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That's 70 x 1000bt bills ( a guess - maybe 140 x 500bt bills...or......) Who carries that amount of money walking around - and a person on a motor bike just pulls up to a RANDOM person ....... Interesting......

Most do not know that a foreigner ( once registered at the hospital and has the ID card ) can use a THAI MILITARY HOSPITAL. VERY slightly more expensive than Thai civilians hospitals, WAY way way less than a private hospital. Many of the MILITARY Dr's are US or UK trained - English not a problem. You pay the same cost as Thai's. I do NOT know if they accept children ( I've seen kids at mine ) or insurance, I'm too old for both.

House Master is the person in control ( rents / owns ) of the house AND can also be a Tenant. Both can do a TM-30. Make sure you have a rental / lease agreement to qualify. An original TM-30 should have been done by owner / landlord. You are updating. ******** AS USUAL, IT all depends on LOCAL OFFICE POLICY on paperwork. ******** I do TM-30's myself as House Master ( most common ) 5 this extension year so far.

Almost EVERY IO has a LOCAL POLICY on TM-30's - same with the paperwork required to renew your new "extensions of stay" and paperwork for other things. One Brit I knew did his 90 day on the last day, last minute, the officer told him he needed to prove his address with his lease ( same address for 12 years ) to get his 90 day approved and sent him packing. Next day my friend returned with lease AND the landlord who raised holly hell with a supervisor, no fine and 90 day paperwork "fixed"

"""In the 3 years of having retirement visa (you probably do NOT have a retirement "visa", you probably have a "extension of stay" based on retirement ) I have never filed a TM 30 after....""" It all depends on LOCAL OFFICE POLICY. KORAT requires a NEW TM-30 EVEN returning to same address if you leave the country - 1st hand knowledge!

Monk with a car is nothing. I remember reading about a monk that has a private JET.

ANOTHER person saying ZERO BENEFITS????? You must be living in the wrong part of Th. ZERO Benefits? LOW rent, LOW Inflation, LOW medical costs, LOW transportation costs, LOW utility costs.......... Breathing smog, move to the country - farm lands area. Eating slop? ( I'm a Yank, wife is Thai ) OUR Breakfast today: Sausage, eggs, hash browns, toast, coffee. OUR lunch today: Meatloaf ( baked yesterday - kept in fridge after cooling ), string beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, salad - cooked the meatloaf in my oven, the wife rewarmed, the veggies were fresh from the FARMERS market yesterday, with home made gravy, coffee, strawberry's ( bought yesterday at a farm ) for desert. Oh, we do for food courts several times a month - if that's what you call slop.

Why would I want to pay taxes in Thailand when: 1) I live in a 2BR HOUSE with yard in a gated community paying $1,536USD a year when I can live in my old USA 1BR APARTMENT and pay $10,200USD A YEAR.. 2) Pay an electric bill of $45.00USD ( average ) a month when I can pay a electric bill of $150.00+USD a month in the USA... 3) Pay a mobile bill of $18.00USD a month when I can pay $68.00USD monthly in the USA for the same service... Pay a TV CABLE / WiFi bill of $18.00USD when I can pay $140.00USD monthly in the USA.... 4) Inflation of around 1% a year when in the USA 20%+ in the past 4 years 5) Take a taxi 20 minutes to town paying $6.00 ROUND TRIP, when I can take a 8 minute ONE WAY taxi ride in the US for $8.00. And people say Thailand has NOTHING to offer to them? WAKE UP !!!

and not ABILITY or education ( don't give me the bs someone can't afford higher education - I worked 2 PT jobs to pay for my education ) is insanity. When I owned a store, I joined / sponsered the intern program of a local high school. The kids were MOTIVATED to learn, I had 1 boy and 2 girls as interns. Color or religion was of no concern to me - motivation / ability was the factor.

Many businesses, especially international ones, give monthly BONUS pay based on their degree of English language skill. Many females go to school so they get the monthly bonus

""" Would it be safe to assume for a single guy it could be 7000-8000 per/mo? Does that include beer bought at Big Cunge? """ When I was single, probably spent more ( because no REAL cooking at "home" ) also don't drink - maybe 3 drinks in 5 years

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION is the key to good ( peaceful ) living space Pattaya Bangkok and LARGE cities are no longer on our list of places to live - do visit occasionally - we have property in BKK and her home village. KORAT fits the bill, rather 20 minutes outside of "downtown" Korat is my LOCATION. 4 MAJOR stores within 10 minutes, immigration 15 minutes, natural ( free ) fishing lake 2 minutes, 2 mom & pop stores 3 to 6 minutes, 7-11 is 10 minutes. My Thai bank ATM's in the major stores. Public transportation is decent, taxi fare reasonable for monthly trip to do banking downtown - by choice, a smaller branch is 11 minutes away. Renting a 2BR house with indoor kitchen, fenced yard in gated THAI upper class community 4,500bt a month - great neighbors and friendly female soi dog & 3 cats. Fiber cable and TV box ( 5G ), electric, water and garbage collection, averages under 5,000bt a month. 15,000bt food cost because we eat both Thai and Western food.

I ended up with a EMERGENCY US PP to get my extension renewed. 3 days later my 10 year PP came back from the US Took both PP's to IMMIGRATION, stamps transfered with no problems

MEDICAL Rule # 1 REGISTER at a your local hospital if staying long term. Suggestion: have a basic physical done after you register if you HAVE / forsee medical problems so the hospital already has a basic file on you. I use a Thai MILITARY Hospital, ( ARMY in KORAT ) many MILITARY doctors were trained in US or UK and no language problems. Slightly more cost than civilian hospitals, WAY, way, way less than private hospitals - your cost is SAME as Thai civilians using the military hospital. I do NOT know if children or health insurance is accepted, I'm too old for both.

Living here 12 years, it seems to get worse year after year. It amazes me how someone would go to a foreign ( country OTHER than theirs ) and act like a total arse!!! I vote to deport him and ban 5 years - although it happened IN Pattaya ...... Hummmm

Used my Krungsri DEBIT card in USA 1 year ago, in September, at my US bank, for cash with no problems.

Lived in Pattaya 2 years, BKK 2 years, visited a friend in KORAT 6 years ago - am still in KORAT, and in a good location ( for me @ 80 ) and live in a house with friendly Thai neighbors. A bonus being, I had a hospital stay at the Thai Army hospital ( 1 week ), SUPERIOR service and same low cost as Thai civilians using hospital.

I don't think a wife should have to, every day, ask for / or beg for money, to buy things SHE wants. Food budget in house average is 3000bt weekly. Occasionally she will ask for extra money, 90% of the time for some house wants - last time was 400bt for new dishes on promotion at Big C

Tell me where I can get for free " ...food, shopping, transport, fuel, housing, utils ... ," and I'll move there now. She does "housework, laundry, shopping, cooks 3 meals daily, has a garden for fresh veggies, washes my back in the shower, takes care of my physical needs" I think 5000bt is a bargain. Where the hell are you going to get a maid 24/7 for 5000bt a month - drop the shower & physical contact. I'm 80, was brought up that a husband "takes care of" the house bills and the wife.

"""would suggest Pattaya is not the place for long term relationships.....""" ((( NOTE: I'll defend the bar girls - MANY girls have NO employment possibilities in home areas so they end up in Pattaya because they are told 'plenty of work' there. SAD that they end up working in a bar.))) I have to agree with the statement. Lived in Pattaya 2 years - several non bar girls - nothing. BKK 1 year - didn't like the city, KORAT - still here 11 years and now married. As to """PAYING""" a wife, I give mine 5,000bt monthly ( under 1/2 of what she was making working in a factory ) to do with as she sees fit. As I have said many times, Thailand life is what YOU make it to be.

"""At your age pointless buying""". IF a person is over 65, agree with you 100%, UNLESS you get married and want to leave a home, assets, $$$ and etc to her. We have 3 homes. 2 of the 3 "we" own. We live in the KORAT rented house because of the LOCATION: Ease of MY BANKING at the malls, HOSPITALS and LOCAL, near the house SHOPPING and very 'close' to a major city, but away from the noise. In her home village, there are basically 2 mom & pop stores - NO Petro ( gas ) station, street lights or 'junk' food delivery. Amen!!

We rent. I am 79, she is 58. Why should I buy when I RENT a 2BR UNFURNISHED ( she chose furniture) house in KORAT for a average of $128.00USD ( see 3rd paragraph ) monthly in a gated community with friendly neighbors and a great soi dog, 4 major stores and Immigration 15 or less minutes away, a natural fishing lake ( free) 2 minutes away. One 20 minute round trip ( 260bt by grab ) to "downtown" monthly to the bank to transfer monies. We have a electric tricycle for 'local' shopping travel. WIFE owns unfurnished house and farm land in her home village - over 1 1/2 hours, and over the mountains, from any city in the middle of BFE. We also have a condo in BKK area she can sell - we stay there when visiting BKK. When I pass, she has KORAT furniture for her house in BFE, and money from the condo sale along with retirement monies.

"""The ones that speak English well have likely been already .......""" NOTE: RAMA IX had a nation wide program for Thai office workers and schools ( all grades ) to learn and speak English to be taught ONLY by volunteer native English ( English as 1st language ) speakers. Your post might not be 100% accurate.

Since covid, there are many "professional" ladies on the dating apks, but still good to meet a diversity of females. When single, I met factory workers, secretaries, nurses, farm girls, police officers and security guards, a good mix of ladies. It is usually possible to meet them WHERE they work. When / IF it comes to discussion of YOUR monthly income, say 25,000 - 30,000bt at the most. Many single Thai ladies live on 8,000 to 14,000bt a month working full time - some working 6 days a week. Meet 1st time at a public place like a restaurant or mall. Almost EVER female has a mobile no matter the money they make. Ended up married to a farm girl - we live on MORE than 30,000bt.

Be careful. Setting up a company to ""ONLY"' buy a house AND LAND is illegal - you can OWN a house as a foreigner, you can not own the land - there ARE several exceptions. Contact a lawyer!