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When leaving and not renewing the annual extension of stay within the time-frame, you loose your stay. You will later need to start all over again with a new non-immigrant visa and extensions of stay. However, you can keep your status by going to Thailand once a year with a re-entry permit and extend your annual extension of stay.

Your daughter needs to be registered as resident in a Thai House Book – a process in the tessa ban-district office – to get a Thai ID-card. A Thai ID-card is only of any use when living in Thailand.

The photo is an old Airbus A320 from before winglets...

Yes, I designed all my balconies myself...

Yes. However, we don't know if that is the case here.

That would be normal kind practice. Depending of the time spend, transport to Amphor-office and location of village the amount can be from a few hundred baht to one thousand baht. If you have a Thai partner, ask what would be normal in your area.

Same reason as tourists comes back to same Mediterranean places like Mallorca (Majorca) and Rhodes year after year. I have friends that has had their summer holiday on the same island for 30+ years, and I have tourist friends here that have spent their winter holiday on the same Thai-island for 15+ years...

Normal practise in some banks/branches. Just follow their rules and don't ask questions, there are so much we aliens don't understand about Thailand...

Yes, the article also mentioned that, but AOT still don't want to give the camera file to the police, so they can judge themselves that it's useless...

You first need your daughter to be registered in a Blue House Book for Thai nationals, then it's easy to get an ID when 7 years or older. A Thai ID-card is only of any use if your daughter lives/stays in Thailand.

No, not so far...????

Might be a question about picking the bar-lady that don't talk about "who broke up with their Thai boyfriend, who is marrying a customer," and who is not "borrowing money from everyone"...

I originates from the part of the world where Aerated concrete blocks also originates from – they have been a standard component since I was child – I used them in my home country, and I had a self-designed house built in Thailand in 2010 when the Q-con blocks were a fairly new product here. A better choice is to do a Q-con double wall with either an airgap between the wall or fill the gap with mineral wool like Rockwool, there are similar products available in Thailand, also packed inside heath-reflecting foil. By making double walls you avoid visible posts and the Q-con blocks are great to drill in if hanging something on the wall, instead of thin smartboards. The airgap will be enough heat insulation in walls, rather use the insulation material funds on inverter aircons instead of normal compressor aircons, and save on the power consumption. More important for heat insulation is the ceiling and especially the roof. Cement Thai (HomeMart) has a roof team that can draw your roof in details, make the steel construction in light weight galvanized steel, and mount the roof tiles correctly with a heath reflecting foil underneath. The latter is very important for a good indoor temperature. Their quote was actually lower than my Thai building constructor could do it, and Cemtent Thai's "Roof Experts" gives you a 5-year warranty and might mosr likely still be here during the waranty period; while your building constructor might have disappeared. Over the ceilings, which are normally gypsum board, place some insulation on the top floor if the house is more than one floor, or above ground floor if only one level. Just bobble-plastic with reflecting foils can do it. I made my house like described; apart from having uPVC outer sliding doors. We hardly use aircon and only during really warm periods. Another benefit with inverter aircons is, that some models might be able to heat during a cold period, mine can heat indoor until -10 centigrade outdoor temperature... I have uPVC slide doors. Next time I build a house, or when refurbishing the one I live in, I will choose aluminium doors instead. A heat reflecting foil on the glass might be enough or even better than double glass.

From the photos it looks like it's an outside surrounding wall that has collapsed and fall onto the house...

Something might be strange, since AOT will not reveal the CCTV...

You can read my previous post about how many people that actually lives on Samui and some calculations of water usage...

From the article in The Thaiger: ...Prateep Kusolwattana, the director-general of Provincial Waterworks Authority 4, revealed that the water supply stations located in the Phru Na Muang reservoir and Hin Lard waterfall have been producing 15,000 cubic metres of freshwater daily for consumption on the island. To address the water crisis issue, the Authority aims to supply an additional 24,000 cubic metres of water from Surat Thani on the mainland via an underwater pipeline to Koh Samui...

In my modest opinion – and I also have a child in Thailand – you should first of all make it attractive for your son to stay with you; force won't solve the problem.

Go, there will be water enough in the hotels and resorts...

Get out and enjoy the party and dance – that's what many other former grumpy old men do, and it's really a healthy nice cure...

The northern beaches are the best on both Phangan and Samui; however, the southern beaches have nice views. Many guests in resorts comes for spa facilities and/or use the pools, the latter rather than swimming in the sea.

1. They can change extension of stay from work to retirement. 2. I think that accompany spouse in retirement is only for non-immigrant O-A – cannot easily find other information – so, probably both needs a bank deposit of 800k baht.

To my knowledge, getting a non-immigrant O-visa on retirement conditions inside Thailand requires a bank deposit of 800k baht. To extend the stay based on retirement your deposit need to be matured by 2 months, i.e. you need to change visa within 30 days from your initial arrival, preferably after 2 weeks.

There should be a fund book available in one of the Thai banks with that option, for example this one from SCB...

Little scary to realize how many of the most dangerous airport I've been visiting...