On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:56:14 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
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Undoubtedly true. Look at all the terms used in selling - Grand
Tourismo.... Trawler Yacht.... one could go on and on and on and....
Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)



Can a Yankee survive on $US925/month in Bangkok, Bruce?

I may have to flee the US after Rahm Emanuel, the Zionist's new president,
takes over my country.

US925 = Baht 31,265 at today's rate.

A Thai with a doctorate in finance working for third or forth largest
bank in Thailand gets a salary of B 30,000/month to start.

A skilled cabinet maker gets 8,000/month plus room and board.

Day workers (unskilled) get between 200 and 350 baht/day worked.

A cheap one room apartment w/bath goes for 2,500/month, lights and
water extra.

The Underground costs are relative to number of stops but probably an
average trip is 12 - 15 baht.

Taxis are 35 baht for 1st Km.

Girls.....Girls.....My wife doesn't allow me to talk with strange
women so I can't comment on today's costs but memories from years ago
indicate that they can be a fairly expensive addition to one's life
style.
Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
:

Girls.....Girls.....My wife doesn't allow me to talk with strange
women so I can't comment on today's costs but memories from years ago
indicate that they can be a fairly expensive addition to one's life
style.
Cheers,



Thanks for the information. Girls in the USA are also high-dollar, high
maintenance items.....like owning an Italian 250' motor yacht and
running the engines a lot.....

In short, I could live quite well on 32K baht/month. My retirement goes
straight to my bank account, which is available anywhere. The more life
costs, here, the more I think it would be better to live elsewhere. I
suppose there's also some socialized medicine available if they found me
unconcious, about the only way to get me into a doctor's office. I am
the child of medical establishment hypocondriacs. Both my parents lived
for their next doctor visit. It's all they talked about since they were
45.

I've lived in a few Middle East countries, the Shah's dictatorship in
Iran, briefly in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia (There's a sign we put up on
the Red Sea that says, "TRACOR BEACH NEXT 5000 KM", to the great
amusement of the Saudi Army guys at the comm center we were working on
at the time. Noone ever walks over your blanket on Tracor Beach, but
the sea snakes make going in the water a little too exciting for my
tastes.

Too bad Iran thinks Americans support what the Zionist American
Government does. I had a great time in Iran, a vast, beautiful land
almost totally unexplored. If they were to cast off the religious
chains currently killing them, I'd go back to Iran in a heartbeat.

I can understand your wife's position.....Thai girls are beautiful!

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:28:54 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
:

Girls.....Girls.....My wife doesn't allow me to talk with strange
women so I can't comment on today's costs but memories from years ago
indicate that they can be a fairly expensive addition to one's life
style.
Cheers,



Thanks for the information. Girls in the USA are also high-dollar, high
maintenance items.....like owning an Italian 250' motor yacht and
running the engines a lot.....

In short, I could live quite well on 32K baht/month. My retirement goes
straight to my bank account, which is available anywhere. The more life
costs, here, the more I think it would be better to live elsewhere. I
suppose there's also some socialized medicine available if they found me
unconcious, about the only way to get me into a doctor's office. I am
the child of medical establishment hypocondriacs. Both my parents lived
for their next doctor visit. It's all they talked about since they were
45.

Well, there are some thistles in paradise.

No socialized medicine for foreigners. Thais have the 30 baht medical
scheme (30 baht per visit to the doctor for all medical service and
medicine) and free medical care after 65.

They don't want any lay-abouts so in order to get a resident permit
you need to lodge 800,000 baht in a Thai bank.

No credit from Thai sources. To get a Thai credit card you need to
post a security bond of several times the monthly maximum for the
card.

Language. The vast majority of Thais do not speak a foreign language.
I have a mate in a public hospital about 200 Km. away that is calling
me to come and help him.. Nobody in the hospital speaks English and as
he was injured in a highway crash (broken ribs and bleeding into the
thoracic cavity) he is worried and no one can tell him what his
condition is...He want ms to come over and translate what the doctor
is telling him.

But the girls are nice; or were when I was younger...

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
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They don't want any lay-abouts so in order to get a resident permit
you need to lodge 800,000 baht in a Thai bank.



Wow....$US23K is kinda steep! I might have to work! Not good.

Sorry about your friend. I hurt my hand in Bahrain, slammed into a door
but didn't break anything. The hotel sent me to the hospital and the
Bahraini doctor, educated at UCLA Medical Center with honors from the
sheepskin proudly displayed on his office wall, fixed me up. He just
filled out some government forms and had a good laugh when I asked how
much. "You are a guest in our kingdom. We'll take care of the bill.", he
mused.

I tried to get him and his wonderful staff to come take over medical
service in Charleston, but he politely refused saying he never understood
greedy American doctors only interested in money, not patients....

Drug stores in Bahrain are a shock. They don't have prescriptions. The
druggist finds out what you need and sells it to you. I had a splitting
headache and tried to buy an aspirin from the hotel who sent me down to the
corner drugstore. The druggist sold me a lifetime supply of Darvon 65. I
don't take drugs, even Tylenol if I don't absolutely have to. One Darvon
put me out for almost a day....headache gone! I think they're still in the
meds cabinet with some colds tablets from 1986. I have a box with about
$US45,000 in pills left over from my hypocondriac father's house after he
died. There's stuff in there I can't even pronounce with dire warning on
them. I think it killed him.

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:13:42 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
:

They don't want any lay-abouts so in order to get a resident permit
you need to lodge 800,000 baht in a Thai bank.



Wow....$US23K is kinda steep! I might have to work! Not good.

If you want to work you will have to either work for an established
Thai company or establish your own company..... and then pay taxes.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)