Looking for information from people who are informed on buying foreign real estate, preferrbly in Bangkok. This would be my only residence, and I would expect to live in it for 10 years, plus or minus. I’ve found a couple of properties I really like. What should be my major considerations in deciding whether or not to go forward with this plan? (Schools not an issue — no children.)

On BBC news, as always, yet again, Gary Glitter is on it refusing to leave Thailand insisting he is a free man and wants to go to another Asian country, do you think he should be allowed or should he come back to the UK which is what British authorities want?

how should i start first?what is the calculation per trip of lorry transportation in malaysia?where can i get customer?how they charge to customer ?millage calculation by using diesel in malaysia?how they charge transportation from malaysia to singapore and from malaysia to thailand?

Here is the message he sent to me and I felt like the whole thing is he still love her and he back to me coz she was not honest with him . I dont feel like he see my value .Should I still give him a chance or just let it go : Ok read this message he sent to me :
I miss you too. I wanted to see you today but I called and msg you and can never get a hold of you Now it is 8:30pm and too late. I miss you kiss and holding. You always make me feel so good. I never been in a relationship where after so much time I still get so happy when I see you I feel closer to you than anytime in our relationship before.
I read your whole message and had a bit of a time understanding it boo I remember a lot about our relationship from the beginning. If you had come to Ali’s bday last year and I was with my ex I am sure we would not be dating now. I would see you as a really cute girl but not try to meet you. I probably could not help but to stare at you because you so cute I remember getting home that night too. Me and my ex got into a fight and ultimately I ended up destroying two lamps and punching a hole in my back bedroom door. My ex brought out the worst in me. I think back to it and I don’t know why I would keep coming back to her. We had a crazy and unstable relationship. I think the only thing that held us together was what I thought was her undying and true love for me. I thought that even if I went to jail she would wait for me because she loved and desired me so much. I just had a hard time letting go of someone who loved me so much. Part of me thought that one day her and I would get married and I was just confused cause I was still attracted to other girls and not sure of her and one day I would change. She used me a lot and I did not even know it. I knew that when her and I were together it was crazy emotional. Sometimes it was really good and sometimes it made me so angry I could not stand it. I don’t want to be with someone that brings out my demons. That is why deep down I could never commit to her. It is so hard for me to describe how she made me so crazy but she had an incredible skill for making me feel guilty, her look innocent, and that I was the one always doing bad things to her but she was still with me. I now know that was just her manipulation. Now that I know her lies.. that I know everything about her I could finally close my heart to her and move on. She could not manipulate my emotions anymore.
I was so happy when I first met you. You acted spicy to me a lot but I just felt so proud a cute young asian girl wanted to spend time with me. I knew you were a good girl and I was hoping that your spiciness was just an act to make sure that a guy really liked you. I was willing to be patient to find out more. We had some great times and your expectations of me were lopsided. I always felt like you expected so much from me and never appreciated what I gave. Actually the first time we broke up it was because of you and I was ok letting it go because of what happened. My ex and I would still talk from time to time but not that much. Then you and I got back together. That was when my ex was being the most understanding with me. I was still not sure about her. I was never sure about her. I did not know what I wanted. I had 2 weeks vacation and nowhere to go and she convinced me I should come to Thailand. I thought about it and thought it would be fun to go back and I can find out this last time if things with my ex would be crazy or not. I broke up with you and bought my tickets. I sitll had lots of doubts though. The more and more I thought about it the more I had doubts. That night in the club when I saw you with Ken I got jealous because I saw you show interest in another guy. At least it looked like it. I tried not to show it but all I did was walk around drinking. I did not even have a desire to flirt with another girl. I was just casually observing you. I saw Ali looked so pissed off mad at me.
I remember seeing you on the couch and you looked so drunk. I went to the bar, got you some water, and came back and gave it to you and walked away. I just wanted to make sure you were ok. Then by some weird chance i was standing there when you walked by and almost fell to the floor but it was right in front of me. I grabbed you and sat you down. We talked both a bit drunk and you promised you would have sex with me on my birthday hehe. I still remember that. I knew then that you were the girl I wanted to try with. I knew seeing my ex was not going to make things any better. I knew her and I would fight and I had a great girl here and that I should work on it. I canceled my tickets and wanted to try with you. I told my ex and it was a very dramatic very emotional thing to deal with. She made me feel absolutely terrible.. feel guilty. I even lost $500 canceling the tickets which suck. I also spent my 2 weeks of vacation at home alone most of the day. I was depressed a lot. I really wanted to be in a warm climate.
I admit I was not over her 100%. Every once in awhile I would see her online and we would talk. She convinced me to send her jacket back to her. I did not want to but finally she pestered me to death. I sent it at a cost of $70 which kind of sucked. I spent those months though feeling closer to you though. My ex keep asking me if I would maybe marry her someday. She would wait for me. She loved me.. blah blah blah. She kept holding me in her mind and I was not fully letting go. Then a few months ago something strange happened. I got a password reset request from her email. I clicked on it and it took me into her email account. I was not trying to get in but there I was. I never once caught her in a lie but I always suspected her. I found out that most of everything she had told me was a lie. She even had a bf the whole time she begged me to come see her. She was still with him when asking me to marry her. She lied to me about some things early in our relationship even before we met.. things she did not have to lie about. All of a sudden the girl I thought I was in love with never really existed. Everything about her felt like a lie. I ended up talking to a long time guy friend on her messenger and he told me a lot of things about her too. It was weird. I could not believe that. I felt stupid that once again I was fooled by a girl. I confronted her about everything and she finally admitted to most of the lies but kept lying even when I already knew the truth. It was pervasive. All of a sudden her word meant nothing and I realized that I was not letting go of something that did not really exist. I was already in love with you when this happened but I could not give myself fully to you. I am still trying to give myself fully to you but my past bad luck makes me very cautious. My ex and I said our goodbyes several months ago and in my mind it really is over. There is no more going back. She knows it too and she has not even tried to contact me. She is my past and you are my future.
I really do adore spending time with you. I look at our pictures and think I am very lucky to have met you. You are so much sweeter to me than when we first met. I really want to keep trying with you and see where our relationship can go. I will leave it up to fate and see what fate brings me but what I do know is that I am happy when I am with you.

We have family there who can’t wait to see him and we really need the break. Because of this, four months is our preferred option but I’m sure there are a number of issues that we have no experience of.
As an aside, would we be able to enjoy a little time on the beach with a four month, would it be more realistic when he is ten months or are either ages just a bit too young for this?

wondering if i should get a mozzy net for my travels… if so which type?.. are there ones where you can just for your head at night time?

I’m coming alone…

I was told that people going to an “amphur” (?) or district office to contract marriage must come in formal wear. Just what type of clothing is acceptable as “formal” in Thai culture, particularly in Bangkok? Would attire like clean jeans, white collared shirt and new sandals be decent enough? Or do people go to a tailor to have nice clothes made? I know a good tailor but I’m thinking of saving the money and time as well.

I was told that people going to an “amphur” (?) or district office to contract marriage must come in formal wear. Just what type of clothing is acceptable as “formal” in Thai culture, particularly in Bangkok? Would attire like clean jeans, white collared shirt and new sandals be decent enough? Or do people go to a tailor to have nice clothes made? I know a good tailor but I’m thinking of saving the money and time as well.

or it is going to be too hard

I am planning on working in South Thailand (Trang, near Malaysia)on October 15th. I leave on October 12th from Portland, OR. My family is scared because of the latest earthquakes around the South Pacific. They think I should stay and see what happens in the next two months. There were two more earthquakes in Japan and the Solomon islands today. I also just started to get really close with a man I have been dating for 2 months. Do you think this is a sign not to go? Should I go anyway? Please help!

My family will help pay for hotel and food. But everything else I’d have to bring my own money for. So far I’m bringing $900 USD & I’m thinking about bring an additional $250-300 USD. (We’re going on a tour which is ~$600 USD & I’m paying that.) Is $500 USD enough for leisure spending for 4 weeks in Asia? Thanks for advice/info.

My family and I are going with a tour to Thailand for 14 days. The tour does give us some days to do our own thing and it doesn’t include lunch meals. I’ve never been to Thailand, and I’m not sure if a travel insurance is needed. Any advices?

Hi all
Me & my Husband are travelling to Thailand in March, we are spending 3 nights on Koh Samui, could you recommend 10 things we should do/visit? Also which beach would you recommend we stay on, we have about £55 budget for accomadation.
Thanks
Abby

where’s the best kept secrets for southern thailand - for beaches, national parks & towns ?

l`m of to thailand with my b/f and his mate,his mates thai wife and his mates brother and there mum. should l be concerned about the night clubs there? would you let him go off for a lads night out there? or not? we will be staying in bangcock for a couple of days.

Cmon it would be funny ………

Cmon it would be funny ………

I’m planning a trip to Thailand in early October and I’m unsure where I should go!!
I’ve been to Koh Samui already and I’ve been told that Koh Samui and Phuket will have some dodgy weather ath this time (is this correct)?
So My question is where is the best place to visit in thailand with some night life and some sandy beaches?
Thanks in advance

Do you think $2000 US dollars is enough or to much?

The reasonable / local rate, not the here comes another mug tourist rate!
Cheers,
CC

This is a bit of a bizarre situation. Firstly, my boyfriend and I have been together for over two years and after a few months when I felt shaky about myslef, I now have 100% confidence in our rock solid relationship.
He has a friend he went to school with and they were best friends from 14-18. They also went out for a bit in the middle but he broke it off after two weeks as he felt no chemistry with her. Then we hooked up at university. Then I went out clubbing with a lot of his school friends and I laughed at his uncomfortable face as she tried to cut between us in dances and also told him she wanted to kiss him when I went to the bar. Doesn’t bother me because my boyfriend’s besotted with me and wouldn’t cheat.
Now that we’re all 22, they started chatting again like they did at school and I thought her crazy had died down and she made no more moves. Until she said she wanted to go travelling to Thailand with him for a month. He rang me, shaky voice, expecting me to flip my lid but I said he could go. I’m in a five year degree and had a gap year. He’s never been travelling and I don’t expect him to wait four more years to do so if he doesn’t have to. This made Kat, really angry and she was fuming down the phone at me, offended that I didn’t see her as a threat and kept asking “he can come? with me? for a month?”
In the end it was Matt who ended up being nervous about the whole situation. I said I wouldn’t push him either way, I’m cool with it but he has to realise it could make the trip awkward if she hits on him and he rejects her. Sensing his hesitation she offered to pay half of his expenses!
As far as I’m concerned, this is an offer he can’t refuse. He’s never travelled, we want to get married after my degree and that’s a big financial strain. If he’s only paying for half his flights and accomadation he can do stuff he couldn’t otherwise like learning to scuba dive, paragliding etc. Once the tickets are booked, if she’s mental he can book a separate room and fly back anyway. I don’t see the problem.
But all my friends are telling me that I’m being really cruel to Kat. I don’t see that I’ve lead her to believe in any way that she could have him, I didn’t make her invite him, I didn’t ask her to pay for him. If she wants to be a nutjob, she should have to freedom to do so. She’s 22, she’ll get the money from Daddy anyway, am I really mean because I haven’t said “save yourself the embaressment? He’s never going to want you?” Surely the amount of hesitation Matt’s shown so far would give her a clue? Who PAYS somebody to go on holiday with them?

I’m a 19 year old female stopping over in Thailand for a week from the 16th to the 22nd December on my way home to Australia.
I’m a little worried to go because of all the media hype and warnings not to go there. Do you think it is safe? I don’t want to be paranoid about something unlikely happening so please don’t try to scare me!
Also, any recommendations on where to go? I was thinking Ko Samet? I want to go to a nice, relaxing beach type place where I can also meet other backpackers my age and stay somewhere nice at a reasonable price too.. massages etc. Where can I do this that isn’t too far away from Bangkok (where my flight is).
I will also stay in Bangkok the first and last nights to make it easier to get to the airport etc.. any suggestions of where to stay?
I know nothing so appreciate any help I can get! Thanks so much.

I want to start my own business and i plan to go to either Thailand or China this summer to find a supplier who has electronics such as cell phones, cameras, and gaming systems, or basketball shoes, designer clothes, and designer hand bags. Would i have better luck finding this supplier in Thailand or China?

My family and I are going to Thailand on the 15th of October. We want to make the most out of our trip there. However, we aren’t very sure about which places to go to within 7 days. We want to experience most of the country. At the same time, we want to be able to afford whatever is needed such as transport, accomodation, food. My family also wants to do some shopping. Can anyone give suggestions for me?