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Oh, baht, then chump change. Agents in the UK are required by law to withhold basic rate tax on rental incomes so 20% would be collected anyway unless dealing with tenants directly.

I do not doubt the potential for tax evasion but the amount over the time period are what I was questioning.

Though I am some years yet from 50, I fully intend to "retire" on the visa given the potential grandfathering benefits should requirements change. I usually ride B visas but they are pissing about with those on multi 12 months and though I have multiple companies in various countries, I can't be bothered with their pathetic bureaucracy. Income is Bt65k a month or Bt800k or a mix of both. I pretty much thought that if you couldn't park Bt800k in an account, you should perhaps consider whether you can afford to live in LOS.

I always found Golden somewhat soulless, which might seem a strange thing to say about a bar on just about the weirdest street of the most hedonistic capital city I frequent. Nevertheless, a good few beers were partaken in that establishment over the decades since it opened. Not sure I ever found love or even lust there. Too early or too sober perhaps ? The Nana Disco is another beast altogether. In Angels guise it was pathetic but back in the day, it was as near to the Star Wars bar you'd ever see this side of the Millennium Falcon. I haven't been in for a couple of years but each time I do, I get flashbacks to better days. All downhill since 'nam as they say.

In principle I agree but if there is no carrot, a Thai will let the lot walk out without paying unless a stick of sorts is used. The word on the street is that in Pattaya, there are making them pay up front, as many pakis and indians have apparently being running off without paying. Who'd have thought ?

This critical point is overlooked and misunderstood by many just as is the UK tax regime and overseas earnings when living outside the UK. There is no way someone working offshore for 15 years paying tax in the USA owes or paid the UK government £1.5m in unpaid tax. It just isn't possible.

Would someone today have a tin of coins for patrons to pay the toilet charge ? Now they are so rich they can't be arsed to even collect the bog money !

Actually I do, much higher than that in percentage terms and greater still in terms of free cash but I don't pay these lunatic prices. My last trip I said to myself that I should not care what the cost and I sent a lot of cash to my Thai account but in both Bangkok and Pattaya, I found me refusing myself because I considered it madness to drop a months wages for a regular Thai worker on an ungrateful hooker for a (likely) uninspiring encounter. I enjoyed great times with pleasant people and left the wannabees chasing the LDOP newbie.

For certain the girls are now in control in the main whereas the guys were holding court for decades beforehand. However, recognise that and use your feet to move on when the pasture is already mown or too expensive to take a bite and let them starve for a while.That I could pay their 2015 demands is immaterial; I won't. I've not intention of sucking up to some hooker on the off chance she might deign to give me a fumble in the sack. If they don't play on my terms then fuck them, or not, as it might be.

Not "almost" it was. But it was known at the time, no hindsight was required, that such a move would be the end. We soldier on in ever reducing numbers, with less and less content. Dulce et Decorum est pro mori forumia

Get on the management committee as you will be fighting tooth and nail for the first few years to try and get the sinking fund finances back under control. Likely is that long term, way over the odds contracts have been given to stooges of the developer for tv, satellite, security, all electrics etc. and cash will go missing. Of course, the unsold lots and those given away during construction in lieu of fees will never pay their subs so yours will rise accordingly. Only when in final control of the management company will you be able to sue to get the condos sold to meet missing fees (essentially cancelling their leasehold) and then they will pay up. Shit loads more to add if you want. I do quite some deals in Pattaya but not Bangkok so far.

Book arrived, not read yet, pretty good condition. Sort of like that 1980/90s table book of semi nudes by (name escapes me) where I may not want it now but for the small fee, it would be nice to put in my library for the day I do want to read it, else it will not be available. Original price is listed as Bt430 at King Power

Mine is with .co.uk as well Funnily enough, I bought But, I Don't Give a Hoot!: The Life and Times of Bernard Trink, Bangkok's "Nite Owl" yesterday. Possibly crap but as I've never read it and it is unlikely ever to be reprinted, I thought the £10 or so it cost a small price to pay. You could have had £0.40 to £0.70 if I'd known !

But isn't the price just what it costs someone to obtain that which they could not obtain through non monetary avenues ? Hooker v client Old v young Rich v poor etc.

I seem to remember Peter Jones the department store in London taking a very long lease on a plot of land in Sloane Square (post part of London) at some (now) chicken feed rent for like 100 years. Perhaps from the Cadogan estate ? The rule of law dictated that however bad the business decision all those years ago, it was a contract and must be upheld unless the landlord bought out the tenant. Just another anecdote which drives down people's perception of this country.

And then you have to multiply those odds by the odds of anyone having the disease and then by your susceptability to contract it and you end up with mind bogglingly small percentages which show just how unlucky you are. The do gooders think you just have to go to bangkok and shag one P4P girl and you get HIV. Stupid feminazis. Keep your chin up.

And then you have to multiply those odds by the odds of anyone having the disease and then by your susceptability to contract it and you end up with mind bogglingly small percentages which show just how unlucky you are. Keep your chin up.

If that link cannot be worked around perhaps this is where it is supposed to point at http://www.hopkins-aids.edu/