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Well, I for one am on his side, he must surely lead the Baht on slide ????  but then I assumed that about the current muppet

On 12/21/2021 at 1:19 PM, Stargeezr said:

With the Omicron variant of COVID spiking cases all over the world, it is looking like

2023 may be the year that some recovery may happen

Until the next variant. This was all said about Delta as well.  We failed dismally to share vaccinations to the world, so it has to keep happening.

Doesn't really matter what we think, whats the opinion of actual voters expats have talked to ?

Well, we rode lots in Chang Mai years ago, I would not recommend it unless you are used the the stupidity that is cycling like Australia etal (at war with Cars). This was a decade ago, so maybe things have changed?

8 hours ago, tingtongfarang said:

By nature nomads should not want to own a condo

Well, I like one for a home base, currently this is how I use (before Covid, currently it's where I am living)  my condo in Australia, then rent it out when away.  The issue becomes Visas, short the Elite Visa there really isn't anything in Thailand. 

Assuming I then own place, it might be nice to gain actual residency so you have a right to return to said condo when you want. Even if I owned one in Thailand, there is no guarantee I could live in it.

So I am happy to rent in Thailand when I am there and arbitrage the ridiculous rent I can get on my place in Aus. rather then buy a place in Thailand I have no right to live in (but would own)

On 11/12/2021 at 10:00 AM, Jeffr2 said:

Via a company.  You need 3 shareholders.  My other 2 are my wife and her mother.

Okay, so you don't mean own, you buy, they own. 

I would never buy a place here in Australia in joint names (unless they go 1/2s of course) , let alone in another country where I have no property rights and can't own... but caveat emptor. As long as the OP is aware of the lack of property rights. I say go for it ????

On 11/12/2021 at 12:12 PM, Skytrain2hell said:

Goodbye PayPal. Hello Crypto.

While this is true, if they ban exchanges and there is no Baht offramp, then....

7 hours ago, clivebaxter said:

I drink 4 days a week, does that make me a part time alcoholic? 

Part time ? No, it makes you an alcoholic (only replying because you asked the question).  Someone uses Cocaine 4 days a week ? or Heroine 4 days a week ? or Meth 4 days a week ? not addicts either ?  doesn't mean you can't be functional, just means you're not self aware.

5 hours ago, Tramboy said:

I'd hate to be one of the first.

This is going to be a calamity.

I am waiting for others to be the guinea pigs and report back on any issues. I guess if you are coming for months, an extra hour or three is a pain but you can live with it, if you are coming for a weeks holiday.... you''ll be salty if it takes as long as predicted in here.

What ever thought's I had at 8 were probably not worth remembering :)  When I got my first actual job, at 17 (am now 54), I had just started my first real job (part time jobs before that as a kid from 15) I realised I didn't want to do that for next 50 years. I dreamed of retiring at 30 !!! So I worked my ass off and invested and started my own business because I was lazy and didn't want to keep working.  Took me until about 38 before I could quit work and have been retired ever since. I was super focused until then then saving, investing and working . 

Lucky for me I think the greatest joy in the world is sitting on my condo balcony high in the sky and reading a book, letting my mind travel the universe.

Like many I assumed I would never even make it to the year 2000 and here i am ....

Sorry to thread jack but I see here

https://canberra.thaiembassy.org/non-immigrant-visa-category-o-a-for-retirement-long-stay-valid-for-1-year/

§ a deposit account of at least THB 800,000, or

I assume this is in an Aussie bank account ? As you are applying for this IN Australia.

7 hours ago, sirineou said:

 

You beat me to the punch 

as I was typing "As far as I know Tetanus is not contagious from person to person. "

I noticed your post.????

Which is not what he was suggesting, he WAS suggesting that LIKE Covid, herd immunity is not conferred with Tetanus.  If everyone else is getting a Tetanus vaccination. and you aren't vaccinated,  you can still get Tetanus, like Covid i.e no herd immunity.  He was using it  as an allegory, for the many who live amongst us who are perhaps a little slow of mind and unable to grok the concept.

It's interesting news to me and him using the tetanus allegory made perfect sense to understand the concept.. I am trusting but will verify from another source at some date.

On 10/1/2021 at 3:07 PM, fondue zoo said:

So if an Australian has had two Pfizer jabs in Thailand can they return home with a 7 day home quarantine?

Yes and no, I think what is happening first is you have to return to Aus. , 14 day hotel quarantine, then take your paperwork to your Doctor.  If they approve it, they will enter it into your Medicare records and you will have an Aus vaccine certificate and be good to go. I am not sure how that works with other foreign nationals... and I am not sure if that will change as I read that off a news site a couple weeks ago and who knows.

An example of why they might be hesitant, I have a friend in Poland for example who said it was free to get the Pfizer Jab or PLN500 and you get the paperwork to say you have been jabbed but don't have get jabbed, the paperwork is genuine as it happens at the vaccination cliincs. He didn't know anyone who got jabbed, just lots who paid the money to get the certificate to say they had been so they could travel. 

On 10/1/2021 at 3:13 PM, 2 is 1 said:

Only country in hole planet which not allowed own citizen to get back home! Crazy sht! Start from inmate now not even let them in! Ok sarcasm.....

Not quite so, New Zealand  as well BUT Australia was worse.  Intra national movements were banned e.ga citizen of say NSW could not go to Qld AND if you were a local you could often not return eg walk 5 metres across the border into NSW you could not return back to Queensland but you could drive your car 3000km to the north from Coolongatta visiting all and sundry.  We ended up like a bunch of school kids bickering in a sandpit after drawing up squares and saying "na na nah you can't cross this line."

There is also super limited ability to travel, there are only a handful of destinations but of course once you get there eg Singapore you can travel further you also have the issue of the states not agreeing to this, as far as I know the only state who has committed is NSW. So how exactly a Queenslander or a citizen of SA, Tasmania, WA, NT, ACT etc might go about it I am unsure. 

I don't really blame the politicians on this at all, the stupider they went, the more the voters supported it. For me this was a national shame and voters should be embarrassed by their repugnant actions, some 90% support this.  This has finally tipped me into wanting to leave the country for a looooong time.  I don't know of ANYONE personally who is not broadly supportive of the policies that were brought it

I have had one shot of Spikevax

Prayut has a cunning plan , part of the "sell foreigners land" deal, restrict it to BKK, sell off much of it, and the locals use that Baht to move elsewhere :) PROFIT ! :)

Gives me the same feeling as when I thought about Trump, Johnson in the UK, or Scott Morrison in Aus. for that matter... I think Nelson, from The Simpsons said it best ? HA HA!

6 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

So let me understand this, I have lost my job, spent all my savings, and now I am going to up the limit on my credit card. What could go wrong.

 

 

Except you don't control your own currency nor do you control the interest rate on the "loan".  they do. As long as the debt is Baht denominated, and inflation is not to bad, they can issue as much as they want.  One just has to look to Japan, their public debt to GDP ratio is 270%, If the Thai central bank issues a loan to the Thai treasury with no payment date and zero % is that really a loan ?

IMO as long as they are on top of inflation, public debt is irrelevant, private debt is the main issue, that usually goes awry when you have stupid property prices. eg in Australia is up around 210%

The issue becomes inflation, once politicians start being profligate on stupid projects that add nothing to the economy eg Submarines, they mostly become unwilling to stop spending eg Zimbabwe had that issue

52 minutes ago, Tickatus said:

Thanks everybody for your help and your time! It's been really helpful!

 

To summarize:

-Go to the airport while avoiding being caught 

-bring 20 000 thai money and I negative covid test

-go to the immigration desk, pay the fine and come back to Austria.

-no lawyer needed

 

Btw he is not my friend but a relative -brother in law- (For everyone who called him my friend). But that's just a detail

 

Ps : he is not the guy that police caught today, his flight is next week 

 

Thanks again everybody ????????

Surely he will need a recent PCR test to get on the plane to Europe  ? Find out what airline he intends to travel on and see what their requirements are as well as the Thai and European immigration requirements.

7 hours ago, mikebell said:

 Why can't they see that the best investment is in retirees who live here permanently; adopt Thai children abandoned by their fathers; support the mothers/families and local companies all year round yet get treated as terrorists in every walk of Thai life.

No need to attract them or do anything more in that regard, they are already in Thailand and willing to stay apparently, I didn't, too many hoops to jump through. The ones with lots of $$$ who aren't there are the ones they want to attract.  As pointed out, people with money have "options" so they need to make it attractive to them, the guys living off their aged pension etc are already there.   Perhaps Thais think, why would people want to be anywhere else so no need to make it easier ? but then Australians think the same thing about their country as do many others about their country.

On 9/15/2021 at 12:29 PM, spidermike007 said:

I think ex-pats should be treated with the kind of respect and acknowledgement we deserve.

Why should they bother ? They give you the rough end of the pineapple now and you still come.... in droves. It's like some weird quasi sado/masochistic relationship ????

Seems to be common in here to make the point that immigrants (ex-pats) deserve to be treated with a little more dignity, why exactly should they bother ? More, why ? there are already plenty.

On 9/14/2021 at 8:36 PM, khunpa said:

Any “wealthy” person can just right now buy an Elite visa, if they want to

stay here. But it is a completely different thing and other factors that apply, if you want to invest in property or setup a company.

This is  true. I am looking to get a 20 yr Elite Visa (I certainly don't consider myself wealthy though) but that doesn't entitle me to much. It's really just a "travel" visa., 90 Day reporting still needed etc.  While I am a little circumspect about them sticking to it for 20 yrs, I am hoping they would just stop issuing them rather then reneging on the ones they have issued already.   It kind of suits me, as I wanted to move around ASEAN (albeit Myanmar is out)

I'd still be wary of purchasing land/house etc  if you have no path to residency, as they can kick you out when they like.

1 hour ago, bradiston said:

So any Vax program outside Europe and USA isn't recognised? That would appear to exclude billions of people. Asia, Far East, SE Asia, Middle East, South America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. And all HGV drivers, I guess. 

That is also currently the situation here in Australia, AFAIK. They are working here to change that but who knows what that will look like.

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The US does not recognise the Astra vaccine at all AFAIK.