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The real problem here is the lack of a logical ordering of house numbers. Numbers are based on the registration date, not the physical location, resulting in some very difficult to find addresses. Regardless, this idea seems cool.

Immigration? Going after shady agents?

Misty eyes activated.

Wow.

The US Embassy will not issue any "verification" of SS or pensions, which is what became an issue when Thai immigration declared that simple affidavits of income would no longer be acceptable. There are, however, other embassies that will issue these verifications, and for those folks, these letters of verification are required, of course. If you transfer the required funds from outside the country (the transaction must clearly show the code for an international transfer) into a Thai bank account for 12 months, that meets the requirement. However, the concept of "retired" still applies, so in theory immigration might argue that an income from a full time job does not match that criteria. That said, I think I have only seen one post in the last four years even mentioning this case. If I were you, I would just state that over your lifetime you have saved into an "individual" retirement account, and the income that you receive is generated by that retirement fund. Which is true, but simplified to avoid possible complications.

I thought sinkholes were really cool, until the gf created one in my bank account.

Maybe a Japanese spring onion?

Actually, I have had two wins explain to me that it is preferable for you to ride as close to the driver as possible. As they explained it, the farther back you sit, the more "leverage" there is and it pulls up the front of the bike and makes it harder for them to control/steer the bike. Especially if you are a large person. Now, I am a hansum man, so maybe that was all a pretense...

Twelve years of riding motocys, and "getting wood" has never crossed my mind. Now, maybe, if the win started groping my leg... I think it might be time to start riding sidesaddle.

A drug test can be requested for any suspicion of drug use. Being in an illegal club during banned hours, I suspect, constitutes enough suspicion. That said, I believe you are within your rights to insist the test be performed at the police station.

Tops Market had last time I purchased.

Fortunately, aside from the "Thai are best" thinking, the government here does not seem to have any real bias. While foreigners will be used by the media and government when convenient, that is, as they say, just politics. I feel like the government recognizes the value of expats, and generally does a decent job of accommodating us. What confuses foreigners the most at the start is the convoluted nature of immigration here. But once you understand the driving forces behind this convolution, you will also understand that immigration will fight tooth and nail to prevent such a a valuable industry from being squeezed. So, confusion and frustration is guaranteed, but it seems unlikely that Thailand would choose a direction that results in a mass exodus of expats.

Girlfriend bites me like that all the time. She calls it a "love bite". So far no need for stitches.

Aren't foreign couples allowed to register an existing marriage here? I thought that was possible.

They fixed it before the year 1457.

Husband: Honey, I won the lottery! Pack your bags! Wife: Wow! That incredible! Where are we going? Husband: I am staying here. Pack your bags and get lost.

I do not think you will have any problems with two entries. This is not uncommon, and it not the type of travel that immigration is concerned about. They are concerned about border runs used to stay long term. It is very common for travelers to enter Thailand 2 or 3 times as they travel about SEA. Also, the fact that you will spend more than 1 day in Vietnam is an indication that you are not border running for a long stay in Thailand.

Indeed! And how many terawatts of electricity is consumed by the giant TVs spewing ads all over BKK like Blade Runner BKK.

The best solution is to put up screens or nets or the equivalent. My maid put out large coke bottles filled with water, but it seemed to make no difference. (supposedly, something about the light interacting with the bottles was supposed to help - didn't). Neighbors invested in some sort of "nails for your feet" strips of nails that the pigeons seemed to navigate just fine. I finally found these long thin spikey wires on a piece of plastic that you tape down. Those worked great, but make the space you placed them utterly unusable. I ended up putting up a net to keep them out and it was the only thing that really worked.

1) I am not sure. 2) Your dividends will look like income, thus requiring income tax be paid. 3) In the US, the IRS complained when my salary was more than 50% below the industry average. Here, I am not sure if they have any such thresholds. And, if the dividends are taxed like income, it does not matter. BUT, the government will have issues with workers not registered and not paying into social security. 4) I suspect the issue you are going to have is having a company that has no salaries and yet produces an income. Again, dividends are normal and I believe can be any size, but the government is going to be more interested in any attempts to dodge social security contributions, which you might appear to be doing. It sounds as if you have outside work that generates revenue, and you are trying to "wrap" a Thai company "around that" income for some reason that escapes me. I suspect you will find there is no real advantage to doing that, and a lot of costs and pitfalls.

My KPlus app allows me to register my debit/credit cards, then I can set limits on each of them within the app. Single purchase, as well as daily limits. I can also limit the amount that can be transferred from my account, as well as ATM withdrawals.

And they got a lesson in optics. How to manipulate them.

He is still insisting that it was for personal use.

It is similar to other markets like these. Many exchanges were taking in crypto and loaning it for a return. The loans became loans on top of loans. In other words - Counter-party Risk. As soon as one link in the chain breaks, it cascades, with people simply not returning capital (or, in this case, crypto). As exchanges began to get the equivalent of "bank runs", they would need to lock up the capital to prevent insolvency. This has to propagate through until all counter-party failures are completed, then it can reset, rebuild, repeat. Not the fault of crypto, per se, but of exchanges replicating the issues created by any trade involving a counter-party, and banking on ever higher values to sustain the leverage. Those with coins in their own wallets did not get screwed, other than watching the price of BTC, et.al., plummet from the highs. This is why old-timers, such as myself, like gold. There is no counter-party risk, if you have physical gold in your possession.

Thailand can be cheap or expensive. Depends on your preferences. I could easily live in BKK on 40K per month and be quite content. I could easily live in BKK on 300K per month and still want more.