Phil Conners
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44 minutes ago, jaywalker2 said:
I've lived in Japan, France, Thailand, and several states in the US, and I never had any trouble opening a bank account until recently. I could open an account at Citibank from overseas. In Hawaii, I had an account that was happy to let me use a Japanese address. It's only recently that this nonsense has taken hold. If you're rich, I bet you don't have trouble opening a bank account.
Yes, living there, but not as a tourist. You won't be able to open saving accounts in USA or EU without a SSN or similar, which you won't get with a tourist visa. As far as I remember you always needed some form of non-o visa to open a savings account in Thailand, not sure if/when that changed.
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Did anyone try the #71 train from Bangkok to Ubon? There is preciously little information about it available online, at least in English. I'd be curious what classes are available and how crowded it typically is -- and any other personal experiences anyone has with it.
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Debit card is fine for this as long as you got balance for the deposit required. They normally don't take the money, it's just frozen until the bill is paid.
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Thanks for the replies and good info - and sorry for my late reply!
My wife and I are going together. We were thinking about going to Pattaya for a couple of days first, but decided to go up to the village near Kukhan, Sisaket, directly. Taking the overnight train would have us sit around all day, and after a 10 hour flight we probably don't have energy to go shopping all day.
Long story short, I think we will take a driver / limo service / uber / taxi for the trip up and take the sleeper when we go back.
We used to have a regular driver, but haven't been back since 2019 and I guess a lot has changed since then? Any recommendations?
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1 hour ago, Sparktrader said:
Do women like ladyboys? Bigger question
I know one such couple. They both consider themselves lesbians. Makes you think huh?
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Planning to go up towards Ubon Ratchatani and thinking about ticking an item off my bucket list, overnight train ride in Thailand.
Normally there are lots of travel videos with people taking trains around the world but not so much to Issan. I found the one below which in spite of the titillating title actually only have a few minutes of the actual train experience. I was wondering if anyone have experience of this they would like to share?
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3 hours ago, bert bloggs said:Yes your right,you would have to have gay tendancies i reckon
Why does it matter? This is 2022, aren't we past those homophobic outbursts yet?
Some people like the opposite sex, some people like the same sex, some people like both, some people like a combination, some people get turned on by a squat cobbler.
The world is a rich tapestry. Live with it. Like the Thais.
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On 12/30/2021 at 5:49 AM, BangkokReady said:
But at the same frequency and to the same level of casual acceptance by society?
I can only speak for the UK, but the idea of a gik, a mia noi or young women having older men pay them for sex while at uni seem very rare.
Hmmm, look up sugerdaddy. It is very common throughout the western world, Europe and USA too.
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Stimulus package, Thai style. Get the money into Thai pockets.
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Orwell - 1984 - Ministry of Truth.
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Soi dogs are a menace, I vote to get rid if them. Several of them have been chasing me driving past on Nongprue road on bike at night. Someone wants them can take them home.
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That is not exactly what I call well-managed villages. Have a look for example at Green Field Villas - you won't find any empty houses there.
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Anything wrapped in bacon is good !
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How can it be on it's ass when traffic is worse than ever? Last I checked it was still mostly farangs in the cars. As for empty houses, not many in the well-managed villages.
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Try a few of the pawn shops. They might have something laying around. Also maybe that used shop on the second floor of Big C up off Pattaya Klang (the old Carre 4). I have seen some old electronics stuff laying around.
Do you mean Cashconverters? They closed a couple of years ago ...
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Switch off everything and check if the meter still runs.
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Hi mate,
The only agent I will ever use in Pattaya is Alan Bolton Real Estate. They were in charge of the rental of my last condo, then they sold it for me, and then negotiated the purchase of my next one.
I have just listed another condo with them. Alan has been around for close on a million years, he is a gentleman, and all of his staff are professional to a tee. I would never personally deal with
another agent, especially unknown to me. here is a link. http://www.pattaya-property.net/
Call or email and ask for Toby or Steve.
Aussie John
I don't think Alan is still in Pattaya? I heard he has returned to UK, with someone else running the business here?
East Coast Real Estate.
I don't think I heard about them before, are they any good?
Many agents in Pattaya specialize in condos, so if you're selling a house on the east side, you need to find an agent who is good in that area.
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Awful tragedy! Hopefully those responsible are brought to justice, and in the future the flight corridors are moved around such dangerous areas!
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Alienware looks cool, but are actually not particularly high-endian. They have heavy graphics cards, which isn't something I particularly need - I'm not going to use it for gaming.
As for defining what is low-endian, normal and high-endian laptops, well of course these can be subjective labels, but when I say high-endian I mean relative to Thailand. If you disagree with that, fine, but it's really off topic. So is comments about how something is not possible and can't be found. Of course it can, I already listed something that was quite close and that I may end up buying, but I'm not in a hurry and will keep looking until I find the best deal. So, looking forward to more constructive ideas and suggestions, and will henceforth ignore the nay-sayers.
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I know Thomas well and his service and product list is very strong. I was able to find a Lenovo Z410 with an Core i7-4702MQ that way surpassed my CPU requirement, for 23,990. Unfortunately it has the usual problem of only 4GB RAM, which would need to be thrown away to be able to upgrade to 16G, and a 1 TB SATA disk that also had to be thrown away to upgrade to an SSD drive. The trick is to find one that has these components out of the box.
Of course one could just go sit in a corner and whine "it can't be done", but that wasn't how humanity managed to land on the moon.
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Could it be it has been a while since you have been shopping notebooks last?
Take for example this notebook @ 18,590 in IT City, Tukcom. With a better CPU, an SSD drive and more memory it would fit my requirement.The price difference between an i5-4200U and an i7-4600M is about 3000 baht.
The price difference between a 500 GB HD and a 250 G SSD is about 3600 baht.
The price difference between 4 and 8 GB ram around 1400 baht.
Total around 8,000 baht, add the cost of the laptop makes 26,590, so technically possible. The problem this is about as high-endian as I've been able to find here.
Amazing requirements to open account as a Tourist at Bangkok Bank HQ (Silom)
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Tim Newton referred to this post on his Youtube channel today. I'm not sure what are the rules for linking these days, but search for Tim Newton Live *LIVE - Thailand's 'invasion', and all your questions & comments - February 3".
Essentially his take, which I agree with, was, one thing is the rules, but in reality just keep trying branches until you find one that will open an account for you. TiT as they say.