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Not sure if this is a serious question but I will answer as if it was. She wanted to work, more for something to fill time than the monetary need. Not so easy to find as she does not have qualifications and at 32 is 'getting on' in Thai terms. Part time jobs are scarce as hen's teeth. She had interviews at supermarkets, one place called back, but I answered the phone and that put paid to that...have farang means not need job. The reality was that any job she got would be paying only about 4000 baht, she would be working 6 days/week/48 hours. I thought it a waste of time for 4k, als

And here.... Pattaya Expats Club

Saudia used to allow you to have a bottle but that was if you boarded outside the Kingdom...they would give you mixers and dispose of your empties. Wouldn't fancy wandering around in Riyadh airport as a transit passenger with a couple of bottles of scotch in my carry-on. I was told that the Kuwait customs would let you bring a bottle into the country when I was working there and doing a visa run to Bahrain. But bring 2...he keeps one, you keep the other....he took both without so much as a word! Yes Kuwait and Saudia flights are 'dry'.....the other Arabian Penninsular countries airli

That is certainly cheap.........don't know how they do it? Hate transit in the Middle East though, used to work there, travelled a lot, seems to get under my skin now.

Can't speak for Soi Buakou, don't get around there much but yes they are common. Tsutaya chain are in a few places, Big C and Carrefour Malls. There is another chain called ...shit the daft cow has took the card..sorry..will add later. You have to 'join' and the price is more if you want DVDs. She is back...where else would you keep the membership card but under the motorcycle seat?....VIDEO EZY...web page is useless. They don't change their selection too quick...

Well I only had a couple of glasses so far but please don't make me drag this out. I am planning to get as plastered as you. Something electrical is rated at say 2kw....not 2 kw per hour.....if you use it for 1,000.000 hours it is still using 2 kw...if you use it for 0.5 seconds, it is still 2kw. A KW is a measurement of power not energy. Your electric bill is based on the average power multiplied by the time (a month actually)...they could use kilowatt-months, kilowatt-days...I am trying to say it is kilowatts multiplied by time (or integrated over time), not per which means divi

A very valid thought too.....I would be thinking 'stay away from these cheats!' Subtle inclusion of a link I was going to post too!

You need only say 0.75 to 2.0 KW.......adding per hour does not make sense. A kilowatt is an 'instantaneous' measurement of power and not time related......it is the current times the voltage. The cost is related to the power multiplied by how long you use it.....let us say you run a 2 kw device for 2 hours, that is 4 Kilowatt-hours. If you are paying 3.5 baht per KWH, let us say you sleep 8 hours with an AC using 1.5 KW on average.....8x1.5 kwhx3.5 baht/kwh=42 baht. Not worth sweating over and you got the cost right! Apologies for being a know all.......but having some major ele

Well no answers so I guess you should ask Western Union yourself.

Hagley Road.....that takes me back, used to live off there when I was student at Univ B'ham in '75.......what a dump! Mahan Air has been coming up on a few searches Biz class from Manchester. I don't think Tehran will be a good transit since they stopped the dancing Mullahs show.

I think we can do something between your return and my departure. PM me. Tirac wants me to make you an offer on one of your bikes!

Thanks for link to map. Was it you that posted about some of the ST places East of Sukhumvit a while ago? Yes I have looked around over here, but tried only 1 place to eat. I am up for it before I go to UK...Tilac off to her village next week.....I need to take care of house so cannot go.....yeah right. So got a free week, name a place up Soi Siam CC on your map. Be nice to go out for a beer and not worry about getting back over that crazy highway.

Bloody well done Torrenova. This link explains the mysterious ways of PEA, and how my bill works out. What a great way to tax the rich, electricity costs go up depending on consumption....by 65% per kwh for >400 kwh. If you use less than 5 kwh...it is free! I need to find a neighbour consuming under 150 KWH/month, run a cable from his house and pay his bill along with mine and save money! I have unplugged my water cooler after catching tilac filling pans for cooking with chilled water!

Do you really mean videos? Sony or VHS...... DVD rental places are all over...well VCD, seems to still have a grip.

Just 51, and live up Soi Siam CC about a km. 2000 baht/month would save me a grand...I am interested but GF wants us to buy one. I have a UK trip in 4 weeks and might contact U when I return. Multiple Tourist visa....trip to Cambodia, one entry and 60 more days, cost 2k. Extension for 30 days, save 1 entry but 1900 baht. Visa only has a life of 6 months......as I go back to UK soon I will just get another, cost £25/entry. Border run makes more financial sense......get me some duty free too! Visa Info....thanks to Pattaya Expats Club

Tourist visas are valid for 60 days. Multiple....2 or 3 entries. Second hand bikes are a risk here....the local people change components. Mileage cannot be trusted. I shall shop around. Owen, Gary's post put some numbers to your points, the Expats club does offer insurance, have the leaflet by me now. A lot cheaper than BUPA but these policies are hard to compare.....The Expats one is a deal. Afraid I fly biz class and flights look about the same price from UK as from Thailand - more consolidators. Not extracting anything from my 'portfolio' yet, but inflation IS

Well I don't keep notes...what are you an accountant? Yes I go back to the UK about 2 maybe 3 times a year, but I could hardly call that an expense of 'living' in Thailand. My visa runs (Cambodia border) are about 2000 every 2 months. Get a retirement visa and that is reduced. Internet, included in mobile costs, subsidised by someone with an unsecured wi-fi nearby. 40baht / hour in a cafe..... Taxi to Bangkok for shopping.....for what? I live near Pattaya. Computer upgrades? Just bought this one ! I always had a company one until I quit, then was in internet cafes for a wh

House Rent 15k M/cycle rent 3k Electric 3k Water pennies Cable 500 baht Spending money to Tilac 12k Meals Out 3-4k my(or our) nights out 12k Food/gas/mobile/etc 6k I have rented a furnished house on a 6 month basis, other side of Sukhumvit....to give it a try.

Well cooking facilities were a must for me, but Thai food seems easy, we have 2 burners connected to a bottle of gas...and everything seems to get made in a wok. A rice cooker is essential! Yes, potatoes are above average cost, but they are not Thai food, I ask tilac to buy a few for me to bake as I need the change from rice. She seems unable to get her head around the concept of a single meal without it. Juice, she buys tangerines at 20 baht/kilo, freshly squeezed. Pineapples are a bargain too lately. I get my weekly stodge fix......pie and chips at The Vic or Sportsman etc..

Yes I recall my hotel bill in Houston being inflated by the cost of some new stadium too. I do not say it doesn't goes on in plenty, I just feel it is sneaky and underhand. I can see a tax on cigarettes being used to fund health care, or anti-smoking campaigns, or a car related tax being use to fund road improvements. But a stadium, that will be utilized by an extremely profitable NFL team, should not have to be paid for by 'out of towners'. Anyhow, which idiot expects taxes to be fair? This one!

Since I stopped using hotels, laundries and to some degree restaurants...(and to a greater degree short time places and Go-Gos, apart from one or two nights out a week), money goes much further. Find a tilac who likes to cook and make house.......... She does laundry and ironing in the morning........ Pops off on the motorcycle at 4pm with her basket to the market to shop for tonights meal. For two of us she rarely spends above 140 baht on vegetables, meat, shrimp whatever and turns out a great meal. I thought I would do my bit, so bought a barbecue, a fresh whole fish would b

Oh I thought the biz class on Emirates was pretty good. Well the in-flight entertainment was slick, and the electric seats were fun. Although about 80% of them had packed in about an hour into the flight. The BKK - DBX leg was better than the DBX-MAN, and despite being only 1/2 way along the rows we were down to 2 choices of meal, both chicken. I told them if all they could offer me in business class was chicken they could stick it! They found me an alternative. I can get grumpy on long hauls! But yeah....not quite the VIP treatment I got on my first Emirates biz class flight wh

money is lost just as quickly as it's made. I might correct you to say a BLOODY SIGHT FASTER is possible too!

I see the French government is planning to introduce a new tax on air tickets to benefit the worlds poor. Initially to fund HIV drugs in Africa. You for it or against it? BBC Story Personally I am against it. I dislike governments taking money off me at the best of times, when I have little control over what they do with it. Now if I fly via France, to LOS, I expect I will be subjected to this tax.....I have a foreign government taking money off me and I have no control whatsoever they choose to do with it. Perhaps support the Airbus 380 program! Kofi Annan is very

You put that pretty well. I couldn't understand BA being up there but then went to the site and saw that their 'premium service' passengers rated them well. True, their Club and First class are very good. I guess they didn't survey any of the 100,000 BA passengers stranded on August 12, 2005.