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Recently I was the only farang at a Thai wedding where more than 1000 people attended.
You kind of get used to being the only farang though, right?
All the staring and hearing the word 'farang' as you walk past.
You know they're talking about you but you just have to remain polite and turn a blind eye to it.
If you don't or if you can't get used to it, you're going to have trouble staying here for any period of time imo.
Once i was at such a gathering and all i heard was falang and falang. I did turn a blind eye to it for couple of hours.
At the end somebody was giving a speech of some sort and all were quiet till i heard the lady behind me whispering
to somebody next to her the falang thing. I turned very politely and with firm voice i said: " Mister Angelo Please"!!
The whole gathering cracked up lauphing!
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He took lessons from his Red Army grandfathers in Berlin in 1945...
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Unless you bring your washer-dryer with you, then you have no problem.
All portable devises have built in convertors and i think all plugs fit in Thailand, or at least the european and american that i know of.
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My father past away 2 months ago suffering from Alzheimer's and i know what it is like because we kept him at home
and my mother went up her own Golgotha with the help of my thai wife.
Every day i go to his grave and ask for forgivenes because i think there could be so much
more i could do and i didnt, but the truth is that there is nothing anyone can do but give his love and understanding.
And most important, they will most certainly forget you But you must Never Forget them!
I wish you and your family the best!
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Lock him up - throw away the key so that other criminals may learn - hopefully.
But, in the eyes of some, that action may not be considered "democratic"!
And, crime always pays - otherwise there would be no authorities whose job it is to deal with crime. Can you imagine all those people out of work?
Why throw the key away?
For 1/2 a gram of math? and a gun?
Big deal, anyone in the US can get caught with a gun at some point or 1/2 gram of anything harder than math.
He did not really killed or threatened anybody as far i know!
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No! A yellow book is only an additional book intended for foreigners only (non Thais).
Its derived from the blue book (tabien ban) which is mandatory for every house.
There were some threads about the YB recently.
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Before preparing unnecessary documents (like certification of translation from the Embassy, in my case a simple translation from a local certified translator was sufficient):
find a Thai speaking interpreter and visit the Amphoe office and ask them about the documents they expect.
If possible invite the house owner (Thai) to go with you.
Unfortunately there is no 100% list/rule.
Some Amphoes: quick and easy,
Others have no clue, invite all kinds of strange requirements.
When I registered at my wife's parent's house a few years back, they asked me besides passport, marriage cert. etc. and for my parent's birth certificates!! I said that there is no way to go thru all this and they settle for 100 baht for each certificate.
Sometimes corruption is good!
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First time, second time, third time and after all the good stories i told about Thailand my mother said..."When you come back from Pakistan (never been there) bring me a Budda statue!"
Since then my brothers, my cousins and few friends have discovered in person what i was talking about.
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If married more than 2 years, you can petition to get her a visa as a family member, that way she gets a green card on arrival. You have to start this in a different building, not at the embassy. There is a thread somewhere on here about it . Maybe someone here can help get you started on that route.
You can file petition next nay of wedding and get a 2 year green card but in two years you will have to file (thru the mail) again in the US that you still together and then get a permanent green card that you will only need for a year because at the end of the 3rd year she will file and become an American citizen.
I went thru all this for the past 3.1/2 years and its all over now.
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My baby is doing exactly this at the moment. Some words are quite clearly spoken in Thai, with others in English. For what it's worth I've read about both the positives and negatives of this very subject. One article I read spoke of how beneficial it is to introduce a child to another language as early as possible. Whereas another article I read said that learning two languages so early in life can in fact have a detrimental effect on the child as they pick up their native language much slower because of the use of an additional langauge.
So to be honest, I'm none the wiser if it is good or not but I'd also be interested to hear about anyone elses experience in this.
Our son is now three and understands well English, Greek and Thai but he speaks only in English and Greek.
The doctor said that by the age of four he will be able to speak them all and know who he will talk to in each language (me, the mother, the grandmother...)
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But now they can put out contracts to rip up the road (again) and install the drains, which will of course get plugged full of garbage within days and be next to useless the next time it rains any ways, which will require more contracts to be let to clean/renovate/upgrade those drains, which will require the road to be ripped up (again) and so it goes on and on and on.
You should be in Greece.......God forbid!
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Ebay is NOT an auction site. I think they would even admit it themselves. It ceased to be an auction site years ago. It's a for-sale site, plain and simple. Someone who wants the list (or any item) simply puts a secret high price on it, and other bidders can bid until they're blue in the face, but none of their bids will register. Highly frustrating. I don't try using Ebay any more, except for direct sales, because that's essentially what it's become. Perhaps someone reading this will formulate an actual online auction site - and place it on the internet.
Also: what happened to a Thai version of Ebay? Answer: essentially nothing, except a few retail direct sales items. Why? (you may ask) because, (think about it): do Thai folks trust each other, buyer and seller, to be responsible? In other words, does a buyer trust the seller to send the item if it's been paid for in advance? Alternatively, does the seller trust the buyer to send money, after the product has been shipped? I'll let you can answer that.
Ok i'm answering your last line: You are required to pay for your item on Ebay,before the Seller sends on the item.Only an idiot would Post/Ship an item that has not been paid for!
And you are always protected by the automatic "Buyer's Protection" . You don't receive it and ebay refunds your money.
Its them who try to take it back from the seller not you!
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Where ever you live: Think Cyprus! That's the new model in the West. Put your money in a bank -- the banksters will gamble it away and you will pay for the losses complements of your government. What do you do? Use you're own imagination. Bury it in your back yard. You'll probably get a better rate of return after you factor in the 75% haircut you'll get otherwise. You think that Thailand is corrupt? The West has taken corruption to a levels that are beyond criminal - and all 'legal' of course.
You got to love it. Legislating corruption as legal. Jokes on you. But it ain't funny.
I was planning to retire in Thailand this year with my Thai wife and son who was born in NY. All my money were in the Bank of Cyprus and now at 53 I have nothing. Even the first "safe" 100,000 euros may be available after years or even decades as I read in some papers.
No word from them, not even a email with some kind of info or explanation.
I wasn't a business man, I worked in the States since I was 17 years old and I thought that the safest place to put your money was the bank.
I moved them from Greece after the 1010 crisis to Cyprus and they f.... me good!
If I ever have money again the only place that I will invest them is Deep Up my A**!
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But Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast denied his country was involved in any of the cases and said Tehran condemned any "terrorist action". He told the official IRNA news agency: "The aim of the Zionist regime's claims is to overshadow the assassination of Iranian scientists."
A few years ago, this guy Ahmadinejad was speaking at an american Univercity and when was asked about public hangings of gay man from electric poles in Iran, stunned and surprised he replied: " Gays? What gays? We dont have any homosexuals in Iran", to the amusement of the students.
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I find it interesting that he is held within the detention cells of the British Embassy. They no doubt instructed the Thai Police in the matter and were involved in his detention. Put simply, if it weren't for the BE involvement he'd still be a free man.
That is the reality.
The Thai Police don't see paedophilia as the problem we in the West do.
Whatever their protestations, the fact is, that his country makes sexual provisions for the worlds perverts and has industrialised prostitution as an institution and even managed to produce free lance prostitutes on a National Scale.
The truth is that you can order a prostitute 24-7 anywhere in Thailand. Add to that this strange phoenomona of the transexual and their acceptance in society, a back ward society in many respects, and yet far more liberal and accepting than probably all the first world.
I question just why that is. Crudely put I believe it is a further example of the sexual predilictions of the Thais themselves.
The birth rate in Thailand is most healthy. However, the main reason being that as soon as a girl can ovulate she is to be made pregant. This is not by way of some teenage engagement in a misguided exploraation of sex. It is mainly due to some far older [ 20 years plus] male who may well be a member of her own family taking advantage of her.
Hence girls barely in their teens have babies by males who bare no responsibilty and abandon both children; the mother and the baby.
That is a major societal problem that Thailand refuses to address.
Then we have the tourist paedophiles. Hardly surprising as the Thai police are a backward institution devoid of modernisation, resources or the desire to improve.
Offenders simply move unknown amongst us and commit their crimes under the radar. Although their first preference will be young children, including babies, should they be committed to Thai prisons they can remain at liberty to offend.
The sexual activity amongst men is disproportionately high due to the bi-sexual tendencies of Thai men, the numbers of homosexuals and the transexuals. Both groups are willing participants with foreign paedophiles.
In contrast, a sentence in a UK based segregation unit is a sobering experience. The tracking of released offenders on the sex offenders register combined with travel restrictions makes for a much reduced personal freedom after release.
Furthermore, there is a high chance of attack from main stream offenders while in prison. It is the norm that all prisoners are compelled by threat of violence to themselves by others, thata should they have contact with any sex offender they must inflict grievous violence upon them.
We do have a problem with paedophilia in society. However, I would argue that we have a problem with prostitution, the exploitation of women and the attitude of men towards women. This is amplified in countries like Thailand where we see extreme examples enacted in the most graphic, basic and disgusting form.
Thai society has degenerated to a level where sex in your face permeates all stratum of society. If there were state brothels and the recognition of prostitution and regulation in order to ensure the safety of women and women it would not negate the street, back street and home abuse that is rampant across the whole of Thailand.
You have to question your own behaviour, sexual relations and reasons for being in Thailand as a presence there is contributory to the problem in many instances. Supporting prostituion is exploiting women. The paedophile exploited children.
Glass house dwelling and stone throwing was never the wisest of occupations.
Well said !!!
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That is terrible for them and even worse the Hotel refused them access to their own safe-boxes, can they do that?
I was staying in a hotel in Pattaya last May and there were mainly Chinese and Russians staying there. My wife had a friend who worked at the hotel and she told her that they hate the Russian tourists because they are unfriendly and mean, whilst the Chinese are friendly and generous. Apparently the Russians want everything for nothing and nothing about the hotel is ever good enough for them. Seems these stranded types will not be getting any special treatment if hotel staff feel this way about them.
A friend of mine just returned from Pattaya and told me they were rude beyond belief. They would just push their way into line with no regard for any body. Maybe it is a good thing they get treated like they treat every one else.
Maybe the local Russian Mafia will help them out for a price.
Rude is not the right word. A few years back i was traveling from BKK to Athens via Istanbul. I was the first at the airport because i like to get an isle seat at the back of the plane. The check in was still closed and i waited at the entrance like any civilized human would.
And then i saw Armagedon in all its glory! Three buses had pulled over and a million of russians were running towards me, they jumped the entrance cordon and made their own lines in front of every check in desk. The yelling, the screaming, the changing between lines to a shorter one was unbeliavable. And i was still waiting at the entrance like an idiot.
Finally the desks opened and there was the real chaos. So i just walked between them, cut off a clerk and ask for the manager. When he came i went nuts. I called them (the russians) every kind of name i could think of, explaining to the manager what had happened. Of course he stoped the person on line, checked me in and i left.
But the flight itself was no better, it was hell all the way to Turkey. They never stoped drinking, yelling and jumping around all the way to Istanbul. They reminded me of the russians going bananas inside Macy's at the 80's movie "Moskow on the Hudson".
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Comparing it to freezing Abu Dhabi and Doha, dirty JFK and comfuzing London, Paris and other airports, i give it a 10+.
Looking at that SKYTRAX ( http://www.worldairportawards.com/ ) website, i was surpised to see that Athens airport (among others) has 4 stars, while Suvarnabhumi has only 3. But Athens is not on the top 10 list and so are not others with more star rating that Suvarnabhumi.
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I forgot to answer - Is it wise? Yes, very wise I think. It takes time getting used to but the rewards are very well worth it
I suggest spending a couple of yours going through older posts in this forum, good information that can help you a lot here
Thank you all for your help, i should really take everything under consideration and try to see things from the Thai angle of view.
I am sure that it will be hard -i see it in small everyday things- but i know its accomplisable.
I will read older posts, and i will ask for your help again when necessary.
Thank you again!
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Hello everyone,
It has been some time since i wrote on Thai Visa, it was when i first discovered Thailand a few years ago.
Since then i got married with a thai lady that worked as a cook at my hotel, we moved to Greece where she got her european residence papers and then i filed petition for her for the United States, where we live now.
In two years she will get her US citizenship and we are thinking to move back to Thailand and live there, probably open some small business or working over the internet.
I should say that in 1-2 weeks we are expecting our Greek-Thai-American boy!
This is my question...is it wise to come and live in Thailand when you are married to a thai spouse? Some people told me that thai family members are taking advantage of the farang husband in many ways but mostly by trying to take money. I guess they think that we pick the money fron the tree every morning in farang countries.
I have seen some signs of this in my wife too when we visited Thailand and she gave about 400 euros to her mother on a visit to her parents house. The truth is that they dont need money, they are very well economicaly and her brother is a Lt. Col. in Royal Thai Police somewhere in Chonburi.
I spoke to her about it but i didnt get straight answers, she thinks its just normal to give money to her mother, even if she dont need it, even without telling her husband first.
I dont want to come there with family and then problems arise and i dont know what else, and find out that i made a big mistake.
Maybe there other factors that i should take under consideration, so please be kind and as people who know more, share some of your knowlwdge with me. Thank you!
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Thank you all, helpful info.
Next week i have an appointment at the US Embassy in Athens, and given the chance -because we live in an island- i will pay a personal visit to the Thai consulate with all my paperwork to see what my options are.
Will keep in touch!
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Thank you, but i still dont understand.
If they dont know (at the embassy), how do i start?
Do i come to Thailand on a 30 or 90 day entry and then i apply for yearly visa and how i deposit the 800,000 baht to show the immigration officials, if i cant open an account on a tourist visa?
If you can tell me step by step how i can do it, you 'll be of great help.
By the way i think the bank was "Siam Commercial Bank" and we only asked for a regular savings account.
Also at the embassy they asked me for 63,000 baht just to give me visa, i think that is kind of high, considering that they have no idea about immigration issues.
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Hello everyone,
I am 50 y.o. and i live in Greece with my wife who is a Thai national. I have an american passport.
We decided to come and live in Thailand in a few months, so if somebody can tell me about long term visa i would appreciate it a lot.
I called the Thai embassy here and they told me that i must have at least 17,000 euros a year income. I wont get a pension from the U.S till i am 63 and in Greece i work as an eBay seller, so i dont have an official income, everything is under the table thru Pay Pal.
I do have about 200,000 euros in the bank, so they said that i should bring them a bank statement and whatever interest i earn.
When i asked them about the 800,000 baht deposit in a Thai bank, that i knew it was required to get an annual visa and so on every year to renew it, they said they knew nothing about it and that i dont have to deposit anything in a thai bank.
But i know people in Thaland who do that every year.
Please advise me...
1- If what they told me is correct and that the 800,000 baht is just a myth...and
2- Can i still sell stuff from Thailand on eBay, without having anything to do with the government and labor department.
3- Last time i was there i tried to open a bank account with my wife in Bank of Siam, but they said that i needed a work permit to put my name in the account.
Are all the banks the same, or they just have different policies?
Thank you,
Angelo.
Family of Sevenoaks schoolgirls missing in Thailand make plea for information
in Thailand News
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Parental Abduction or Kidnapping is when one parent takes the children and refuses to return them or if one parent removes the child to an unknown location in an attempt to deny visitation or access of the other parent, even without a standing custody decision, it is considered Parental Abduction or Kidnapping. Virginia Code ยง 18.2-47
http://morsepi.com/investigation-services/virginia-child-custody/parental-abduction-kidnapping/