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GEO restrictions and very limited offering on Netflix causes me to also see things elsewhere. Even I do pay where I can.

For Thais the niche business is their lack of ENG skills, these sites offer hassle free Thai subtitles etc. without needing knowledge or software.
Many Thais I know do not care about the <deleted>ty resolution or quality at all, as long they can understand it.

30 minutes ago, Langkawee said:

White men will tell you they are living in paradise. It is the town of choice for the mentally ill. After all who woukd choose to live in a sh%tehole that will make them prematurely die. 

Wonder what town you talk about as the pollution is as bad in Khon Kaen and Udon Thani, basically everywhere except in the south. 
Only difference for the north (CM and CR etc too) is the extreme peak measurements. All year round average BKK and Khon Kaen are still worse.

Money earned a year prior and deposited in Saving accounts is not taxed again in Thailand. With his income, plausible to have savings of a year old, to live on. 
Kind of silly to start about tax evading as well, Thais do it best. Most 'businesses' aren't even officially registered as such, Thais consider it a 'Shop' if small.

Anyway, I would just get the Elite visa for 5 years, to be hassle free and then consider after that again. It is a fair amount of time to see things play out.

Won't come far as this is Thailand, they are behind for no reason already. Only good thing people can hope for is not having legal issues using it.
Reason? Xenophobic behaviour, wanting to re-invent every wheel and not allowing foreigners to do the job properly.

My wife has many issues with them, frequently. They also always benefit the consumer during disputes, even she was 100% right. 
Many problems are not being resolved or take weeks. Sometimes have orders stuck that are delivered 1-2 weeks already, causing cashflow to be stuck too.

Also quite annoying to not being allowed doing cross border selling, while Chinese can do so. Not a surprise as its owned by Alibaba too.

From my consumer perspective, I like it but a bit <deleted> of not being allowed to have the wallet and discounts anymore.
Makes me to let my wife purchase in her account or throwing free money away.

Just ask in English, will be fine. The one they sold us in CM didn't do its job and resulted in pregnancy. Just saying.

That's why eventually, it all be facial recognition / dual combo.

If you didn't enter 2x via land border this calendar year yet, you are good to go.

I hope he died, else he is looking at a real hell time. RIP

Seems something went wrong with the plan, seemed so professional and accurate and then got a mess this easily. 
Should have hit for the jungle, away from people, for a few days at least.

To be honest, CM hasn't got the highest wages in general, earning 45-50B per hour would be a lot. 
Most <5KM deliveries can be done in 30 minutes easily, some can take a bit longer but many are efficient and fast. 

Aside of this, grab rides with the car have become significant more expensive, it actually is more than I would pay in BKK with meter. 
Only ultra cheap thing I tried recently is the grab motorbike service within the city (old city to nimman being as little as 56 baht but again, 20 mins work for driver). 

Would be a shame if they ruin it by being so greedy, Grab, though. Still fairly easy to have a flexible job, certainly as student or aside of a home business. 
Doubt this money can be earned with other flexible jobs, that allow you whenever you want to work and make some money instantly.

I think the real pain is the longer distance rides actually, those take much more time + afford to find (as most Thais can't read a map or navigate),
always tip the driver 20B more as of feeling guilty for living quite far out of town / middle of nowhere if not knowing the way.

If just experiencing that, while nothing actually happened, makes you scared, there are many more places too. 
Grow some balls, stop whining over a more expensive beer on a seldom visit, take a taxi home.

Hanging around some dark area bus stop, drunk, as a foreigner, is suspicious to me too, lol. I would have checked your ID for sure.

2 minutes ago, MarleyMarl said:

30k/month for car repayment? Is that for 2 cars? Or you driving around in a Merc lol?

I run a home office with 12 computers, multiple aircons, other equipment that's on 24/7 and your power bill is the same as mine. Is your bill being marked up?

With a 50K mortgage? 8K electric is like nothing, I pay near half of that in a tiny 2 bedroom house with AC usage on local rates + not old AC's.
Just a small pool could jack up the costs with 2-3K already.

23 minutes ago, Tayaout said:

I pay 1,500 but only have AC in main bedroom.

That makes sense, even a bit high then compared to me. I am running 2-3 units for like 18 hours per day aside of many house electronics. 
Guess it helps a bit that I changed to energy saving lights etc, 400B monthly less compared to regular bulbs.

9 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I only use air-con a couple of hours a night or in the afternoons of the hottest season.

Sitting in the living room today, feeling a bit cold at 28c.

Haven't used air-con this month.

Wow ok, I can't get my wife to that really. Specially at the peaks this year. Even we try to use it moderate, guess it adds up quickly with 2 units running regular. 
AC is the first I would slash on in worser times financially though, easy savings, but would be the last of wife (after food). 

4 hours ago, BritManToo said:

In Thailand I pay 1,100bht/month for electricity, water 350bht, internet 631bht.

How on earth do you manage to only pay 1,100 baht for electric in a family house, 3 bedroom wasn't it? 
I pay at least 3,000 baht a month, up to 4,000 on a hot month and this is in a small 2 bedroom house. You never use AC at all?

Less than a few million is nothing to worry about, that is small money with banks here anyway. Just split it among 2-3 accounts if desired.
To worry about a transfer of like less than 500K baht is laughable / really old fashion thinking. 

I trust Thai banks more than I trust European / Western ones, that is for sure. It always works and there is always a branch open to service me too.
Nobody is messing with your money here, no questions asked and just the minor yearly fee. 

Even when I once had a issue abroad, I called Kasikorn and had a native English speaker (foreigner or half thai for sure) solving it within 30 minutes.

Generally speaking, if wanting to be safe, just no more than 100K EUR/USD per bank account/country. If you only have 100K, split it in 3 ways / currencies.
 

It's just show off / traffic handling police, they would be useless in case of a real emergency.

Moving from CM to CR would be a very very strange idea unless you like to be even more quiet, have less things and services etc. 
Would not see how it saves you any money either, you can find the same 'lower range' within / around CM if desired.

If it because you are bored in CM, CR will bore you even more. Leaving entirely from the north makes more sense in that case.
Also you will pay more for flights, most likely, all the time.

Not see how immigration would be different too, aside of perhaps a 1 hour shorter wait, same yearly thing regardless. 
Air quality worse or the same, coffeeshops enough but limited in terms of western food compared to here. 

For golf you have more options, including cheap ones, in CM too. Basically like moving to China town of the north, certainly in near future.

To sum it up: A pointless move unless you did it because of the wife coming from there / building or having a free house there already.
(It is great for 2-3 days, twice a year though)

18 hours ago, ukrules said:

Good luck checking into your hotel without your passport.

That is super easy, almost never use it to check in. Also tell them to not report me as I else have to go for my house again,
they most times agree, could be on overstay for all that matters. Flying a different story.

IDK what you talk about but it only became easier to work remotely / abroad for my generation (28y old) and I certainly do not need 3 jobs, I need only 0.5. 
Neither do I see anyone in trouble back home in Netherlands, except the classic minority, always some who mess up their life.

What happened? The exchange rate is poor, the service is even worse and the visa situation extreme. That's all.
P.S. Maybe stop believing that leftish news telling you everyone is in trouble and need 3 jobs to survive? It is garbage, some are lazy, some are not.

Can always return to home country with expired passport and you can board plane with Oz one if they do make it an issue, just make a new one while here.