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Once I paid at the 7 Eleven and they could not read the barcode, so they typed it in manually. They handed me the receipt that I did the payment. Only they typed in the wrong number, so I paid the 7 Eleven but not the water company. Later they came to cut of my water, of cause when I was not at home but on the other side of the country. I kept the receipt so I could show them later I paid in time but the 7 Eleven made a mistake.  So I don't think the 7 Eleven is connected real time to the water company. Now I pay automatic by bank, also the electric.

On Samui I always buy at the big C. I tried the grilled chicken from many shops but for me this is the best.  

When you order on Samui in the shop, they charge 25%. So only for some cheap items I should do this. I looked at the Ikea website and delivery is expensive. They have an pickup facilitie in Phuket.

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

A map is simple document to provide. A medical certificate is not the same and would be in the police order if it was required.

Bandon hospital, 250 thb.

This is what they want on Samui immigration, almost every year different.

Samui is more and more changing in a big garbage belt. Why, besides one of the over more than 9 years not working incinerator the lack of collection of the garbage. Hotels and resorts pay, and their garbage is collected.  If you have a household the only thing you can do is put your bags with garbage besides the roads. With some luck it will be collected. Smaller bags thrown on the shoulders of the road and bags opened by dogs remain where they are. For I don't want to live in a street (Maenam, Soi 4) which looks like a garbage belt, I clean the shoulders of the road myself. Here some pictures of what I collected in a couple of hours. This is without the bags full of plastic bottles I collect to recycle. This I have to do every week. It's of no use to contact the Samui government about this, for you don't get an answer. 

Clean the small filters in each tap, also the one in the shower head (hose). The dirt in it can cause less water flow, what makes the automatic pump goes on and off all the time.  

I have a credit card from Krungsri, I don't have a work permit and did not had to deposit any amount.  I never use it, pay with a debit card is more easy.  

It should be this lady, they call her Lucy. She was always wandering around in the Lamai area.  Probably robbed of her necklace. On the Thai community page they say she was Birmese and not Thai.   

Dtac for 4G. WiFi depends how far you live from an access point. I believe most people like we go for 3BB. I you know where you gonna live ask this on the community online pin board Koh Samui facebook page. On this page you can ask any people about many things which concerns Samui.

My Samsung tablet was charging badly, I tried the charger from my Samsung smartphone with the same result. After that I charged the tablet with an charger from an Sony Xperia tablet which works fine. So maybe try another charger. 

After I opened an account at the Krungsri bank (Koh Samui) and transfered over 1 million to this account they asked me or I want a credit card. After I signed only one paper, in one week I got the credit card with a 200000 thb credit limit. 

Before I had a credit card from the SCB, I had to open an fixed account and could use half of this amount as credit limit. For this I had to sign over 40 pages. Every year 2000 thb fee was from my account, after a call to the  Bangkok headoffice and providing then some information I got this back. After three times doing this I cancelled this credit card. I still don't know why I had to pay this fee and why I got it back. 

Look at this one for public holidays of 2017.

https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/thailand/

You pay most of the transfer costs over what is higher, the sale/buy price or the price set by the land office/revenue office. It's illegal to mention not the right sale/buy price (but who cares about it). The sale/buy price set by the land office/revenue office is mostly lower.  

23 hours ago, ajarnmarc said:

What if you're not willing to pay the 30,000 bht they want in Samui, 

to make the yellow book @ the government office.

Is there a way to make the ID card without the yellow book?

Perhaps getting the residence letter from Immigration...?

 

The lady who asked for the 30000 thb is not there anymore. Also there is no need anymore of your passport translated.  So things getting better on Samui.

I am from the Netherlands, there is a agreement between the Netherlands and Thailand where to pay tax. My state pension is taxable in the Netherlands and my pension from company's  (not government) is taxable in Thailand. So it depends on the agreement between the country where you're from and Thailand  where to pay tax. When you look in the Thai tax law you will see that you have to pay tax over your pension.

I think this must be new, I went for my extension of stay in August and no copy of a blue book was required. After they moved to the new office in Maenam lately, it looks like they change the rules all the time. Somebody told me he had to make a drawing of a map and not only a print from Google earth with coordinates. This month they wanted the Foreign National Information Form when I did my 90 day report. All the times  before they said only when you do your extension of stay on base of retirement. 

Come over for a couple of weeks and look for your self.  I live here now for 8 years and still like it. Enough quietly beaches for example Maenam and Ban Por. When I go for a walk on the beaches from Chaweng or Lamai (the busy part) in the low season they are also quiet. About always flooded, in 8 years maybe 3 times. The heavy rain started on Friday evening and stopped Tuesday evening. On wednesday almost all streets where free of water. Garbage problem, where their is no problem with Garbage in Thailand.  We live 1 km from the main road in Maenam when  I go out for a ride on my by bicycle I see hardly anybody. High-rise buildings are not allowed on Samui, so the beaches look like beaches. But for some people  Pattaya or Huahin is much better.  

After a removal to a new house I went to immigration on Koh Samui in 24 hours with a TM 30 form filled in by my wife and a TM 28 form to change my address. I got back the TM 30 form, they don't need it. With the TM 28 form I had to come back to change my address when I did my 90 day report. So it depends on what immigration office you go to. 

I also live on Samui, last year i opened an flexible saving account at the bank of Ayudhya. One week after that i went to the bank to ask something about the account. The lady behind the counter asked or I wanted an free credit car. Two signatures only, and after one week my credit was sent to me by post. I only had to activate it by making a phone call.This is not an debit card but an credit card with a 200,000 thb credit limit. I live here on an extension of stay (retirement), so I don't have a workpermit.