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Land purchase through Thai spouse forbidden: Land Dept

By Suttisan, Created on: 28/05/2009, Last updated on: 02/10/2016

» -- Land purchase through Thai spouse forbidden: Land Dept The director general of the Land Department has reiterated that foreigners using Thai nominees to buy land anywhere in the country will have their land title deeds revoked if caught – even if the nominee in question is a lawfully wedded...

• pachangamac042 commented : This is just discrimination at its best. Is may wife or for an instance any other Thai person married to a foreigner, worth less than a Thai not married to a foreigner? This is just disgusting and shows me what bad folks some Thais are. They are not just bad against foreigners but even against their own people. We have been in the process of looking for a nice location to buy or built our own house in Thailand. I guess that we do not need to search anymore. We will just buy our home in Spain, where foreigners are treated a little better then in Thailand. After some 20 years Thailand experience, I guess, that I am having enough of them. I feel sorry for my wife and her family, as they are great people, but some Thai authorities are worth less then …. I really wish, that Thais would be treated in the rest of the world the way they treat us in Thailand. Well, no, I do not really wish it, as it would not make any difference. It is time that we do not call Thailand, the land of smiles anymore, but the land of foreigners haters. As a response to all things making our lives miserable in Thailand, maybe we should just move out and on. Imagine all foreigners leaving that country. Not only expats, but foreign companies and NGOs as well. Imagine not sending any more tourists to that foreigner unfriendly country. Imagine not doing anymore business with them. Maybe, and only maybe, some Thais would realize then how bad they are and how bad they have been threatening us. Of course would the Thais who less deserve it suffer the most, but it would hurt those rich policy making elite as well. Could that change something? Maybe it is really time for a revolution in Thailand. Maybe it is really time to decapitated some elite and other rulers. No idea where Thailand is going, but I have the feeling that it will never get there.

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