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19 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

All my pals got taken by Brit women back in our home country.

Most of us are too leery to try it again in Thailand.

ah, sorry it didn't work so well for you and your pals 

35 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Yeah, but for every guy that made a profit, there's 10 guys that lost it all to a scheming Thai whore.

I've already lost 60% of my life assets to a scheming Brit whore, I'm not risking my judgement on the quality of females again.

 

My girl's different, OK, but last time she wasn't.

yeah i hear this a lot but i'm still waiting to actually meet one of these "scammed" guys in real life. its at about 10:0 the other way round where i am.

weird, we must hang around in different circles & i've got lucky friends

On 11/5/2019 at 6:15 PM, xylophone said:

Given the above it still amazes me that there are folks out there who will ditch what seems to be common sense and plunge headfirst into a new venture – – maybe it's something about the place which instills some sort of madness into people??

well faced with eventually running out of money and returning home most, if they have some spare cash, will have a punt with a business to stay here. afterall the upside is they get to stay here forever.. and the downside is they'd lose 500K or so and have to return home anyway, but back home they can quickly earn it back again

oh and one thing about business you only need ONE working business to be successful and this will prompt entrepreneurs to try multiple endeavours searching for their winning ticket

On 11/8/2019 at 12:02 AM, garyk said:

Renting is dirt cheap in Thailand, why on earth would an expat or foreigner buy a condo? 

don't know about condos but with our last house we got 6 years free rent, 20% capital gain and a 25% currency appreciation plus despite all calls to the contrary it was remarkably easy to sell once "refurbed" (note redecorated!  thais will buy anything shiny lol)

so thats a 1.5M loss in rent versus a 3.8M gain in rent saved and capital/currency growth on a small 4M baht property ????

On 11/7/2019 at 12:37 PM, BritManToo said:

When I purchased my house (6 years back), they wanted me to do the transfer when the house was finished, but the road and pavement was unlaid and no grass in the garden.

I refused, saying finish the road first, they argued "this is the Thai way", I said, "no road, no money".

The next month the road was finished, and I went ahead with the transfer.

hahaha whenever i hear "this is the Thai way" i always reply "well this is the Farang way, you want the money or not?!" - always works ????

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Where is the good news promised on TM6 and TM30?

queued up behind all the bad news ????

1 hour ago, brianj1964 said:

After many members saying I was here illegally and facing overstay fines and bans, recent reports have been positive, I might sleep better tonight 

you'll really sleep better when you go to a local immigration office and enquire about whether your stamp is correct, or you can spend the next 11 months 3 weeks reading every post on TV about insurance. your call 

2 hours ago, Thaidream said:

I would also add that as part of a review on this issue - the Government  should seriously consider allowing anyone on a long stay entry or extension to buy into the Thai Social Security  system (Medical Only).  The rate paid by anyone in this system is 457 Baht per month which allows use of Thai Government Hospitals and any private Hospital that  accepts the coverage. As part of this- a co-pay  could be attached to stop any frivalous use of the system.

i think that this is a brilliant idea. the average thai gets to pay 457 baht every month of his or her working life meanwhile Jonny Foreigner turns up for 12 months and gets his bad lifestyle choices fixed for a pittance. i can see this being wildly popular with expats. thais not so much.

7 minutes ago, bangkokbanjo said:

Even though the law says I did not need insurance since I got the visa prior to the deadline

which law is that? can you quote it please as others believe you require insurance on all oa's regardless of issue date and that the 'deadline' is in fact just an 'effective from' date

Just now, bangkokbanjo said:

So, I got my OA visa in NYC before October 31 and will be arriving in November.  Even though the law says I did not need insurance since I got the visa prior to the deadline, I purchased a policy outside of Thailand designed to meet the requirements from Regency.  I had the fill out the form for policies outside of Thailand from the website.   Should I anticipate any issues? 

did regency sign the form as required?

1 hour ago, holy cow cm said:

Just because you have an OA don't try to buck the O's. The OA's have the most retiree on them and it will be you guys who kill the O cat by jumping or talking too much which will make life just as bad for everyone else. Any of the such, I am on the O and I can afford all if I have to and jump those extra idiotic hoops. 

 

ah come on, the good folks around here would never do a thing like abuse a visa, i mean look how much <deleted> they gave those damn nomads over abusing tourists visas.

no, i am sure they will all do the right thing, stick with their OAs and pay their insurance premiums.

hahahaha yeah right 

1 hour ago, CALSinCM said:

Actually the question that expats should be asking is, "What is so special about Thailand that makes it worth shelling out "a 50k to 120k yearly bribe" just for the 'privilege' of staying?"

i'm not sure they want us to stay (well some of us anyway) thats why they keep putting the price up 

19 minutes ago, Hayduke said:

 

I initially started with an O-A. I successfully did a retirement extension and got a multiple re-entry permit yesterday (7 Nov) at CW. No one so much as mentioned the word 'insurance'. Everyone might want to calm down some...until there are more facts and fewer speculations.

 

 

first positive report! did you notice others getting extensions too?

45 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

He indicated that the consulates and embassy's are not putting any notations on the O-A Visa or within the passport other than the stamp indicating the visa is for O-A long stay

maybe this is what is mentioned in the police memo about checking notations and we have over thought it (again)

maybe what it means is: IO will check the visa for OA notation and if there asks for insurance?

some good news for me, turns out my elderly neighbour had a non-o not an o-a after all!

i hope he gets a good long reprieve  

8 minutes ago, DavidBak said:

I am Korean (Rep of Korea) passport holder aged over 60 and got Non-imm O-A visa Oct 25th 2019 from Thai Embassy in Korea. Entered Suv airport Nov. 4 and the immigration officer at airport asked me proof of medical insurance. I explained Thai Embassy did not ask for medical insurance to apply visa and they confirmed  visa application after Oct 31 will required this paper. They also confirmed no medical proof docs to enter Thailand with this visa which issued before Oct 31.

I understand the insurance requirement is effected to the visa application after Oct 31. That is insurance certificate will be a necessary paper to apply visa, not to show when enter to Thailand. 
I cannot understand why airport entry immigration ask for this paper.

it appears to be required for every application, extension and entry granted after oct 30th. so whilst you 'applied' on the 25th you 'entered' after the 30th hence insurance was required