jerryrigged wrote: ↑September 20th, 2021, 1:05 pm
Its difficult enough as it is even if you do stay in Thailand. My friend just found a sock with like 800k baht in his closet in Korat. The wife was funnelling it out of the ATM machines for the last few years. "I needed to save it in case we ever had a problem!" ... "But we HAVE A SAVINGS ACCOUNT!!!" ... Yeah I don't expect this to end well. Now he is hiring a private eye to find out if all of the guys she says are her cousins and uncles really are who they say they are. And this is a girl with a university education who was working in a white collar job. You just can't make this stuff up.
Thailand has a fairly high female prison population for good reason and many Thai women are morally rotten with no shame.
I can tell you plenty of stories I know about Western men and Thai women which went totally wrong, and it was not the fault of the foreign man.
They were badly cheated, but why do you sign documents about buying land and houses you cannot read and why do you trust bargirls and their rural families, but reject consultation with educated staff who will work on your behalf in law and accounting offices?
I do not always blame the Thai women - many foreign men in Thailand are acting like idiots - so-called 'yellow fever'.
It is hopeless, you warn such men and they even get angry with you.
I need only to think about some of foreigners I met personally near my home and their stories,
For example, this lovely innocent bargirl moves into this 'rich' foreigner's home - he is my only love - and after a few weeks of good life she asks him to buy her a motorcycle, not such a cheap one for baht 70.000,-, what he did.
The following week the motorcycle was gone, stolen she said, but the CCTV camera in his condo building shows a different picture.
The truth was that she contacted a pawn shop which took over the brand new motorcycle in the parking lot of the building. She took the money for herself and after a quarrel with her great foreign boyfriend she disappeared, never seen again.
How can you be so crazy, to buy this motorcycle on HER name and give her even the owner's book? A person who know only by her nickname?
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Another story about a man living in the same condo building as I do. - He introduced his not so young, not so pretty girlfriend to me, she could speak really good English, but the way she was looking around made me mistrusting, just I got a bad feeling, I don't know why. She turned out to be a drug abuser, got her tantrum, smashing all furniture in his home and he had to ask police for assistance to remove her.
When I came back to Thailand a few months later I was surprised to see her again with him. He told me she came back so tearfully, asking for forgiveness, telling him she will never be like that again, please accept me you can do with me whatever you want but let me stay with you...love you - and this idiot MARRIED this woman and another year later divorced, after attacking him in her drug dreams, furniture smashed again and some money also gone...
It was still a much cheaper divorce than in Europe or in the USA he said to me, he also admitted for the first time he made a 'mistake'.
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Let me add another story, a guy from Germany, he sold everything in his country, 53 years old, and arrived in Thailand with not so little money, around 47 million baht.
He was thinking this is by far enough for the rest of his life. I told him, my calculation is not so optimistic, but it is not impossible either - but only IF you are very careful with money. Consider your life up to 85, consider to buy a nice condominium unit not over 3 million baht, consider medical fees, private health insurances and such expenses and NEVER spend more than baht 100.000 /max. baht 120.000,- per month. Consider a simple motorcycle or maybe a cheap small car...
Guess what? 15 months only and he was almost bankrupt, (but still had a few million baht left in his Thai banking account but by far not enough for the rest of his life) he decided to move back to his own country, looking for a taxi driver job as he still has a real chance for a good retirement allowance in Germany when 66 years old. He told me he paid for retirement allowance in Germany since he was starting to work around 22 years old up to 53. A lot of years, he is optimistic to come again.
I saw him once with a stunning beautiful woman, and he told me later this whore stayed with him for (only!) baht 5000,- per day/night, with her around every night in expensive restaurants and nightclubs with high charges for alcohol, he rented an expensive car, renting also a large fully furnished condo unit of 250m2 in prime location. (everything is so cheap here compared to Germany) - I could not believe he spent more than 2 million baht per month
He was not even cheated by women, he was unable to control his own spending and he is not a single case. Yes, yellow-fever....