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I think even with a minimum balance it will be closed eventually. Either because annual costs taken, such as paying for a debit card will reduce the minimum amount to zero, or through lack of use.

And with elected surgery, they will tell you your chosen hospital is too expensive, and give other alternatives."

Just got a nasty shock today. Received an email from my provider (ACS). My Medical Insurance for 2025-2026 has gone up drastically. From $4814 last year to $5525. Halfway to my 67th birthday, I'm not sure what to do as it renews on 1st Jan. With such a short ime to go, I think I will have to bite the bullet and pay it. At least that will give me plenty of time to research other providers to see if I can find a better deal. The following are the reasons they give. In a very tense economic context, marked by high medical inflation worldwide, and even more so in South-East Asia, where some of the main hospitals are charging increasingly high rates, our insurer Allianz has informed us that our portfolio is very much in deficit, and has unfortunately forced us to make a sharp adjustment to our health rates in order to ensure the continuity and quality of the cover offered to our policyholders. Your Health 2025 premium will be indexed at 14%, plus any increase linked to your change of age bracket. The rates applicable to any optional cover remain unchanged. Seems like the Thai hospitals are getting like the US ones. I wonder if some will eventually price themselves out of the market. Many providers already don't like to use certain hospitals.

Does he have time to take on yet another job? What with running all his other companies.

Your visa service is correct in suggesting you keep trying different banks. even different branches of the same bank. It might help to try it in an area where there are a lot of foreigners, as the staff get more used to doing it. Sorry, but I cannot help re a visa agent or someone like that to help you open an account. Maybe ask a lawyer? it might cost though. You obviously wiil need some paperwork, including copies of passport and proof of address. I used a Certificate of Residence obtained from Imiigration.

My plan is to try and cut back on some day to day spending, bring in a large chunk of cash each time I return to home country, and use that to reduce what goes through bank account. Also try and pay any large bills with my home country credit card or the cash brought in. Maybe gift GF some money to pay daughters's annual school fees and extra curricular lessons she has.

It all seems a bit too late and pointless anyway. Hasn't he already been given a pardon from on high? Leave him be to play with his grandchildren.

The cancer cases must already have been there. The program has just brought them to the fore. I wonder what the main causes are here in Thailand. Smoking? Excessive use of chemicals in farming? Pollution? Additives in food? Deep frying everything?

If they are indeed meteorites, they will certainly feel refreshed if they are worth a few quid. Normally they are quite valuable. Maybe not so much if they are just turds from a high flying airliner.

Why? Can't he just pardon himself once in Office?

And pay themselves quite handsomely it seems. I'm alright Jack.

Get one of these from Lazada: https://www.ecoflow.com/us/delta-2-portable-power-station Should be enough to power an air fryer. I bought the smaller one, the River Pro in the 11/11 sales, due to constant brown outs. Got it for running a few fans. 765W, but my fans are rated 46W. Already have emergency lights. Typical. The minute I bought it, we haven't had any power cuts or brown outs. Even with all the recent bad weather. But it's charged up and ready. I even bought a solar panel to charge it once the Sun comes out. 🙂

Who was it that coined the phrase, "Good guys in. Bad guys out"?

Well there isn't much work for estate agents, (realtors in US parlance) in China after the liquidation of the Evergrande Group.

No doubt if, or when caught, the usual wai and apology will be forthcoming. As if that is enough to absolve them of their actions.

It's not so much the insurance companies charging "Farang" price. It's more the hospitals charging, "Insurance company is paying" price.

Removing them might not be that easy. They have almost five years to do what they need to stop that. The only good thing is every time Starmer's goons, and the thoughts and feeling police haul someone in for questioning over a perceived, real or fake slight, that person, their spouses, families, and perhaps friends, will likely turn against Labour and remember it come election time. The Police aren't coming out of this too well either.

While I would love it to happen, just to see Queer Starmer's face when he heard the news, I think that such donations from foreigners opens up a can of worms we don't need. Even if genuine, allegations of buying influence would abound. That saying "You don't get something for nothing" rings a warning bell here..

Oh Daddy! What should I do?

The other option if she (or you) can afford it, might be to get a private teacher for extra lessons in the subjects she is weak in.

Then imagine how many British nationals feel about how all this unchecked illegal immigration is affecting their lives. Public services are falling apart, and the Thought Police are out to stop anyone saying anything bad about this Government.

Sorry Thingamabob. I didn't mean to scare you. I was just being sarcastic for our troll.

Took the daughter to school. A lot of standing water before Samui Town Centre, coming from Fisherman' Village. Also down the road, just past the airport departures entrance. Must have been pretty heavy last night, but I didn't hear it.

are not aligned with us. Us? Was that a slip up?

This is from an excerpt of a reply on Reddit regarding getting Google Voice outside the US. Don't know how true: it's pretty easy to get a US-based GV number by "borrowing" the cell phone number of a friend in the USA for one-time verification of the account. (You can unlink that number later, without consequences in my experience, and just use GV via VoIP.) There is other information about UK Google Voice Paid Business Plans at £8, £15 and £24 per month, but they are too expensive for what the OP's and indeed my own limited usage requires.