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From videos, this should be junction at Din Daeng, the end of it, where Vibhavadi Rangsit ends and you can turn either left to Din Daeng on Rama 9 or towards Victory Monument and Ratchaprarop road to the right, with expressway overhead.

Full name, but it needs to be typed 100% correctly, else they would not be able to cash it. You would likely get a copy of their ID - while doing the contract, so presenting that to bank staff and reconfirm that it's correctly entered, should be enough. Make sure to stamp it Account Payee Only. In case it's lost or stolen, noone other than person with name on cheque can cash it. If they have any loan, agents, etc. they might not need one cheque but one for bank, another for seller, another for agent... Ask for exact quantities for each, and issue them accordingly. Other than that, I don't think there's anything much to be concerned about. Maybe someone else can chip in more.

Only the entire cost of the condo purchase (the unit price) needs to be transferred from abroad. The transfer fees, taxes, agent commission, etc. are excluded from this requirement, which makes sense, since they could be paid by either buyer or seller. Often 50:50 but not always. Taxes/fees at land department should be paid in cash as there is a clearing charge for cashier's cheque. For the rest it's better to do cashier's cheque and get seller to sign that they received funds to prevent challenges later. You never know... As for finding sympathetic banker... they would have to fake the transfer or documentation, which could get them in significant amount of trouble. There are UOB and Bangkok Bank which offered housing loans to some foreigners in Thailand to bypass the laws, issue them in SGD and then transfer funds to Thailand from Singapore. That wasn't open for everyone, though, and had minimum property price and maximum tenure. It was considerably worse deal than local offerings. I guess a plane ticket to a nearby country and transferring funds back could get around this problem easier than trying to corrupt a banker.

That is absolutely correct. You can buy a condo, or even a house in your own name **** (rules apply), but not the land. However the whole topic was on OP walking to land department without any paperwork, and just paying cash for the condo, without having proof of transferring funds from abroad, having no PR and not being Thai citizen. Land department will not allow him to do transfer without this paperwork.

I was referring to OP wanting to pay for it in cash without bringing funds in from overseas. Please consider the context and don't only copy half of one sentence in entire post, taken completely out of context. Without PR or being Thai, you cannot walk to land department and do transfer of property under your name without having proof that funds originated outside the country and were legally transferred to a Thai bank, which issues a form to confirm just that.

Land department will refuse transfer without that green slip. You would only be able to put it in the name of a Thai or a foreigner with PR without the proof of incoming international transfer for at least the entire unit cost.

If you are Thai or have a Thai PR, you can buy cash. If you are a foreigner without PR in Thailand, you can buy condo but not in your name, as for personal purchase by foreigner you'll need a form from bank that all the purchase price has been transferred from abroad - so at the least you would have to take your cash, fly out of Thailand to another country, and make an international transfer back to your bank account in Thailand. Some buy properties in name of company but that brings with it a lot of other challenges, and it is usually done when foreigner wants to buy a house, or when buying condo in area that has foreign quota already filled. Some buy properties in name of others, like their wife, girlfriend, etc., which removes above requirement, but of course then property isn't legally theirs but belonging to someone else, which usually leads to problems later. Without that green form from the bank you will not be able to make a transfer of property at the land department to your name, even you already paid for it with cash. And you should never use cash. Use cashier's cheque, and get seller to sign copy of it to have proof they received payment.

And I know several who applied and were granted citizenship, and they aren't even that fluent in Thai, nor are they rich. It is in fact cheaper to apply for citizenship than PR, and those did it over PR (first PR, 5 years later applied for citizenship) ... and yes, they had to sing the anthem as they weren't married to a Thai. But you know what... when I was asking about applying for PR some 15 years back, the same group was killing my mood with same kind of statements, how it's just impossible, how you need a very good lawyer to apply for you, blah blah blah. I followed Camerata's guide on this forum, applied by myself, and had it granted. So if there's anything I can suggest the OP - stop listening to AseanNow nay-saying brigade who obviously have no clue, find threads of successful stories, reach out to those and ask them what to be careful of and how to navigate the mine field of Thai bureaucracy.

And it didn't take long for someone who never tried to come out with experience of the entire Earth's population to put the OP down, simply because "If I can't have it, neither should anyone else". Are you Slovenian, by any chance? Darn, you surely sound like one.

You should probably start with alphabet to learn differences between tonation. I didn't, which caused a wreck later. But as you said you're beyond beginner, you might have already learned spoken Thai, which could work against you in learning it properly. Nonetheless, the Thai test for citizenship is not much different from one for PR - it is in formal Thai, and it is conversation. Ability to read/write would give you extra points. It's not an exam per-se, but rather starting with standard Q&A and then moving to whatever conversation leads to. It is true that applicants for citizenship need to sing Thai anthem, however from what I am aware, that's only true if you are not married to a Thai, where it is not required. And finally, if you combine your lessons with your wife only speaking Thai with you, depending on how flexible your brain still is, you could be fluent in Thai by then, as long as she only speaks formal Thai with you. Good luck.

Why do people get so annoyed about masks? Should government ban condoms as well, since HIV is now endemic?

I had mine at Jewelry Trade Center, and anyone with Social Security could get it there for free. Maybe SSO provides something similar in Pattaya? Otherwise, I recall Phyathai hospital was having large posters offering Pfizer, and I constantly get bombarded with Moderna offers from THG, which I think has some hospitals in your area as well. But Phyathai and THG are chargeable, no idea how much it costs there. A friend got a shot at Bang Sue station recently (last month) for free. That was registered through mobile operator. Maybe something similar exists there?

Should have stopped here.

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Given what you plan to do with it, you may wish to consider matte rather than gloss display. I don't know about other brands, but apart from insanely expensive nano coat on Apple display, HP has EliteDisplay and Z display, which are targeted at office work for people who stare at the screen the whole day (like me). Probably Lenovo and Dell have something similar as well. As these displays have literally no reflection, the image is very crisp and legible, so your eyes don't get tired like they do on glossy home displays. Given my eyes are also not what they used to be, despite using 5k display when typing this now, I actually prefer 24-27" FullHD displays for everyday work. With this resolution and matte coat, they are just so gentle on the eyes. If you're into media and gaming - then high contrast glossy display, flat up to 27" and possibly slightly curved if over 30" makes more sense.

My last Philippines made UPS would not give power anymore, but wasn't beeping either... When picking it up I noticed a rattling sound. Unscrewed the plate and the speaker fell out... well "speaker" is too strong of a word. A half a cm black cylinder with 2 legs and a small hole at the top that makes noise when there's current running through it... beeper or whatever would be more appropriate word. Looked at it each time I was tempted to buy another APC product...

In protest, you should give up booze. That would teach them!

Now that you put it that way...

Glad you didn't write ... or an accidental suicide.

For someone to hit him like that from distance, this was a professional hit. And having not shot anyone else, likely a well-paid professional, well trained former or current army sniper.

True but HIV-NAT has doctors in there as well. Even you just want to take a blood test, you need to talk to doc first, and then go back to doctor to read results for you. I would imagine those same doctors write prescriptions. In my case it was just vaccine, had to have blood test first, which showed I had no antibodies, then went down to pay for vaccine, then to pharmacy to get them, and back to doctor to administer them. That was Hepatitis A+B vaccine. HOWEVER - when going back for 3rd shot they told me they've ran out and I should go to hospital (admittedly considerably more expensive) but there they picked up on the schedule which was a month off, so I was told to come back later. Hence they might be cheap but it's worth rechecking what they are doing as it's not all always perfect.

I you can take her to Bangkok, the HIV-NAT clinic is right at the junction of Sarasin road and Ratchadamri road. It is ran by Thai Red Cross and has a pharmacy inside. I got vaccines there and saw others getting HIV medications from the pharmacy which seemed not to be expensive. I don't know if that's just for basic test but for Thais who registered themselves (you don't have to and can test anonymously), the HIV test was free. It would make sense to test the whole lot of STDs as that could affect the symptoms. Hepatitis, for example, is much easier to contract than HIV, and a secondary infection could contribute to deterioration of her health.

Because they'd probably be chased and killed if they did.

APC (Schneider Electric) used to be the brand to go to but since they moved manufacturing to Philippines, their quality is no longer quite the same. I still use their stuff but it's no longer any better than Syndome, Cleanline, and other much cheaper brands. More or less all of them will have batteries fail after a year or 2, and many have onsite maintenance where the box is opened, battery replaced and it works another few years.

The less they know, the better. Can fine them for violating rules.