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Lucky guy, my girlfriend is only 32 year younger than me. We are not equal, it's very individual how relationships work and age difference in same. If the older part is young in mind – and perhaps also keeps a healthy body – it can work well; I'm talking from experience, however with a few less years the the mentioned poster. For me, it has so far worked well 20 year now... However, my lovely girlfriend is getting older; so, perhaps it's time to restart with a new young model...

To my knowledge, part of the permission for an extension of stay is to keep the deposit as requested; i.e. 800k baht 3 month after permission of extended stay, and not under 400k baht the remaining period until two month before next application, where you need to top up to 800k baht again. Getting below the mandatory levels means that your present extension of stay terminates, and your friend will need to restart with a new non-immigrant O-visa.

What happened to "good guys in, bad guys out"...

According to all threads here I've seen in ASEAN NOW and other forums about the subject, return or onward ticket is not checked by Thai immigration. It's the airline flying you to Thailand that checks it, and if you don't have the ticket, you will not be allowed to board the airplane. So, you'll not end up in BKK without a ticket, and nobody seems to care checking it there.

Gold is very important for Thais, especially Thai ladies. It's safe to buy gold from the many gold stores that normally have red front and lots of shining gold on display. The gold is 23.9 carat and sold per weight. It's also used for investment/savings, where you can show your savings at the same time; more serious physical gold investment would be in gold bars, which some of the gold shops also sells, but they are not as good to make face with. The weight measure is "baht", which is 15.244 gram or the original weight of 768 rice grains. It's the same weight as money-baht originally was, but the money has been devalued, so you today needs more than 30,000 money-baht to get one "real" baht...

April 12th, KAAZE, Sound Club If you are into Top-100 DJs and prepared to pay the ticket price, then Swedish KAAZE (Dance/Electronic, Russian Dance) is visting Sound Club Friday 12th April – you might get wet on you way to the club, it's the night before Songkran – I found a link to Youtube for one of latest releases HERE, and a link to his live performance last September at Ravolution Festival in Vietnam HERE. His Instagram-profile is HERE.

To my knowledge: Yes.

Yes, you need to register and then login. Your TIN (registered Tax Identification Number) is your username, password you choose yourself.

Buy a cheap budget flight ticket that you can afford to throw away; for example the short distance from Hat Yai to Kuala Lumpur, it's very cheap on certain week days. Another possibility might be "Onward Ticket", which is a reservation system for next to nothing in cost, but I have not reference if it's accepted; perhaps some other forum members have experience.

You shall make the tax return form online, not download...

It's better to get an e-visa from home, a single entry Tourist Visa gives you 60 days of stay upon entry. When entering on visa exempt you'll need a return ticket or onward ticket within 30 days from arrival date; extension of stay in Thailand will cost you 1,900 baht, to be compared with an e-visa cost.

+1 – if you exit an extension of stay without a re-entry permit you loose your extension of stay, and need to restart the procedure for a new extension, often beginning with a (new) visa.

I've been in ST many times. To my knowledge there are not many expats there. Nice town, but not an expat place other than transit, as others also have mentioned. As foreigner you cannot buy land – your wife can buy it, and it will be her land – prices depends on location and can be relative high in central area. ST is a busy town for Thais with province offices, schools, hospitals and business. Take a look in the local bank branches for posters or leaflets with repossessed property for sale, which will give you an idea about land prices in various areas.

No, the serious part is the nominee shareholders: "...orchestrated the establishment of companies and subsequently transferred shares to Thai nationals to conduct real estate transactions with foreigners, a practice restricted by law."

There is a language selection on top – my PND.91 was in English language except from the scroll down selections. And I cannot read Thai...

NT fiber; 1Gb down, 200Mb up; 590 baht + vat per month, total 631.30 baht.

You can file it online – my tax office asked me last year to use the online in the future – it's actually quite easy, you find the link for "e-filing" HERE.

There might be more to the case, than told here, Norway is (normally) a fair state.

Would be better with a poll, if you wish to see some level of result of how many forum members that are actually staying in Thailand. And by the way, I'm staying here full time...

And many others have done it successfully, when reading the thread.

Maturing of two month is needed when you apply for extension of stay for either retirement or marriage And that is exactly what I'm saying about extension of stay; but maturing is not need when applying for the non-O visa inside Thailand, which is the first paragraph in your quote. OP's question is about "retirement", which is what I'm specific replying to.

Actually our bodies is rather designed to digest plant food – or a combination – if you listen to science; meat eaters have a more simple stomach and colon-system. Humans have eaten carbon hydrate long before the so-called obesity pandemic. And I also clearly say that carbon hydrate cause obesity for some or numerous – it might be depending on blood sugar, as some studies show – but science has so far no clear explanation about what cause that huge level of obesity we've seen during the last 50 years or so. Your body seems to be one that gain weight from carbon hydrate, but we are not all the same.

Obesity seems to be a global problem, and there also seems to be no generally approved answers to why. I have an old friend who are one of the world leading professors in obesity, and I often reads what he share. Some studies conclude that obesity is caused by wealth, when people can afford to eat enough food, which might include "unhealthy" food. Other studies claim obesity as a disease; I can suspect the medical industries to wish and support that, so they can sell obesity medicine supported by government funds. Some gets fatter from carbon hydrate (sugar), others from fat. That might be a good reason why some diets like pasta works for some, and not for others, while eating non-fat then works for others, but not for some. Studies have shown that there different ways for obesity depending of blood sugar level. It's depending of insulin sensitivity of how fast you feel full; which might be why diabetes medicine works to reduce obesity. In general it might still be down to that if energy intake is larger than energy consumption, the excess energy is stored, which in humans is stored as fat. From that point of view it's primary a question of change in life-style – both amount of food and snacks, and what to be eaten, and level of exercise, which is an important factor when slimming to burn the right fat – which can be difficult and might require some strong will. My own lovely girlfriend seems to have same kind of problem – however, still a bit from the level for finishing the relationship – but she finally try to face the change of life-style; she was also still slim after giving birth to our daughter, now some 18 years years ago. A way to help might be to in a kind way convincing that a life-style change is necessary – obesity can lead to a lot of diseases and shorter life.

According to new articles shared in ASEAN NOW about 6 percent of Thais are registered for income tax and circa 4 percent pays income tax.

Singapore; and especially on Sentosa Island you won't get bored...