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From the article: "He added that he had already spent hundreds of thousands of baht on her during their relationship"...

Agree...

No walking street in Maenam China Town for a couple of years now due to the Covid lockdown; nearest walking street market is Fisherman Village with entrance at The Wharf, it's open Monday, Wednesday and especially attractive on Fridays...????

Eastern part of the Maenam Bay, not that many shopping facilities and restaurant as there are in the center part; a fairly quiet area, if that's what you are looking for. If me, I would look for something in the center section of the bay or in the western part. The weather during the 2-3 month monsoon season is very changing, you can have weeks of calm sunny weather, and you can have a couple of weeks with storm, and so heavy rain that many places get flooded, or you can have just gray sky and not too calm sea; during the monsoon season you'll not get bored by reason of the weather, it changes a lot...????

But for business you also had some possibilities for land ownership within BOI-rules.

To my knowledge an investor visa has been available for quite some time, where investing 40 million baht gave access to foreign ownership of 1 rai of land – how many have actually used that possibility over the years...????

I presume, it's not that big a problem, he already apologized... He said he thought that Mr. Jaroen was an unidentified person that he had an issue with before and apologized for stabbing and killing an innocent person.

Agree, I'm also former airline worker, i.e. educated in planning & navigation and C/D theory...

We have a previous thread about Box Jelly Fish here...

There are many, but I'm not a booking agency, so I don't drive around the island to look for signs and telephone numbers. In Maenam there are Tripple S (Google Street View-link HERE) and Madam P (next door with the ATM machine in front), the latter I think is called Maenam Bungalows, but I don't have their phone number, just sawadee the owners several times a week, when I pass. Both are about 100 meters from an Asian Top 10-beach. Then there is this one, some 300-400 meters from the beach (GSV HERE), and in Bo Phut I know this one "Meesang Garden Resort" (GSV HERE). You can actually use GSV to get around, check area and find something of interest, but mind you that the GSV-images might be 5-6 years old...????

Apart from the calendar, the weather furthermore sticks to El Nino and La Nina. The latter this year, which means more rain – some says 5 percent more downpour – it has been quite some, especially in the first half of 2022.

I've been staying both places, but mainly Maenam. Lamai beach village or area is cozy, have more restaurants and life on the beach area and more nightlife in form of beer bars (with ladies) and a square with a Thai boxing arena in action on Saturdays (I don't know if it's reopened by now after Covid lockdown); it's merely like you expect Thailand. I however don't fancy the beach as much as Maenam, more waves and miss the view to neighboring islands. Maenam beach is quite long – about 5 kilometers – and little different, depending of where you stay on that stretch; however, beach and view almost the same. In both ends of Maenam there are some few beer bars by the ring road, while in the middle section there are no nightlife like that, but cozy pubs and restaurants. Maenam is more laid down than Lamai. Personally I prefer to live in Maenam, while lamai has been great for shorter stays and bit of partying; especially earlier, when they had some late clubs – that part of the nightlife has unfortunately ceased to exist.

You don't find the good bargains for longer term rent of bungalows by calling hotels. Your best bet is to book something for the first few night and then find it locally, either by simply asking – it use to work quite well – or rent some kind of transportation and get around the island, and look for "For Rent"-signs. You can find Okay bungalows fan-only from about 8,000 baht a month and with aircon in the area from 10,000 baht a month, even within walking distance from beach, restaurants and shopping...????

I never go to fitness, and don't go much to restaurant, but takes a walk on the beach daily. I'm never bored on Samui, so much else to do and enjoy, including the party life that presumably is quite different from Pattaya, at least from what I have experienced up there. Probably, as well as everywhere in Thailand, depending whom you mingle with and how you behave – there plenty of single females visting the island – if you specific are considering a Thai girlfriend, some level of providing might also be a benefit, if not a must. And for "etc.....", yes there are also numerous rainbow-options available...????

I don't understand this line from the article – it's the "40-watt" – a typo or can some give me an explanation... According to Nissan Motor Thailand, 40-watt EV battery can supply enough power for a small family to use for 3-4 days.

Seems like the Russians are not aware of that the tourists season on Samui ends today, from tomorrow it's monsoon season until just before Xmas (Western Xmas)...

At least one pair is neighbors on Samui – so far no war – I think both of them have more problems with the local authorities than with each other...

There are Thai groups in Line or on Facebook. Only good reviews and recommendations can be seen, if you complain about others in public, you'll risk facing defamation charges. Don't forget that you are qualified plumber if you can saw blue pipes apart and glue two pieces together, electric work is more like to twist to pieces of electric wire together and wrap tape around it... I have successfully found good craftsmen by asking in building material shops if they know or could recommend someone to do a specific job – best if you have a Thai friend or partner to ask on your behalf – it has worked well for me. The building material shop will benefit from selling the materials used, so they are often interested in helping... Furthermore, some products you can buy including installation – which might be a surcharge – for example HomePro is good at offering that.

If it's a Thai school term, it's about 5 month, i.e. circa 3,000 baht per month, which seems fair for a kindergarten, which is not a bilingual- or international school. You alternative is a Kindergarten-class in a public school – i.e. K1 or K2 – if that is available. There will still be some costs for uniform and meals, plus eventual school bus.

Fairly easy to answer: If you don't have a proper company set up with Thai partners, you dont rent out motorbikes. Your Thai partners will know how to handle the front office rental business, while you are investor only, if you don't have the right number of Thai employees and hold a work permit...

I didn't see any bikinis in the cover photo, but that might however be what Pattaya-bikinis looks like...

If you bought one ticket with Emirates to Samui, they'll allow the Emirates weight. If you bought a separate Bangkok Air ticket you fly domestic with Bangkok Airways and their domestic luggage rules.

No, Phangan is relaxed party life.

Not at all, serious helpful reply, as this is how you find some of the good cheap bungalows, a number of them are not offered on the Internet, and furthermore you need to check location, airbnb-images can be too beautiful compared with real life...????

It seems like long ago you stayed on Samui. Today they don't offer shared computers and the almost all email-shops have gone. Most people are constantly 4G or 5G online. There is WiFi almost everywhere, and free WiFi in malls, banks, coffee shops and restaurants. A 1 Gb fiber with 5G WiFi-router costs little less than 600 baht a month pon Samui, it's 20 baht a day, shared with N number of bungalows. Most of the small huts have disappeared and been replaced with larger more luxurious bungalows – only the ones in the back used by Thai workers are still there – however, there are still a few left in places like in Bang Por for 290 baht a night. Not 24 hour electricity is back in the happy hippie era, Samui has changed a lot since then.