Colonel_Mustard

I enjoy cooking. Mainly Czech, French and Italian with the occasional Indian meal. My wife does the Thai cooking though.

25 years.

Still a great city IMO. So much to see and do. There are some dodgy areas (as there are in most large cities) but there aren't many better places of a similar size. Bloody expensive though! The UK as a whole is still a very nice place to live.

Bangkok is the only city in Thailand that I could live in. I quite like Phuket city, Khorat city, Chiang Rai and Udon for visits but I wouldn't want to actually live in those cities. I wouldn't mind living just outside with easy access though.

I hope it works out well for them but I doubt both would be able to work (certainly not full-time) if they're going to homeschool the kids.

If they wanted to go to Harvard (and were accepted), then yes. I would prefer Cambridge or Oxford though personally.

So could Taylor Swift. If Kelce wasn't with her, most people outside the US would have never heard of him. She's far wealthier and much more famous. Maybe it's her that could do better.

And one group is pushing the prices up for citizens of that country, while the other group is helping keep prices down with cheap labour.

Central Europe lies between Eastern and Western Europe. The nations of Central Europe are Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Germany.

Czech Republic isn't in Eastern Europe.

Thank you. Any idea about needing a lease or not if I would be living at my wife's property? Would it not be required or would I have to sort out a lease with her? This would be for a non-O based on retirement and subsequent retirement extension.

Just out of interest, what would you do if you didn't have an actual lease and you lived at a house that is owned by your wife? For a new TM30, is doing it online ok or does it need to be done in person?

Sadly not with HSBC. My previous transfers to SCB from HSBC expat show as local transfers as they seem to be routed via HSBC Thailand. Seems it will probably be safer/easier for me to stick with the deposit in bank if no proof of overseas transaction is required.

Thank you. So if I obtain the Non O from where I am currently residing, before entering Thailand, I don't need to prove the funds came from overseas regardless of whether it is an extension based on retirement or marriage?

I shall be relocating to Thailand sometime early next year. I will be entering on an O visa and will then need an extension before the 3 months are up. I still have bank accounts with SCB and Krung Thai from 10 years ago when I was on a work visa. If I understand correctly, I have to be able to demonstrate that funds for an extension based on retirement (800,000) or marriage (400,000) have come into my Thai bank from overseas. Is this correct? Is there any way to guarantee that these transfers will show on my bank book or statements as international transfers? I looked at my Siam Commercial bank book and statements and the transfers I have previously made from HSBC in the UK don't indicate that the money has come in from overseas. Is this just a Siam Commercial Bank issue or am I likely to have the same problems with other Thai banks and is there any foolproof way around it?