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This topic never fails to bring out an arrogant response.

Quite, but it should be borne in mind the law is in respect of identity, also applies to Thais, it is not an immigration requirement.

Bit of a ridiculous comment. The cooked food business is being attacked from various directions so it is a cumulative effect. A fair percentage of Thais historically bought precooked food because they didn't have facilities at home such as electricity and refridgeration, that has slowly changed. Many cooked food outlets were family owned and run, with the changes in education, that is now changing. Then there is the more direct influences like management, wages, rising prices etc. The covid crisis caused a major blow to the sector, it forced people to do things differently and like an overstretched spring, there has been no full recovery. There is also the tourism factor, a great deal of accommodation now offers cooking facilities. I stayed in a hotel at Kabinburi a couple of weeks ago which had a full kitchen,dining table, the job lot. Why would travellers want to go out when they can pick up what they want from the supermarket and have it in the room.

By law Thai nationals are required to carry their ID card, so the carry over for foreigners is the passport. A copy is usually sufficient, before getting the pink card I used to get a copy reduced down and laminated. In some circumstances the original may be required and I believe you get a few days to do so.

There is only one way to read this statement and it's implication, so comment quite factual. " I have a long term visa and know how to act and dress when crossing a border so I essentially am a walk through."

Unlike my phone, i have never had any problem signing on the PC. I doubt very much that there is anything wrong with the Wise web app, don't really use the phone app. If you have used different computers, could be a connection issue, but a bit strange if only shows up on Wise. I use a 13 year old laptop, not much more archaic than that.

What is not simple is making a comment regarding comments on an original post that was incomplete. The original post said it was only source of income but didn't say what type of pension or if recipient was tax resident in UK or not.

You responded to someone that visits the border regularly and trying to impy they don't have a long term visa. A bit arrogant don't you think. I spent my first 6 years in Thailand on a 12 month ME visa visiting the border on a regular basis, not many visa options longer than 12 months.

I did it once in the early days back in 2008 and as you say, never again. Used Ban Pakard or Ban Laem, a lot less stressful.

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Compared to who? The low income earner cannot change their life style as quickly as a high earner. The Thai GDP is about a sixth of the UK, do you really think that the UK is improving the infrastructure 6 times faster than Thailand.

You are perfectly free to believe what you want, doesn't make it fact, they speak for themselves. My daughter in law's parents live on the outskirts of Sheffield and have had solar panels on their roof for many years. Every year they have a holiday from what they make selling the excess energy back to the national grid.

It is a bit academic. The US definition of any kind of ceasefire is surrender to terms of our choosing.

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.