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Going to Pattaya net weekend can anybody help with the directions to the bar?

Looks great but a dumb question. Where is the bar. All I know is that it is not on Walking Street. Can you give me some detailed instructions on how to get there from the Soi 7 area? Thanks

I have never had anything but fast and efficient service at the embassy. I go there once or twice a year and they are helpful. If you think the prices are high ask some of your Brit friends what they pay for various services such as registering a child.

A lot of what you are looking for is available at the Villa Market on Sukhumvit Soi 39 in Bangkok. It is expensive though. After you have been here awhile a lot of the Thai food that tourists get off on starts to taste the same and gets very boring. I make many trips to the Villa to stock up on western foods.

So true. I have been here for 5 years now and wish that I could have come sooner BUT had to wait until my financial situation was well above borderline. I feel sorry for the guys who jump too soon and end up in a bind. Look at Larry from Secrets. I have a problem with others who put common sense out of their decision making and encourage others to go for it. I met a man who is in his late 50s and has been here for almost 20 years recently. He is scared silly because he has no future. He came here way to soon and stayed with a litlle money in the bank to last him. That money is long gone and he finds odd work to do which gives him enough money to provide minimums for his wife and two children. She works also. While others have been saving money or building pension credits he has nothing now and never will. It is frightening. He truly regrets his decisions but cannot do anything about it now.

I wouldn't think of "The View" as an upscale place. Thai's have upscale and "wrecked" places too. I refer to the better type in my prior post. View Talley has a real mix of westerners: some are nice normal guys while others are the dregs of their home country. I say again -- overpriced. This is an example of a westerner who paid too much for a condo and therefore has to find another westerner who will also pay too much to take it off his hands and give him a profit. This is what pushes up the prices for westerners. If he had to sell to a Thai he would get somewhere between 850 - 1000.

The location is ok but who wants to live their life in one room the size of a hotel room? Probably should be priced in the 900-1000 range. That would be the Thai price.

Probably a misprint. From the rates that I have gotten 34,000 per year is more likely the premium. That would be for a participant in the 50 - 60 age range. Not bad prices through Thai Visa. Are you sure about that room charge? I recently was in a nice private hospital in Bangkok (not Bumrungard) and paid less than 2000 per day for a beautiful private room which was like a studio apartment with a small kitchenette and sitting area. My whole bill including surgery, anesthesia and all of the little charges plus 5 days in the hospital and follow up visits was less than 60,000 baht. If the hospital in Pattaya is really charging 12000 per day for a room it is really a Falang ripoff!

I don't have the computer facilites to set up anything that has been mentioned here, but I would be interested in a sattelite dish if any would pick up the aforementioned American sports, particularly football (college and pro) and basketball (college). Does anybody know of such a system?

Correct on this. The Universities are the lowest payers in the education system. Government High Schools pay more and of course International schools are the highest.

Lin looks like she has gained a bit of weight but still looks good. She seems to have cut down on the heavy makeup also. Good for her! What is she doing now?

My advice would be to never use any rental agent. He represents the owner and tries to get him the highest price and therefore the highest commission. 14,000 or 15,000 does sound high. Perhaps a falang price. Have a Thai lady or man friend contact the woner and get a price for you before you are ever seen. Just my opinion and yes opinions are like..................!

I have had an account with them for 6 years and never a problem. No fees whatsoever and a good rate of exchange when I make a withdrawal in Thailand.

Gabor That is a million and a half for a small one room condo. I would find it hard to live like that. In Bkk the same 1.5 million would get you a 65-70sqm 1 bedroom condo. A 40sqm studio goes for about 800,000 where I live. I don't think that it is just you but the prices in Pattaya are really out of line!