PattayaParent
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2 hours ago, JackThompson said:
With fly-onward or buying a throw-away ticket, if the person showing the ticket does not intend to use it, ... I mean, I guess you could say you "changed your mind" with the throwaway, vs the clear premeditation of fly onward, but it's really a lie either way.
A "show me you have money" solution would better solve the issue, including allowing a person to go to an ATM and print out a statement-balance on the spot.
But if you're in another country than your bank account the local ATM will not print out the balance of your home account.
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And there's one at Ekkamai too.
And one opening in Pattaya the end of October
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Didn't they just change the rules to say you can have as many SETV as you want, no having to stay outside Thailand for 90 days?
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Visa fee for Americans should only be $25.
Went to HCMC Thai consulate in August for tourist visas for me and my Vietnamese family, only to be told VN don't get tourist visas. Went today for same and no problem.
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Have a look at websites for apartments in District 2, Thao Dien, there's a lot of foreign schools there and a lot of foreigners live in the area including teachers so I think rents should be reasonable although the places are very new. Unlikely you'll get something as cheap as HH though.
Don't really know the other areas of HCMC but more local districts will be cheaper.
There's plenty of taxis around in all areas and also a local bus system, it's like being in Bangkok in terms of ease to get around. Don't worry about motocy riding as all traffic goes fairly slowly, is orderly, and gives way, unlike in Thailand where you're always at risk.
Other than accommodation everything else is cheaper than Thailand, Dong 100,000 ($3) per month for unlimited mobile data on your 'phone sim, local food and beer, cinema, satellite tv for the EPL..
Do some online research then as someone suggested go and spend a couple of weeks looking around, you don't need a visa for a 15 day visit.
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Guess I'll have to make do with my stash of Coronas, Carlsbergs, Budweisers and Hoegaardens.
'Bud'....?..
You stick to your Leo's. I'll drink, my Euro beers
You think Budweiser and Corona are Euro beers?
You truly know nothing about beer.
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If it has a ring like a real phone instead of the annoying Nokia jingle it would be the perfect.
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It's been like that for the last couple of years now, since the last Forum upgrade.
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I always head for the free computers that are available in the concourses and then get to the boarding gate early and use the free computers there.
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I have been both over the last 7/8 years in various countries. When you have a big firm picking up your rent tab, paying your bills, sorting out your visas and tax, and paying you a salary that frankly you are not worth in your home country (if we are all honest about it) but due to skill shortages are worth it in a foreign country, life is exceptionally easy. Wake up - closet full of clean ironed clothes from the maid (paid for of course and from a pre-approved agency by your firm). Breakfast is ready, kids are attended to, kiss goodbye to the wife and step into the car with driver, and go to the office. Do your work, either drinks with the boys then home with the driver standing by, or straight home to dinner. When going to the home country, you have a month off, business class flights paid for, so all you have to do is live. Compare that to the life of a non mnc expat, and you can see where the gulf appears.
Non MNC expat, but still a firm sponsored expat. They get a job lot of cash each month and nothing more. They can afford the maid, driver etc but they have to sort it all out for himself. Still an easier life, but with more disturbances.
The expat who is going native has to deal with everything by themselves and feels the full weight of Thai ludicrous red tape.
When you are in the MNC world, you live in a bubble basically regardless of if you realise it or not and thus it is difficult to realise what the guy doing it all themselves have to go through. From the guy doing it all themselves, they could be jealous and maybe a tad irritated that the MNC guy has it so easy. But everyone has their own problems. no matter what all though the scale of the problems vary massively.
You seem to be one of those that the OP says misundestands MNC expat life and has probably never met a MNC expat as I am one and have nothing like what you describe.
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You don't have savings, but you have a house in BKK.
You need savings.
Stay where you are, both keep working, keep earning those EU rates, get some savings behind you and then think again.
Netherlands/Belgian border area, Chemical Industry - B-op-Z by any chance? (spent some of the happiest times of my life in that area - can't see living there being anything of a hardship).
What GuestHouse said.
Saving for the next 5 years will give you a better lifestyle in Bangkok when you move here on lower wages.
Edit: CWMc, the OP doesn't say he has a good salary lined up in Bangkok, it says he has a good salary in EU.
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Jaspas is the sports bar in Ha Noi Towers. Football coverage in Viet Nam is a bit limited though (unless they have a bootleg satellite service which receives all EPL games), you'll only get a couple of games a weekend (usually Man United and Arsenal) and they used to be from TrueVisions so I don't know what they'll do now although I have noticed for Olympics coverage they have 7 ESPN stations plus Star Sports.
Did some essential shopping and a can of Heineken is about 25 Baht and a can of local beer (Halida, brewed by Carlsberg) about 12 Baht. A medium pizza from Al Fresco's is about 180 Baht (Tuesdays buy one get one free for delivery only). Lunch today was a local meal for 2 (crab soup, tofu and rice) with 3 beers and a bottle of water for about 300 Baht. Beer is only 4.5% alcohol content so if you're a Chang Classic drinker you might find it a bit weak.
Sounds reasonable to me on the food and drink.
On the football, I'm thinking of taking the GMM box which we bought for Euro 2012 to see if it works. Here we just bought a splitter, messed around a bit and it could use the cable feed from True Visions.
BTW Are you based out there PP or just visit from time to time?
Just visit a few times a year although I have a flat there and some land to build a house on for retirement.
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Khun Amy and her sister at All Seasons Travel get my recommendation too.
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Condoms should be on the list....and seeing as I suggested this use my size ...Trojan Magnum
Seeing as we have a lot of OAP's in Thailand, Viagra should be in the shopping basket as well..
Well if you're going to include condoms and viagra you'll have to include bar fines and short time and long time prices, otherwise there's no need for the condoms and viagra.
Eh? Speak for yourself man, some of us are irrisistible to the opposite sex.....
Gawd, now that I think about it some of us are irrisistible to the third sex when we're wearing a kilt.....
Oh no, flashbacks....
In that case you'd better include some KY and tissues for those santorum moments.
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Can someone please tell me of a good seafood restaurant in Bang Chang?
Many thanks.
Rom Son at Nam Rin beach.
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Condos are growing up like mushrooms after the rain. Nothing else...
Developers are cutting down all the trees and building condos, many of them stalled for 3 years but have been revived lately, sea views are being lost and traffic is increased causing problems.
On the plus side we got a new widened road and a set of traffic lights but they just worsen the traffic issues.
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Ok, got the licences yesterday. No probs.
I had to go upstairs, and the girl on the 1st desk read the police report and said all was ok. I needed to produce 2 copies of the report, Passport info, and my uptodate visa page. After a quick trip to the copy-shop, i was directed to a uniformed lady who checked all the docs and sent me in to have my pic taken again. I had to pay for the licences the same as when i got the originals, but i expected that. A short wait later and i was called to the photo lady and she handed me my new licences. Job done.
My wife is now going to question the two seperate sources who insisted i would need to go through all the original stuff again....bullsh1t.
Got a good deal on a wallet today from a friend, and it is better than my original. Bonus.
Happy Days.
Was the replacement license valid for another 1 year? or only through to Feb 2013 the same as the original one?
Does anyone know the score with a lost 5 year licence, is it replaced with a new 5 year licence or only valid until the original expiry of the lost one?
Thanks
BUMP
Anyone know?
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Condoms should be on the list....and seeing as I suggested this use my size ...Trojan Magnum
Seeing as we have a lot of OAP's in Thailand, Viagra should be in the shopping basket as well..
Well if you're going to include condoms and viagra you'll have to include bar fines and short time and long time prices, otherwise there's no need for the condoms and viagra.
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Ok, got the licences yesterday. No probs.
I had to go upstairs, and the girl on the 1st desk read the police report and said all was ok. I needed to produce 2 copies of the report, Passport info, and my uptodate visa page. After a quick trip to the copy-shop, i was directed to a uniformed lady who checked all the docs and sent me in to have my pic taken again. I had to pay for the licences the same as when i got the originals, but i expected that. A short wait later and i was called to the photo lady and she handed me my new licences. Job done.
My wife is now going to question the two seperate sources who insisted i would need to go through all the original stuff again....bullsh1t.
Got a good deal on a wallet today from a friend, and it is better than my original. Bonus.
Happy Days.
Was the replacement license valid for another 1 year? or only through to Feb 2013 the same as the original one?
Does anyone know the score with a lost 5 year licence, is it replaced with a new 5 year licence or only valid until the original expiry of the lost one?
Thanks
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I thought the majority of expats were retired special force soldiers or secret agents
oops, I forgot that option.
Maybe vote under 'other'
Edit: I'm surprised there's no teachers yet but maybe they are still at work (local / language schools) or on holiday (international schools).
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I'd first thought about this poll after a comment Samran made in the thread about salaries of Thais which was something along the lines of 'there's a lot of forum Members that have no real idea of how much Thais can really earn' and the same sort of comment can be applied to foreigners earnings here judging by the recent thread on expat salaries.
I believe that the people we associate with and meet daily colours our perception of the world around us, so a retiree may well not meet the better educated Thais who are engineers etc. working and earning good salaries and also not come into contact with the foreigners that are also earning good salaries in MNCs or large Thai companies.
So who does what here in Thailand?
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Thay also have duel pricing in some restaurant's just get your Thai lady to go in first and get her to look at the menu then you walk in and low and behold the Thai menu is no more and you have a nice pretty one with picture's just for us Farang + of course the larger price's. Go's for some/many hotel's as well.Typically, if you can prove to be a "resident" by showing a Thai drivers license, you
will get the Thai price. (Speaking Thai helps as well ...)
Most amusement parks in Pattaya and Bangkok do this ... and if not, I politely decline
and leave ....
luudee
Come to think of it there was one place that had tiered pricing and offered me a discount but would not give me the Thai price. So essentially they had 3 tiers. That was at mini Siam and I took my family and walked away and never looked back.
I have been here a long time and find no need to look at a menu when ordering from a thai restaurant. The first thai I ever learned was based around ordering the food I like. Did it ever occur to you that the farang version of the dish might be a larger portion? Name me a restaurant in Pattaya that does this dual pricing as I would like to investigate this myself. Personally I have never run into this. I can tell you that many food stalls and restaurants will sell you a dish for a high price that they refer to as "pee set" which basically means "special". This includes a larger portion. Even the food court in Lotus will make your dish "pee set" if you ask. The price is 5-10 thb more and the portion is larger.
Having Thai and Farang menus happens in a lot of restaurants, I have noticed it most in Farang owned restaurants though rather than Thai owned.
Even when you take the Thai menu and order from it the higher price from the Farang menu appears on the bill.
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I travelled around Bali using the local buses and vans which I think were called Bemos? Not recommended for tall people though!
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Ask the manufacturer . Easy stuff for an ex racer like yourself. We have all done it eh.Open the drivers door and a sticker on the door post will reveal all. Manufactures test their new vehicles to the extreme to provide a safe pressure for it. These are ''cold'' pressures, which means check before going on long run or tear- assing around
. Tyre pressures rise as the tyre gets warm via driving. The tyres (size) fitted to my vehicle are not dictated on the vehicle placard. what should I run them at ?
Have you got Falken's number handy ?
. Tyre pressures rise as the tyre gets warm via driving. 
Piano Lessons in Pattaya for a 6yo
in General Topics
Posted · Edited by PattayaParent
Yamaha piano on Third Road, on the left past Hollywood junction heading North
Studio Melodica on Klang, on the right past Big C Extra junction heading towards Sukhumvit, almost opposite Harbour Mall.
I think there may be one in Harbour Mall too
Edit: In your child's school???