Momofarang

15 hours ago, scottiddled said:

Most people in the world can't afford (money and/or time) to hop on a plane and come to Thailand for one week of tourism. Of those who can afford it, a smaller number are fortunate enough to be able to afford longer. When I read the TV Salty Squad moaning about what is/isn't tourism, I'm simultaneously saddened and amused (I have a dark sense of humor). Many members of the Salty Squad are darned privileged in their own lives. For some reason, they think they should be able to live their privileged life on B, O, O-A, etc. (and their relevant extensions), but that someone who has the luxury of exploring Thailand (and themselves)--whether it's on a gap year or because they're just independently "wealthy" (relatively speaking)--stops being a tourist on Day 31, or Day 61, or Day 185.

Could you  help me to understand this? Maybe a hint of what the average daily spending of the underprivileged tourist would be?

And then maybe we could compare this "underprivileged" market with other opportunities the Thai tourist industry is currently facing.

1 hour ago, ancharee said:

Can you withdraw anything from your account that would take it below the 400,000 once the under consideration stamp is in your passport ?

I think it depends on the office. Last week Buriram asked me to show a recent statement of my account when I'll collect my stamp.

On 1/10/2020 at 7:53 PM, cabanlit said:

I'm just looking at your normal income - £2300.

 

With a wife and 2 kids and yourself, that's not a lot coming in.

 

You need to research costs better. Look at costs for you - home rental, utility bills, transport, health insurance. Costs for wife - 'pocket money', 'family support'. Then the biggest, costs for kids - education, social costs, and their health.

 

Just because they're Thai, don't expect them to use the health scheme for Thais - you won't be putting your family in front of a Thai hospital or doctor, it'll always be 'private'.

 

And, of course, trips back to Europe and assorted other holidays, perhaps around Asia.

Highly pertinent. I am in Issan with two kids too, on USD 7000 monthly we aren't really struggling, but just. We have a western life style, as I feel the need to isolate us from the "rubbish dump" kind of environment surrounding us. Reckon that western style living is probably cheaper in larger city. An please look around on the forum to get a feel regarding the current climate at immigration an elsewhere. Wish you luck, go west young man.

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

DHCP allocates an IP address. And once that is done then maybe that happens hours or days later again.

Once the connection is established DHCP does nothing anymore (for hours or days).

Indeed, but I have seen many times, at least on the routers that I have used, devices ending up with two IPs allocated or a device being allocated an IP that was used by another device as a Fixed IP. This resulted in performance issues, obviously. Rebooting the router fixed them. DHCP software can have its bugs too. Performance issues are not only due to the physical and data link layers.

Are you having fixed IP addresses on some of your devices? If yes check the DHCP range(s) of your new router. Provided it is your (unique?) DHCP server. Which could be another issue, if your DHCP server doesn't reside on your access point, make sure you disable it.

Just wondering why on earth someone would become a monk? Sheer social pressure combined with a lack of imagination? In my younger years when I needed to find peace I used to go off on hikes in my mountains for several days, and nothing could beat a solitary bivvy. For me being a monk implies promiscuity and rigid rules, yuck.. But please enlighten if you can.

8 hours ago, Caldera said:

Unlikely that a bona fide French company would open a call center in Bangkok to cater to its clients in France. They were probably flogging something "unregulated" or outright illegal. Online gambling, binary options, yet another "coin", the likes. Au revoir, messieurs.

 

Indeed,  they would be most likely be located in Morocco  and employ Moroccans. But I don't know anything about this business.

35 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

So, that means that you made all the co-working spaces illegal? 

So what?

8 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I don't have an issue with these types of people or groups being caught, usually they're scamming people.

Or the types that think they are so smart to be above the law...

45 minutes ago, samsensam said:

 

i'm on retirement extensions and have never had any unpleasantness from any IO, in fact quite the opposite, i have always found them pleasant, helpful and reasonably efficient. maybe it helps to have all your paperwork well organised, dress reasonably well, it was embarrassing to see the state of dress of some foreigners at CW this week, always be relaxed, friendly, and calm. i just think people can do a lot to help themselves with a bit of forethought, common sense and calmness.

C'mon mate, don't be so "dead serious", this isn't the "Visa" forum, it is the bloody "Farang pub".  Now I'll let you enjoy your visit to immigration, I'll go to Soi Nana instead, but without the wife.

7 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Financially speaking you'd be ahead of the game putting 800K in Thai bank and not having a wife or steady g/f for that matter.

Let me try to work out: 10 years by 100 boombooms a year by 2000 Bahts that 2000000  Bahts  plus 400000 equal 2400000... Fraaaakkkkk you are right by a factor 10 !!!..  At least.

15 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

This is not correct.

The requirements and conditions when applying for an extension of stay for reason of retirement based on a Non Imm OA Visa or a Non Imm O Visa are EXACTLY the same (the sole exception being the Health-Insurance requirement which is only mandatory when applying for an extension for reason of retirement of an original Non Imm OA Visa).

Once you apply for an extension of stay the 'A' after the Non Imm O, does not matter any more, be it for a retirement-extension or a marriage-extension.

 

But that's exactly why I don't like in @4MyEgo posts. He omits this reality, and then develops into some well thought, well balanced scheme by the Thai authorities. Which is nonsense.

You need only 400000 in the bank, or 40000 as monthly incomes. I also anticipate a sharp rise in the numbers due to the health insurance requirement.

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

I would have thought as long as it is, it has a lot of truth and positives in it as opposed to the video that was posted, which is nothing short of scare mongering in my opinion, and lacks substance, no offence ????

And is essentially based on falsehoods..

15 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

The long of the truth.

 

The video in my opinion is nothing short of trying to stir up the hornet's nest. It showed no options, therefore is implying that Thailand doesn't want farangs to retire here, which for those of us that live here know is a load of rubbish.

 

My take on this is simple if you think outside the square.

 

Could it be that Thailand wanted to strengthen a current loophole whereby it make it mandatory for those who do not have money in Thailand to have money in the bank to support themselves if hospitalisation was required ?

 

Making sure that those on the retirement visa otherwise known as an the non O visa have 800,000 baht in their Thai bank account for 2 months before they apply for their extension and 3 months after their extension, with 400,000 baht to remain in the account for the remainder of the year, i.e. making sure those on the O visa/extension based on retirement have at least 400,000 in their bank account, which in hindsight reduces the exposure to Thailand's hospitals from those farangs who have no money in their bank account to pay for any necessary treatment/s if and when in hospital.

 

By doing the above I believe that the Thai government has understood that doing things this way, it is not impacting on most farangs, as those farangs should have the required 800,000 baht in the bank anyway and as has always been the case, albeit they tweaked the law to make it so that the farangs have 400,000 baht or half of that 800,000 baht requirement in the account for the 12 months to assist those farangs for any such unforeseen events should they require hospitalisation as opposed to peein it up the wall and leaving it for the government to pay the hospitals, well someone has to pay the tab.

 

I call this good management and the Thai's being understanding of the fact that if they imposed mandatory insurance for farangs on the non O visa/extension, it would have a major impact on a lot of elderly farangs who couldn't get insurance over a certain age, perhaps they looked at the statistics and said, these guys have been here for years and xyz of them are in their 60's, 70's, 80's and would have to leave which would create a big mess for them and also impact on a lot of Thai's, although minimal, then you have those who have families and are not married to Thai's although have Thai partners that they support, get my drift, so I applaud the Thai government for shoring up the loophole, it's responsible and for not making it mandatory for the retirement and or marriage visa/extensions to take out mandatory health insurance, and do not see them making it mandatory in the future for the above reasons I have stated. If they do, we will all have to address it when and it arises, speculating will only cause us stress, and we are all here to enjoy ourselves, are we not ?

 

Those on the O/A visa don't require to have the 800,000 baht in a Thai bank account and can enter and leave Thailand when they want, so it looks that perhaps they know more than what they are wanting to say, just my thoughts, i.e. maybe they have uncovered a system where those on the O/A could enter, get what they required from the hospital system and exit without paying, just my thought as paranoid as it sounds, and if true has left the Thai's with a loophole which costs the Thai taxpayer to foot the bill. If they don't want to take out the mandatory insurance, they can simply changed visas to an O based on retirement or even go for an elite visa, they have options, it's not a do or die scenario and has nothing to do with farangs not being welcome.

 

Whoever made this video simply cannot see past his own nose, because it's that big it's obscures his vision.

 

This is just shoring up the loophole, i.e. if you have a non O, then you are now required to have mandatory insurance before you depart your country, and it must be with a Thai health insurance company, which they can verify, unless it is one on the list that fits the criteria, like I said, they are shoring up the loophole, call me mad, I don't mind, but I like to think outside the square.

 

I am all for mandatory health insurance in all countries, I mean why should someone else pick up the bill, in Australia where I come from, in the state of Melbourne last year if I recall correctly, the government had to pay $80,000,000 in costs to hospitals for visitors to Melbourne who had used the system, had no insurance and then left, I believe they had recouped 3/4's of it, but $20,000,000 or a 1/4 was ridden off, so why should Melbournian's have to foot the bill, for those that don't know, Australia has 7 states last time I checked, although I haven't been far south for a couple of days if you would excuse the pun. 

 

I have a pre-existing condition, I have health insurance, I am on the marriage extension, albeit it is expensive and it only covers me for emergency cover, and it will go up when I turn 60 this year, like it or lump it, I have to carry my own, rightfully so as I am a guest here in Thailand, although I can self insure as there is no mandatory requirement for me to have health insurance in Thailand, and I could self insure and pocket the annual expense, but like I said, I should carry my own and not rely on the Thai's to cover me or allow me to self insure because monitoring such I would imagine would be difficult unless they want to put a few farangs noses out of joint, like make it mandatory to have x amount of baht in the bank for 12 months of the year. 

 

I don't have the solution, but the video is all one sided and for those that can see through the propaganda, will stay on to enjoy Thailand with her warts and all.

 

If you don't have money in the bank albeit 400,000 baht to keep in the bank for a year at a time without touching it, you shouldn't be here, it's not a great deal of money, and if you drink that much, i.e. 12 Changs a day, you won't be on this planet much longer.

 

Just my two bobs worth. 

This "lengthy" post simply falls flat on its face for two deliberate false assumptions:

a) It is wrong to say that people on OA don't have to hold 800000 in a Thai bank as they have to do so when they apply for an extension of stay based on retirement.

b) people on O visa don't have to hold 800000 when applying for an extension of stay since they can use the monthly income justification.

And I want to add that the OP is right to the point, if this wasn't a xenophobic and corrupt attempt to get rid of us they would have made provisions for those who've had foreign coverage for years, and for people over 75 with or without preexisting conditions.

59 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

Please think a little before you post next time. Now you can explain what in this news have to do with digital nomads?

Easy enough: they were providing services, from Thailand, for clients based overseas, without incurring any taxation locally. Hope that's enough for someone that's so clever. Neither did they any any permit to do such work in Thailand.

The problem I have is a high content of iron an manganese. Therefore the water comes out clear, but after 24 hours in the tank it turns red as the iron precipitates. If you shock the water with chlorine it turns black as the manganese then precipitates too. Waste of money, I use it water the garden, and paid a 50000 Bahts bribe to get connected to the PWA network.

Hmmmhhh, are we going the hear more stories like that one in the coming months? Exit the digital nomads?

1 hour ago, legend49 said:

She didn't need money

 

 

So why was she sex working?

 

To do Turks.