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    Re: Farangs Barred From Buying Thai Land

    By pachangamac042, Created on: 27/05/2009, Last updated on: 22/12/2015

    » [quote="Papadragon":19d1c84s] [b:19d1c84s]Foreigners cannot use a Thai spouse as a nominee to buy property in Thailand, however. “If the Thai spouse has enough money to buy the house that is fine, but if the Thai has no money and uses money given to him or her by a foreigner to acquire...

    • barrywho commented : worth leasing things as cars, computers, etc, given that obsolesence occurs faster than one blinks it seems, nowadays! Then again, we are in an age of a throwaway society. Buy, use, throw away, no need to keep. Same goes for land, in a way! Or we get thrown away, like in 2012????? Food for thought...... . s

    • 46 replies, 336,066 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

    • pachangamac042 commented : Nah fast eddy, the police needed a new photocopier and she went of with the computer. Seems quite logical. Maybe, we should start a topic, of stories about the friends in brown. I am sure, many fascinating tales could be posted in there.

    • fast eddy commented : I think you're spot on again Patch Maybe its time for me to shut up shop and take the Mrs for three months to vegitate on a beach - no news Get this, the Thais who rent the ground floor of our building finally fired their dayworker about a month ago as she was often two hours late in opening their shop and really didn't do much of anything. Foolishly, they didn't supervise her departure from the building but did it by phone - of course they paid the price When they turned up the next day the photocopier and computer had taken a hike They reported it to the police who replied ' we think it wasn't the girl you fired but she let a friend in to carry the stuff away for her - what can we do?' My thoughts were to re-enact every cop show I've seen and put the girl through the good cop/bad cop routine while she is held in custody. Basically, if you don't tell us who you let in the shop to steal the equipment we're going to book you for it! I guess the cops just couldn't see any payoff for them cheers Fast Eddy

    • 87 replies, 758,776 views

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    searching for my biological parents

    By abandoned, Created on: 10/10/2008, Last updated on: 09/02/2009

    » Here l go again.Still searching for my biological parents.l was told that my young parents came to worked in Malaysia and l was only 4 year old boy at the time.They only known by other as Pricha and Dao.l was left not long after that and now it's about 28 years and l am 32 years old now.l still illegaly...

    • abandoned commented : Thank you. I know about my parents because after I was left again as my parents friends who look after me have to return to Thailand after about 5-6 years taking cares of me and they have to leave to their neigbour with believe that my birth parents will someday return to Kuala Lumpur for me.The neigbour who is a local citizen live just next door to the place where my parents used to live with other people from Thailand while in Kuala Lumpur. I was raised like other ordinary children by the local citizen which I called her mother, but because of my illegal status ,nothing she can do to get me into the school like other children.She taught me how to read and write in Bahasa and English the best she can do.By the age of 12 my reading and writing ability was like a pupils in first year at school. My reading and writing in both language get improvement as my age moved. I learned everything from the help of friends. I never feel shame to speak my broken English or asking friends to help me with the computer. I was told about my parents and their name since I was just a little boy and after that maybe their name was also told to other people who look after me and so on. I admid,that in my young age I don't really care about my birth parents and my illegal and stateless status but I'm going to be 33 this year,nothing I go do to improve my life or to go further up if I'm still without any legal identification. I believe only my birth parents can able to help me.I have nobody now that I can go for help.I am alone in this foreign country. Please Khun Phor,Khun Mae,help me!

    • stilljustbrowsing commented : Abandoned, you say you were 4 years old at the time and your parents were young. Who told you that? It would be a good place to start. Your command of the English language indicates that you had some form of good education, based on your statement of living in Malaysia. How did you get such an education, what schools did you attend, can they verify your attendance there? (if as you say you have no nationality?) Surely their records would help with regards to your nationallity. You say you never went to school! Yet you are both english literate and computer aware! You know the names of both your parents! That is unusual for a person in your predicament. How you have not been told of the original country is beyond my comprehension. I say that based on the FACT, that when one meets a stranger, one of the first questions asked is "where do you come from"?

    • 14 replies, 36,904 views

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    Farang and their seemingly paradoxical ways

    By Mr. Surin Province, Created on: 17/10/2008, Last updated on: 17/04/2010

    » As a long-historied Farang resident myself, comfortable and understanding, I have to ask the age old question regarding Westerners that find it necessary to stay/live here while finding life so objectionable in many ways. Why is this so? I've experienced this throughout Asia {in particular the LOS}...

    • ricepaddy commented : Our farang ways are paradoxical, not just seemingly, compared to the Thai ways. My father was KIA in WWII and mom went to work, so I was raised mostly by my grandparents, who were village farmers in Slovakia until WWI, when the Kaiser’s army conscripted grandpa, who was captured and sent to Siberia by the Russians. He survived until the war ended. Then grandpa and grandma immigrated as farangs to America. 17 years ago I was assigned to a five year farang work assignment in Thailand and after a few months was sure that Thailand was just a dirty, undeveloped, Third World country trying to put on a façade of modernizing with big buildings and a few road signs in English. Then I met an old long-stay farang, who patiently listened to my story and all my negative gripes about Thailand. He asked me to try and make a mental list of some good things about Thailand and we’d talk again. I took his advice and in the course of making my list, flashed back to some of my grandpa’s stories about the great things about America and how hard it was to assimilate into a culture so different from the one where he was raised. His vocabulary to a child obviously didn’t include “assimilate” and “culture” even though we were speaking in Slovak, but that was the gist. Learning the American language (my British friends insist I do not speak English) was high on grandpa’s list of difficulties, just as learning Thai was on mine. Fast forward to now and I am retired living on a village farm in Changwat, Surin and still adding to the old long-stay farang’s mental list of good things about Thailand. The list is quite long, and keeps growing because despite the negative things I see and sometimes comment about, the good and positive things I see and experience daily are what keep me here as a healthy, happily married farang whose ways are much less paradoxical than 17 years ago. My comment could probably have left out many details and just said that most people are different and some can assimilate well, some not so well, and others not at all, but I just finished a cup of coffee, booted the computer, checked email and Bangkok Post, looked out the window at the green rice paddies and got carried away. Thai coffee is on the good list (for talking and writing).

    • 57 replies, 74,821 views

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    Living in an Isarn Village

    By Anonymous, Created on: 01/01/2008, Last updated on: 17/04/2010

    » I have been several times visiting my girlfriend’s village in Isarn, near Mukdahan. First time I was there I felt in love with the place and immediately wanted to build a house and spend part of my time living there. The place appeared to me so nice and authentic, the rice fields, the vegetation,...

    • Anonymous commented : hi juan , always nice to share a line or two with you , i think the secret is multi faceted , first you have to live in a place were there are other farangs in the area, my wife is a little gem in all ways apart from having a conversation which we have the same things in common , second , you must have a hobby , or hobbys , mine are , mountain biking , fishing , making my own wine , thai politics , my computer ,sattaliteTV, and of course consuming cold beer at night with my fellow alcoholics whist we solve all the worlds problems , no man is an island and you have to have your own kind around you , this of course may be viewed by some as racist , issan is my home and i would live nowhere else and although i make many disparaging remarks about khun issan nevertheless they are the salt of the earth and it is not only a privilege but a pleasure to live amongst them , regards , colin .

    • Anonymous commented : farms are totally control by computers. Everything started with just an idea. They called it miracle but it is not, it’s just an example of what will and private enterprise can do. Sorry about the length of this post. Best regards Juan

    • 50 replies, 57,110 views

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    Resident Alien wants to bring G/f to USA

    By Anonymous, Created on: 27/11/2007, Last updated on: 14/12/2007

    » I live in Bangkok (condo I own no mortgage) and USA (have house with nice mortgage and negative equity) on and off. Divorced and have girlfriend in Bangkok. Shes country girl working in food industry in Bangkok (no bar girl here), divorced, one kid lives with X's parents back in home province...

    • Anonymous commented : It is possible to bring her here on a fiancee visa. It is also difficult, takes about 9 months, and can be done without a lawyer. It requires careful planning of all the documents you'll need. I have forms scanned and stored on my computer, or they are down loadable from the US Embassy's or US Immigration website. I am most pleased with my Thai wife of two years, processing her 10 yr. residency visa now,. Our problem lies with returning to live in Thailand. Why would you want to return here? To Thais, as my wife explains the US is in black & white while Thailand is in color.!!!! We can't wait to leave the US.

    • 4 replies, 3,451 views

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    Basic Questions

    By Anonymous, Created on: 22/05/2007, Last updated on: 14/11/2007

    » Hi all, Newbie here & to Thai culture in general. I have some basic questions. After 2 marriages I have pretty much decided against any western marriages again. I have talked with a few folks who have been to Thailand & some are getting married. They all say the same thing about...

    • Anonymous commented : It depends what you are looking for in a woman. Many foreigners here like to find the poorest and most desperate woman they can find (most likely from a bar). That way they feel like they are saving her from extinction. If you find a woman like that, they will probably be your slave and you can just sit at the computer all day complaining in forums. Me, personally i have always liked my woman to be smart and successful. So she will be financially independant (most likely rich) and can hold her own in a conversation. Not a puppet. Good luck, once you find one thats not dependant on you or anything else, it's smooth sailing.

    • 15 replies, 7,251 views

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