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    Freedom of Ownership by Owning Boathouse

    By Anonymous, Created on: 13/01/2007, Last updated on: 11/10/2015

    » Excellent idea my dear Rooster. I once heard of a farang on Koh Samui who built a detachable house - so when the Bangkok big-shots, who owned the land, decided to do that traditonal Thai scam of telling the farang to move off their land, hoping to get...

    • MalibuDan commented : lived in Thailand for over a year now and spent 1.5 million Bhat here. My Thai wife has 500,000 bhats in her I lent to her so she could re-fi her rental house. I put a Honda Jazz in her name to limit my liability in case of an accident. I was going to build a 3 million Bhat home on the Chao Praya River, But it is in her name and she can just snap her fingers and I have to leave the country fast no Packing. Thailand got 1.5 Bhats. And I will only pay peanuts for my rent and food. If I had Ownership of Land I would of spent 5 Million Bhats on my new home and provided all the businesses and people with work. The Smart money will not buy here. I will invest my 5 million in the States and get a return of 50,000 Bhats a month for life. And my investment is secure and I don't lose my money. Just try to sell a used house here. Good Luck!!! Money is not an issue for me, I spend what I want! But I will not buy into Thailand until I have ownership.....

    • thornyside commented : lived in Thailand for over a year now and spent 1.5 million Bhat here. My Thai wife has 500,000 bhats in her I lent to her so she could re-fi her rental house. I put a Honda Jazz in her name to limit my liability in case of an accident. I was going to build a 3 million Bhat home on the Chao Praya River, But it is in her name and she can just snap her fingers and I have to leave the country fast no Packing. Thailand got 1.5 Bhats. And I will only pay peanuts for my rent and food. If I had Ownership of Land I would of spent 5 Million Bhats on my new home and provided all the businesses and people with work. The Smart money will not buy here. I will invest my 5 million in the States and get a return of 50,000 Bhats a month for life. And my investment is secure and I don't lose my money. Just try to sell a used house here. Good Luck!!! Money is not an issue for me, I spend what I want! But I will not buy into Thailand until I have ownership.....[/quote:2yzkriwm] That is exactly why a [b:2yzkriwm][size=150:2yzkriwm]houseboat[/size:2yzkriwm][/b:2yzkriwm] is perfect! Have any problem, you just move somewhere else!

    • 43 replies, 303,573 views

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    About Face.

    By Sean Moran, Created on: 14/10/2008, Last updated on: 13/04/2014

    » One olde axiom that comes to mind is, '[i:3b539sim]If you can't say something nice, then keep your mouth s.h.u.t.[/i:3b539sim]' Just a thread that pertains to one of the cultural differences one might notice in venturing from a typical 'westernised' society of the assertive kind to the shores of...

    • Sean Moran commented : g from Nonthaburi a couple of years back. The bike was fully loaded with rucksacks and stuff, so I wasn't gonna leave my bike on the side of the road to go to the cop shop to fight it. The tea-money cop even gave me back 100 baht change because I didn't have any small notes on me. That's corruption but it was done in such a decent way that it was almost worth the money, although not a good thing to have happen everyday on a tourist-visa teachers' salary. On the other hand, I remember the best traffic cop I ever encountered on the road back from Khorat to Nonthaburi. Somewhere in central Saraburi from memory. Hot day, mid-morning, bike loaded with rucksacks once again, and after confirming that I had the right papers and all, he handed me a fresh water bottle to get a well-needed drink. "Wow!" I thought, and gratefully took a swig and went to pass it back. "No no!" he said. "You." He wanted me to keep the whole bottle of water on the ride back. Another example of saving face, but his gift was intended to save mine, although the fact that I still remember that gesture three years later might add a bit to his too, in some karmic way or other? Perhaps one of the reasons I enjoy the corruption in Thailand is that I can see it straight out, clear as mud. Here in Australia it's done so cleverly that I often don't even know the joke until after the punch-line is over and the fat lady has sung, and it's never very harmonic.

    • 61 replies, 76,687 views

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    cool kids and their motorbikes, new trend !?!

    By pachangamac042, Created on: 28/11/2008, Last updated on: 12/02/2009

    » There is a brand new trend in the village I stay up here near Chaiyaphum. Young people strip their motorbikes of everything “you don’t really need” like; lights, protections, exhaust pipes, silencers, mirrors and so on and then go on the streets an “do the monkey” on their bikes, specially...

    • villager commented : not bat an eyelid when 3 ten year old kids on an Honda 125 rip round the blind right bend which is the school entrance on the WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD!!,this is an everyday occurrence i might add, then there is Songkran , oh yeah Songkran!!, were gangs of drunken morons stand roadside to throw the leavings of a buffalo wallow and stinging balsamic powder directly into the face of an oncoming motorcyclist or a drivers windscreen whilst the police look on and laugh.2 years ago i took a friend of mine to SURIN hospital DURING SONGKRAN for a check up , the accident and emergency room looked like a slaughter house , i found out later that they had run out of blood for transfusions!.

    • 20 replies, 20,555 views

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    The Value of a Tourist.

    By Sean Moran, Created on: 18/01/2009, Last updated on: 15/12/2010

    » What are some of the most common positive and negative results of foreign tourists from overseas visiting Thailand? Thai opinions welcome, kap.

    • tmvolunteer commented : that it takes my brother one year to save up enough money to come and visit me here in Thailand for three weeks, they don't believe me. When I tell them that more than 90% of my friends back home cannot afford to drive around in a huge three liter pick-up truck, they don't believe me. I have a fourteen year old Honda Dream and sometimes I get the question why I don't have a car, I tell them that I cannot afford to buy one, they laugh and it is obvious... they don't believe me. So what are the Thais to think about us farang when they see tourists throwing money around like there is no tomorrow? What when they watch Hollywood movies? They know that all the best superheroes in the world are American, even if aliens should come from outer space they would land in America, and the Americans will save us all! There are so many movies showing that the good always wins over the bad, but in everyday life in Thailand it is the opposite, the one with the most money or the highest position rules. It is not easy to convince a Thai that the movies are just fiction, most of them actually think that this is the way it is in the western world. The point is that Thai people know nothing about western culture and how can they know? They hardly know their own history. The education system in Thailand has gone from bad to worse in the last couple of years, with political turmoil and students and parents only worry about their immediate financial situation. For politicians and the rich, the education system is way back in the line of improvement. The politicians are too busy defending themselves from accusations from the opposition, and the rich are not interested in educating people, they would probably lose their gardener, driver, house maids and so on, if the Thai people were to be properly educated. Tourism is not the highest income source for Thailand but most tourists think that it is, and it often shows in their behavior towards Thailand and its people. Often I see tourists behaving in a manner that makes me think "would they behave like this back home?" and I know that they wouldn't. Where has the respect for each other disappeared to? Wherever it is, I hope that it comes back to us soon. Maybe respect has become a filthy rich tourist too. The true value of today's tourist = $$$. Send a genuine smile to 10 people today and tomorrow will be a happier day.

    • 85 replies, 111,416 views

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    Mercedes killer Honda girl Red Bull heir

    By terry, Created on: 30/01/2009, Last updated on: 03/03/2015

    » Well, sometimes the rich and famous due get locked up. http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews ... rs-in-jail

    • len commented : orget about Miss Honda An 18-year-old girl who was the driver of a sedan which collided with a passenger van on the Don Muang tollway in December 2010, causing the death of nine people, was given a suspended two-year prison sentence by the Central Juvenile and Family Court. On the night of Dec 27, 2010, a Honda Civic driven by Orachorn "Praewa" Thephasadin Na Ayudhya, who was 16 at the time, collided with the passenger van on the elevated Don Muang tollway. The van then crashed into a barrier near the Bang Khen exit. Passengers were thrown from the vehicle and fell several metres to the road below. Orachorn sustained minor injuries. 31 Aug 2012

    • 87 replies, 758,776 views

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    Suspect talks – a lot

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 15/12/2010

    » Shortly after his arrest yesterday, the main suspect in the drive-by shooting which killed a 12-year-old boy explained in detail how it happened.

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    Traffic safety the big New Year’s concern

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 29/12/2010

    » This year, concern over traffic safety has been heightened by a horrendous fatal accident on the Don Muang elevated tollway.

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    Online outrage

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 30/12/2010

    » Although it is not yet clear exactly what happened on the Don Muang tollway Monday night, tens of thousands of angry people in the local online community have things figured out.

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    It's a puzzlement!

    By Eggmeng, Created on: 01/04/2011, Last updated on: 01/04/2011

    » Songkran will be upon us again soon, and we'll surely have the usual letters about how a once lovely tradition has been turned on its head. Many will complain ad nauseum about how the holiday now serves no purpose but to add to the mayhem on our already life threatening roads. Not me though. Because...

    • 0 replies, 8,495 views

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