dream will turn into a nightmare.

 

Naturally, it’s always someone else’s fault.

 

 

 

[proton]

51 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

 

Some don't have a home to go back to, so stop hating on the less fortunate. It's not a good look.

 

I have several friends who are in that position, and they're all decent people who don't have a bad word for anyone. You should try it sometime.

 

Hate has nothing to do with it, down and outs are better back at home, how do they hope to pay for medical care if they cannot even come up with funds for a legitimate extension?

[JackGats]

18 hours ago, MarkBR said:

Whether statins are good depends on the diagnosis.  Second opinions can be valuable, but in the main statins reduce the chances of various problems associated with CVD, and are standard teatment for transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs).  There cn be sde effects.  Report them to the hospital if they occur, they may recommend statins from a different manufacturer.

For more informed information contact you local hospital doctor

Sure, but right now the doctors in the whole World are systematically putting patients, sometimes even young patients, on statins. The very latest craze are medecines containing a stating + an anti-lipid (regardless of whether lipid values are also high). Little effort is made to understand why so many people with elevated, even sky-high, cholesterol, live a long and healthy life.

 

After I got bad muscle cramps with my first dose of statins, I read statins also increased the risk of diabetes by one third. I decided statins are not for me.

[NanLaew]

24 minutes ago, proton said:

1 hour ago, NanLaew said:

 

Some don't have a home to go back to, so stop hating on the less fortunate. It's not a good look.

 

I have several friends who are in that position, and they're all decent people who don't have a bad word for anyone. You should try it sometime.

 

Hate has nothing to do with it, down and outs are better back at home, how do they hope to pay for medical care if they cannot even come up with funds for a legitimate extension?

 

None of my friends can be considered as 'down and outs'. Personal situations change and events beyond one's control can result in a change of circumstances, especially over an extended length of time.

 

Put it this way, if you have done your due diligence, are financially secure, and fully compliant with immigration's requirements, with health insurance and contingency plans in place, how are the ones that don't match the above criteria affecting you so much personally that they should go home?

[cjinchiangrai]

Not everyone lives in Pattaya.

Not everyone is unhappy with their partners.

Only superficial people have superficial lives.

 

I am staying.

[SMIAI]

It's mildly amusing to see the comments from the 'misery guts' here, whining about people using agents, not meeting the financials and various other things that are really none of their business, but likely they don't see themselves as 'discontented expats'. 😊

Let's not mention the ones who are often complaining about other foreigners behaviour whilst tone deaf and blind to their own...

[proton]

24 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

 

None of my friends can be considered as 'down and outs'. Personal situations change and events beyond one's control can result in a change of circumstances, especially over an extended length of time.

 

Put it this way, if you have done your due diligence, are financially secure, and fully compliant with immigration's requirements, with health insurance and contingency plans in place, how are the ones that don't match the above criteria affecting you so much personally that they should go home?

 

If you have not even got 400-800k in the bank for an extension you are a down and out here on very thin ice. If circumstances change you have to change with them.

[proton]

1 minute ago, SMIAI said:

It's mildly amusing to see the comments from the 'misery guts' here, whining about people using agents, not meeting the financials and various other things that are really none of their business, but likely they don't see themselves as 'discontented expats'. 😊

Let's not mention the ones who are often complaining about other foreigners behaviour whilst tone deaf and blind to their own...

 

Realists are not misery guts, they are the poor sops living on next to nothing then having to waste tens of thousands of baht a year to parasites for a stamp in the passports, when the real charge is 1900 baht 😝

[SMIAI]

@proton I strongly disagree and here's why... These people have no effect on your life at all. It's just you creating unpleasant conflict in your mind and body in reaction to simply imagining a hypothetical situation.

For me, that is akin to a kind of madness.

The more enlightened simply create something much more pleasant for themselves. You create your own personal hell. That's sad...for you. But it's obviously your norm. A bad habit that you cannot quit.

You fail to understand that you are the 'poor sop'. They may be living their best lives.

Whereas you are on here regularly demonstrating your hate for the dogs, agents, poor people... You seem quite unhappy.

[Will B Good]

15 minutes ago, SMIAI said:

It's mildly amusing to see the comments from the 'misery guts' here, whining about people using agents, not meeting the financials and various other things that are really none of their business, but likely they don't see themselves as 'discontented expats'. 😊

Let's not mention the ones who are often complaining about other foreigners behaviour whilst tone deaf and blind to their own...

 

I find it amusing when posters, who are blatantly racist, have a hissy fit over duel pricing, or the RTP being perceived to be biased in some dealing with an expat.......end of the world stuff......no concept of how institutional racism blights the lives of 10,000s in their own country.

[NanLaew]

24 minutes ago, proton said:

50 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

 

None of my friends can be considered as 'down and outs'. Personal situations change and events beyond one's control can result in a change of circumstances, especially over an extended length of time.

 

Put it this way, if you have done your due diligence, are financially secure, and fully compliant with immigration's requirements, with health insurance and contingency plans in place, how are the ones that don't match the above criteria affecting you so much personally that they should go home?

 

If you have not even got 400-800k in the bank for an extension you are a down and out here on very thin ice. If circumstances change you have to change with them

 

Your 'B' side sounds the same as your 'A' side.

 

So once again, how are the ones that don't match the above mentioned criteria affecting you so much personally that you think they should go home?

[Photoguy21]

19 hours ago, brianwilliamswales said:

Utopia DOES exist....but only in your mind.

In which case it doesnt actually exist

[1FinickyOne]

On 7/30/2025 at 3:24 PM, BritManToo said:

He should have included the mentally ill on his list, even if that did include his GG alter ego.

I always thought mental illness was assumed. 

[jerrymahoney]

Well maybe it isn't such a good idea to post your passport number on a forum.

[Yagoda]

3 hours ago, Will B Good said:

no concept of how institutional racism blights the lives of 10,000s in their own country.

which country would that be.

[ronnie50]

Also, the longer one stays in Thailand - or any country not their own - (e.g. like 2-3 decades), the possibility of returning to one's homecountry on a permanent basis diminishes due to a variety of reasons: lack of close family or old friends (e.g. many deceased), fewer employment prospects (and maybe too old to find a job anyway), perhaps not enough financial resources to maintain a reasonable standard of living, no property ownership there, having a Thai spouse that has no legal right to live in the foreigner's country (or she apply for permanent residency, but it could be a long, drawn out hassle), a changed outlook on life or 'world view' that isn't in step with the current/conventional thinking, or they just see the place through different eyes - and it no longer seems like the place they once fondly called home. So as some others already said, there can be a sense of entrapment in Thailand for these reasons and others.

[happydreamer]

7 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Most is fake? I see more decent earning digital workers than retirees since over 6-7 years. Specially since covid and corporate pays way less decent expat packages for those working in multinationals and the like. Same a decrease in the rich oil workers etc.

 

Not everyone that sits with a laptop is a digital worker. 

I think there might be a minor misunderstanding in what I meant.  OP claims most of the IT folk and nomads here are "bereft of social skills and psychologically afflicted."

My comment was that the perceived social ineptitude is just an act so we don't need to talk with idiots.  

 

[ronnie50]

5 hours ago, JackGats said:

Sure, but right now the doctors in the whole World are systematically putting patients, sometimes even young patients, on statins. The very latest craze are medecines containing a stating + an anti-lipid (regardless of whether lipid values are also high). Little effort is made to understand why so many people with elevated, even sky-high, cholesterol, live a long and healthy life.

 

After I got bad muscle cramps with my first dose of statins, I read statins also increased the risk of diabetes by one third. I decided statins are not for me.

I also noticed they are trying to get young people to start taking them. Having said that, if you have high amounts of plaque (calcification) in your main arteries, statins and that other drug (zetia?) could reduce the chances of a heart attack or stroke and give you a few extra years. You can get a CT scan of your main arteries attached to your heart after the age of 40 (men) and 55 (post-menopause women - apparently estrogen protects against artery plaque prior to that age). You wouldn't know your vulnerability unless you took the CT (CAC) scan. Western countries with universal health plans try to avoid offering the scans (too many would want one - so they aren't advertised), and that's why so many seem to drop dead at 65 (especially smokers) whose doctor just gave them a clean bill of health after doing little more than listening though a stethascope once each year.

[emptypockets]

On 7/30/2025 at 2:44 PM, KhaoHom said:

The more foreigners that leave the happier I am. Farang of all races and nationalities.

 

*The brokies

*Anyone using agents

*30-40k Teacher riffraff

*All drugs ingesters

*All Africans

*All illegal Indians

*All the French

*All British chavs

*All male poser influencers

*All cigarette, vape and weed smokers

*All skezy homosexuals

* All ugly, moaning, judgy farang women 18-88

 

Half farang populations in Phuket, Pattaya ... Just go.

 

GTFO

So that just leaves you and the drunks? Happy days!

[emptypockets]

On 7/30/2025 at 12:20 PM, BritManToo said:

It's a personal choice to be happy or unhappy, content or discontent.

 

I choose to be happy!

The internet exposes an inconvenient truth with some posters.

Some welcome their own demise. Some also brag about paying a Thai woman to pretend to be their wife.

 

Some choose to be happy, apparently. Personally I couldn't give a flying either way.

 

I'll just do it my way!

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

which country would that be.

Probably Thailand.

[Stocky]

On 7/30/2025 at 10:05 AM, simon43 said:

Rather than just copy and paste from Chat GPT, let's hear your own opinions!

Correct analysis

 

[emptypockets]

17 minutes ago, Stocky said:

Correct analysis

 

Ai analysis of AI. What happened? Where has rational thought gone or going to?