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Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jul 9th 2011, 5:30 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 5,053
Posted By Paul B

Re: Been home 5 weeks now

It took nearly a year to get Child Benefit sorted for our little 'un when we moved back to the UK. There were no end of complications and incompetency by the people in charge. I finally made a call...
Forum: The Barbie
Jul 8th 2011, 1:16 pm
Replies: 141
Views: 7,444
Posted By Paul B

Re: NEWS OF THE WORLD--GONE

I remember being a pimply 16 year old and walking into a newsagents to try and buy my first copy of the Sun, just to see the titties. I was so nervous, convinced the young girl serving knew I was...
Forum: Thailand
Jul 7th 2011, 10:04 pm
Replies: 76
Views: 12,805
Posted By Paul B

Re: Buying a property in Thailand

Well, when I read the "I trust him 110%" and "We are in a lifelong relationship" I really thought she meant it, but then I read she had not even MET the guy I damn near soiled myself laughing.
...
Forum: Philippines
Jul 7th 2011, 9:08 pm
Replies: 32
Views: 35,358
Posted By Paul B

Re: Banking in the Philippines

It is in my name. That's what I mean when I say I opened an account. . :confused:
Forum: Philippines
Jun 12th 2011, 3:41 am
Replies: 43
Views: 26,251
Posted By Paul B

Re: Choosing where to live in the Philippines

Our new build faces east in the morning, and we have the two main bedrooms at the front, so we get the morning sun. We don't have windows on the sides of the house, for various reasons, so I fear...
Forum: Philippines
Jun 10th 2011, 11:48 am
Replies: 32
Views: 35,358
Posted By Paul B

Re: Banking in the Philippines

I opened a Peso bank account at BDO in Angeles about six months ago without any problems. I'm just on a tourist visa as I come and go so often.
Forum: Philippines
Jun 10th 2011, 11:37 am
Replies: 43
Views: 26,251
Posted By Paul B

Re: Choosing where to live in the Philippines

Ours is very often over 5000 pesos, and we have 2 air-cons in the bedrooms only. There are five of us in the house and we don't have an electric cooker. That is more than we ever paid in the UK.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jun 9th 2011, 5:59 am
Replies: 22
Views: 2,319
Posted By Paul B

Re: in need of major advice!

Unless you have no money, then they will loan it to you. No freebies though, they want it back eventually.
Forum: Philippines
Jun 9th 2011, 2:13 am
Replies: 43
Views: 26,251
Posted By Paul B

Re: Choosing where to live in the Philippines

It depends on what you want to do really; live in another country, or simply make your own little slice of England in a warmer cheaper place.

We live in Angeles, and while it has a big ex-pat...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jun 9th 2011, 1:56 am
Replies: 22
Views: 2,319
Posted By Paul B

Re: in need of major advice!

You can't 'lose' your UK citizenship.

If push really comes to shove, you could ask the UK embassy to repatriate you, tell them you have strayed from the path due to bad advice, and can they help...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jun 8th 2011, 3:09 am
Replies: 23
Views: 2,180
Posted By Paul B

Re: I Need Help Please

I'm English, born and bred, but I failed it miserably doing the on-line practise test.....
Forum: The Barbie
Jun 7th 2011, 11:37 am
Replies: 24
Views: 2,050
Posted By Paul B

Re: Woman suing Aus Govt for not telling her about UAE laws

That'd be kind of ironic: get drugged and raped, then go to the cops about it and get busted for having drugs in her blood, and spend life in some turd world shytehole jail for it.

And just to...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jun 7th 2011, 2:55 am
Replies: 20
Views: 1,998
Posted By Paul B

Re: Man forecloses on Bank of America!

Wasn't this recession partially caused/fuelled by ****wit banks illegaly foreclosing on people? I think there are a million law suits in process right now from people whose lives were literally...
Forum: The Welcome Inn
Jun 7th 2011, 2:50 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,267
Posted By Paul B

Re: Wannabe Expat here...

And I've also met a few who hated it, earning hardly subsistence wages, barely more than locals. You really have to do your homework, and don't accept a job just because it is the only one you can...
Forum: The Welcome Inn
Jun 6th 2011, 7:53 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,267
Posted By Paul B

Re: Wannabe Expat here...

I looked for a job in Singapore when i ran out of funds backpacking. Didn't take long, spent two years working in a sailing marina, though I had no experience whatsoever with yachts.
Forum: Philippines
Jun 5th 2011, 9:17 am
Replies: 11
Views: 14,780
Posted By Paul B

Re: TV system in Philippines

Thanks for the info. I was in CD-R King an hour ago actually, looking for a hard drive casing. They appear to have no end of wonderful gadgets and widgets.:thumbsup:
Forum: USA
Jun 5th 2011, 9:10 am
Replies: 332
Views: 29,966
Posted By Paul B

Re: Very low - what should we do ?

Take up a hobby, meet other similarly minded folk, try to get into their mind set.

If I lived in the USA I'd be like a pig in shit, as hot rod parts are simply so cheap and available I'd be...
Forum: USA
Jun 4th 2011, 8:48 am
Replies: 15
Views: 7,626
Posted By Paul B

Re: The myth of no exit controls

I have no doubts that the government collate ALL passenger info into huge folders and have a list of everybody who has been in and out of the USA in the last 20 years or more.

Couple of times I...
Forum: Philippines
Jun 4th 2011, 7:26 am
Replies: 11
Views: 14,780
Posted By Paul B

Re: TV system in Philippines

I've been thinking of something like this as I have a couple of old video camcorders that I'd like to download the movie off. What exactly are these devices called?
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jun 4th 2011, 7:15 am
Replies: 75
Views: 9,477
Posted By Paul B

Re: Homesick today

Oh dear, never thought I'd offended anybody that much. :o

Apologies to all if I offended, five weeks offshore on a small ship does tend to change ones perspectives a little.

Now I am home...
Forum: USA
Jun 2nd 2011, 2:40 am
Replies: 34
Views: 2,812
Posted By Paul B

Re: "..on the verge pof a great, great depression..."

"Every person in Britain could owe up to £43,567 or even more in credit " said experts today.

That's the sort of drivel 'news' you get from newspapers, open ended meaningless statements designed...
Forum: USA
Jun 2nd 2011, 2:34 am
Replies: 24
Views: 1,781
Posted By Paul B

Re: Shit the bed!!! (Tornado)

There was a documentary on tv about it last night, 600 tornadoes in the USA in April, which is 4 x the average! :confused:

Mega floods in many countries, Australia had one bigger than France and...
Forum: Philippines
Jun 2nd 2011, 1:23 am
Replies: 10
Views: 1,703
Posted By Paul B

Re: An old newbie???

To the average 'tourist' it is just Fields Avenue, which is a bit like a Thai bar strip with dozens, maybe hundreds, of Gogo bars along it. Dusty, dirty, typical third world looking by day, it...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jun 2nd 2011, 1:03 am
Replies: 75
Views: 9,477
Posted By Paul B

Re: Homesick today

Well, I dropped in here just from reading the 'Todays Posts' page and I started off berating certain people for wallowing in woe about homesickness, wishing their lives away, wasting their lives...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Jun 1st 2011, 9:10 pm
Replies: 48
Views: 6,179
Posted By Paul B

Re: B1/B2 v VWP

We've been told you have to use the exact visa for the exact purpose it is intended for when entering the country. I am not allowed to enter on my B1 if I am not going to work.

My company got...
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