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No 3 months ImO as my wife is Thai and 3 months is as much as I can stand. I have no beef with those who play the system to stay here though. In Pattaya, I have heard a well-known bank works with some of the agents to provide 'statements' to facilitate the process. In the final analysis, most of the folks staying here by that route will be renting a condo, spending money in the shops and bars and modestly helping the economy while probably minding their own business. It's not as if there is a welfare state here to sponge off after all. If you are going to find windmills to tilt at there are much worthier targets than this 'workaround'.

With all due respect, I think you may be in the wrong country. There are many to choose from if that rocks your probably capsizing boat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

These local banking apps are trash compared to what I use in app-only banks in the UK such a Revolut, Tandem and Metro and I miss the SCB Easy web version which they discontinued this year to concentrate on the app.

I'm sure all these poor souls will be heartened by the fact that Lindsay Graham said it's the best investment the US has ever made. But then following on from the debacles in Afghanistan and Iraq that's a pretty low bar.

To be fair to Thailand on this occasion the new London Elizabeth Line suffered a prolonged power cut a few weeks ago leaving passengers trapped for hours on a darkened train.

Great advice and insight too. Many thanks.

Cheers, great advice. Thanks for that.

That would make a guttering salesman a protected job for ThaI nationals only and as there are no gutters ergo there is no demand for them. Another unneccesary falang overhead like overpasses and roundabouts and health and safety. Besides which the spirit house sorts out all sorts of iussues on a daily basis.

Ouch - my wife adds that the locals might not have liked their area being industrialised and her local community reputation may have been more important than mere money. Indeed a local hero.

The studio condo I'm in (15th floor Jomtien side) I'm in View Talay 2A started at 1.9 mill from the owner (Thai company name) in 2017 - he sold to us (or strictly speaking to my wife for Thai chanote) in 2019 just before Covid for 1.2. We got a walk away price.

Plus they will know you want it. It takes a long time for sober realism to set in. The true price is the walk-away price.

And then we are back to the farang price money stand-off where the price of face (which is more real than the land) comes into play. Some great anecdotes on this thread thanks for sharing.

Sad that he managed to draft dodge in Ukraine only to be got at a Phuket traffic light.

Wise words and aligns with my thinking. There is no such buyer that wants such a thing and so it has no real value in the real world in the absence of the greater fool. That said my wife seems to think a pig's head, pineapples, assorted fruit and joss sticks may spur the land spirits to bring in a new owner.

Nope, we won't my wife is divesting assets now for cash. We sold a studio condo in Hat Yai last year and the last thing we want is any more immovable difficult-to-shift assets. We are taking her there in the new year though to sort out her name on the deeds and talk to some agents. I suspect most won't be interested in bothering. Her sister will be looking probably to borrow against this as it's the only thing of value that she owns but my missus will do her usual tough love. The family bank is closed.

My wife's sister has inherited about 1/3 of a rai of land near Hat Yai airport. it is reached by a dirt road of about 300m connected to a paved road and has electricity via poles but no water connection or sewerage. Looking at the Land Office map there seem to be loads of small parcels of land all in the jungle. She seems to think that land is worth about 5 million a rai in this area so would give a nominal value of around 1.5 -2 million. I can't see why anybody would want to buy this land - a big developer would be looking for large plots next to existing facilities and small pockets are of no real use to them and there is no developed neigjbour who would want to add this to their footprint. So the only value I can see is it has some value for someone rich enough to buy up cheap land for their own landbank and would only do so if it was very cheap. Am I roughly right in my thinking and what would be a very cheap 0.5 of a mill maybe? I suspect she won't want to accept a price that isn't aligned with her current thinking and so will never sell and therefore has no actual value. Or is it a bit like Bitcoin but a tangible asset in and of itself?

Quite the rant isn't it with a poor grasp of capitalization - the only thing missing is green ink.

The shocking news is sufficient Americans could vote him into the role of President and that ain't changing whatever the outcome. The democratic system is failing because the country is failing the people. Trump is a symptom, not the cause. There is much trouble ahead.

Are you a professional troll or just someone who attracts trouble?

They are mostly minding their own business and keeping themselves to themselves and hassling no one that I have seen. Good advice if you want to stay in Thailand long term. Overseas beefs are best kept there.

Wow could just be a shakedown of a flaky one to encourage the others. If there ever was a true crackdown then the net could get 100s or thousands of dodgy visa extenders. Knowing Thailand this looks like a shakedown and a price increase.

It is the right decision but this has the potential to get nasty really quick if he weaponises his many followers to start hassling local and national representatives and legislatures which he will. Time for the deep state if it ever exists to dust off the golden trigger document for use in an emergency.

No he's just a very talented freelancer who can be trusted but you would no doubt lose your service history for resale if you go off piste.

I follow on X Trump History which is a humourous channel which creates AI pics of Donald intervening at important times of world history. He has become a meme now that is influencing younger voters to think that supporting him is cool.

Everybody loves the Don especially the Don himself.