Neeranam

You're a tourist, please stop finding fault with everything. Go to immigration.

If you don't live with your wife, then forget the advantages people mentioned about visas. Immigration check with neighbours about if you actually live there, or not.

If your wife is a government officer, you get free Thai healthcare.

Was just thinking about the advantages of marrying a Thai. I get tax allowances for being married, also for my wife's parents who are over 60. Used to be easier for your kids if the parents are married, but not now. The only advantage for older, retired guys is less money in the bank for a visa, however the disadvantages FAR outweigh this advantage. After living here for 30 years, I could tell you about billions of baht lost due to foreign guys trusting their wives. There is one other advantage, if you go down to the town house and spend hours and time getting a yellow housebook(that foreigners call 'tabien bahn'), you can get a pink card that means you don't have to carry your passport every 5 years when you renew your Driver's license except in a few provinces, like Roi Et included.

That makes sense, the pink ID is not a real ID, otherwise you wouldn't need to show your passport. Did you need to renew your yellow housebook, the one many foreigners call 'tabien bahn'?

Mazda CX5 then

It used to say "can't leave the issuing province without written permission".

I guess that means it is not a real national ID, i.e you couldn't use it to board a domestic plane, and definitely not use it abroad.

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It's not an SUV, but a Crossover.

I thought the Bangkok Post was banned on this forum. So the Chinese can't buy a visa, yet my buddies from the UK, US and Oz can pay 20k baht a year to illegally get a visa extension, like thousands of other Westerners?

Maxda CX30

Great being able to use the remote a/c control, so you enter a cool car. Looks good, bit tiny to drive.

Rather foolish living upcountry if you can't speak Thai.

My money is that they use XRP/Ripple. The former governor made lots of signs about this in the past.

Was it an air conditioner bus?

I keep some bitcoin on revolut

Absolutely, its not rocket science

Yes, Romanian

Yes it is. Take a trip to market Village Huahin and look who is wearing masks and who isn't

300,000 illegal retirees paying 20,000 baht to bypass immigration requirements, mostly keeping money in the bank = 6 Billion baht

Of course all overstayers are criminals, it's a criminal offense to overstay your visa. Remember the Al Qaeda chief who used a visa agent here?

If we want to live here for a long time, we can go through the proper naturalization channels. What is your country? I find it rather ironic that many people, including myself, want to keep illegal aliens out their own countries yet complain how hard it is to become a legal immigrant in Thailand. Australia and the US should remember the Red Indians and aborigines.

That country was created by immigrants, have you never see Titanic? Rather ironic people like Trump, who's mother was Scottish, complain.

A Thai ID is very useful to have ????