ThailandRyan

The operative phrase as you put it is: if spent in legit shop/businesses !!

Thank you, my exact comment as well, curry is curry, stew does not contain curry.

Its called bribery to help meet requirements that one does not. If you meet the requirements then Bob's your Uncle and using an agent is fine.

Yet how many come for low season? Many homeowners who go back and forth to there home countries leave starting April 1st most years and return in November. Try as they may to get renters to fill the gap time, they are unsuccessful most of the time. Of course if it was Phuket they would have no issues......here in Pranburi/PakNam Pran and even in the Khao Tao Lake Area south of Hua Hin its very peacefull now, not many visitors.

The 45 day scheme was only put in place temporarily and not permanently instituted to replace the 30 day entry. It was done in the hope more would stay longer and spend more. The only mass users so far have been the Russians from what I see. Of course it helped some stay longer, but in the end it was not made permanent. If you give 200k 45 days out instead of 30 day exempts then that's over 3 million baht they are loosing from not selling extensions.

The parade of trucks with signs and loudspeakers started on Sunday in the Pranburi Area and along the beach road from khao Lak to Pak Nam Pran. Posters are on all the light poles etc.....let the insanity go for 2 more mo the. Glad I live in a small gated enclave up against the mountains on one side and the ocean on the other side at the end of a empty Soi with only Palm and coconut trees around us, and pineapple fields.

So if your elderly and stay here your a sex pest....wow, and you believe that don't you....

Its a Drinking holiday to forget the genocide St Patrick committed...yet many have no idea.

It's a celebration of a genocide where they killed the Serpents....

Wait I thought this was a Chinese on Chinese crime....or is the amount similar....

My MGHS X is a very nice ride and a quality vehicle. Interior is roomy and comfortable. I average about 580km per tank full.....can't do that in an EV, but then we have looked at them. I even put a EV charging port in at the house for those friends of ours who visit and have one. Now that Ford is in the game with a nice SUV, I might look at it and see if the price is right and the features of quality.....not a Tesla fan. Daughter's boyfriends Tesla S was hit from the side while it was parked on the street, damage looked minimal but there was damage to the batteries underneath and the cost to repair the vehicle was over half the cost of the car so the Insurance company totaled it....

They are coming in droves. A friend in Phukets Rawaii area says they have bought up everything around him at almost double the original selling price, opened up shops, restaurants and businesses printing up Russian language signs and menus for many Thai places. He can not believe all the young families that have moved on and are planning on staying and never going back. Another friend says his Muay Thai business is full with many wanting ED visa to study for the next year.....

Insanity lives on...

Then your not aware of how things are in Thailand, so why post on this Thai based forum. When I go back to visit the US if I want to do anything which requires an OTP code to be sent to my phone I need to set my phone up through my cellular company here to allow roaming and to obtain the code.

They weren't before but they now are, Putin ensured that.

How can the dissolved and caretaker government extend it when they are not allowed to pass any legislation or cause money to be spent or lost, which extending the soon to be ending 45 day exempt program will cause. it is a money maker in the eyes of the tourism folks when the people can stay longer, but we are entering low season and the reverting back to 30 days as the law is written will create a monetary stream for the country by those getting those 1900 baht extensions.

I do believe this was a true wind-up post as the OP author has never responded to any of the posts some 12 hours plus later. So I am calling this a baiting OP and moving on.

Cheaper than the ADV 300 and Yamahas X-max 300. Put a bag rack on the back for your gear and its a trail/camping/touring bike....but this article says some things that are hard to believe. https://www.topspeed.com/the-honda-cl300-is-a-china-only-motorcycle-youll-want-in-america/ Honda lets you jazz up your CL300 with a variety of accessories like a raised front fender, headlight mask, and even old-school number plates on the sides.

With the Cabinet and parliament now dissolved Thailand's caretaker government can not make any new laws that ill cost them money even if it makes them money and by returning to the 30 day exempt entry they will now make money selling those extensions instead of loosing money.....

So is the Senate dissolved as well? my pet rhinoceros enquired.

Gotta have it over a long holiday weekend so folks can travel back to the province and then the day after as a holiday to travel back to where they live....so from May 11th to the 15th looks like a long weekend since May 11th is the Royal Ploughing Ceremony.........

Was in Bangkok on Saturday to pick up the stepdaughter and bring her back to PKK, went to do a bit of bulk shopping at Tops Club and in the parking lot hooked up to one of the EV chargers was a Ford Mustang Mach-E SUV, wonder what that set the owner back as it had to have been just imported, it had a red plate on it so I know it was brand new 2023 model. Whomever owns it definitely has some pull. https://ford-mustang-thailand.com/en/car/FORD-MUSTANG-MACH-E

So no Russians went to Phiket in 2023? I think your confused.

Is the senate disolved as well?

Yet many folks don't have the 65k a month ergo why they put the 800k in a bank here. Plus all it takes is 1 month of the account transfer missing the date by 1 day for the month and they are hosed. Many OPs regarding this in the past.