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Kenny202

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  1. Any Australians have a handle on the new tax rules? I am about to bring in my yearly living expenses from my Superannuation account in Australia. The money is in the original Super account, I am of maturity age and the funds / interest are non taxable in Australia. I believe Australia has some sort of tax agreement with Australia. Am I going to be liable for 10% tax in Thailand on this transfer?
  2. What I am most interested in, in the interim is if I will have any delay or problem....extra paperwork to fill out with Wise, or is that all as normal? Will there be a hold up or issues with the bank (please explain etc) when the money hits the Thai bank?
  3. Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere but not a regular reader so may have missed it. About to transfer my yearly living expenses from Australia. Usually use Wise. Is there any new requirements re transferring money? Paperwork / declarations required? I am transferring from my superannuation account which is earning interest but non taxable in Australia as I have reached maturity age and it is my original Superannuation account that was paid into monthly when I was working. Will I need to declare or pay tax on this in a Thai tax declaration at the end of the year?....I assume no tax payable here as Australia / Thailand have a tax agreement? Has anything become clearer over the last few months? Any help appreciated
  4. I've seen that first hand as my wife used to work around the university. Usually Chinese looking girls. My guess is that they are usually forbidden to date until their education is finished. So maybe they try the next best thing?
  5. Some of mine had jobs, others didn't.... and this is another issue with Thailand and IMO very difficult to find a happy medium and a good reason to stay single. Often the ones with jobs are working long hours and 6 days a week. Then she has friends, family commitments and often meetings on days off. Difficult to organize a holiday or weekend away. Yeah I like to go away by myself and definitely like some time to myself but you seem to end up spending most of your time by yourself, waiting around and the whole thing seems pretty pointless. A nice chill girl would be fine at home providing she had some other interests apart from FB, sleeping and having random meltdowns. Yet to find one though. Usually we blokes have women here of differing age gaps and truth be told we have different priorities. We have been there done it all and happy to chill, take it easy....on the other hand they maybe in their early to mid life, never done anything much or been anywhere and they want to do it all. Relationships in Thailand, unless you find someone very compatible really are a drag in so many different ways. Better have your own space and just play the dating game or better still rent. Got a mate does exactly that for 5 years and he is happy as Larry. I remember waking up in the morning after every break up feeling like there was a pallet of bricks lifted off my chest. Bliss. No need to play all the mind games or need to entertain what is very much like a bored, petulent child.
  6. The working type for sure....in fact they are usually the most helpful and knowledgeable in shops and stores. Have met a few in bars seemed ok to....but perhaps not in a Bangkok / Pattaya bar or beach road
  7. Fairly easy if not living with them. Can be a real ordeal if you are living with them. In some cases under siege for months / years after. Complaints and attitude the whole time they are living with you. Refuse to help with anything in anyway. Main daily activities laying around on the sofa asleep / underfoot. Eating (cooked by others or food delivery). Scrolling through their phone envying others fantasy / BS Facebook lives or watching "hot news" (nothing resembling real news, usually villagers disputing who stole their chicken or other such important gossip). Waiting for you to entertain them or take them out somewhere. During the entire relationship they act like they are getting a shetty deal whilst bringing nothing to the table themselves except a lot of issues, baggage, negativity and intermittent screaming sessions...but refuse to go. It probably would be better if you had a new lady or at least tell them that so they have a reason to cite for the breakup....rather than soley because they weren't wanted and another one of their relationships has bit the dust. The endless cycle of the narcissist. Mind you they go around and say all that stuff anyway in a face saving attempt.
  8. I used to have that opinion mainly coming in contact with village / lay about type males but after 10 years have some very close Thai male friends...middle class, better educated. Certainly smart, great sense of humor, trustworthy, helpful...love a bbq and a drink. Very respectful intelligent caring family guys.
  9. From only what I have seen and experienced, there seems to be two distinct "types". Very quiet, well mannered, clean educated and business savy. They seem to have genuine lovers of the same sex. The other rough, unclean and paranoid and seem to have typical opportunist girl looking for a free ride whether it be male or female. Dare look at their women even glancing and you will be glared at. Where I live seem to come in contact more with the former. Same could be said of lady boys really. Some of the most helpful, well mannered and intelligent people I have met here but read many stories of drug addled psychos in tourist areas. Maybe comes down to the old good and bad in any group / race
  10. The worst thing about all this is the anti foreigner sentiment this stirs up, and as usual by the same person that stirred up all the Covid racisim. What the two guys in question did was arrogant, stupid and if proved guilty deserve what they get. To be honest I have seen much worse behavior and disrespect to Thais in tourist areas on a daily basis. The media information certainly doesn't look good but it ever there was a trial by media case it is this. Thailand also needs to remember there are more Thais living in foreign countries (and well looked after aka rights, welfare, medical services) than there are foreigners living in Thailand. If the circumstantial evidence is right, the two people in question deserve what they get, but its a shame there has been so much anti foreigner hatred stirred up as these two certainly don't represent the vast majority of peaceful and contributing foreigners living here.
  11. The closing of websites and companies pushing you to use their phone apps I am sure is so they can bombard you with their advertisements every day. I just bought a smart TV, major brand and part of the set up was registering and setting up the TV through the app. Added 30 minutes onto the installation and in the end had no bearing on the set up of the TV at all, nor can the app control the TV in anyway. I deleted the app but they have my emails address and am bombarded with Spam everyday. Some of the large supermarkets not to mention the phone companies are doing exactly the same thing. I guess it is cheap advertising for them though I doubt anyone ever reads their messages / emails. That all seemed to start during Covid when no one was paying attention, and you had to register at malls, track your movements etc, not that I ever gave them genuine details.
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