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  1. The big plus factors they're looking at are a long term stable relationship, plenty of money in bank accounts, accommodation for the applicant, and reasons for the applicant to return and not want to stay on in Oz. If you tick all these boxes there's no need to go with an agent. The online process is easy to follow, step by step, and it works fast. We're currently in Perth now. And my TGF will squeeze in another visit in Dec before her visa expiry date.
  2. Very sad news, I certainly hope for the best outcome for her.
  3. In all my years in Thailand the only Thai males I've really liked and gotten along well with are the musicians. Those guys don't have the usual anti-farang bias found in most Thai men, as the Thai musos greatly admire farang musicians and musical genres. In general I've found them to be very friendly guys and we have a common interest in music, whereas I have zero in common with the rest of Thai males.
  4. There's been a recent surge of farang attacking Thais, and this one just about takes the cake, what concerns me most is if this trend continues are all of us going to be tarred with the same brush? We all know if you get into a fight with a Thai, then other Thais take it as an attack on all of them and seek revenge. It's not going to be much fun for any of us if we start becoming targets for revenge.
  5. agree, probably the only cities in the South worth living in for an expat are HatYai & Phuket.
  6. Cheers, I agree with you. I'll be looking into and see. It is definitely better to have your own vehicle. Thanks again.
  7. Peter Green was another, totally fried his brain with too much acid and ruined his career and his life. But so much seems to depend on the individual. Both Morrison and Hendrix did copious amounts of acid, even performing while on acid, and it worked for them.
  8. In Australia in the 1970s I personally knew several people who had totally fried their brains from doing acid. No way could they function in the so called normal world any longer and hold down a job, all they could do was live in communes or join the Hare Krisnas. The singer Wendy Saddington was a prime example, she was a secretary but cooked her brain with acid and spent the remainder of her life in some communal sect.
  9. A few useless pricks like these are going to stuff things up for the rest of us if this kind of behavior continues any further.
  10. This isn't news. This is just normal everyday Thai life, especially for Thai police. You read this and think so what? A Thai cop has a young mea-noi. It's about as important piece of news as telling us a Thai cop parked his car and sat down and had a bowl of noodles.
  11. Cheers mate. Yes a friend of mine does the same thing. Anyway, I'm starting to go off the idea now, it seems like a lot of stuffing around just for 1 week. I can leave my car securely in Ubon city, so I'm swinging towards that now.
  12. Also remember what Einstein said: “if World War III is fought with nuclear weapons, then World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
  13. Insurance is not compulsory for Cambodia, I never had it for any of the trips I made. Whether it's available at the border as an option I don't know. Maybe someone else will know and give you the info. BTW: after discussing taking a car into Lao with my wife I'm starting to go off the idea, it seems excessive rigmarole just for a one week trip, and it would be a one time only event, not something I'd be doing frequently. I do have a contact at Ubon city where I can safely leave my car for a few days, and we have done that in the past. So I think we'll just do that, then take the usual cross-border bus to Pakse. Pakse is small enough that you don't really need own transport to get about, and when we go to 4000 Is, there are organized travel/tour agents at Pakse, plus if there will be 4 of us we could look into booking a van just for ourselves.
  14. Just remember the true story of the man in Europe who was wondering the very same thing prior to the outbreak of WW2. He could see that a full on world war was coming so he carefully studied a map of the world, and after considering all the factors he selected a tiny remote island far away in the South Pacific where he could safely live a self-sufficient lifestyle. So a couple of weeks before Hitler invaded Poland, this man departed Europe and relocated to safely wait out the approaching war on the island of Guadalcanal.
  15. You say: Out of the last ten trips to Lao I’d had the cops try to shake me down for money many times So did they actually shake you down or did they merely try? If you did have to pay them money, then how much did you pay? I saw a video on FB recently of cops in Vientiane trying to shake down a couple of backpackers on a rented mc, it was an attempt by the cops, the 2 European backpackers argued the toss with the cops and after a few minutes the cops told them to piss off. So I get the feeling the Lao cops try this mickey mouse stuff but if you hold your ground they drop it fast.
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