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divorce and marriage law in thailand

By Anonymous, Created on: 23/04/2005, Last updated on: 12/07/2007

» can any one advise me the following matter. a friend of mine will be getting married to his thai fiancee in 12 days time in thailand. what i would like to know is if the marriage should sadly break down and then his wife goes back to thailand after say they have lived in england for about 6 months...

• Anonymous commented : G’day Aussie Dave My statement you mentioned above was not about racial prejudice at all. It is a fact, pure fact. If you study Thai history since Ayuthaya period you will see that most Europeans who came in the city (at the time there was no Siam territory yet) would always take something back to their homelands. With the two price system you mentioned, although it seems unfair to foreigners to have to pay more than locals but there is a good reason behind it. Suppose you have to pay 60 bath for admission to some place whereas Thais pay only 40 bath. With Australian currency in mind, this two dollars means nothing to most Aussies. (Practically when you travel to another country and spend money on something, you will work out how much it will cost in your own money.) You can’t even buy McDonalds for that money. On the other hand, if Thais have to pay the same amount as foreigners, many of them will think more than twice to buy tickets. Because that twenty bath more may mean that they would have to sacrifice something in order to buy a ticket. Now let me picture this for non-Australians. You can only buy medium size drink for two dollars from McDonalds in Australia. In Thailand, however, twenty bath can buy lunch plus drink for one person. And isn’t this relatively cheaper cost of living that drive most visitors to Thailand?

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