jasonsamui55

I’ve had the same problem many times. Open a BitKub acct online. Do the KYC Online as well. Do a domestic transfer to your Bitkub account. Buy BTC or USDT. Withdraw it to an external wallet and send to your exchange in the EU or UK like KuCoin. Sell to EUR or GBP or whatever you want. If you know crypto, it’s easy. If not, it’s time to learn. It’s fast and easy and no fees and no trips to the bank to kiss some pathetic banker’s ass and pray they let you access your own money. Compare that to 50 trips to the bank and 50 asses to kiss, and 50 sets of fess for the “privilege” of accessing your own money. And since you’re sending to a student, surely they know crypto and can help you or would just be happy to receive the crypto and keep it as it is.

I’d like to see his lawsuit in a Thai court trying to get a refund of his Thailand elite fees. 🤔

Last month I flew from Manila to Bangkok to Samui and then Samui to Bangkok to Rome via Abu Dhabi. Not once in any part of any of it was there any discussion of Covid or vaccines or even masks, except apparently masks were required in the Abu Dhabi terminal, but only about half the people seemed to notice that one. Otherwise it was 100% pre-Covid. Nobody cares any more. Outside of China and HK, Covid is as relevant to international travel as the bubonic plague.

As someone said, use FTX and convert to USD and send to your bank in Thailand. Or, if you can withstand the long wait for KYC at Bitkub, they give pretty good rates on the sell side and you convert to THB and withdraw instantly 24/7 to your local bank account. I use SCB and its near instant 24/7/365.

300 is standard for a barber not a salon in Samui and you need to make an appointment in advance otherwise you’ll be sitting and waiting for an hour or two. Try this one for Bangkok. This was for girls but 13000 14 years ago is still crazy. Those are proper western prices!

Sorry, I left Thailand and Asia in general almost 2 years ago. I really have no idea now. Good luck.

I'll be back when Prayut sends his personal lear jet to pick me up, for free, of course, along with 6 dancing girls to accompany me across the seas. in all seriousness, not until its 2019 rules again, and not one iota less.

And the worst of it that they surely still expect you to file and pay taxes. If that’s not taxation without representation, I don’t know what is?!?

Well said! It when and why I left also. The patriot act and the ensuing rise of police state was the last straw. I didn’t want to raise kids in a country like that. And since then I’ve lived in 7 countries. My kids get the benefit of choice. And we can sit back with a bowl of popcorn and watch the US Civil war on the pro-American news channels like CNN or FOX or others. Much better that way.

Technically speaking you can get divorced in any country where you are resident and do it in the local courts where resident. I used to live in HK and everyone is an expat there and there are all sorts of expats filing for divorce there with no connection to HK other than one of both parties was then resident there. They are all expat marriages - like maybe an American who may have married a Swiss in Barbados while they were living in Toronto and now one lives in Mexico and the other is concurrently resident in HK and Dubai but spends all their time as a tourist in Thailand. Where to get divorced? The general rules is that either party can file for divorce where that party is officially resident and do so in the local court and then that local court can decide to try to apply either their local laws or the laws where most appropriate. It’s called forum shopping. I’m a citizen of 3 countries, and so was my ex, of 2 different countries, we together lived in 6 other countries over the years, never having anything resembling a “home country,” and we got married on holiday in a totally unrelated country, and my ex did exactly that, and my lawyers did the same.