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digbeth

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  1. Can I get a prescription to show my wife, or are the dispensing clinics that deal marijuana will now offer services upstairs too
  2. I have it with Bangkok Bank too, 100k in the account, if I overpays, the amount owed shows a - minus and I can spend that amount straight away, so yes, if you temporarily need extra credit, you can just pay into the credit card you can pay the minimum and pay interest to borrow against your own money I've never tried but if you open 800k, can you show the bank book to immigration and spend what you otherwise can't touch? it appears as regular bank book, only caveat is that the amount don't show as available balance in online banking
  3. The dealers do organize rides and they used to visit the factory, this is not a regular thing though, also being where they are it's a <deleted>ty ride from Bangkok, no matter how short
  4. digbeth

    Artichokes

    The fresh ones we used to see in supermarkets are barely edible until you peel away most of the outer bits leaving only the small core edible, making the imported cans or jar that looks expensive at first better value
  5. so where's the policy written in English (or Thai) that you are entitled to return or exchange stuff you didn't want? It's understandably good service for most stores that do accept returns for no reason defective or faulty goods is another matter
  6. Often floor drain would have small water trap that surrounds the drain and prevent smells coming through some newer solutions are silicone inserts that squeeze shut and not letting smell through without the need for water traps
  7. This is the annual tax to the local government (Amphur or District Office) NOT the tax on sale or transfer of ownership and one of evidence of owner occupier they'll accept for the exemption of this tax is matching name in the house book (yellow or blue) and the deed
  8. But how would anyone knows if you have another set of keys outside the envelope?
  9. I've seen this in some European countries where the lock is standardized the tenant bring their own key/lock barrel and swap it with the landlord's and change it back once they move out, no need to change the whole hardware like the doorknob, only the key barrel
  10. If you've ever rented in the UK, the endless application forms filling for credit check and reference person (from work) is required, and yes they want to see your income that you can afford to rent the place, absolute invasion of privacy there
  11. I don't know if where you're from have the practice where tenants change all the locks in the place they are renting, but here, landlords or the agents or even the condo hold the spare keys
  12. There are time and place for condo staff, at my condo we have Christmas/New Years party for the staff and residents bring in gift in boxes for the raffles, At Chinese New Year, you can give envelope full of money like 500-1000 baht too If I go to the airport and they help with the luggage into taxi, of course Most residents just bring the security guards of cleaners foods when they come in after shopping, I order them pizzas or KFCs during Songkran or New Year when their usual food vendor aren't around,
  13. first get the credit report, see if the cause of rejection was if she has no credit history or had a bad loan she defaulted on in the past,
  14. what kind of accountant don't even know what credit score is? even motorcycle or mobile phone shops knows how to run credit score before any lease or hire purchase, their keyword is 'Credit Bureau' maybe pronounced in Thai accent and you'll get there in most banking app there are option to request credit score for a fee, or you can visit KTB bank (they're government bank) or the credit bureau in Bangkok has a few physical location you can walk up to get your credit score Typical path for Thais with no previous credit history is starting on cash advance cards, some cards can be used to buy things on credit, maybe 0% for 10 months, easy and cheap way to build history She's unlikely to be granted a credit card in her own name, If you have a lump sum you can help her with, have her open a bonded credit card, say 100,000 baht in an account the bank will use as collateral to give her a credit, any credit accrued won't be taken out off this amount automatically like a debit card be she has to pay either the whole amount or the minimum plus interest just like real credit card, this will show on her credit report, and if she keeps up the repayment and don't have overdues bigger loans can be granted Also don't run her credit report too often, this will show up as 'tracing' and is red flag looking like someone trying to game the system or shopping around for loans,
  15. Kbank require connection over sim card with the same number you registered with as to have the packet header they see match your number they have on file, so you can't connect using wifi or use the app on any other phone, I think afterwards you can toggle it to be able to connects over wifi
  16. If you want to be isolated in a quiet town, there are plenty of smaller town south of Prachuab all the way to Chumporn like Baan Krud or Thap Sakae and Bang Saphan that to an expat functionally similar: no night life, small community of expat, but without the busy streets of the capital town with government canters and businesses, and they all have better beaches
  17. There are more homeless than usual this past couple of weeks due to prisoners being pardoned on the big birthdays, there was of course end of July and Middle of this month,
  18. They have been in 5 since the late 2000s, only the past couple of years during the Covid reprieve that they disappeared and maybe you thought that was the norm Same with the African drug dealers, I remembered sitting in Took Lae Dee watching coppers chase them down the soi Since the office block upstairs was converted to hotel and mall it has always been intended to serve Arab clientele, that hotel and renovation was a decade ago You'd have to go back to the 90s to see that Foodland be frequented by more civic 'international' crowds from wireless road.
  19. Modernize or be colonized was the fear that the 'west' was going to use the barbarism as excuse to colonize Siam then
  20. even in Pattaya the wife beater crowds knows to put one on before entering malls,
  21. if you remotely look like a tourist, getting taxi from the bus terminal to the BTS is going to be a rip-off
  22. We should start hiring out 600 and 1000cc proper bikes and these middle eastern goons problem will solve itself in no time, I remember 10-20 years ago where there's weekly Farang wrapped around poles from 'big bike' rentals
  23. As far as the bank is concerned, it's not 'own account' you are transferring overseas to another bank, the bank would consider this 'others account' even if you have accounts from multiple bank, transferring between them is done under 'other accounts' in most banking apps, if there are options for you to select as 'own accounts' it would be in error if you're transferring to another bank or country even
  24. How are Thai citizen barred from transferring money overseas?
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