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I opened the Krungsri account at the Chid Lom branch, but it has been suggested that the branch in the Immigration building can issue the letter just as well, so there is no reason to stop on the way, but just go directly out there. Sound right? Thanks.

What about Constitution Day, December 12, this Monday?

I just wired $2K to BK to cover my new apt (plus some) getting ready for my arrival this weekend, and Chase asked what the money was for. Family Expenses seemed to satisfy them. Money changing seems to have virtually ended in Europe. I spent just under the 90 day limit in the Schengen zone 2nd half this year, and spent less than 300 in Euros cash. Money changing rates are not reasonable, and ATMs can be a complicated <deleted> shoot and require some trial and error, or friends with experience. Everything, even an espresso, went on the credit cards.

So if I (American) were to lose my Non-O by failing to (using my single re-entry permit) enter and renew before its drop dead date, the start-from-scratch plan would be to enter visa exempt as soon as reasonable, apply for 90 day Non-O, then apply to extend it for 12 months, and at that point I'm back where I started, correct? (More than enough money would always be in the bank.) Thanks.

Anutin has actually said exactly what these people are saying, while knowing full well the reality that has emerged and having no plan to control it. As with prostitution, that's the Thai way and it will prevail, as it always does.

Everyone knows, or should know, there's no freedom of speech in Thailand, what are they talking about?

Krungsri has always done it while I wait when I go to the central branch at Chit Lom where I first opened the account. I would go there first in the morning and then out to CW. But thanks for reminding me of that step.

Thanks much for the two above replies. Question: If it's the owner's responsibility to file a TM30, how do I "have" it? By asking the owner to show me and taking a picture and making a screenshot? My old place in The Trendy never filed that form and said so. Another recent thread on this forum indicated that compliance and enforcement is all over the place. But I will see if i can comply. The main point I'm getting is that it is not necessary at first to have a long term commitment in writing to extend a non-O by reason of retirement. I meet all the other requirements I believe. Thanks.

I'm flying in on Friday Dec. 10, Monday the 12th is a holiday, must renew my non-O by 20. I don't know yet where I will be staying--but almost certainly not in my old rental in Trendy 13. Can I just set up in a hotel and go to Chaeng Wattana to renew and tell them that I'm in a hotel and looking for the best long term place to commit to for the next several months? and will report when I'm situated? Or must I commit to a term lease place to stay before arriving? I've been away since July, so forgot a lot of the details, but have a re-entry permit. Money is in the bank, in baht. Thanks all.

But there is a scary side to it. When I heard him speak at the FCCT earlier this year defending his decriminalization crusade, he slipped in some nasty allusions to foreigners which sounded like his real attitude. He totally rejected the idea of a stoner culture of foreigners. He is a complicated character, and not easy to read. But he is not our friend.

My gf from Khon Kaen told me how years back she reached a point where she had to tell he parents she was no longer giving them her earnings from Bangkok. Recently she complained that her father had failed to wish her happy birthday, and when she mentioned it to him he told her to get lost. I know him a little, he's an old jerk, and deserved to be cut off.

I for one never get tired of looking at naked women, and I'm a scholar and a gentleman. I guess I could do that elsewhere, but it would probably cost more.

No, because the most destructive thing that can happen to a country is out of control inflation. The Fed has made a lot of mistakes but at least that is one thing they know from history. High inflation almost always leads to populist leaders taking over, and the last thing that bunch wants is another likeness of Trump.