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OK got both licenses on Thursday, took about 45 minutes in total. Very efficient Thanks to Walailak for the information about Chatuchak DLT; saved me from paying the parasitic agents 4-5000 baht.

OK further to this inquiry, I went to Chatuchak DLT this afternoon and was pleasantly surprised at the efficiency. Nice lady checked my documents, sent me off to get copies of everything and then gave me an appointment for later this week. She smiled when I explained that the website and the app showed appointment slots full well into May. Hopefully, I'll have renewed licenses this week.

Yes that's what I'm getting using both website and app. So I guess I'll have to take a punt on the bureaucracy in person. I spoke with an agent and asked why things had changed since I got my licence 5 years ago. She said the staff were fed up with the language barrier when foreigners would argue with them after turning up with the wrong documentation. I asked if Thais had to go through the same appointment system, she said "yes". Obviously blows out her explanation since there's no language barrier with Thais, is there? I think the DLT offices just realised they could make a bit of backhand cash by selling the appointments to parasitic agents who milk foreigners in return for fast tracking.

Did you go to Chatuchak in person to get the appointment or did you apply online?

Hello I need to renew my already-expired 5-year car and bike licences in Bangkok. They both expired on 17th January this year. i'm on a non-immigrant O visa valid until December 2026 I have both medical and residence certificates valid for 30 days Is the only way to circumvent the 2-3 month wait for a DLT appointment to engage with agents who charge 3000-5000 to do it for you? If anyone's managed to do so recently, please let me know what procedure you employed. I don't want to have to go to immigration again if my residence certificate expires during the long wait for an appointment. Thanks

Won't catch me shedding a tear for BDMS. Greedy b*stards.

Not any more. I got alerted several times during April/May that Binance would withdraw P2P transaction functionality from its platform. It urged users to open a Binance TH account . . . I never tried but I hear they have some pretty stringent KYC criteria and even then, I'm sure they won't let you do P2P for THB transactions https://www.binance.th/en/faq/latest-activities/5422dacb5b6e46e09a75d3b9711f7817

If I'm going up and don the gridlock of Asoke then no, I don't bother. If I'm going anywhere where I'll be getting up to speeds above 30kph then the lid goes on without fail. I'm fixing to get a Bimmer next year so the latter scenario won't be an issue. Rather arrive late due to traffic than dead.

If I was in such a predicament, I'd go home to the UK. At least I wouldn't have to pay for healthcare. The cold might get me though

transfer money as crypto stablecoin to your Thai exchange, then convert into baht and it's not overseas income ...easy

An old web designer friend of mine had to leave Bangkok back in 2016 because he was running low on funds and it was getting harder and harder to top up the 800k he kept in a Thai account for his annual retirement extension. Ended moving to Cambodia where he recreated his routine of doing poorly-paid odd 'n' sods to fund his ridiculous 7pm - 7am barfly lifestyle. Poor sod ended up dying of cirrhosis in a run down room above a bar in Phnom Penh. A mutual friend who'd gone to visit him before he passed said he'd expressed serious interest in returning to England to get medical help.

The way you explained it, he appeared to generalize about an operation that thousands and thousands of men have found lasting relief from. If he'd said that you, personally, would be "looking at 6-12 months of pain and uncontrollable leaking", that would be one thing. As someone who's actually HAD the Rezum procedure, his generalization was BS.

Your US doctor is talking nonsense. I had Rezum over 2 years ago. It was done in Bangkok. Once the Foley catheter was removed (the most discomfort of the entire procedure), it was and still is plain sailing. No pain, absolutely zero leakage, zero erectile dysfunction, zero retrograde ejeaculation and 6-7 hours uninterrupted sleep most nights.

The dollar isn't "responding" to anything. The DXY is completely rigged. Price action is controlled by an AI algorithm 90% of the time that it trades. In the remaining 10%, the "marketmakers" or "the hand" intervenes manually to push price to where it is advantageous for them to accumulate new positions or to distribute positions they already hold.

With respect, people with money don't tend to care much about the price of a beer or a meal in a restaurant when they're on holiday. Anyone in touch with reality knows this. The very fact that you itemize everything from the cost of coffees to mototaxis suggests that you're something of a penny-pincher or as the Thais would say, a "cheap charlie". Nothing wrong with that but assuming that your way of thinking is common is the true naivety here.