tomazbodner

I could think of a few 25 million baht houses that are available for sale. But foreigner can only own house, not the land, and no loan. Paying cash?

I mean given they are asking for people to invest millions of dollars to get long term visas, maybe 1999 baht per month is not going to fly. How about 199,999 baht per month? Please don't give Thai government ideas you all might regret later.

On thaiairways.com page, select UK - English as location/language and you'll see everything in GBP. If you can't find it, click this link: https://www.thaiairways.com/en_GB/index.page

Has Tony just awaken from the dead? After years of relative silence, he's in the news every day now...

AFAIK, the border is closed for foreigners, no day passes issued (according to someone who lives in Mae Sai).

Yes, they have pet names also. The top one is called Phone and bottom one is PowerBank...

Opposite Siriraj hospital, Diamond Pharmacy.

I don't have FB. Used to have it until about 10 years back. Now I receive SMS nearly daily with some code to login. Had I not had a dual factor authentication, that person/s would have logged in and started scamming others in my name. I know of people selling all kind of stuff with stolen accounts, then disappearing, and sending police to homes of those whose accounts were hacked. Security questions and OTP are there for a reason.

You could open taladrod.com and search... that's the second hand car sales site. Once you choose a car, it will show (near the bottom of the page) the price ranges of different variations and ages of that car model. If you can't read Thai, open the page with Google Chrome and right click into a blank space, then choose Translate to English (or click on translate icon in the website address field). Example for first car that was listed on New cars today... a Civic: See the price ranges at the bottom, medium price and price ranges (and offers in brackets below).

Was in BigC yesterday next to condo as it's the closest. Not going there particularly often, but never got asked for any kind of ID. Cashiers were always very nice, but I never used any kind of membership, nor would I bother to apply for one. Used The1 card at Central and Tops - nobody asked for anything there either. Didn't use that card for at least 5 years. Maybe there was a discount or promotion coupon you received and they needed to register it against your ID?

There was apparently a copycat in Nakorn Sri Thammarat... stopped on the way to school with 2 guns, a box of bullets. Anyone else seen the news? Admin - if this turns out fake story, please delete. It's being shared on social platforms.

Sorry for repeating the same thing. When typing it, your post wasn't there yet.

Apparently after fleeing the scene of killings, he went home and killed his wife and kid, before shooting himself dead.

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Can I ask why masks bother you so much?

Extension of stay is cancelled if you leave country without reentry permit. Don't really need to go to immigration unless you need an extension of a week to leave the country as you were "supposed to" cancel extension on the same day as your last day of work. I don't know anyone who had problems by leaving without reentry permit. WP is a little different, but will only bite you if you ever apply for a work permit in the future. When you do, they'll find in records old one wasn't cancelled. You'll be sent to police station, where minimum fine is 2000 baht, and you need to get their statement that you paid the fine, before employment department would entertain you again in issue of new work permit. To cancel work permit, download form from labour department (it's just a table with your name, work permit number, and day of cancellation). Go to labour department with 2 copies of it, along with copies of your WP booklet (or to BOI with just that 2 forms). They'll stamp both of them, keep one, return you the other, punch holes through the booklet and return it to you. All in all 5-10 minutes + waiting for queue.

He would continue conversation, at the end give you an honest score of your Thai abilities, which won't be 100% but maybe 60%. So if there are say 10 points to earn for Thai speaking, you'd get 6/10. And you'd need only another 54 in other categories to pass the required score. If you are earning over 100k/month, you obviously have a master degree if you're doing PhD, and these 2 alone will probably get you 2/3 of required points. Being polite, kind, have a nice personality and having good attitude towards Thailand and Thai people, staying in Thailand a long while, and you're already there or over the needed points. If you're in 40-45 age range, you're probably already over the needed threshold - even your Thai was 2/10. Stop worrying so much. Switch to using Thai when you talk to taxi driver, 7-11 and restaurant staff, engage in conversation with the people around your property or when you're outside. Ask friends to talk to you in Thai. If your child goes to school, he/she probably speaks Thai with schoolmates, so switch to Thai at home. I'm confident you can pass with just that. And nobody would judge you for using some English words in Thai, as long as you get the message across. Smile, wai, show respect, speak politely, khrab at the end of every sentence, don't talk <deleted> about Thailand (like so many posters in this forum), put some effort into improving language, which I am sure your Thai friends would love to help you with... And you'll be just fine.

But there's one that didn't fasten any...

But traffic cams will.

True. If I was dead it wouldn't help me much, either...

Absolutely agree.

Any suggestions, more realistic than bringing people back from the dead? I mean I'd love to bring that doctor from dead that was razed by speeding motorcop, but that kind of isn't really possible. Other than with invention of time machine, that's unlikely to change. So, what should the bank do? What should the contractor do?

Never seen any with solar panels on them? I think if the Sun goes out, you won't need a radio anymore.

I don't think bank would make contract with contractors without a penalty clause, in case they wreck something. As it seems contractor was the sloppy one causing this fiasco, you'd expect from bank to pay the damages to prevent lawsuit, and then squeeze blood out of the company breaking into the wrong house. It really isn't the problem of house owners how bank gets compensated by contractors, it was bank that hired them and should take responsibility. But being a state bank... who knows how this would play out. On the plus side - they got their house renovated (cleaned, repaired, repainted, etc.) I guess?

Interesting. Maybe upcountry bank officers don't know the rules? The above was quoted to me as Bank policy and just happened in 2020. Though my card didn't get chewed up, merely popped up a message saying that card is about to expire...