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23 hours ago, gargamon said:

You  need it to renew yur next 1 year extension, as I indicated. You might be able to get a hotel to provide the necessary documents, but I've never done that. Owning a condo would be another route.

the lease requirement may be a stumbling block for me. My intention is to stay in cheapish hotels on monthly rates when I'm in Thailand. I doubt they will provide a lease that immigration may need. 

2 hours ago, gargamon said:

I do exactly as you want to. Jing is correct. No limits, as long as you have a lease in place when you want to renew.

good point - so, just staying in hotels won't cut it ?

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

No limit except if you wish to apply for a new retirement extension you will need to be in Thailand before the current one expires.

Noted - thank you..

Once my non-O retirement visa and multiple entry permit is established, how many months a year can I spend outside Thailand and still maintain the visa or extension as the case may be ?

The reason for the question is that I want to spend about half the year in Thailand, but the other half in neighbouring Asian countries travelling.  The sIx months or so in Thailand would not necessarily be in one block.  

My thinking is that if I try to do this with tourist visas I have an annual time in country limit to adhere to. I am happy to comply with all aspects of the retirement visa including the 800k in a Thai bank.

Is this serious ? My calendar doesn't say 1 April. 

3 hours ago, SooKee said:

This equates to 'Learning to live with Covid' how exactly? ????????

Variants will continue to crop up at inconvenient and unexpected intervals, this what we must learn to live with - and the associated restrictions will ease up and then tighten up again - ‘Living With Covid’

13 hours ago, fangless said:

Why insult, in this case, the people from Barcelona?

????

Barcelona is a nice place, but the residents not so sharp

On 12/27/2021 at 12:58 PM, richard_smith237 said:

So you don’t know what this is about, you have no idea of the back story but still feel compelled to comment ?   
 

These are people who were ripped off by a bank employee offering a product he pedaled as being from K bank & transactions took place inside the bank. 
 

 

I am very interested to know the full story. So, it was a bank employee offering a product that was not actually offered or endorsed by the bank, but he did this 'business' on bank premises. I would suggest the bank's liability would commence the moment they knew about the employee doing this and what action they then took. Prior to that, how can the bank be liable for an employee committing something fraudulent that they have no knowledge of and never endorsed ? 

Was it really theft or a recommended investment gone bad ?

On 11/23/2021 at 1:25 PM, connda said:

Start here:

If they could truthfully tell the public that the Covid vaccines stop transmission of Covid in its tracks, ends contagion, and paves the path to a return to a full Old Normal society where Covid has been eradicated?  Most people including myself would be lining up.

But that's not the case.  Here is what the population is told:
"The Prime Minister has expressed satisfaction with Thailand’s vaccination rollout and its vaccine regimens that can help reduce severe symptoms and deaths from COVID-19."
The CDC, WHO, and other health agencies no longer claim that vaccination stop transmission or contagion (I personally know people fully vaccinated with mRNA shots who were extremely ill), they are not 'sterilizing vaccines', as such they promote immune escape, the so called "protection" wanes in a short period of time (less than 6 months) and boosters will be required forever - and even if 100% of the population is vaccinated - this never ends and there will never be any going back to Old Normal.
Oh - and then the increase risk of coronary damage: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712  <shhhh>  Perfectly healthy, fully vaccinated footballers and athletes keeling over with heart issue don't help picture.  That wasn't happening prior to Covid vaccine rollout.  Of course it can be argued that correlation isn't causation - but tell that to the average citizen who simply sees what they see.  Oh - and the perception that the Thai government habitually lies to its citizens (I've no dog in that fight, but I live with Thais and know their views).  And when the government reaches a Covid milestone, they move the goalposts:
(70% vaccinated and we'll have herd immunity; 95% vaccinated and we'll have herd immunity; herd immunity is impossible so 100% need to be vaccinated) or
(The vaccines will stop transmission and contagion, the vaccines will stop you from getting sick, the vaccines "can help reduce severe symptoms and deaths.")
So what changes next?  Keep pushing those goal-posts.
My guess is that the government will eventually go full coercion: "Get the shot or we will lock you in your homes and then hunt you down house by house and jab it into your arms."  Although not publicized on main-stream news, there are currently massive protests globally pushing back against the authoritarian approach that is beginning to rhyme with totalitarian.  And in Thailand there will be a sub-set of the population who will probably explode if it comes down to forced vaccinations.  Just saying.

The question being asked is "Why are people refusing to get the shot?"  Well, there's an answer from someone who will only take the shot under duress.  I'm sure there are more reasons than that.  People have their own reasons.  Mine actually has more to do with my innate distrust of any institutions that seek to silence and censor any and all voices in the scientific community who don't accept the single narrative proposed by the CDC, WHO, and other EU agencies all of which are revolving doors between government regulation and pharmaceutical corporations.  Foxes in the hen-house.
https://fablesofaesop.com/the-hen-and-the-fox-barn.html

In the meanwhile I suggest that the PM read the following old fable by a wise fellow named Aesop.  Just that would probably give him a good start toward what he wishes to know.
https://fablesofaesop.com/the-boy-who-cried-wolf.html


 

must have felt good to get that off your chest ????

4 hours ago, Gandtee said:

Another shot?? That will be four!! Some poor buggers are still waiting for one! Privileged? Just a tad maybe.????

who's waiting ? now available to all, except if you feel you must have Moderna

"glasses were covered around with tissue paper as well as non alcoholic mixers on the table" - throw the book at them !!! 

22 hours ago, SmartyMarty said:

who said that is my face?

that’s the face they will look for, so tell your father to be careful

4 hours ago, SmartyMarty said:

Desperate times created by despots require desperate measures.

Showing your face with those comments not good my friend 

19 hours ago, toofarnorth said:

And why a pic. of him and not Miss Treetops ?

there was a separate pic of her with her eyes blurred

On 10/23/2021 at 3:52 PM, PETERTHEEATER said:

To protect Intellectual Property Rights. The blurring conceals the 'Hello Kitty logo. Can't  be too careful these days......

that would be why ????