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    its not always right that

    By Anonymous, Created on: 20/12/2002, Last updated on: 12/08/2010

    » actually i have a thai pretty girlfriend who being my girl for a year now. and i think thai women are serious and good one bcoz of i've known thai friends both men and women and they're not think about your money in their brain! now a days, they can work and earn as much as men can do. don't look...

    • Anonymous commented : We picked up her visa at 3pm three days later.) Is this the case also with a fiancé visa? 6. For her to get all this information so as not to waste time and not to mention lots of money its important for her to get as much as possible. Do you know if she goes to the embassy to gain the above information if she will have to go in the morning or afternoon? (everything I’m sure you will agree is very vague to say the least with Thai/farang relationships when applying for visas) Do you know of any friends or web sites that can help us? 7. Someone mentioned to us somewhere along the way we need to have had a relationship two years, is this correct? ( We will have known each other two years this coming February. If all fails we plan to marry in Thailand in August 06 and go down another road of visa form filling (can’t wait!)

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    family visa

    By Anonymous, Created on: 02/01/2004, Last updated on: 12/09/2006

    » When the Thai government will allow foreigners with Thai spouse and children to own a one year visa without the need to travel out of the country every 3 month or to show 800 thousands bahts in a bank account, this is very unfair and even most of the Thais don't earn this sum per year, why this discrimination...

    • Anonymous commented : Jean-Paul, you are very correct, I am married already 30 years whit my thai wife, in a few years I like to retire in Thailand, When I married my wife she was a widow whit three children who all get a university degree and having a good job now. My wife and me work very hard to give them this education. We dont bring them to Europe because whe tought they have the best future in Thailand, Better than sitting between two cultures. So the last years of our life we like to spend our time whit them and the grand children to make up the lost years ,we could not spend whit them. My wife have her own house. In my country Belgium my wife has the full equal rights as a Belgium citizen from the first day that she married whit me. The same day that we married she gets Belgium nationality and a Belgium Id card, She have a double nationality .Belgium is a much smaller country than Thailand, and hav emuch more foreigners than Thailand ,about 12 %.Thats why honestly I feel offended that the Thai goverment make it very complicated for me to retire in Thailand, I dont even dream of becoming the Thai nationality, because i am married a Thai cittizen, why I am so dangerous for the Kingdom. I am not a bandit. I will not take anything away from Thailand, Thai goverment dont have to support me. On the contarary, since I have no family left in my home country, I will transfer all my assets to Thailand I get my pension money from my home counrty .The only thing I won't is to have a peacefull life, and make some travel around Asia. To close this topic I feel offended, that when we travel arround or shopping, I must be low profile becuse otherwise I have to pay more than the common Thai citizen.This is almost everywhere, on the market in hotels samlo or tuk-tuk. Sometimes the samlo driver gets angry, when he see me gets in his vehicle when my wife ask the price first. In public place's i would agree if the fee is free for Thai citizen and tourst have to pay, but ask double pricing is not honnest.A foreigner have to pay more,Why doe's he get a better service than Thai people, if its so than this is pure racisme, not against the foreigner but against the own population. And if not, than its cheating. maybe Thailand dont realize this but this damadged their reputation in the world. I do not think that Lord Bhudda teach like this, and because most of Thai are Bhuddist so.............

    • 65 replies, 24,845 views

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    British Embassy in Bangkok

    By Anonymous, Created on: 05/10/2004, Last updated on: 25/02/2011

    » In March, my Thai partner wanted to visit me in London. Before granting a visa, the Embassy wanted a mountain of paperwork including proof of my income, whether or not I woned my own home and a whole lot of other things. At this stage, I have to say that we have many controversial issues in the UK...

    • Anonymous commented : just like to add my story......what do you have to do to get a visa for your wife??????????????????????? we have just been refused a visa for my wife.we supplied EVERYTHING the embassy required.Bank statements,pay slips,details of the house in uk,letter of recomendation from my employer,photos of everywhere we've been together in thailand,the marriage certificate,everything translated into english,even my p45 and p60's.we first met in 2003 for a fornight in november,i returned in sept 2004 and apart from two months in 2005 we have been together every hour of every day.we got married on april 6th this year(traditional thai wedding) in my wifes home.on the 21st we returned to Bangkok to register the wedding at the amphur.we did it in Bangkok because i had to go to the embassy to get an afformation signed,for the amphur.At the same time we made our visa application.why return to Bangkok when you can do it all in one go? i thought.Three long months later we're at the embassy with all the documents,nerves shredded because of all the stories we've heard.........and i can say there all true.my wife was interviewed by a very ignorant and abusive english woman,who after initially looking my wife up and down like a piece of dirt refused to look at her again while conducting the interview.didnt look at any of the photos or docs we provided......well only flicked thruogh the photos.....too quikley to see what any of them were,and mixed up all the carefully prepared origional paperwork with the copies before stuffing them back in the envelope we sent them in.long story short......my wife was refused her visa on the grounds we hadnt kept text messages etc from 2003! we had two letters my wife had sent me in 2003 the dates on the stamps proved this,but the eco refused to look at them and said that wasnt enough.who keeps phone bills for two years????the reason we couldnt provide more phone bills etc as proof is because weve been living together!!!!!!!!!!! the eco said she didnt believe my wife and me had met in 2003,but had just met this tear and werent going to live together as man and wife in the uk....CRAP!!!!!!! i understand about all the non genuine applications there are......the amount of 60 year old men waiting outside for their 20 year old girlfriends proves that;One man i spoke to from england was nearing retirement age and had only ever seen his 25 year old girlfriend three times before. They were using an agency for their application....and were no doubt accepted,whereas our (in my eyes) more genuine application was flatly refused.we are now considering using an agancy too "i garantee she goes 100 %!! i garantee she goes 100%!!" as the lady at the agancy said.What do you have to do????????????????

    • 64 replies, 66,876 views

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    Thai Divorce law

    By Anonymous, Created on: 02/12/2004, Last updated on: 09/01/2009

    » I heard from a farang that under Thai law men can divorce women in two days. But for a woman, it takes two years. The reasoning being that women are thought of as temperamental creatures, prone to wild mood swings, who need plenty of time to calm down...

    • Anonymous commented : I rashly got a marriage registered to a Thai friend's sister, after a year of emails and a three week family stay in Khon Kaen ten months ago. I was told she couldn't get a fiancee visa as she was only 25, and had only worked as her nephew's nanny and at a karoke bar. She has constantly demanded more and more money from me, pre Visa, until now I think I can't afford her...(was sending 225 a month, plus extras and she started demanding 500 dollars a month...although we've never lived together as man and wife, as I flew back to the US after the wedding. She has finally agreed to a no-contest annulment. However, she insists I return to her town to do it and I suspect mischief will befall me if I return, as her father is in the police. Her emails got very abusive when I wouldn't pay for her family's appliances for their new house where she still lives. Her expenses haven't increased since we married, so I don't know why I should be "supporting" a 26 year old able-bodied woman who claims to have higher education--yes, accounting. My question: Can I have a lawyer or someone take my papers to the divorce office to represent me? I don't want to return to Thailand! I stopped sending any money after she claimed that w/o 500 a month from me, she would starve and be forced to become a bar girl. I suspect a scam. I also expect if I return they will either slam me with huge costs, alimony for a woman I never lived with, or I'll become a "disappeared" or thrown in prison. I desperately want out. I'm already heartsick but don't want to become destitute as well. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Also, can uncontested divorces be down in Khon Kaen? I wanted to return to Bangkok where we married, but she insists that I return to Khon Kaen where her family has a lot of police and legal power. I feel I'm being fleeced (at the time I quit sending money she was also saying without a 8000 dollar wedding ceremony and a one carat diamond ring, and 250 dollars a month for her parents once we were in America, her parents wouldn't agree to let her come to America. (If immigration would even let her in...she seemed nice and loving, but sometimes would withdraw $$ from the account I set up for her from a Bangkok bank, while I was being emailed the same day from Khon Kaen...she claims my bank there is "stupid" but won't do anything to prove there was an error--and continues to claim she has never returned to bangkok since our marriage registration. Help!

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    thai divorce and property law

    By Anonymous, Created on: 21/02/2005, Last updated on: 16/01/2006

    » I'm a U.S. citizen and married to a thai guy in U.S., he has nothing in U.S. but business ownership, land and bank accounts in thailand. our baby is going to be U.S. citizen, i want to know, is it true by law that he told me that i cannot co-own any business, land or bank account of his? what can...

    • Anonymous commented : I taught English to foreigners in Montana. I talked my son into writing to the sister of a Thai student I was teaching--who had married an American GI, now businessman, in Thailand. A year's emails later, son goes to southern Thailand to meet this pen-pal, who was suppose to be a 27 year old accounting student, who worked nights in a karoke bar...well, son saves money and goes with Thai sister and her businessman husband to meet younger sister. Three weeks in Thailand at family home (during the tsunami time) in country and on the 10th of January they happpily marry and he leaves for MT the next day. Then the problems start, new wife begins staying home being a nanny and helpmate to family. She starts demanding more and more money. Son starts bank account, but sometimes girl is in Bangkok extracting money when suppose to be in the southern countryside. All of a sudden he is suppose to be paying for girl's parents house mortgage, new appliances, and sending 500 a month...US dollars...or she will claim he's starving her and she must go become a bar girl. How does he get out of this? They have had one day of marriage together. He was saving money for the ceremony in Thailand, 1000 bride money for girls mother, visas, travel, etc. but the girl now wants 10,000 US for mother's fee, plus money for one carat diamond, and money for mother to cater the ceremony. Is this a scam? Must he go back to Thailand to get divorce? She hasn't answered any email since he asked why she was withdrawing money from Bangkok when she was writing as if at home caring for nephew in the south. Any advice greatly appreciated.

    • Anonymous commented : Correction. Son originally agreed to give new Thai bride $250 a month (not 250 bahts) from MT until processed her K-3. He also sent twice that originally for a period of time to help her pay off her previous debts. Then he insisted that they go back to their original agreement--$250 only--except for emergencies and gifts. She had gotten used to the higher amount and hit the roof and refuse to maintain the budget by spending all the $250 from the account he set up for her as soon as it arrived--the first week of the month and then cajoling constantly for more.. When he refused to send more--as he had warned her he must save for visa, marriage and take care of his new business--She claimed he was starving her and not meeting his obligations. She didn't seem to ever believe him when he would tell her by phone and by email NO NO NO to outspending the $250 each month. She never sent any sad ,separated sweetheart kinds of emails, once he forced her to stay within budget (she receives 8000 bahts a month from her sister for caring for the sister's 8 year old spoiled son---even bathing him, dressing him, powdering his bottom, and catering to his every whim) In the spring, she only wrote about her husband's being "selfish---all my Thai friends agree---you're selfish---just like Thai men are." (???) "Why did you sign marriage registration if you weren't going to support me?!! Why you lie? How can I trust you?" She also got him to provide for English lessons, and claimed to be the best student in her class, but then dropped the classes this spring, around the time he started "starving" her. This girl has a car, lives in a new high standard house which the three sisters just bought for their parents---to get them out of police housing. They also have a country house, with rice, pond, etc. The father isn't retired, still working but spends most of his time with his girlfriend and refuses to pay mortgage for the house, so daughters are each to pay a third...so new bride keeps asking my son to send money for mortgage ASAP.... 1) Could they annul and then apply for a K-1 visa with any chance of success? 2) In an uncontested divorce, in a marriage of 8 months, in which the couple has never lived together since registration, could the "husband" sign papers in US and get a proxy to present them at the amphur? 3) If they married in Bangkok, shouldn't they divorce there instead of in Khon Kaen which she insists? 4) Although non-contested, can the Amphur then assess a lot of trumped up fines on my son, and refuse to let him leave the country until they were paid? (She might have run up credit card debts or whatever in the nine months since he's seen her...) 5) Could he divorce her from the US, according to Thai laws, and send the papers over? We believe that last spring, she might have reunited with an old Thai boyfriend; or that her sister is lining up one of her husband's older friends to marry her next...they seem awfully anxious to end it....but my son says he would be a sitting duck for the cops or old boyfriends or whomever---leaving her with all his worldly assets, or at least half...(Somehow his bank knew of his recent foreign marriage, although he has never informed them? Weird...she has US in-laws with former CIA connections...it feels claustrophia and maybe we're paranoid...but reading the UN Report about Human Rights Violations during the Crackdown...and the disappearance of farangs, and the recognition that the police system is questionable and prisons unassailable...going back isn't an option, but the need to end this travesty is weighing on all of us...as we vasilate like the ones who write to Stickman...She's innocent/she's not; she's cohersed/she instigating; she's Cinderella/she's Cruella de Ville; she has a Thai boyfriend/she doesn't/she is lining up a richer farang/she's heartbroken; he could go safely and quickly for a co-signing/he will get hit with lawsuits and not be able to leave the country; he would be safe in Bangkok/he would be set upon by a gang paid to avenge Thai girl's loss of face---farang thinks $250 enough for ME while he saves for wedding!!! Then one day he noticed while she was suppose to be at home--as she stated in her email--visiting with friends next door in Khon Kaen--documents from the account he set up for her had a withdrawal from Bangkok. When he asked her about this she said it was a mistake. She claimed she hadn't returned to Bangkok since their wedding, the day he flew back to Montana. He went to great effort to have the bank double-check where the withdrawal occurred. She claimed it was the Malikan branch on Bangkok Road in Khon Kaen. So--he sent her $85 and told her to please use that same branch bank for the withdrawal...she has refused and asked that he drop the subject as it is boring her, and she dislikes him accusing her as she is innocent. Ever since her weird behavior this spring, my son and I have been combing the internet to try and understand Thai culture, divorce and marriage laws, bar girls and found this forum. She has belatedly agreed to co-signing an annulment, and wants him to apply for the K-1 afterwards. However, when he asks that she and her mother or whomever, and nephew meet him in Bangkok where they married for annulment, with him paying all expenses, hotel, plane, etc. She refuses and says they must meet in Khon Kaen. My son worries that it wouldn't be safe to return to Khon Kaen. Although agreeing to co-signment of a non-contested divorce, she seems to be talleying up "her" expenses---could they hit him with a big bill for costing her "face" or whatever...and refuse to let him leave the country w/o his first paying? With a police chief father, who seems to really enjoy finding drug cars, which the police can then keep for themselves, and an uncle who is a lawyer---and the kind of records she seems to be keeping---it seems highly unlikely that my son can sail in, sign, and sail out. Would a proxy be allowed? The girl, herself, seems to rather naive, she has been caring for her sister's (who married a farang GI) child since the boy was 2 years old---the child is constantly being refused immigration by Thai authorities. The family seems to have an agenda of their own and she is just a pawn in the game...or so it seemed, until last spring when she seemed to change character from a loving bride and began ranting for more and more money. (We chalked it up to some translator writing the letters...perhaps even her sister who is now rich via marrying a farang who later became successful businessman. NO to spending outside the budget, but she just went ahead. Then threatened to become a bar-girl if he didn't send between 450 and 500 dollars a month. Later, she said this wasn't a serious threat, only a "test" of him. Originally the future wedding ceremony in Khon Kaen was agreed by the family to be: $1000 bride price, a modest ceremony which could be up to a $1000, and a diamond ring. Then this spring, arguing for $400 or $500 a month--which was never agreed upon priorly although she claims so--she also demands now for the wedding: 150,000 bahts for mother; 150,000 bahts for reception which the Mom will cater ; and 150,000 bahts for show at wedding--with an unspecified amount returned later. One one-carat diamond ring. She now claims if these demands aren't meant her parents will refuse to let her come to America. Also, recently she has said if $250 monthly isn't sent to mother then she won't be "allowed" to go. Once in America, she claims she will try to pay half of Mom's costs. My son thought maybe they could get non-contested annulment and then apply for a K-1 visa for her---as it seems risky to bring her to America as a wife---while he would be protected if she were only a fiancee. If they were simpatico here, they could marry in the US, and then return for the Thai ceremony in a year (and he could get a pre-nup before he marries her here.) Would this work?

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    Solar Power

    By Anonymous, Created on: 29/03/2005, Last updated on: 31/03/2015

    » I dont understand why Thailand is not using the sun which is there 365 days/year. Can anybody tell me ? I am in the process of building a house but when it comes to solar energy i might have to import myself to only then be confronted with a high import tax on such products. And that while closing...

    • NodBad commented : 100kW concentrating solar trough units (alegedly) available for purchase in Thailand. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just to spread a little Thai solar info... I have dealt with a company called ECC care based in Chonburi (Environmental Competence Centre). Their main work is purifying nasty solvents for recycling and reuse. They do an eco training day for schools or businesses which is how I came to be working with them. BUT as well as a full-size wind turbine they have a concentrating solar facility. It has 3 or 4 parabolic troughs of about 10 x 2m. They are remarkable in that they use cheap-as-chips moulded fibre-glass units bolted together and covered with plastic mirror board and a few diagonal steady cables. These supply a mysterious engine- once I was told it was a unique invention by the companies boss and had no moving parts and hit 60% efficiency (A thermoacoustic stirling might fit that description, but 60% just about exceeds Carnot efficiency so I'm sceptical. It should require a dish to get hot enough to achieve that figure; troughs aren't hot enough). On another visit a year or two later it had become a 'steam engine'. The heat collector tubes are very small (dia. 25mm?). They claim the unit is commercially available from them if you want to buy one. From the top of my head they claimed 100kW peak output and were asking 100,000 Euros (about 4,750,556.11 THB). But something's suspicious: Over three visits the unit has never been running and indeed was parked, mirrors down at the same angle over the course of several years between visits. I don't think it's ever used. An extreme pity as it would be the most inspirational sight for the school kids who visit. I took NASA insolation data for the site, multiplied by the collector area and allowed them an efficiency of about 30%. I then found the price paid by the Thai government for solar (8 baht per kWh). The pay back time was in a matter of a few years. I contacted them with this info and the Thai govt. website to bring distributed power onto the grid and asked if they would like to connect and could I come and see the engine running? No reply. (Just checked their site and seen different figures again) If they really can knock these units out at the price and performance claimed surely with a bit of marketing every factory owner and many private individuals in the country would want one? I have long felt that the solar solution should be to ditch NASA levels of tech and certainly to abandon Photovoltaics until the price drops by 80%. The answer is to make concentrating units (mirrors) as cheap and scruffy as is necessary to make them economical. I've built accurate parabolic troughs with school kids. A sheet of bendy mirror board, some scrap timber a tape measure and a pocket calculator hits the spot. Phillips made portable stirling engine generators in the 50s at affordable prices. They need have little more technology or cost than a lawnmower engine. ECC seemed to be approaching the ideal I'd dreamed of but are sat on their knowledge. Go on; someone rowst 'em up and buy one and publicise it. I dare ya! links: http://www.netmeter.org

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    Buying property in Thailand

    By Anonymous, Created on: 17/02/2006, Last updated on: 11/11/2011

    » Nothing much to say here is there, i think that IAN has told us all there is to know and believe me.......... .he's right.

    • Anonymous commented : BANGKOKPOST, 17 July 2006 TRT politicians in Samui land grab ANUCHA CHAROENPO SUPAPHONG CHAOLAN Many Thai Rak Thai party politicians are involved in forest encroachment and land speculation on the resort island of Koh Samui, a member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said yesterday. Chaiyapan Praphasawat said illegal land grabs had increased across the island in the five years since the Thai Rak Thai party won power in 2001. Mr Chaiyapan, a member of the commission's sub-panel on land, water and forest problems, was responding to a call by caretaker Natural Resources and Environment Minister Yongyuth Tiyapairat for the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to look into the growing land scandal. Mr Chaiyapan called on the caretaker government to take serious and sincere action to bring those involved to justice as quickly as possible. He said the sub-panel, chaired by rights commissioner Sunee Chairos, had received a flood of complaints from Koh Samui residents over the past three years. The villagers were afraid they would have no place to live one day if nothing was done to stop the rich and influential from continuing their land grab, Mr Chaiyapan said. "The information we have has implicated well-known politicians of this government in land encroachment," he said. The politicians, whose names were not revealed, acquired the land through nominees who would later sell the property to foreign developers at high prices. It was apparent that the land acquisitions were made with the use of inside information as the politicians knew well in advance about the state development plan. However, there was no evidence to prove that the villagers were forced to sell the land against their will. The politicians and land developers had bribed land officials to issue land ownership documents, including nor sor 3 kor papers, for areas designated as public land, he said. They should not have allowed the land to change hands as the original owners had no land documents, he said. "The villagers only had land use tax papers. How could they then sell their land?" Mr Chaiyapan also urged the DSI to look into other suspect areas, particularly the development of land under the government's Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration, which was the subject of many complaints. Pol Maj-Gen Latthasanya Piensomparn, commander of the natural resources and environment crime division, said the issuance of land documents for many plots on Khao Duang Nok and Khao Dang mountains on the island appeared to be illegal. However, it would be difficult to find the evidence needed to bring the wrongdoers to justice. Songsak Trichum, assistant village head of tambon Bopud in Koh Samui district, said more than half of land ownership papers on Koh Samui were unlawfully issued. He was concerned that the next generation of Thais on the island would have no land to make a living. Sunthorn Watcharakuldirok, head of a panel investigating the issuing of land documents on Koh Samui, said the probe had found that Suwat Vichaidit, a former Surat Thani land official, had issued a title deed for a 96-rai plot on Khao Duang Nok mountain to Suthep Wangdan, developer of The Peak property project. The land in question did not have a sor khor 1, a lower level land use paper required for issuing a land title deed.

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    getting dual citizenship

    By Anonymous, Created on: 06/06/2006, Last updated on: 15/03/2011

    » hello every one i have a question reguarding dual citizenship program in thailand and would like clerification and advice from anybod in thailand. i was born in Thailand in 1978 (B.E. 2521) and my father (an American Tourist) ask that i be given a U.S. Citizen (at birth) in according to the Order...

    • Anonymous commented : Douglas had gone the right route in returning to Thailand to properly following the procedures. However, one procedure step was missing from Douglas's note. Technically, there is a criminal background check required before the district office can issue you an ID card. With the modern day computerized central processing, it is easier now to have your criminal background check done. For Thai male, you will need Bai Sor Dor or Draft Registry document before you can receive your passport. It would not be necessary if you are over 45 y/o. According to Thai law in the new constitution, anyone born of Thai parents or parent are eligible for application for Thai citizenship. It is a long process if you are bornt in the foreign countries. It is up to your Thai parent(s) to file for your citizenship at the Thai Consulate. If you are bornt in Thailand, you are Thai citizen...if one of your parent is a Thai. By being born in Thailand, it does not necessary make you a Thai citizen if one of your parents are not Thais as in the cases for those refugees and illegal alliens. Technically, Thai law does not allow for dual citizenship. But there is another law that protect the right of Thais and their children who bornt in the foreign countries. When dealing with laws between countries, each nations have their own set of laws. Dual citizenships are as common for those who living and travel internationally. Obviously, you can not use two or three passports when you are travelling. It is up to the individual to decide in their case to use one or another passport. The modern Thai ID card has biometric information and the informations are centrally maintained. Once you are in their mainframe system, you can go to any governmental district office to do your government businesses.

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    Sin sod and in-law

    By Anonymous, Created on: 13/09/2006, Last updated on: 25/12/2008

    » I supported my gf through colleage and Uni (her parents are not rich), now that she has graduated, i wanted to marry her. But her parents are asking for 1Mil Baht for dowry. I had the money through hard earned savings (i am just a salaried worker), but i find the dowry excessive. I am afraid this...

    • Anonymous commented : In general my feelings are somewhat mixed about sin sod. I do not consider the fact of sin sid immoral or unreasonable, but I'd say it will depend, as always, on the people involved. I met a Thai girl three years before and it took me about a year to realize that it was indeed serious.Although I was verry much attracted to her charms and innocent honesty I was displeased by the greedy behavior of her mother and somehow unsure what to do. Luckily, her cousin gave me some good advice and we finally married about one year ago. I left her mother the choice of taking 300.000 Baht (and never hear of me ever after) or get 10.000 a month plus whatever they may occasionally need. Both offers were tied to the condition that my wife's younger sister would be allowed to complete whatever education she would like to have and not forced to leave school at the age of 16 for "family benefit" like my wife who had to work 6 days a week in a low-paid cashiers job for 7500 baht a month. Maybe not surprisingly my mother-in law decided to go for the 10.000 a month. It's actually no bad solution as my wife is happy being able to support her family in Thailand while she can do what she wanted...going to University here in Canada to complete her education. We can apply the necessary bit of pressure to ensure her baby sis has what she needs. Knowing my share of Thai people I'd say that such greedy practice is neither the rule nor the exception...but before the Thai cultural background with its MUCH stronger family ties it is not all wrong. Although the results may be sometimes displeasing according to our standards it does bespeak a primarily positive attitude...social responsibility. We must also not forget that most farang, at least compared to the standards of Isan families are of unimagineable wealth and that their approach is somet imes plain naive - how should they know what is the cost of all-day living in Farangland ?

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