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I think it would be great if we could schedule appointments with immigration for them to come to our homes for any and all necessary services. I’d gladly pay ฿1,000 for a CW immigration officer to meet me at my condo for my 90 day appointments, tm30s and visa extensions. It would actually be a great money maker for the government as they could easily pull in more money in revenue than the salaries needed for the additional “mobile immigration officers” On another topic….did I read you correctly that tm30s are no longer required when returning from a trip abroad if returning to the same address? (Owned condo in my case)

Did ze ever have a post that wasn’t political/leftist in nature for ze’s whole tenure here? Perhaps ze is now off the payroll.

Yeah…they’re still doing the “remitted” thing but sometimes one might have to remit in the same year. My biggest concern is being blindsided with the taxation of all income irrespective of remittance. One never knows how quickly that can be enacted. Things seem to change fast here sometimes (and then change back). That’s why I have preemptively left the country for a while. I’t would be nice if the gov could just be more open about it so we don’t have to depend on all of our own guesses.

Nothing like a POTY competition to bring out the attention whoring narcissist in people.

I’m under the impression that the high season here doesn’t coincide with Thailand’s high season as it has been raining (usually just a drizzle) about 50% of the time here with daytime temperatures in the low 70s. There have been very few tour busses and I assume that will pick up. The horn honking is definitely a thing but I’m not in the heart of the tourist area (My An) but just south in the Khue My neighborhood where it is much quieter apart from the ongoing construction. The traffic really isn’t close to being as bad (currently) as the city center but from what I have been told, foreigners aren’t allowed to rent/live in those areas and there are designated sections of the city where foreigners can live which seem to all be on the beach side of the bridges. The apartment prices are far less expensive for the same places that one would see on Airbnb US$3-400 in my area vs the $700 that I’m seeing on Airbnb. I got my place for 2 months via one of the many Facebook groups and was in a hotel for the first month while watching what people were offered via Facebook for $200-500/month. This has been my go-to place for western food (burgers) here and is a much better value than Thailand in my opinion. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g298085-d15745277-Reviews-Bikini_Bottom_Express-Da_Nang.html For pizza… https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g298085-d24191685-Reviews-Bello_The_Pizzeria-Da_Nang.html Mostly I just cook at home. I might check out a different area next year (will do Siem Riep later this year for a few months) such as Nha Trang or Dalat.

Sorry to hear that. People who pull the “complain to get a discount” game suck. Stories like yours are why I won’t Airbnb my condo when out of the country.

this should clear things up a bit https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/thailand/individual/income-determination

it’s not a “maybe” Go to Facebook market place and do a search for “6 month” there are places. Look on hipflat. There are places. Talk to agents. They will have no problem finding you a 6 month lease. or…just make an offer on one of the thousands and thousands of empty units that are asking for 12 months and you may find an owner who is willing to take 6 months just to get a warm body in there as it’s better than sitting empty. FWIW….I’m currently on a 2 month lease in Da Nang and own my condo in BKK.

Hmmm 🤔 Remember HAARP? Did anything ever come from that? There used to be all kinds of speculation as to what it’s true purpose was.

I did notify the host and as I stated in my example of the washing machine, cable tv and no light in the bathroom….nothing was done. So, when I saw the mattress it was time to contact AirBnB. I think giving the host a week to fix the first three things was fair enough. Wasn’t going to deal with asking for a new mattress.

Go over the vaccine injured social media from the start of the pandemic with a fine tooth comb. Break the vaccine injured down into 3 categories. Category 1 If their social media posts show that they were opposed to the forced vaccination and skeptical about the safety/efficacy and they were in fact injured by the vaccine…compensate them. Category 2 If their social media history shows an inkling of support for the vaccine, such as proudly displaying their vaccine status with an “I got my Covid vaccine!”, then they get nothing. Zero, zip, zilch. Category 3 If their social media history (posting on forums etc) shows that they denigrated, coerced, insulted, cajoled….whatever…..any person who was vaccine hesitant….either directly or indirectly….then not only should they not get any compensation, but they should be forced to pay out of their pocket for the compensation for the Category 1 vaccine injured.

It would have been better if the sweater was my size 😅

Sure. I wouldn’t doubt that oil and gas executives fly private jets. Now let’s do super yachts and who owns/charters them the most? Leftist climate emergency preaching tech executives and celebrities vs Oil and Gas executives. Go! After that we can compare supercar collections and real estate portfolios. 😁

The last Christmas I even celebrated was in 1990 when I came home from university for the holiday. I had bought my mother an answering machine as she was frequently out of the house. Upon opening it, she scoffed and said “I’ll never use an answering machine” She then presented me with my present. My parents had just returned from a trip to Scandinavia and she got me a Norwegian wool sweater almost identical to the one pictured below…in her size…not mine. She knew I wouldn’t like it so she kept it for herself. Pretty pathetic that she’d buy her son a woman’s sweater (maybe it’s a man’s sweater in Norway but certainly not in Southern California)….but I guess it was better than the year that she gave the all the children Trident chewing gum and large plastic paper clips. I kept the answering machine

Back in 2015 or so I stayed at an AirBnb in Bangkok (reserved the room for a month) and upon arrival, the cable tv, washing machine and the light in the bathroom didn’t work. The owner kept dragging their feet and would have the building chang come and “look”…but nothing was fixed. After a week went by and it was time for me to wash the sheets on the bed, when I took them off, there were blood and urine stains literally all over the mattress. It was awful. I took pictures and then decided to contact AirBnB and asked to cancel. The owner fought it but as AirBnB had photos of the mattress (which they agreed was unacceptable) they refunded the remainder of my stay but not the whole thing. I was completely ok with that. I find it hard to believe that a guest can stay the whole time and then complain on the last day of their stay and get a full refund as the article interviewee claims. Maybe things have changed since my stay but I just can’t see where AirBnB wouldn’t have just said “you should have notified us as soon as there was a problem”.

I also just checked my condo in Bangkok. The developer has a sign at the front desk where the condos identical to mine are asking 59k/month for just a month and 49k long term. On hipflat it is 45k. Real market value is about 30-40k. AirBNB is 100k at the discounted monthly rate.

I’m looking at the same places in the neighborhood I’m currently in on AirBnB right now and they are 50-100% more than renting directly. Better to grab a 250,000 Dong (340 baht) hotel for a couple days and then use Facebook. That AirBnB convenience gets expensive.

You can rent very nice apartments in Da Nang Vietnam for less than ฿10,000. The best place to look for any city in Vietnam is by joining a Facebook group for rentals in whatever city you might happen to be interested in and then posting what you are looking for, location, price etc etc and you will have a dozen agents responding within a day. ฿30,000 will get you extreme luxury 2-3 bedroom houses. Online websites are not the places to look and the prices will be a lot more than when you post in Facebook groups. I looked on Airbnb also and am glad I went the Facebook route.

6 month leases are available in all cities.

Nope. Big pharma will do just fine now from the people who have hijacked their immune system with the MRNA shots. Sales of biologics are up nicely and are even beating estimates. https://www.biospace.com/business/novartis-gets-q3-beat-on-strong-cosentyx-sales-but-pluvicto-disappoints Have you priced drugs such as cosentyx, Stelara and all those others that fill the airwaves with advertising these days? Ask your doctor if it’s right for you.

Why stay away? Are you also obese? Nobody forced that kid or any other fat slobs to overindulge in peanut butter and sweet tea like your ilk wanted to force the clot shots on us.

The dermatologist has told me that many of his patients are experiencing the same thing. Maybe they all just need a good psychiatrist instead.

You might benefit from an ESL class. Perhaps you can be one of his first students.

Made a minor pre-existing condition that required no medication and was completely under control with a keto diet to go haywire within days of sleeping with her. Probably just a coincidence 🙄

The last “wokie” to lecture me on climate change drives a Dodge Ram 1500 with a 5.7 liter hemi…..and with a lead foot. He has never even removed the bed cover as it’s not a “work truck”….and he wants to supercharge it. He drives it 1/2 mile to go to shopping. Why do the climate change celebrities have such large homes? Here’s a nice article on Leo DiCaprio’s real estate collection. https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/real-estate/a46869521/leonardo-dicaprio-homes-real-estate/# And why do they all fly in private jets to the climate conferences? FOUR HUNDRED private jets arrived in Egypt during COP27 as climate delegates are accused of 'hypocrisy' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11416209/FOUR-private-jets-arrived-Egypt-COP27-climate-delegates-accused-hypocrisy.html What’s up with that? Do they not feel safe flying business class in a Boeing? I guess not.