Cost of Living

I still have difficulty understanding the whole work ethic of Thai’s and Chanya is no exception. She works 6 days a week and some nights she finds herself working past 10 pm because she has customers drop in around 8 pm closing time. To Thai’s, money is money and she won’t turn them away. Other times, she finds herself sitting …

A recent email conversation with a younger channel follower got me thinking about the sort of choices you need to consider when choosing Thailand as a place to live. In tonight’s visit to Big-C, I go over the main points raised in the email conversation and elaborate on those ideas. It’s been some time since we walked around our local …

We’ve found a location for Chanya’s new Hair Salon and we’ve talked through everything over the last 24 hours and decided that it has all the makings for her business. We’ve run some numbers on the budget so now we’re heading out to firm up those costs. There will be incidentals and some labour costs, but the major expenses are …

Today I’m heading back into the dentist to finalize the fitting of the last ceramic crowns. It’s been an interesting experience for me over the last 10 weeks and the final result is looking wonderful. Many people are saying that it has taken years off my looks, but maybe they are just being too kind. It certainly is a new …

Chanya wasn’t feeling up to going to class today. She received news that the shop location she was applying for was given to another Thai. This is one of the annoying things we face where a 3rd gender Thai often gets passed up for things like a lease or a job simply because Thais don’t feel secure with the 3rd …