buffalo_bill Posted April 8, 2004 Report Share Posted April 8, 2004 Fair enough , two airstrips . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterBlonde Posted April 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2004 << i do therefore not believe this story >> OK....do you believe that a Thai stunner can earn 2000 pounds a week in an upmarket lapdancer club? they are not all useless never do well farmers daughters you know? some actually rise above their circumstances and succeed.... All Nok knows is that her father is hitting her up for 80,000bht to buy a house,as far as she is concerned she can afford it.....her knowledge of Issan real estate would be bugger all.....she's getting stiffed by the old man and thats it....she doesn;t question it like we do...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterBlonde Posted April 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2004 You are right stickman i got my currency conversions wrong but as i posted before this is the figure the old man wants... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
think_too_mut Posted April 9, 2004 Report Share Posted April 9, 2004 >I do therefore not believe this story. Neither do I. What were they doing over 4 years while she's been saving all that money? Where were their monthly allowances? Were they starving until she collects enough? Drinks, fun, pickup trucks, motorbikes, electronics, outdoing the neighbours... A family that greedy would not wait. The money, here and now. Airstrips: in addition, she can build a helipad for unforseen circumstances. If close to a khlong, then a mooring point. If not close to one, she can get one brought to her. Finally, if she is that money concious, she would not come to you seeking an advice. Do I smell a troll? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterBlonde Posted April 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2004 <<what were they doingover 4 years while shes been saving all that money>> Thay were going about their business as all issarn families do......she hadn't been in contact before due to the beatings and the gun barrel to the head stuff....and then she returned home after 4 years very prosporous and the old man saw MEGA BAHT and she did not come to me seeking advise.....she just told me this in an e-mail......jeeesus christ <<Do i smell a troll>> not sure what a troll is, but personal hygine should take of your problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
think_too_mut Posted April 9, 2004 Report Share Posted April 9, 2004 A-ha...I see. Wish you good luck with gathering more opinions. I told you mine. Others may be more positive. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spirit_of_town_hall Posted April 9, 2004 Report Share Posted April 9, 2004 Can you PM me the name of the club that she works in please. I am fed up of all the eastern European and Brazilian girls clogging up the lap dancing clubs and would like to go see a cute Thai girl dancing. Does she go with the customers. STH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo_bill Posted April 9, 2004 Report Share Posted April 9, 2004 MisterBlonde, >>OK....do you believe that a Thai stunner can earn 2000 pounds a week in an upmarket lapdancer club?<< Should not be a problem, although I don't know what a Lapdancer Club is. Granted. >>they are not all useless never do well farmers daughters you know? some actually rise above their circumstances and succeed....<< I did not question the amount in the savings account , only the decision to dump it in the Northern ricefields. BuBi Cheer up , does not matter anyway. Larger tragedies have been seen on this board , like Rusty's pornmovies have been stolen a year ago and the Oriental ceased supplying Beck's Beer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattaya127 Posted April 9, 2004 Report Share Posted April 9, 2004 It's a sound advice, KS. I hope her visa situation allows that. And it's important to know who and how they build your house. Of course, she woud lose a lot of earnings in 3 months. Why not send 100 000 bahts+ so the family fixes the old stilted shack, and do the big house when she quits that job or goes back to Thailand for sure. probably the family knows how much she makes already, had a taste of it, and want to feel the girl's devotion in their hands. It's not going to be easy to get her to think in reasonable common sense terms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickfarang Posted April 9, 2004 Report Share Posted April 9, 2004 KS's advice is something your friend should think about. To the main question: Throughout her life, you friend was told that her primary purpose in life is to take care of her parents, who brought her into the world and took care of her until she could go out and get a job. If she has 80,000 pounds to send and has been earning 2,000 pounds per week, then she is going to send nearly 10 moths pay to her family, and its apparent that she has been working very hard for a long time in order to do this (how long would it take you to put 10 months pay in the bank). So, this reinforces the idea that this is a very important thing for your friend to do. It doesn't have anything to do with whether her family deserves this or not. It has to do with whether she will be successful in accomplishing one of her main goals in life. I suggest that you don't interfere with this. On the cost of houses in Isan: In my wife's village, which is a small rice farming community of about 300 100 KM from Nong Khai, most people live in shacks of weather beaten wood on stilts. There are a few houses based on European styles, using cinderblock walls and tile floors, these are in the vast minority, and they cost between 400,000 and about 800,000 baht. There is one house that cost about 4.5 million baht, which, form the pretentious style of the house says even to us few farangs in town "Look how important we are!". In a nearby moobahn, a lady who married a well-to-do fellow from Japan built a million baht house for her parents, then bought the rice field behind it (driving up regional land prices by the way) and built an estimated 20,000,000 baht compound with a swimming pool and other niceties. My point is, even in Isan communities, where the people farm, hunt, fish, and gather for a good part of their living, and only make 100 to 140 baht per day when they do get seasonal work, you sometimes have to spend a heck of a lot of money to look like you are "staying ahead of the Joneses". As a friend to your friend, the best thing is probably to talk her decision over with her and make sure she understands the implications of sending the money -how it would be abused and spent, take KS's advice into account (see the house built and pay directly to the workers and suppliers) and don't try to sway her either way. You are her friend, not her husband nor her care taker. Glad you are one the board, Welcome! RickF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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