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  1. Renewed in Phangnga while living in Phuket last year. Saved months of waiting for an open spot and it was only an hour drive.
  2. Nowhere do you dispute my information, you just add some more details. My information is still true, you just found it incomplete and wanted to add something like "they have many ways" but give no further explanation. You might have noticed I never talked in absolutes; "this or that will happen", my post was mainly aimed at warning not to lie about your status because the post I reacted on implied they might never know if you dont tell them.
  3. Maybe the AOW simply asks the local government how many people are registered on a certain address. If not, then you could lie and hope they never find out. If they do, some way or the other, you will be fined I suppose for the difference plus a huge markup.
  4. Getting 920 only sounds about right (maybe not fair, but thats another question). They would simply require a Dutch Citizen Number (persoonsnummer) from your wife, which she doesnt have. For tax purposes it is the same: although you are married and your marriage is registered in The Netherlands, she isn't your fiscal partner because the Dutch IRS does not know her.
  5. I get the 500mg at the pharmacy produced (by/for) GPO (Government Pharmaceutical Organisation). 10 tablets per strip, 50 strips per box. Total price around 800 baht per box.
  6. My guess is that they are careful with marriage visa applications because those can be misused by "relatively young" foreigners who aim to secretly work in Thailand or set up a criminal enterprise. Once you are eligable for a retirement visa you are so old you just want to sit on your porch and don't even think about work anymore. So less paperwork is needed by then.
  7. From experience (ext of stay Phuket town immigration): they do not honor the appointment times. When you come in you get the same queue number as you would get without an appointment.
  8. You do understand that many Thais need a motorbike to reach work and the fines you propose can be their total monthly wage? Maybe look at the USA to see how high fines and long jail times work out. They punish harder there than most countries, and now have one of the largest prison populations in the world combined with a very violent and criminal society. Fining poor Thais 5k baht will result in people losing work, being financially destroyed, and going into criminality to get an income. If you want more poverty and misery it might be a good approach.
  9. Everybody can just walk in and buy stuff. But with a card you can get discounts: like 1% money back on fresh meats if you purchase for over 10K in fresh meats in a month for example.
  10. Been the same in Phuket (extension based on marriage) for some time already. And with the back never being quick I can return home till after their lunch time before my queue number is up.
  11. Maybe just find a good lawyer on retainer with your 25m? That will be cheaper than marrying someone when you see a relationship mostly as transactional.
  12. It might be unique to The Netherlands then, but eveyrbody pays the same for a single ticket at the door no matter your country of origin. I suppose that is the same all over Europe (at least Northern Europe), but maybe I am wrong. What they normally do is sell yearly memberships. One time entrance is say 10 euro's, or you can come as many times as you like for a year for the total sum of say 50 euro's. That way the local people can enjoy the attraction for a lower average price, but there is no dual pricing (which is against the law). In Holland you buy a museum year card and you can enter 200 musea for a year for like 100 euros. Visit 5 museums and you got your money out of it already. A similar thing I see here in Thailand as well: the aquarium here on Phuket sells a yearly membership for 999 baht where a regular ticket is about 100-200 baht. A waterpark sold tickets for 500 baht, or you buy a yearly membership for 4 people for 25K baht. Come once a month and you are better off with the yearly ticket, but for tourists it is not worth it as they are only here for a couple of days/weeks.
  13. Are you looking for a shop/workplace that might be able to do maintenance, or are you asking what materials are used in your gate without posting a picture or anything so you can do it yourself? Your post is very confusing to me.
  14. Yes, its closed. I pass there daily and it closed down soon after Chevy stopped selling in Thailand. The building is up for rent so i guess nobody took the effort to put it on "closed" everywhere online.
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