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Google works instantly right now...????????

You can get 60 days extension of stay based on being married to a Thai; i.e. with a non-immigrant type-O visa you can get 90 + 60 days stay in Thailand, which covers 15-20 weeks. I believe you can also use a 60-days tourist via, plus 30 days normal extension of stay, plus 60 days extension of stay based on marriage. Thai driving licens is a must, when you stay – and of course drive – in Thailand for more than three month. You need an international driving permit and your national driving license to obtain a Thai driving license; there are no benefits of being married to a Thai. You have no benefits of healthcare, you need health insurance or being self-insured, just like all other foreigners...????

I presume I am – i.e. in control of habit – I never drink beer...

Wow...????

Where shall the money comes from...

Yes, that's how it is...????????

There are three kindergarten classes in Thailand, K1, K2 and K3 – followed by six primary school classes, P1 to P6 – so school rather begins at the age of three to four...????

Always look at the bright side of life: You can reuse the small jar with the patent locked lid, a jar like that might cost you 500 baht, so same-same but different...

Could well be La Nina...

Agree...???? –I was going to add a comment about what happens during a heavy rainy season...????

Probably the road will get a 10 centimeter layer of black tarmac, which will fit the drain level. The did the same on Koh Samui, when building new rainwater sewers, works fine after the black tarmac was added...

Must be extremely prime location with full infrastructure for 25 million bat pr. rai – around 3.5 million baht per rai for land by concrete public road with 3-phase electricity in place is more likely the present going price; of course higher for excellent view for foreigners, or when the land is facing main road for making business.

Do you say 25 million baht per rai..?

There is always a market if the price is right, but land prices on Samui don't seem to have increased during the last decade or so, if it's not extremely attractive land. Typically land costs around 3,5 million baht per rai, I was offered the same kind of land 15-18 years ago for 3,5 million baht. Bad location cheaper, good location more expensive – and way more expensive if prime location...????

It's because you're living on a hippie-paradise-island, which got inhabited by foreigners back in the late 1970s, when there were living about 200 Thai nationals on the island. Especially watching the full Moon rise on the so-called Sunrise Beach in uninhabited Haad Rin – you could only get there by long-tail boat, or walking over the mountains, or in low tide walking in water by the cliffs – but one afternoon in the late 70s, which more precise was in 1977, the police in Lamai became too interested in the hippie's mushroom shakes, so they decided to celebrate Xmas and young Joe's birthday on the beach of Haad Rin instead and watch the moon rise. Guitars, bonfires and lots of irritating sand-flies; however, it was such a good event that they decided to meet again next full Moon and repeat it – and so they have done ever since... Some of the hippies from that time are still living on Phangan and live like like not much had changed, smoking their so-called Bob Marley-cigarettes. Others of the original hippies and later arrived changed "business plan" and became New Age – you might still find some in a remote bay sitting meditating. Roads and progress changed Phangan, and from 1989 the parties at Sunrise Beach, where bungalows had popped up and a dirt road over the hills made entrance easier, were organized events and Full Moon Party became a worldwide trademark with thousands and young people of both age and mind are getting together in Haad Rin every 4th week. Furthermore, mind the number of high-end yoga- and health resorts, the New Age-hippies have not inhabited the island in vain... Phangan also became a paradise for so-called digital migrants – some of the are not so "migrant" after visiting Phangan – and other adventurers, perhaps in search of the original secret "beach" from the novel of the same name, that is hidden somewhere out there on one of the islands in Ang Thong Marine Park; of course together with the fields with weed for quite a number of additional Bob Marley-cigarettes – to min knowledge, the haven't yet found "The Beach", or they might just keep it secret... The Russians came later to the island – both Phangan and Samui – mainly after the millennium, at the moment quite understanding that numerous of young fit Russian men relaxes there. And then there might be some "sensible Western, professional and single gentlemen", as you say and seems to have noticed – have you ever considered to join a Full Moon Paty, you might even meet some quite exiting people there; I did...????

–and that is – shops selling cannabis – what the OP post is about and my comment...

From the OP-article... One change that may make a difference to how recreational users are behaving is that the gazette order now restricts the consumption of cannabis products on the premises unless it is for medical purposes. This means that cafes connected to shops selling weed will have to stop allowing people to smoke or vape it on the premises.

Neutral, but cannot vote that, so that must be a blank vote...

If you read the news, you cannot smoke it...

Lost illusions, hospital visits don't seem as fun as they once were, anymore...????

I presume that some bars that changed businessplan recently from beer bar to cannabis, might need to change businessplan again...

Don't worry, if there is a demand, then there will be more flights, it's business. If there isn't a demand then additional, but empty airplanes won't help the local's business...

No problem with a motorbike. The two ferry lines sails on reduced schedule at the moment so about two hours waiting time might appear.

From the article: "The municipality then sent him a letter saying that they halted further construction of the houses because no application had been made to build them and he faced a fine for violating regulations even though he never built them in the first place." Yes, after Thai law-practice it seems to be the at any time present owner that is responsible, even someone else did it, so if take over an old land-plot with some existing construction, make sure it's legal (I talk from experience)...

Most resorts in the Haad Rin area have a 5-day (nites) minimum booking around FMP dates. It seems like FMP is back to almost pre-Covid status – I haven't been over there myself after Covid, but my daughter has, and says that it's pretty much back to normal, so book as early as possible, especially of you wish to stay on the Sunrise Beach-side...????