Quote: (03-09-2012 09:02 AM)AlphaTravel Wrote:
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It sounds like faking a diploma is my best bet then.
I wouldn't be so quick to get a fake. I seem to remember a post on DavesESL (I think it was here) a year or so ago about a long time teacher in Thailand getting pulled in by the cops / immigration over a fake certificate. He'd been working there for years with no issues and suddenly was in the shit. If you do want a fake, they sell fake everything from driving lisence, student cards, certificates and passports in Kowsan road. No idea on the quality.
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For example, I live in a provincial city (pop. 110,000) and live very well on 11-12k baht per month.
Where do you live out of interest? You talk about going out 4 or 5 times a week and nightlife but I can't imagine there would be much in a city of 110k, what's it like?
A few days ago I met a girl who's just moved to CM from BKK. She lives just on the outskirts of CM (near the Big C supermarket if anyone knows it) and her basic apartment costs just 1000B per month. There was nothing wrong with it either. Makes you think how cheap Thailand could be if you were willing to live like a local.
I'm in Phitsanulok, about 4 or 5 hours north of BKK and about 4 hours south of CM. Nightlife here can be surprisingly good because there are two huge universities that are both majority women. I live near the largest university and if you go down to the bar street there around 10:30 pm or so, it's usually going off seven days a week. Lots of nice little skirts.
The only problem is that it's a Buddha town so in the city center they have been reluctant to allow any development of a centralized bar district that you'd find in most other large Thai towns. You have to have a motorcycle or car to get from bar to bar or basically anywhere for that matter.
Yeah, Thailand can be insanely affordable. I have a one bedroom apartment, with a living room, kitchen, bath, and patio that runs me 2800 baht a month. After utilities the bill comes to about 3100. It's only two years old also so it still has that new feel. Some of my colleagues have 2 or 3 bedroom houses with gardens that they're renting for 3000 baht a month.
Here's the discussion about the fake degree:
http://www.ajarnforum.net/vb/the-staffro...ost1191666
http://www.ajarnforum.net/vb/the-staffro...court.html