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found this bit of usefull information on a site .. Average leg room in economy class in inches i did think my last flight with emirates had less room that with Thai .. but never knew it was correct till i saw this Monarch Airlines 28 Singapore Airlines 32 JMC 28 Lauda Air 32 Gulf Air 28 Emirates 32 Britannia 28 British Midland 32 Airtours 28 Austrian Airlines 32 Air 2000 28 Air Lingus 32 Ryanair 29 Cathy Pacific 32 Go 29 Alitalia 33 Easy Jet 29 Malaysian 34 Virgin Atlantic 30 Lufthansa 34 Qantas 30 Japan Airlines 34 Delta 30 American Airlines 34 Caledonian 30 Air New Zealand 34 British Airways 31 Thai Airways 34 United Airlines 31 Air France 34 KLM 31 Air China 34 Iceland Air 31 Air Canada 34 Minimum distance required by Civil Aviation Authority is 26 inches. * Airlines measure legroom as seat pitch - the distance from the front of the seat to the back of the seat in front.

not that i condone any form of piracy .. (how many video was it i bought on beach road on my last trip ) but being thailand no one seems to care about copyright all that much if you were to do a bit torrent search on http://www.torrentspy.com/search?query=linguaphone there are links to 2 versions on it for you ..

a few more there i had not totaly considered ... accountant already have a very good one which will help no end with the tax man .. NI i'm not sure what to do on really .. i spent 15 years of my X marraige looking after a crazy wife and could never get HRP on the NI . so am well behind getting that upto date . at least for year one i will carry on paying the class 1 stamp i pay now tho . management is sorted out already with extended family, for the timebeing anyway . no morgages to worry about. rent is correct .. bit of an odd area where i live .. huge 4 bedroomed houses that no one ever sells , grossly undervalued but they get fantastic rental .. a freind owns 8 local houses and has a waiting list of people wanting them i've decided i am going to look at this a 1 year test . if all goes well i will then re evaluate the properties in the UK .. all the spreadsheets i've done(of which i've done many many variations) tell me that even if property prices only go up at 4.5% which is a very low projection that i would be foolish to sell them . i'd be far better knocking the lounge into 2 more bedrooms, making an extra one upstairs and filling the places with polish immigrants paying £50 each !! may sound stupid however the next round down has another guy who has 5 of the houses and they have already done this .. i'm sure they even sleep in shifts there seems to be so many of them in there ..LOL but year 1 will be a test to see can i survive on the rental income from the 2 houses .. if this cannot be done then i'm better off in the UK renting another house out for myself while still renting these 2 out, which sounds insane as the cost of living in the UK is so much more. i'm also fairly decided that i need to go up the english teacher path .. even with a shitty wage it will save me money doing it as while working i'm not spending and is needed to get out of tourist mode ... another big thing is networking, over and over again on boards i see a strong ex-pat community scatching each others backs .. i'm yet to find the foothole on this for LOS but i will be pounding the beat trying to find out whats up for grabs soon enough

Passport gone off today to Hull for a class O non-immi multi entry visa £90 + £6 p&p to get it back .. if only it was this easy to get a tg visa to come to visit the UK for a short time !!

any idea if the 12 months validity runs from date of issue .. or from date of 1st entry, would affect how far ahead of departure i'd apply for it ... or can they advance date them eg apply now and have it run from november 06 - november 07

when i read up on it refered to visiting freinds/partners as well .. i was on this path for the non-immi class O using the LT TGF as the reason as she would be living with me

i had misread what a class O non immi visa was .. had thought it was valid for 12 months which it is, but not noticed it was 90 day in country max .. mmm .. half way thru a CTEFL course at the moment so may have to look up the work permit path sooner rarther than later marrying just for the visa is not an option

interesting stuff .. and does make sense . .. no reason to stay in UK workwise as my current employment ends in 4 weeeks part of the influence on the move is the TGF .. last thing i want to do is after 5 months with her is bring her back to the UK and get married , better to test on site for an extened period 1st so i may view this a year out in LOS skinny dipping funded by the rent with a view to coming back to the UK at any given moment. take a years rent for the house in LOS out of my £15k so i cannot be left homeless until my Uk house become vacant again. then just budget month by monht on what comes in thanks for info owen . worrying to think how many farangs sell everything leaving no return route home and move without funds to last them .. guess thats the jumpers we see on a foot note and the reason to keep the properties i purchased these house 7 & 10 years ago at £55,000 & £40,000 respectivly , current values are £125,000 & £120,000 Broadly speaking, you'd expect property prices to increase in line with average earnings over the long term. Estimating that at 4.5% per year, then we'd expect our £120,000 house to treble in value over 25 years to £360,000 and our £125,000 house to treble in value over 25 years to £375,000. total value in 25 years £735,000 in reality house prices have been increasing at a higher rate than this, but no ways to tell this will continue so i will leave projections at average earning increase's so the houses are my retirment fund .. the rental income is my day to day income fund to last me till its time to sell them

have been lying in bed trying to sleep and keep thinking about this .. LOL and can't sleep so fingers to keyboard i think my original budget plan is a passport to liver damage with way over the top going out. if i look at it from a realistic point of view i would burn out and die either of HIV or Alcholol abuse within 1 year , going out twice a week is enough so re-budget more sensibly i think with a long term prospective in mind , also bearing in mind my key thing is to retain my houses in the UK just in case i do want to come back here. and the only thing it will then of cost me is the rental money i have spent while away which would of been spent anyway if at home .. rent - house 20000 (2 bed house) £285 rent - car/bike/bus 12000 £170 cigeretes 3000 £42 household sundries 3000 £42 Contents insurance 1000 (total guess) £14 cable tv 1500 £21 electric/gas/water 6000 £85 cloths 2000 £28 food in/out 20000 £285 telephone & internet 1500 (got to have adsl so can make VOIP calls to UK) £21 Health insurance 4000 (40 year old BUPA or similiar) £57 tillak for her mama/papa/salon 13000 (or whatever else she does with it) £185 total monthly outgoings 87000 £1200 approx now this is without any bar fines or going out for a drink at all .. what have i got wrong here ? where am i over budgeting. this works out to a higher cost of living than the UK which it is'nt mmmm ..

i understand wht your saying here .. but does this mean you would recomend that a person should not move to LOS with less than a cool half a million pounds sterling in the bank in cash ? or that overall assets should be about that ? or even assets with value in 25 years ? i value the 2 houses at around £200,000 currently total .. however in 25 years that will most probably be very very much more .. even in the last 10 years prices have doubled on property as far as the fire goes .. mmm .. interesting disater scenario and one that would prove most interesting .. would prove very hard to build this into ANY plan of moving abroad. everyting seems insurable ata cost so i assume there are landlors insurance polices that cover for rental loss if this happend, at a cost tho which then reduces the amount cleared on rent and age is 40

my budget max is £1700 (120,000 BHT) per month but idealy around around £1200 (84,000 BHT) , so £300 - (21,000 BHT) per week is my target. this comes from rental of 2 houses i own in the UK .. so allowing for upto 4 trips back in case of problems. leaving a slush fund of the extra £500 per month spare bricks and mortar being a big asset the idea being to not have to sell these till later in life as there value will increase more than having the cash in the bank rental value of these should also increase inline with inflation yes i have added both tillak and 20 LT's . and don't need both so around 20k BHT at least is in error on my original post .. bringing me down to 110k BHT per month .. so need to shave off another 25k to make it fit nicely.. i've not added any income in from possible work doing english teaching (or anything else that may come along, work permit permiting of course ) either as unless i am there doing it i think it dangerous to budget on having it .. although i am assuming i will need to do something with my time like english teaching even it is a low income job to keep myself busy i'm trying to budget on worst case scenario with overspend, and not including £15,000 (1mill BHT savings) in cash in the equation at all, and purely budgeting on regular income that should be incoming each month

playing around with living costs for my pending hopefull move .. those who are already there can you have a look and tell me if i'm budgeting about right please what have i missed/what have i added that i don't need rent - house 20000 (2 bed house) rent - car/bike 5000 bus costs 2500 (don't drink/drive so if going out need bus/taxi) cigeretes 3000 (rolling tobacco - old holborn, may have to change to drum as can't get OH in LOS) unnecessary items 2000 (replacing/adding anything for house) household items 2000 (toilet paper etc etc) alcohol for house 2000 (as a rule i never drink at home, but LOS changes many things) Laundry 2000 (hopefully will have own washing machine so can add into electric instead) Drinking out(with TGF)9500 (drink only budget for nights out with tillak) Maid 1200 (cleaner once a week to give the live in a rest) Contents insurance 1000 (total guess) water 600 (guess work) cable tv 1500 bar fines * tg * 20 (1500 a time) 30000 (bit OTT really but adding this in case tillak goes AWOL) gas bottles 500 electric 5000 (air con on most of time) cloths 2000 food eating in 10000 food eating out 10000 (food on nights out with tillak) nights out (drink only) 5000 (drinks when out alone) telephone & internet 1500 (got to have adsl so can make VOIP calls to UK) Health insurance 3000 (40 year old BUPA or similiar) tillak for her mama/papa 10000 (or whatever else she does with it) tillak hair salon 3000 (2 times a week) total monthly outgoings 132300 i'm sure i'm over budgeting in many areas here as these sums leave me with nothing left each month so is no good as i need to allow for a return ticket to the UK every 90 days or so to check on my assets and fetch more money

i've emailed them metro@lkpattayahotel.com a few times .. always get returned as spam

we'll have to all have a get toghter and compare notes .. may of even bumped each other in the brum lap dancing clubs in the past .. i'm from redditch , work in brum tho ..

funny thing is .. sold my car today(got the ££) so have no idea how i'm getting to heathrow yet !!!

In febuary i discovered thailand grabbed 2 weeks in phuket/pattong beach .. so so time .. got a bit bored(very fooking bored in fact) in the daytime.. in May i managed to get 5 days in pattaya by getting the firm to buy me a round the world ticket as i was working at the E3 expo in los angelees and dropped in for the 5 days before i started there.. in June i was suffering withdrawel (pattya blues) so thought bugger that and bought a ticket on the spur of the moment ands came back for 8 then extended and extra 2 days (£100 air surcharge to change) 13th-23rd June .. i've been back home now 9 days .. and thought of nothing else other than pattaya.. and the things i could of done but did'nt .. i've tried everything to cast off the pattaya blues, phones an X g/f and boned her fat farang ass, told myself "i can't afford to do this" , i nearly got over it as the cheapest last minute flight i could find in the end was £750 .. then i phoned eastwest travel,, oh bugger .. £560!! now i'm screwed and after much consideration for work, friends, X-wife & children & finances.. i decided "I only live once" Wheels up 9th July .. return to farang land 1st August .. getting longer each time .. and i'm already meant to be coming back to LOS again on the 21st August for another 2 weeks !! so i warn you .. if you have not yet been to pattaya .. DO NOT COME, change your mind, go somewhere else, it will take over your life. but if you still decide to visit, be prepared to cast normality aside as nothing is ever the same again

oh well the air france flight is an error on expedia they say .. not avialable .. ..lol next option is "mahan air" never heard of them !!! £600 .. i need to fly from BHX really as have sold the car and not getting another till i get back .. if i have any money left ..

flying out towards the end of next week ..

air france seem to be the cheapest deals around at the moment , around £500 return bhx-bkk via paris .. is cheaper than lgw-bkk as well so nearer for me . has anyone used them ? need some reviews to see if the saving is worth any potential discomfort

puzzled .. why the asshole ? i was replying to the shortonthesides who said "there are other Karaoke bars in pattaya that will let all races inside.so if this is your thing, you will still be able to enjoy a night out with your TG." and i was just saying that i was not trying to get in there .. so the suggestion of trying another place was welcomed but not the answer .. just simply trying to find a little out about the place ..

i'm not trying to get into the place ... although the GF did say she would take me to look if i wanted ( regret not looking now ) so i'm just trying to find out how seedy a place it is and if it matches what she tells me ... don't want her getting married off to some rich jap in there b4 i get back LOL

is there a map anywhere showing exactly where Residence Garden is ? i'm on the way back to LOS in the next few weeks for 1 month stay .. so may consider this one.. i've looked hard at the wholeareamap on the site but still cannot see where it is ..

worked all the time in the past .. palyed the silly music while connecting

the number you have called cannot be reached ...(in thai , then in english) network is a hutch telecom thai contract phone i think.. anyone know if this is a out of service message(eg. unpaid bill) or a phone switched off one ?

anyone seen "Old Holborn" tobaco in pattaya ?