Indebtedness in Thailand - loan sharks/money lenders

[Nomyai]

Is their anything good about village life?

All i hear about is drinking, debt, lazy men, dark women, women of ill repute, dummies building houses for you know who, mother sending girls to service fat, bald, smely men, BOREDOM,etc.

[NickJ]

Those are the pluses........

[gerryBScot]

Thanks for the responses. The angles people take on this sort of situation are always interesting and amusing and often ill-informed. She isn't Thai, though in fact her national origins are unimportant. She's a colleague of my wife. Yup, she's asked for help and as opposed to simply saying 'yes' or 'no', it seems we should do more and try to point her towards a solution. Hence the appeal here for some advice about the bigger picture and consequences; the best I can do is guess.

In this context it is really good to know there is the possibility of getting her loans 'mediated' in the sense of being converted into a more manageable repayment schedule.

Right now her health situation is the single biggest situation and that will obviously determine what she does. Once more thanks for the input.

Edited November 8, 2015 by gerryBScot

[timewilltell]

This is a huge problem in Thailand that neither the courts nor the government seem to want to tackle. I wonder why not!