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Originally Posted by LivinLOS
My personal feeling is that why cant the family get big face by putting a kid through a better school, getting a computer and phone line, investing in a local biz, hell even putting an extension on the house or something tangible.. 100k is well over a years wages for rural folk, yet they will be happy to piss it away in a 2 day drunken party with little thought for the future. Thats what gets respect in Thailand ?!?
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Agree with you 100%!
I have tried to tell my wife that I don't want to give money to every person in her family, except her mother and son of course.
They are 14 sisters and brothers!
But we can for sure help some of them with a loan if they can get a better job or income because of these money.
One of her brothers is selling salad together with his wife at the marked every morning and make nearly nothing.
He now asked us to loan him the money for a deposit (21K Baht) to lease some kind of a minibus.
He got an offer for a job to transport people to and from nearby cities/villages, but he then needed the minibus.
From what I understood this could be an ok business for him, and I said yes to borrow him the money.
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Originally Posted by LivinLOS
Thats the kind of thing I am trying to change my own GF's ideas on.. That 'face' is attained through being smart with your money, and creating a base of power / assets.. But I am unsure how much really goes in.
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I don't think so much goes in when it comes to this.
In Norway she thinks different, but in Thailand it is only the "face" of her mother that counts.
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