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20 hours ago, Habbo said:

I paid about 1 million baht (36 000€) here in Finland.

36k€ is 1,4 mThb

The Jerusalem Post:

"Yohai Gild, one of the pioneers of cannabis cultivation in Israel and founder of Better Cannabis, has been arrested in Thailand on suspicion of dealing different types of illicit drugs at parties on the Thai island of Ko Pha Ngan.

He was later released on bail."

Perhaps bail cost 1M$...

Very worrying rumors Vietnam stops issuing 3 months tourist visas next july. Maximum stay on tourist visa would be then 1 month.

22 hours ago, GalaxyMan said:

It's a joke and an insult. 5-6 baht increase per day! What a shameful act.

It is decent 2% increase. 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

They noted that most of those in the pictures were Indian and Chinese; the few Westerners in sight were probably Russian, they reckoned. 

Russian is not westener IMO 

7 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

Well, that's gonna suck. 

Fire onboard suck even more IMHO

8 hours ago, bluesea said:

And what will happen if Donald Trump devalues the USD as he says he is by 20% ?? that will make the baht even more stonger.

No, it will make USD weaker. 

17 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

new AC units means low power bill, old AC really suck power.

I stayed at studio with old AC unit. Monthly bill was 5k+, unit prx 7thb

17 hours ago, Camillof said:

Airport Link is expensive too

45 baht from Phaya Thai To Swampy is not expensive IMO

Is MH17 and all 298 victims already forgotten mr Putler?

So, at the end he turned out to be a joke????

Dunno about the money but refuse a cup of tea offered by russian

Bangkok Bank (between Suk soi8 and 10 2nd floor) did it smoothly. I had with me my lease agreement, "verification" from embassy that my passport is mine & genuine and a pp. It took about 30 mins to open an account and get debit card.

Guys rushed to Asian Mensa Meeting

Continue straight away from Bangkok to another destination in Thailand. She cannot trace you.

Thank you ubonjoe, elviajero and VBF for your valuable answers. Have a nice weekend!

I will be travelling to Thailand next week. I have a SETV for 60 days. I intend to extend my stay for another 30 days. I have booked a return flight 90 days from my arrival. Shall I put 90 or 60 days of lenght of stay on TM6? If I have to put 60 days, do I have to book a return flight to some of the neighboring countries 60 days after arrival? Thank you for advise.

9 minutes ago, tideout said:

Could you be a bit more specific?

e.g Elite card easy access cost 500k/5yr is less than OP:s 140k/1yr

Elite visa is cheaper, 100k/year only

On 11/15/2018 at 4:16 AM, jackdd said:

There are many statistics about this, just google something like "median net worth retirement" then you will see that the median for retirees in western countries is somewhere in the millions of THB, so most of the retirees can afford 800k on a Thai bank ????

I checked median net (after tax) pension 2017 in Finland. It was 1250 euros/month (average gross pension/month 1656€). Roughly 18500thb short of reguired 65k/mth or 222k short of 800k.

https://www.etk.fi/en/tiedote/average-monthly-pension-eur-1656/

7 hours ago, GeorgeCross said:

if all US/UK/EU/AU expats

Did you mean US/EU/AU expats????

7 hours ago, GeorgeCross said:

if all US/UK/EU/AU expats

Did you mean US/EU/AU expats????

Mid 80's??or Don Mueang ap was cleaned from illegal taxis after Japanese 2 honeymooners were killed and raped by two local thugs. I recall even "hotel taxis" didn't dare to take customers to ap for a while