Stanley78

I am looking for a react native programmer who has experience with ejecting from expo and in app purchases.

I need assistance with finishing a language learning app I am working on and will pay per hour for your work.

You must be located in Bangkok so that we can meet and do the work in person.

Just now, sungod said:

I've had some personal experience with the school through speech language therapy, autism I cannot speak of. I can only comment that on visits to the school there were kids with varying forms of disability. The teachers I saw were both foreign and Thai. Knew their stuff.

 

St Andrews in Bangkok have a very strong learning support unit, you could try them also.

Thank you again so much!

Just now, sungod said:

https://www.village-education.com/

Thank you. Any personal experience or second hand knowledge?

We live in Hua Hin and were just informed today that our 3 year old can no longer be accommodated by the international school where she is currently attending.

There appears to be no resources available here for our situation and so we are now planning to relocate to Bangkok to try to give our daughter the best possible chance in life and wondering if there are any other parents of children with autism or members with knowledge of recommendable schools for children with autism in Bangkok.

Thank you so much in advance.

3 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

 

That kind of thing?

I doubt my wife would approve ????

I am wondering if anyone has a maid working for them part time who they know needs more work?

We are looking for someone to come 2-3 times per week, full day to clean our house in Hin Lek Fai.

If you have someone working for you who do a good job and isn't job averse and who has time for and wants more work then please send me their contact details.

Thank you very much in advance.

1 hour ago, pmarlin said:

if late 2000 baht max. if not done and arrested 4000 baht max. That is what is stated on my online pending receipt.

Thank you!

Isn't the fine 500 baht per day up to 20000 for being late with 90 day report? Or is that for overstay?

I am supposed to do my 90 day report next week here in Hua Hin. Has anyone else here gone to the Hua Hin immigration recently?

Perhaps I should sit this one out and take the fine? What is everyone else doing?

I don't really feel like sending my passport in the mail. I live so close to the immigration that if I'm going to the post office I might as well just go to the immigration office instead.

35 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

A bit harsh there mate. On low pm2.5 days there's no mask wearing so the poster may or probally was the only one wearing a mask.

I'm not sure what prompted his reaction but I was referring to wearing mask inside super markets etc. here in Hua Hin, not outside in smog filled Chiang Mai.

I would say at the most 1/100 people were wearing a mask a month ago when my family started routinely wearing it when going out.

Even inside the Bangkok Hospital in Hua Hin masks were very rare then and yes some people would point and laugh at me for taking the corona risk so seriously.

49 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

I doubt it.. People is Asia have been wearing masks for years now due to the high pollution levels.. You were not the pioneer of mask wearing ????

You doubt that there were some people pointing and laughing when I started wearing mask inside the super markets here in Hua Hin?

I would make that up why?

38 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

Hi Stanley,

FYI > I compiled a comprehensive Roadmap containing all details/options on how to convert from an OA-extension to a Non Imm O - retirement Visa and subsequent extension. 

Just PM me if you are interested in receiving a copy.

Thank you but you have already sent it to me and I have passed it on. ???? It is good to know that there are various options. Thanks again!

17 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

Yes, an absolute disgrace.

But hopefully we are witnessing the dawn of new thai IO-approved health-insurance policies being offered, with LMG now offering it for 6.000,- THB in the 51-60 age band.

 

Thanks a lot Peter! I had totally missed that. I will pass it on to my friends with OA issues.

2 hours ago, Langsuan Man said:

Afraid the regrets might come if they require mandatory health insurance for Elite holders

 

With what I have seen over the last 15 years in Thailand I have learned,  never to say never,  when it comes to Immigration

The majority of people who can afford Thailand Elite can also afford health insurance.

Health insurance isn't mandatory for Elite visa but I have Aetna Thailand health insurance anyway.

It is a shame however how Thailand has treated OA holders with the insanely high premiums forced upon over 70 year olds in order to be allowed to do extensions of stay.

Even the cheapest insurance will probably be overpriced and not a cost effective solution to your problem.

Are you sure bothering with getting a potentially overpriced insurance with low cover is even cost effective?

I'm sure others can and will give more detailed advice.

2 hours ago, Cookie67 said:

My absolute preferred option is not to have to buy insurance at all , I would much rather have to demonstrate that I have the required 440,000Baht available in a Thai Bank account each time I do my 90 day reporting (this being separate from the 800,000baht needed to apply/renew the visa.) But I think this is a discussion best had face to face with the immigration officer next year when it comes time to renew. 

 

There is as far as I know no such option where you show 440,000 baht on top of the 800,000 baht in order to avoid buying a Thai insurance.

6 minutes ago, sallecc said:

Just thinking if we go for some weekend trips, it could be trouble on check-in if hotel see his stay has expired...?

I wouldn't worry about that. When we check in to hotels in Thailand I only hand over the passports belonging to the adults checking in and not underage children.

No one has ever asked me for a passport for any of our children and even when I have handed one over in the past without being asked they have handed it back after looking at the photo page and only taken copies of the adults passports.

4 minutes ago, GarryP said:

I think the point was that if the average Thai can "survive" on 15k a month, then surely a foreigner could survive on 3 times that.  Who the hell would "strive" to live like the average Thai? Surely, you aim as high as you can or want to and that height varies from person to person. I would not know what to do with 300k a month, apart from invest 200k and live on 100k (there would still be money left at the end of the month), but then I high never lived an opulent lifestyle. Probably comes down to what you are used to and what you are happy with.  

If I was single 100k would be perfectly fine.

It's raising a child in good standards and having a live in maid with an above average salary who eats the same food as we do for free which adds up.

@Bangkokazy, I didn't say that the average income is 300k THB but that there are a lot more families who spend that kind of money than some people seem to know. Possibly because they don't socialize with anyone like that.

Thailand is as you are aware a country where the money isn't spread out evenly. In fact it is one of the most "unfair" countries in the world.

Just because the average Thai, who will grow up with a horrible education and low chances to move up on the social ladder gets by on a pittance doesn't mean that it is something that I think a foreigner who moves to Thailand should strive for.

If you've been given the opportunities of a western education and life of work and earning potential, why compare yourself to what the average person in Thailand makes and survives on.

25 minutes ago, garyk said:

Wow you must be living like a rock star.  

Hardly. There are more families in Thailand, Thai, mixed and foreign who spend 300k a month than you might think.

Thaivisa demographics are only representative of Thaivisa members. Not of Thailand as a whole.

There is a mentality here on this site of a race to the bottom where people are applauded for being able to survive on as low an amount a month as possible.

And anyone who lays out a different perspective than that is a nail which needs to be hammered down by people such as yourself.

8 hours ago, garyk said:

You are kidding right.

Yes I am kidding. Feel better?

If I was single I could probably live on 45k THB a month in Thailand with an acceptable life quality. But it wouldn't be ideal. I've worked hard (smart) in my life to make sure I don't need to deny myself things. That being said I of course understand that not everyone has had the same opportunities.

It's very easy to understand why someone who is retired and on a fixed income regardless of if it's 20k or 40k or whatever would choose to spend that income in Thailand rather than at home in their own possibly cold and/or overpriced country.

Our family budget is around 300k THB a month for my wife, child, and full time live in maid. That will go up once I have to pay for school as well. I think that's pretty much the budget which is needed in Thailand to never have to deny yourself anything as a family.

If you can live on less and never feel like you are denying yourself anything then great. Happy for you!

3 minutes ago, bwpage3 said:

I paid over 400,000+ thb per year, years ago for international school.

When we moved back to the USA, our son was in grade 8 and already 1 year behind.

A Thai education is pretty worthless outside of Thailand

 

 

That's very discouraging to hear for those of us who have kids getting near school age here in Thailand and are planning to go the international school route.