sandyf

You mean generic or branded. Most on here would choose branded, elitism, and then complain about being ripped off.

Houses are a difficult one to deal with. I don't think industry and public buildings are as out of it as you seem to think. I have seen a lot of new factories go up in this area with solar panels on the roof, I passed a new building a couple of weeks ago that had solar panels for shade in the car park. On the No 7 just south of Lat Krabang there is a fairly large solar farm, not sure if it is private or government. It cannot be said there is nothing happening, at the end of the day all about resources and the Thai GDP is about a 6th of the UK.

You don't need sun to make solar panels work, it just improves the output. Every year the UK has a water shortage contributed to a great extent by surface evaporation on reservoirs. However they only see floating balls as the best solution.

I had a lesion removed from my ear about 18 months ago at Bang Saen hospital, lab report showed it as being BCC. I saw the plastic surgeon in the morning and he cut it out in the afternoon, speaks good English and did an excellent job, cost 13K. Saw him every 3 months for a year and then a 12 month appointment.

They are indeed, the UK can learn a great deal, particularly the Heathrow area. Put the falang mentality to one side and pay some attention. https://www.egat.co.th/home/en/the-worlds-largest-hydro-floating-solar-hybrid/

You will struggle with that. The e-visa comes in an email and you hand it to the IO on entry.

"It’s a pension that falls under non-accessible income, such as payments from the US Social Security." Hardly cutting edge info when the term in bold is by default contradictory. From Section 40 of the revenue code. "Assessable income is income of the following categories including any amount of tax paid by the payer of income or by any other person on behalf of a taxpayer." https://library.siam-legal.com/thai-law/revenue-code-assessable-income-and-income-tax-sections-40-64/

I first came shortly after financial crisis, If 70 odd to the pound was in the mire I will gladly get another pair of wellies. The Thais are very resiliant, not too phased by the tsunami, but falangs just refuse to recognise the strong points. After all according to them they have been manipulating the baht for the last 10 years, wouldn't getting away with it for that long be a strong point.

Stop posting garbage. Nearly half of Thai tourism is domestic, but I suppose in a way they are also visa exempt.

Quite. I would have been 26K plus 5K for the 2 nights if I hadn't used the CEO. My wife's uncle had both eyes done at once and he booked a room. It doesn't need to be a major outlay.

Thanks for coming back, not many would. You have my apology if post appeared a bit short.

I said in my first post I was about 40K for both eyes. Yes, quite likely the rates have gone up. When I had the second eye done they were just starting to build a new department. However when their normal price was 13K per eye, the private hospitals were about 3 times plus.

The UK failed to grasp the enormity of brexit.

This is page 3 of my invoice and you can see I paid 18K, aftercare came to about 2K. I paid an additional 5K for using the premium clinic. The normal charge at this hospital at the time was13K, Thais were allowed 6K if doing on the social or could pay the difference for the better lens.

I would have thought it was obvious from the link. "Located in Samut Sakhon province, Banphaeo Hospital (Public Organisation)"