2ndhomepattaya

Are you serious? Sounds like victim blaming to me. Nothing, but nothing justifies hitting or attacking a woman simply because you don't like the response regardless of what she may have said or done. Just walk away, plenty of fish in the sea.

How gullible can you be seems almost unbelievably stupid

Absolutely, otherwise I am certain otehr relatives will have the same issue. But hey, you are a rich farang

Nice idea, but this UNfreezing of the (frozen) pension will never happen. The UK government has no interest and no incentive to make it happen. I wish you well in your endeavour.

I am sure immigration will very much mind....sounds pretty illegal to me, just don't do it

Read the Reuters report..it did not attempt to fly direct. " The plane was a charter ambulance flight travelling from Thailand's Utapao Airport in Pattaya to Moscow via India and Uzbekistan on a French-made Dassault Aviation (AM.PA)"

I rent out my property and it more than covers my rental expenses in Thailand. So, in a way, I keep my base in the UK and additionally have the possibility of capital gains in the future, as a bonus. And of course, just in case plan B if needed. Besides, buying in Thailand sucks big time. Prices remain stagnant at best unless you live in Bangkok.

Staying in any relationship that has broken down sucks big time. I don't think from my own experience the constant arguing is not only terrible on the kids but poisons the whole atmosphere. So, I would not be in the camp of advising you to soldier on just for the sake of the kids. Yes, if you have no family around to help you out, consider employing childcare or even au-pairs. My wife and I went down this route as we also had no supporting family nearby either. You do not say how old the kids are, my son bonded very quickly and easily with his carers in his kindergarten and junior school days. Whatever you decide, it certainly is not an easy problem to resolve but not that impossible either. Good luck

John, I have a very similar setup and it has been working perfectly for the past 6 years. My Three PAYG chip is in my SIM slot and Dtac occupies the first of my ESIM slots with its Thai number. I also have another European number and all work as intended, no issues. Naturally, you can only have one ESIM slot active at any given time. But the main slot and 1 ESIM work concurrently.

Tax treaties Thailand has DTTs with the following countries: Armenia Finland Mauritius Spain Australia France Myanmar Sri Lanka Austria Germany Nepal Sweden Bahrain Hong Kong Netherlands Switzerland Bangladesh Hungary New Zealand Taiwan Belarus India Norway Tajikistan Belgium Indonesia Oman Turkey Bulgaria Ireland Pakistan Ukraine Cambodia Israel Philippines United Arab Emirates Canada Italy Poland United Kingdom Chile Japan Romania United States China Korea, Republic of Russia Uzbekistan Cyprus Kuwait Seychelles Vietnam Czech Republic Laos Singapore Denmark Luxembourg Slovenia Estonia Malaysia South Africa

lgking, I think you are kidding yourself. Your high/weight ratio is seriously abnormal never mind your push-ups never mind your blood pressure. I would see a specialist pronto and not deluding yourself how healthy you think you are. A healthy BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9 and you are way off.

In fact, I know a caregiver/nurse that does exactly that. She looks after older folk in their homes, usually 6 days out of 7. I understand many of her "clients" require palliative and are usually in their 60's or well above. Whilst "on duty" she does all the normal household thingies, does the shopping, cooks and assists generally. She also serves as a go between in medical aspects, organises the meds and will liaise with doctors if need be. She is also a very useful translator as her English is terrific at about B2 level In fact, I think quite a useful person to have round I think, almost like a personal assistant. My understanding is, that usually problems only arise when the "client" expects too much. By this I mean that although she normally lives in the clients home it does not mean that that she can be called up every few hours or so, even nurses need to sleep. From what I gather this generally works well. Her fees as I understand it are about 20k a months . Not bad when I think how much this kind of attention would cost us in Europe.

It is more likely that this unfortunate fellow had very little if any experience with scooters or bikes for that matter. Seems easy enough. Some years ago a friend hired a bike in Pattaya and the day after broke his collarbone when crashing his bike luckily at very low speed. Again, no experience at all with scooters.

Yes, I have, albeit with a UK Visa card about a year ago.

Not sure this would work as easily circumvented. Myself, I have not lived in my home country for 40 years although I maintain residency there on paper. So, what is it going to say. Nought!!! Too many loopholes to be of much use for determined criminals