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But not as an investment. More as a necessity. Like a vehicle perhaps. I have friends currently dancing with glee that their condos are now worth a lot more, as they bought them with £s brought in at 60+ baht, Can't sell them though, and of course live and expect to die in Thailand, so will not realize the gain in Sterling terms. I am off to the UK in a few months and am wondering what to shop for there to save money! I got a 40KG allowance!

Slightly off topic but better here than anywhere else I can think of. As I waited at some lights yesterday I witnessed a scrap in a car waiting to turn right, the passenger window was down. A Thai guy, driver, punching a Thai woman passenger from appearances. Although she was putting up some spirited resistance. Shocked me how he was using fists. First thought, pull up and drag him out of his car, second thought, mind yer own and get on home! As I drove off I saw the car turn right then attempt to stop in the middle of the road !

The Face of Fu Manchu

I think the motorway overpass made that idea difficult, although there seems to be some tunnel fixation. I drove through on the bike yesterday. Heading South you still have to pass Klang and go all the way to the next U-Turn. Coming off Klang to head North is straightforward and close to complete. I actually got on further North as I came down Soi Yume, and then the Soi Paniad Chang alley 7 (turn right at wet market/7-11.) As expected, on my little bike, dodgy getting across to the motorway (Hwy 7) ramp, although tunnel not open yet.

Well the first and big decision is location! Personally when I first arrived in Thailand after retiring, I rented, and did a 'grand tour' of a few places and still ended up selecting the Pattaya area. Many will still tell you to rent. (If you live in it, fuck it or sail in it, rent). So there is your second big decision. Size, here is decision 3, I ended up choosing a house as I wanted more space and my wife has an aversion to little boxes in the sky with prison like corridors. I could not imagine living in 33sqm with a fridge buzzing in the same room as my bed! At the moment I would say property is far from being a good investment here, there is over-supply. One can hope gambling will be legalized and 99 year leases will appear but no guarantee! It is a buyers market assuredly. How much experience of Thailand and Pattaya area do you have?..... If you had a 2 week holiday every year for 10 years you have had what I get every 6 months, and I assure you living here is different than holidaying here. I may say I have 12 years of experience of living here, more accurately I have had 6 months experience 24 times! Come rent for a spell, as the old letch said to the nubile, suck it and see if you like it.

You supplied a much better video and link than I got from Thai Visa earlier.... glad I watched more of it as it got to be more fun after 3 minutes. Who knows... I still remember a normally quiet girl behind the bar at Daves GB Bar on the Beach Rd, exploding at a drunken Arab customer in the wee hours and I helped him gently to move on. I think he had slapped her.

Incredible bargain. I bet you would pay that much and more in 'taxes' for a 'free' airmiles ticket in Biz! Just checked, my one way was £176 in taxes!

Well immigration and baggage reclaim may slow if an A380 came in! Hopefully I will be dropped at the gate and not at the end of that runway. It;s all about the trip home for me, Hwy 7, or 331 and Hwy 36 (death alley). For those in Central Pattaya it is Sukhumvit or Sukhumvit... If they do decide on another tunnel that may be prohibitive.

I am trying to use the Iplayer from within my browser, haven't had much success with the Add On one for Kodi. (It should automatically update).I don;t have any Android box.. no room under my TV! Am very much enjoying 'Breaking Bad' now.

The Ipcress File

Yes, so you can arrive at another set! I haven't been through this junction since pre-Songkran, my last few trips preferring to take on North Rd and 3rd. When it is fully open,, I will be hoping to turn right and left off/onto Sukhumvit and Klang efficiently without waiting 10 minutes having my head broiled in my helmet. At this point I can see it being difficult for me, for example, to wend my way over to the right, after turning off Klang, onto Sukhumvit heading North, and getting across a snake of traffic from the tunnel to get to the motorway entrance flyover. Me and many I suspect. Thai driving is not known for giving way or leaving much space between yourself and the car in front. Nevertheless I look forward to the day this thread becomes redundant.

2500 baht now, Key Visa

Interesting alternative.....

Get Carter

BBC IPlayer is getting difficult, it is able to recognize I am out of the UK, despite my using a VPN and UK 'resident' server. Yes I have 'cleared the 'cookies'. I am actually just trying to watch their video clips of the snooker. Season 1, Episodes 1-3 appear to be available with Kodi.

My situation is similar and I took it that way. Until they tell me otherwise...... I always felt putting my full address on my Arrival TM6 covered me.

Sorry to read that, but he only lost 3 baht. (Again apologies, I guess a typo and should read 3,000 baht!) Yes drunken thugs and pickpockets is Songkran in Pattaya, an old misery I might be, but I stay home! Disgusting that a CC issued from an overseas bank, in the name of say Joe Smith, can be used multiple times by an obvious Somchai!

I was under the impression the famous Tom Yum khung did not contain coconut milk...... Tom yum goong nam sai is non creamy. Tom yum goong nam khon is creamy, but that is done adding evaporated milk, not coconut milk. Here is a recipe. Coconut milk is used a lot in Southern curries, Penang Curry and Masuman (which I always call mama-san to annoy the Mrs) for example.

JAMES Fox

Try this.... .......https://youtu.be/tStMlfgVu8Y Dodge the preceding full stops.

Ian McShane

Useful post and thanks, Glad to read that I don't have to report myself in my own house...... I was delinquent when I had a friend or relative stay in the past though.

Although the one at B13,860,000 is a little rich for me.

Wrong, that was John Belushi. Pay attention... (He died in 1982, long before The Ghost Writer was released, in 2010) Back to James Belushi, went by Jim too!