Hi,
Well - we did it - after talking about it for years - we bought the tickets, packed the bags - and headed to Phuket to Live. Well - it wasn't exactly like that - it took a couple of trips home to get everything sorted - but are now officailly on a ME Visa that allows us to be in this country without getting whiplash from the 30 day yoyo - and looking forwrd to becoming locals, or expats anyway!
Sounds like there is a bit of fun to be had, and some things to steer clear off (like this thing called the hash? are the Hash Bashers a vigilante group of concened citizens cleaning up the steets of hash-ish? or hash-ers?).
We (me my wife and son) have rented a house, have borrowed a pickup, gsined a nanny - and lost a nanny, experienced the &^%$#@*&^! intermittent internet service (i still have to work - no internet - no work - hey wait a minute - that should be a good thing!!) , enjoyed the regular blackouts, oh so nearly cleaned a few motorbikers up, oh so nearly been cleaned up by crazy bus drivers on the trip to BKK, and a few other things that Australia definetly had on offer!!
Looking forward to experiencing a whole lot more of LOS - any suggestion???
I was originally looking at doing some business in Thailand, but the longer I am here, the harder it looks. I take my hat off to you guys that are working here - and making it work
Whats the secret? In the meantime - I am still have a business back in oz, I am going to try to cut some cost by sourcing things in Thailand for it - I have already found "print sticker" is about 15% the price here as compared to oz. If any of you know a good printer who can do print sticker, brochures etc - i'd love to know. Same goes for website designers, promotional gear, computer programming and building design work. Oz is nuts when it comes to labour costs
BTW - any suggestions on BMs to steer clear off?
Any that like to :drink: to much
or maybe are a bit trigger happy
, maybe they whinge too much
, or they run through the jungle to check up on their hash-ish crops - and any other clues!!!!!
Hope to put faces to usernames as i use this forum some more - it has been really useful when ever I have needed to check anything up - i would trust a debated thread on this forum way over a website trying to tell me that - sure - no worries - you can get reception service all over Phuket when I go to buy a 12,000 baht internet card - right!
See you in the bars, in the jungles or where ever we meet.
