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  1. If you get a re-entry permit before you leave Thailand, on your return you will get a new arrival stamp (not a visa) with permission to stay until the same date as the previous arrival stamp showed.

    Without a re-entry permit, you will get an arrival stamp (not a visa) with permission to stay based on a visa-exempt entry if your nationality qualifies for it. (The linked list has not yet been updated to reflect the addition of a few more European countries). Alternatively, you can buy a visa on arrival at a limited number of entry points if your nationality qualifies for it. (Also this list has not yet been updated to reflect the change that took effect earlier this month)

    So even if you have a Multiple entry O visa the last 90 days given (making 15 months) does not qualify you to come and go on those last 90 days without having to obtain a "re-entry permit" from your local immigration office? I was planning to go to Laos via Friendship Bridge 10 days in of the last 90 days.

  2. To keep this in perspective BUPA is better than nothing by a long way....

    That's what I think. I just renewed the platinum cover cost me 30k for the year, I drive a motorbike daily and as you know its nuts on the roads here i would rather have 2 million baht cover for that then nothing at all whilst laying in some soi bleeding to death.

    Also for an extra 4k I got my missus covered, she said that was a nice thing to do, i said buying insurance for yourself was like buying a new car with 1 air bag, how selfish can you get.

  3. I feel most of the time as an outsider but tolerate that for all the good things that brought me here.Just this week I had an eye opener of what people here really think of me. I take thai language lessons every night and feel my thai is improving. But every time I speak thai to my friends who are thai they look at me like what did you say and act confused. I feel I cannot communicate. Then last week I was in Bangkok and tried my thai on everyone I met and it worked perfectly I had decent conversations. I mentioned this to my Thai teacher.He said they probably look at me as their stupid farang friend and when I talk thai to them they just refuse to talk thai because they feel I am to stupid to carry on a conversation so why try. Nice friends huh. Gives me the feeling they patronise me rather than befriend me.

    F'them and the teacher.

  4. they do not cause any harm,it is only music,but everyone knows the visa rules about work in thailand.they can be very tuff sometimes over these issues.look at the issan area foreigners who marry thais and live on the land can not pick up stick without breaking visa work rules.even driving a tractor if that is the only transport is cause for that too.no work is done but thais see this as work related.farlang can win over this issues

    valid point there! Am I allowed to cut the grass and tend the garden at my house owned or rented? Or even paint or do repairs?

    No you need to employ a local.

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  5. So what i am wondering is if there is any possibilities to bring a page to the top without doing that much in SEO? I mean if there is any other things out of SEO that can affect the page rank and traffic?

    Yep there's one very good way - publish original and useful content or services and structure your pages in a logical sequence. This is by far the best way to improve your search engine rankings as people will link to you organically and this is exactly what search engine algorithms are designed to reward. SEO is but icing on the cake. Its importance is secondary to content. To some extent SEO is an attempt to game the system and that is exactly what search engines *don't* want to reward. Search engines are evolving resistance to attempts to manipulate rankings and this will increase with time.

    To put it plainly, if the content of your website sucks then no amount of SEO can help you :)

    Getting to the top...well, that also depends on how competitive your subject area is and also what search terms you are interested in. If you intend to sell viagra to men suffering from erectile dysfunction or 'meds' of any description you can basically forget it. But if you have highly original content you will find it very easy to get to the top even if your site is not actually popular by virtue of the fact that there is less competition. That doesn't necessarily mean that a lot of people go there, it just means they are easy to find :)

    The other thing I feel compelled to point out is that most technical SEO (not including backlinking which is better termed 'marketing', or when conducted by SEO consultants outsourcing to India, 'spamming') is simply a matter of following good practice in web design. Most of it is common knowledge amongst competent webmasters, ignore anyone that tells you it is black magic.

    Bottom line - provide good content and services and make an effort to follow good web design practices, and do some marketing if you're a commercial outfit. You can do 95% of it yourself. If your site starts to attract serious traffic and you are serious about it, then take a look at SEO.

    Usually some SEO consultants will now post patronising rebuttals claiming that any view more than 2 months old is ancient history and imply that they have secret knowledge of how all the latest tweaks to all the different secret search engine algorithims work (which they don't), and that therefore they deserve to be paid some ridiculous sum for their black art.

    Blimey you sound like you know what your talking about.

    Can you give us some examples of competitive keywords or keyword phrases you have got a domain to page 1 for simply by publishing original and useful content and then thousands of other websites have found your amazing content and decided to throw a link at your site for free?

    Please do give some examples it would be very interesting...

  6. People happy to "report" others for making pocket money because they have a bird on their shoulder or asking questions about work permit or other administrative stuff should report back to farangland and become nieghborhood vigilantes there (or green activists). Don't pollute the LOS with your policing please.

    Agree

  7. I pulled from a junction yesterday infront of a slow oncoming vehicle that was some way back, a motorcyclist over took him and almost hit me. He slowed down and gave me the look of thunder through the window, but wait for it...he was driving one handed with a beer bottle open in the other! fing amazing Thailand I give you that, he then proceeded after overtaking me to start to swerve from left to right one handed erratically as if to show me how good hes driving skills were LOL, no doubt he will be on the list of goners this year. :)

  8. After living in central Pattaya for a few years then moving to East Pattaya (where I swore I never would do :) ) life is so much more relaxed and a million times more healthy mostly due to the fact of being outside in the fresh air and sun daily whereas you seem to be covered over if that makes sense almost permanently living in Central areas.

    The only downside is the drive back and fourth, i do miss the convenience of it all living in central but you become lazy, over the east side you have to make an effort which really is a good thing, keeps you on your toes but as I say it is so much more laid back and nicer.

    So yes definitely would suggest somewhere on the east side for family and a healthier life style but would recommend spending a good 1 or 2 weeks driving around there are so many villages to chose from its unbelievable, you find one area that you think is the best then guaranteed you will find somewhere better later on!

    And they say location location location....yes that might be true in most cases but for me the number 1 is neighbours, neighbours, neighbours! make sure they haven't got dogs that continually bark non stop at night, so check the area at night also.

    One more thing I should mention, and never seen it mentioned before, over in the east side some villages have a speaker system that comes on early in the morning and late afternoon, the head village person plays music and speaks about the day. If that don't bother you then cool, if it would drive you nuts then look for the speakers before you hand any cash over. If you are British you will remember Hi di Hi, that's what it reminds me off, a xylophone will be struck 3 times then someone speaks, It reminds me of Gladi's and her calling Hi di Hi through the speaker! haha, there are even Muslim prayer speakers in some parts, even in a 25k detached house you could here it in the next village so you must go there at all different times of the day.

    Good luck with your move anyway.

  9. Just got off the phone with my wife's boss and he wanted me to go undercover. So I am going to get these guys names and addresses and information at the rally tomorrow morning so that they can be deported later on. Tonight he is taking me to karaoke. Ah, the good life.

    F'me, it's Domenico Cappa. :)

  10. Please stay out of Thailand domestic problems
    This is Thais' politic, STAY OUT OF IT.

    We DO NOT need any interference (pro or against).

    All foreigners should be neutral or being deported immediately. It's not our country, we're not even allowed to vote, so please don't listen to your wife to join in.

    :)

  11. Is this guy a licensed real estate agent? Probably not along with most of the racketeers in the real estate business in Thailand. It seems any criminal can go into this kind of business in Thailand. Most of the foreign ones seem to be "Brits"

    That's right, it would appear the Brits are after the big money and leave the selling of worthless junk on eBay to the rest.

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