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Might not work that easy. Book accommodation for one or a few nights ahead and check areas and accommodation out yourself, word of mouth is often an excellent help.

You can find fan-only bungalows from around 6,000 to 8,000 baht a month – depending on season and personal preferences, fan can be all right, I stayed almost five years in a fan-only bungalow – aircon bungalows comes from around 10,000 baht a month. Be aware of possible higher prices in high- and peak-season, i.e. Xmas-New Year and from January to mid April, plus July-August, when it's not a long term (all year) rent. There are many areas with affordable bungalows close to beach – i.e. relative short walking distance from 100 meters to about 500 meters – cheapest might be Bang Por on the north coast that has both reasonable convenient store shopping and restaurants. Maenam, Bo Phut, Bang Rak, Plai Leam and Choengmon are other possibilities, but with more more tourists, which also means good shopping and restaurant facilities and slightly higher prices. Moving further inland in these areas, you will find lower prices. On the southern and western part of the island you might find little more affordable accommodation, but also fewer shopping and restaurant facilities, and a need to consider transportation. Most bungalow resorts today have WiFi, the island has fiber from 1 Gb down and 200 Mb up. With a 5G WiFi-connection you can have excellent speed. ????

There are a number of visa-run companies on Samui that arrange everything, including transport in minibus. Might be worth checking some of them. Easyway is one possibility, Samui Visa another.

You can, the new wealthy foreigners LTR-visa is a great opportunity, or you can use the for quite some time existing Elite Card...

First of all, check the land's title deed, it need to be not lower than Nor Sor 3 (Nor Sor Sarm), and preferably Nor Sor 4 (Chanute) for ownership, only the last is full ownership. Nor Sor 3 can be upgraded to full ownership, but it m ake take a while to have it done. Apart from investor visa (40 million baht) and wealthy retirement visa (30 million baht) foreigners cannot own land. The most common way around it is establishing a Thai company limited to own the land; however, the foreigner can only own 49 percent and there need to be minimum three shareholders in total with 51 percent Thai ownership. Furthermore the Thai shareholders shall show evidence for funds. With preferred shares – the are two common methods – the foreigner can be able to control the company. The foreigner can be director and have power to sell and/or transfer land owned by the company. There are costs for running a company and preferably the company needs other activities than being an empty shell for foreign land ownership. Another way to secure "investment" in land with high title deeds is, to get a loan declared as servitude – for example the value of the foreigner's investment in land and buildings – with a loan servitude the land cannot be sold or transferred before the loan has been fully paid. There are ways to get permission to use or live on a plot of land, but that does not include rights of ownership or rights to control the land, hereunder selling it. Rights to use the land can be habitation right, usufruct, or lease with a superficies right to own new build buildings on the land. Be aware of that an agreement between husband and wife can be nullified, for example in case of divorce, so do have contracts made before transferring a land title to a wife's name.

Building rules in my area says, one meter from neighbor, and only 50 centimer if no openings, i.e. doors/windows. Two meters inside own land when facing public area and road, 3 meters from water edge. Have you checked the local building regulations..?

Because it's already legal since 7th February last year (2021), read more HERE...????

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Normal requirement for Yellow House Book, mine was even more difficult, almost as applying for permanent citizenship but I however didn't need an interview in Thai language – I could use a translator – and I didn't need to sing the national hymn by heart (the staff at tessa ban shall be very happy that I didn't sing...????). Some places the requirements for Thai witnesses is that one shall be a neighbor and one shall be government employed...????

RSV infections are on the rise in many areas, there will soon be a vaccine or two choices available, they are both in successful trials.

If Thailand want more snowbirds, they should make it easy to stay for up to 180 days, perhaps with a special "snowbird visa".

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She will need parents accept to renew a passport as minor. My experience is that both parents need to be present in the passport office, but check if a power of attorney is possible, it was not in my case some years back, I needed to be present in person.

Bang Por is quiet and if you find the right bays, there is great beach there. The area is amount the more affordable for accommodation, and both the number of restaurant and convenience stores have increased during the last few years...????

It has changed a bit, beer bars with ladies are not as good a business on Samui as it once was, but there are still some bars in Lamai; clientel has changed to more families and the young ones head for Chaweng and parties...????

Maenam is still a great beach and a good area - I've been living here permanently for 16 years now - and at the moment many affordable bungalows for rent. However, be aware of the monsoon-season during November-December...???? Maenam Beach, August 2022...

As @Kenny202 says, you have no rights as father, just being named on the birth certificate when you are not legally married to the mother. You will to my knowledge need a DNA-test and a visit to the family court to be recognized as father. Later, when a child is 7 years or older, it can be done at the amphor district-office, but both the mother, the child and the father needs to be present and confirm it (I did it that way, but have no problems with my girlfriend and mom to our child). Often some funds can clear a problem in Thailand, which could be a lump sum or ongoing child support - which should not begin before the family court has approved you as father, you will need a lawyer to help you - being recognized as father might mean that you shall financially support your child, this is beginning to take place in Thailand and often heard figurs are 3,000 to 5,000 baht per month. Being registered as father, you can have the birth-certificate and court-result legalized and apply for a Cyprus passport - I presume Cyprus follows the EU-rules, after the so-called "Genovese against Malta"-case i 2011 - so a child born abroad with a foreign mother can obtain citizenship in an EU country if the father is citizen in an EU country. It might be valuable for your child to have dual nationality and a passport from an EU country.

You can get the capacitor at Supot Electric.

You have 20 kg luggage included in the ticket, so it must be extra 10 kg; i.e. in total 30 kg...????

Nobody seems to answer. To my knowledge you are fully responsible - all for one and one for all - in an ordinary partnership, if it's a partnership limited only one partner needs to be fully responsible. Employees can be partner and anybody else, but do pay social security as proof of employment. You should be able to find details with a Google-search. If you are married to a Thai and your extension-of-stay is based on marriage, you can obtain a work permit. If your non-O extension-of-stay is based on retirement, you need to change to a non-B visa abroad and re-enter on that visa.

Can one presume - when borrowing the name - that Capone pays tax...

Only if and when your bring your overseas earning into Thailand. If your bring the earnings into Thailand the same calendar year that they are earned, the "imported" funds are fully income taxabe in Thailand. However, if your import the earnings the following calendar year - or any later time - the earnings has magically converted to savings, which are taxfree to import...

I use my Thai phone in Europe. Connecting to Wifi, you can use Internet and apps without a data subscription. If you need data, you need to buy a package, like the mentioned one.

Not much, according to the experts; a power station meltdown is 100 to 1000 times worse than a nuclear bomb. However, it might depend of the number of nuclear bombs being detonated.

Gai is still there and doing well, but her mother - who used to be cashier with the money in a plastic busket - has died, more than 90 years old (my photo is from 2014)...