Andycoops

Unfortunately you must have a mentally challenged individual in charge of the village broadcast because in my village they only occasionally play music and only make announcements as and when necessary. I suggest you campaign vigorously in the upcoming village election to ensure the person in charge of broadcasting is fit and proper to perform their duties without disrupting your and others daily lives..

Sounds like alot of expats here but they mostly don't like the food...

Suggest you get in and when or if you get out, report back...

The embassy has nothing to do with passport renewal. It's all handled through VFS.

Easily proved by looking at the books. Only a idiot would buy without doing due diligence.

I informed Nationwide that I was retiring to Thailand and gave them my official address here, along with HMRC etc. That was 15 years ago and I never had a problem. However with the news that expats with some UK bank accounts being given notice of closure due to non resident status. I have opened a Wise GBP account in addition to my other Wise accounts, just in case Nationwide do decide the time is up.

When I lived in the UK I was never offered a drinks menu upon entering the pub. Why should Thai bars be any different...

The Thai misogynistic dinosaurs are at it again, clearly they don't know we are now in the 21st C and are not still living in caves in Kalasin...

Another shameful case of brushing it under the carpet Thai style while the victims get no support or compassion whatsoever and the quilty get off scot free.

Thin end of the CCP wedge, kick them all the way back to peking.

Clearly you don't understand how Thailand works. As the chinese actress said when she paid for the police out riders to whisk her from the airport in Bangkok to her Pattaya hotel and I quote, 'everything in Thailand is for sale ' My wife's friend was offered a job at the local school when someone was retiring, after completing her degree, the fee was 200,000 baht paid into the school directors bank account if she wanted the position. I suggest you wake up and smell the coffee...

A friend of mine walked into a beach road hotel in Pattaya and got a 30% discount for this weekend...

4 months and the odd visit not really CV for understanding how life really is. You need to have years under you belt.

1st and 2nd of August all bars will be closed.

Yes they are it's not a bank holiday, just another jolly day off for the civil servants etc

In my experience, even though I always tick the 'funds for long-term stay in Thailand' It sometimes goes through as local and sometimes as FTT which is the code for overseas transfers with Bangkok Bank. Wise told me before that knew there was a glitch and were working on it but it still is happening. On my last marriage extension no mention was made of the 2 different codes. I also supplied the PDF receipt from Wise for each transfer which shows a GBP to Baht conversion.

It boggles my mind that someone with either no income or very little income can be given so much money by so called financial institutions. Out here in the boonies of Isaan nearly all the big houses are owned by teachers, civil servants, policemen etc None of whom earn big saleries. Needless to say the the accompanying 4 wheels can be seen in the garage, usually a Camry or Fortuner. Completely bonkers.

Key visa in Pattaya gets good reviews, try them.

Nobody cares what he hopes as the usurper of democracy his opinion is worthless much like his tenure in power. And his and his cronies legacy will effect the country until the anti democratic senate can be dismantled because we have seen recently they are still clinging onto their illegitimacy.

A sad tale of deception. My wife doesn't have access to any of my 3 Thai accounts and I get transfer and withdrawal notifications, easy to set up and use. She also has no access to my UK accounts either. Only upon my demise through the executor will she have access. I would never trust a Thai when it comes to my money, had my fingers lightly burnt long ago and learnt my lesson.

Many of those hotel's up here in Isaan only cater to the Thai domestic audience and therefore their online presence is in the Thai language. And even in larger towns there are some marketing in Thai only. Unless there is a major holiday virtually all of them will have a room available by just walking in.

I got my renewal done over Christmas and NY, it was 3 weeks in all which was superb considering the bank holidays involved.

In Thai villages there is usually a death insurance that they pay into monthly, sometimes only 30 baht or so but it provides the basic cost of the village temple funeral.

I use Deestone and have had very good wear out of them. I'm on my 3rd set, Toyota 3.0 4 dr pre runner

The senate has got any ethics let alone credibility because they were told what to do by the election losers, who of course created the anti democratic senate in the first place to thwart the people's choice. No doubt they have been amply rewarded for their dereliction of duty.