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Why do Chiang Mai people dislike Israelis
A lot of Americans, but not all. That is about it. Without America they would not exist as they do today. -
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Crime Former U.S. Soldier Arrested After Disturbance at Pattaya Beer Bar
You're talking nonsense about what you perceive as a TYPICAL teacher plus this isn't even right. "How anyone could pay money to let these criminals spend time with their kids is beyond me." Most language school teachers,(as it's fairly obvious it's a language school and not an actual school) teach adults. -
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Economy Thailand Eyes Zero Tariffs on US Goods to Nix Trump’s 36% Levy
I'll believe that when I see prices dropping on the supermarket shelves... -
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Overstayers
Not buying into the bigotry of nationalities, but on the subject of visa status, law breakers do have an impact on those of us who stay legal and hope for stress free stays. The Immigration Act is legislation, and law of the land, just like the criminal code. Breaches of the Act attract penalties such as incarceration, fines and exclusion. Thailand officialdom has always proven that they are reactionary and thus likely to introduce more draconian rules for all when a few miscreants stand out. As a bored and angry old man who's been affected by just such an over reaction by bill dodgers, I feel justified in reveling in the fate of overstayers when they're detected. -
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Good and Bad builders in Pattaya
Sorry, I'm a bit late to this topic. In 2014, my then wife wanted to gut our Thai holiday home and renovate it as it was vandalised. She flew to Thailand 6 weeks before I did to look for a qualified builder. I let her do the talking because she's Thai - I'm not. Also, I knew that if the builder saw me, a 'farang', the price would quadruple. My then wife engaged a family consisting of an old dude who walked around in undies and had no shirt, his senior wife and young son. Let's skip to the meat: they convinced my wife to destroy the beautiful parquetry and replace it with tiles. OK, that was her wish except that they did not use tile glue. They used ordinary cement to hold the tiles in place temporarily and then flushed the leftover cement down the toilet which destroyed the septic system. They also convinced my then wife to replace the wooden windows with PVC ones. OK, that was her wish but they inserted the windows crooked and at an angle. When they placed cement around the window frames, they cemented over the window frames. They had never heard of a water level before. Instead, they used a transparent hose filled with water to pretend that the windows were level when they were clearly not. Then they replaced the electricals but with the wrong gauge wire and fuses, and finally, the paint that I bought to paint the interior and exterior went missing. When my wife inquired, they told her that they had borrowed the paint for another job. All my expat friends have similar stories. For example Stan, who gave $100,000 to his then wife to build a house in Thailand. Naturally, she engaged her all-knowing, lay person brother. When the brother started laying the foundations in the middle of a former rice field, Stan suggested he move the house's foundation up the hill for obvious reasons (flooding). The brother apparently stormed to his sister threatening that if the farang told him again what to do, that he'd walk off of the job. Six months later, Stan showed me photos of his wife standing in front of their new house up to her hips in water. I have since remarried. I also bought a house which needs some work. Although I have verbally agreed on the process before work can commence, which is at least a week or two away, I was copied into photos of work that commenced today although there is no final agreed scope of work to be done, no contract and no sign-off by me. Seriously, I've had it with illogical Thais who say one thing but do another. There's always an excuse - always. -
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Do you know your wife/girlfriends body count?
Hopefully society where I would be working, would be reversed, and woman paying men for sex, and not the current market. Or I being born a woman, although, dealing with period for 30 some years doesn't sound like a fair trade off either.
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