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Going back to Australia, in cities you notice horns for what we who are accustomed to in Thailand, to be inane reason to reach for the horn, like the light turn green half a second ago? honk, cars making a u-turn in front, horn, like we both can reach for the brakes, dinging each other and spending 20 minutes exchanging insurance information is not worth it even if you're in the right.

Good idea to have the banking app's PIN they ask when transferring money and such not be the same PIN as your phone unlock code, otherwise if they had remote access to your phone, they could throw up fake lockscreen while queuing up transfers in the background, the moment you try to unlock your phone, poof goes your money. Although most Thai banking app seem to be pretty vigilant on not running on the same phone with anything suspicious like screen sharing/remote access now, the scammer could be really advance and use undetectable method

Some banks require initial facial recognition to be at the branch or ATM, It is mostly to deter mule accounts where some poor folks open an account and sell to scammers for 500-1000 baht, and scammers use it to receive money via phone scams or online gambling, the facial recognition just makes it more difficult to transfer out to other accounts in bulk, these accounts get shut down often as victims report them. If the app lets the user do the initial scan themselves there's no protection against the scammer in control of the accounts scanning their own face instead of the account holder's name on the book, unless the banks has access to the Thai ID database they can compare against It also protects in case of compromised phone to prevent hackers from emptying accounts

Probbaly amps, best to look at your meter to be sure

Look closely on top of the ATM - multiple cameras now

UOB seems to be one of the last bank to still has online banking through webpage

Looking through the news there were article about storms blowing house away earlier this month, but not this week what's funny is that there's a lightning strike yesterday that kills 6 buffaloes... actual news that gonna be hard to explain if that family's ever got a sponsor down in Pattaya

Perfect for the populace to spend that digital wallet

while you can switch passport in the air or airport border, can you do at land border? does Thai immigration expect to see Lao or Cambodian exit stamp for the same day coming in on the same passport? if yes those with multiple nationalities can double their stay in Thailand without appearing to have 'stayed' in the country that much, or will the system flag up the date of birth and name? if you could change your name in one country enough would they still notice?

if you came in on one country's passport, switched while in Thailand, when you try to leave on the other passport, there won't be records of this 'new' passport coming in to Thailand

Leaving the country's gonna be a problem if you switch passport and they have no record of how your identity in the other passport got in

These vans are likely running LPG, you won't smell the exhaust like diesel

looks like Tesla has managed to get locations outside of malls and be near the road/highways for once the supercharger in Central like Pattaya is ridiculous, making it to the top floor of the carpark in a destination where most hotels have AC chargers to use overnight and not worth a detour through traffic and up the carpark if you're heading out further like Rayong The one in Huahin while in a mall is right on the entrance, The Chumporn Garage is interesting, being a new player, not existing petrol station operator or mall now what's to be seen if he can build a business (rent) around the charger It's understandable that Tesla can't get permit from the electric company for stand alone connection and it's easier to go piggybacking off existing supply like malls, but other operator manage to get DC charger in petrol stations fine, There are many Thai roadside business from coach stops restaurants to souvenir shops that has the location suitable for DC charger that don't need to be in petrol stations

The maintenance problem in Thailand is defendant on if it's the private sector or government running the line, when SRT ran the Airport Link it fell into disrepair pretty badly and they couldn't commercialize the stations and that was Siemens rolling stock built in Germany, The Redline is Japanese system throughout, the Japanese probably won't let it fall into disrepair much as a lot is riding on becoming the standard suburban rail for Thailand, but the sorry state of the stations are showing - escalator that broke barely a year into service because they can't procure maintenance contracts to dirty toilets

cremation only should be around 30-40,000 at the most expensive Bangkok temples, what's expensive is the nightly service with the sala rental, the monk fees, flowers, catering there are Christian denominated cremation site but most Christian churches just move the body to Buddhist crematorium after the service at their church

For most new builds in Bangkok 3-7 years back Thais would be queueing to buy off-plan on launch day and could even flip the deposit for profit

could it be that because it's hotter here and it takes more time to cure?

The system's working since January, to renew road tax means all outstanding tickets is brought up to be paid

First come first served, it's maintained per building so not attached to a specific room so you can, and if you sell to a Thai, the foreign quota for that condo became available for others, the Juristic Manager would know if the quota is used up or not.

Is the 'potential' higher resale value be worth more than the worse exchange rate if you were to transfer the funds in through proper means that can provide FET to satisfy the land office? vs just using money already in Thailand or transferring in though other means that won't have FET? The condo being in Thai name doesn't mean you won't be able to sell into foreign quota later if the condo's quota isn't all used up

only reason to want foreign quota is to sell later on, you'd have more opportunity and price if the condo is still in foreigner quota but are there anyway for a Thai to hold on to foreign quota? I don't think so, short of using her foreign identity to but the condo with associated paperwork like FET if the occupancy is not filled up it may be still possible to transfer to foreigner while the 49% is not met, but this can't be guaranteed won't be filled by the time you want to sell.

How would they know if you've been 'out'

you have to activate online or at atm to set a daily limit for online shopping, but in my experience they rarely work, I think they only work with payment gateway that support Visa/Mastercards 3D payment where they send you an OTP, which in western world is rare even contactless for Bangkok Bank's MasterCard Debit cards don't work in shops most of the time

If you can avoid being reported to 'checked in' at a hotel you can save yourself the trouble of re-reporting yourself when you're home, for the immigration office that insist on it say you had a weekend away and the hotel reported you moved there say in Phuket or whatever and you didn't report that you 'moved' back to your usual place, would this be a problem when you present the initial TM30 at immigration that might not match where they had you last in their system?

I would ask her that I have many other activities that I was going to be doing to myself and I would rather not be taking a job from a Thai and does she offer such service