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depends on how well daughter adjusts to college. if quickly then one year or...

Moving fm CM to Bangkok. Wife has leased a house although we own a house in CM to which we will return in the future. I understand that if the landlady does not do TM.30 reporting, I must do it myself. I can print out the forms, copy the lease my wife signed, and take them to Immigration within 24 hours of my move to Bangkok. In addition, it says that I should stop at the local ( BANGRAK) police station. I know all of my personal documents I must copy and take plus my wife's ID card copy. Is there anything else? Appreciate any reply.

I feel sorry for you and the child. Originally our half-Thai daughter went to Thai schools and at each there were problems (for me and learning) so we kept changing to "better" schools. But each had its own problems including one which immediately after we joined there, they rid themself of all the farang teachers and even used our daughter on their advertising brochure. We immediately left there, joined another which was a 12-year plus the Kindergarten, daughter started at 3rd grade. By the second year, the school dropped grades 7-12 and added more kindergarten as they got more funds for that (extra teachers per each classroom) but the school then had a 2-year waiting list to get into it. I argued with the teachers and owner about the extremely poor English lessons to the point that we dropped out of that school too and moved to CM from BKK. At CM we got into a brand new school, just opened, expensive but with a good reputation of the parent university and the school was on the physical scale of any US high school. However, poor management meant poor instructions and we decided to leave although offered a full scholarship to remain another year. But by the 3rd year of it open, almost every student over Kindergarten had left as did most of the farang teachers. So, daughter tested at several of the better reputation schools in CM and we opted for Chiang Mai International School with daughter starting 6th grade. By graduation, daughter speaks, reads, writes, and teaches Thai, English, Chinese and Korean. She taught Chinese at a different high school, worked as the Chinese teacher's aide during her junior year, was selected as the best Chinese student for the entire school, passed the level 4 Korean international language test given by the Korean govt each year (many college-level students cannot pass other than level 3). She is currently going to the number one university in Thailand (I realize that standards may not meet developed countries but this is a liberal arts program) learning Japanese language and international culture for a double degree. CMIS has great teachers and programs for all their students whether they will go on to international studies or what ever. At first, our daughter was bored with most of the schools but I never heard any complaint from her about CMIS and their curriculum. Every move was discussed with my Thai wife who agreed wholeheartedly with EVERY move! Best wishes for your daughter.

I would think that ANY American as well as western foreigners would definitely be afraid of Trump possibly being re-elected. In my opinion the numbers of votes above him included many Republicans also afraid of him in 2020. His only goal is to win this time so that he can seek revenge on the Dems and anyone that has made any kind of negative comment about him. All anyone has to do is read a few of the stories about his life and unless one is blind and already made up their mind then they are what is wrong with the world today. Sorta like the joke about Aussie Ostriches where we always say when faced with any danger they bury their head in the sand instead of facing that danger. Trump hasn't been convicted YET but that is only because of the embarrassment by the established folks who he has taken care of and/or who think he will make them famous or rich. He is a criminal not yet convicted of anything really serious but soon hopefully if the system is not rigged in my opinion. I was a strong registered Republican who realized their failings and changed to an Independent.

I may have totally forgotten but I thought that the story during that period was the the coup idea was retired-gen flynn's recommendation and he knew where to get the troops. either way, Trump should be in jail for some time or the system is definitely broken and I wonder if we will ever be able to over come this attack on our democracy. Many states trying to adjust voting areas to limit just who can vote for the Republican. I am not nor ever was a Dem

Many seem to be settling on "reliable to show up" but little afterwards Biden as the lesser of the top three but the problem therein is exactly that AGE and shaky at that with other age problems and if he should drop dead or incapacitated in any way, that would be the VP (currently Ms. Harris) and she has absolutely no experience in anything other than being on someone else's arm. The Dems need to change the VP if he does get the nomination, otherwise I think too many voters will opt for Desantis a