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54 minutes ago, delboy said:

The details I got when I booked the flight said

That!

Did you really watch a safety video before flying?  

1 minute ago, 2 is 1 said:

Finnish Institute for Health and  Welfare just recommend to use mask in puplic places!

Yes. And even in The Netherlands they now say the same. Sure, maybe it is not "100% scientifically proven" but all signs show that it does make a difference.

Unfortunately there are people reading UK trash news papers like the daily mail who try to prove something else.

2 hours ago, Mutt Daeng said:

I used that licence to download and install Office 2019 from MS servers using the MS Office Deployment Toolkit, so I reckon it's a legitimate key.

Believe me, if you pay $3 for a $400 software package you get something illegal.

The key is only a 16 digit number. Once you find out the logic behind it you can generate them yourself, and that is exactly what they do.

I use the keys for Microsoft Servers. They register at Microsoft without problems, updates work good etc. But the keys are not legitimate. But Microsoft server is about $800, and they keys at Ebay are about $5. The temptation is simply too great.

36 minutes ago, Selwyn said:

I have to file a tax return and pay tax on any income.

I've read that this is not so. You do not have to pay tax on foreign income if the income is brought into the country in the year after you received it. So if you have dividends and keep them on a UK bank account till january the next year you do not have to pay anything.

This was how I understood it. It can be smart to get professional advice if you worry.

Apart from laws and regulations, I do not believe that the Thai tax authorities can find out how much income you receive from abroad.

On 8/1/2020 at 10:03 AM, Eindhoven said:

But I got 5TB of OneDrive storage with mine, along with Office 2019 installation on five devices. 5TB storage on each.

Be very careful with the Office 365 you can buy on Ebay.  They send you keys which are a part of educational licenses, for example from a school or university. Once the find out about this they will cancel the license. And you will lose the content on Onedrive. 

Office 365 Home is cheap, about 60 Euro a year if you find a nice discount. If you care about the content you have on Onedrive I would not take the risk with a license you are not entitled to.

On 8/1/2020 at 6:25 AM, Pib said:

since a person can buy licenses dirt cheap...perfectly legal licenses

The licenses on Ebay are not legal.  They work, but the licenses they sell are only the registration keys. They have software to generate these keys. Every $ they get is 100% profit for them.

20 hours ago, johng said:

150,000 baht per month for a condo !!!!     must have been some sort of corporate tax write off scheme I just can't comprehend who in "their right mind" would spend such huge amounts of money to rent a condo

 

PS  yes I can't afford to spend that much but wouldn't even if I could ????

That's a bit over 4000 Euro. It's a joke for a company that has to house an employee with his family.

3 hours ago, bodga said:

If that unemployment is  so  massive  they could  all come and work on the land with me, but  no, NO takers.

Job Includes brand  new  2  bed house  fully  insulated from the heat  , 40" tv ,free motocy, free   rice' free electric, free  water, free fish,  2  people or  one 20k for 2, 13k for one person.

 

I see homeless people in my soi. I see other people looking through the trash at the sides of the road at the end of the day. In the night I see people sleeping on the street. I never saw that before in the soi where I live. It's really sad to see.

Maybe there is a communication problem here?  

4 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

In general you are right but I do have one in a 7/11 near me always sawat dee me, I had not been in for a few days and she's asking where ive been, Kitung mai?

She missed you!

Maybe there is more that you do not know about.

52 minutes ago, Liverpoolfan said:

steady decline in the attitudes

They also never ???? in the seven-eleven!

11 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Every crime here seems to be solved within 48 hours. Farang countries seem to really struggle

And the perpetrators always admit the crime immediately. Where I come from they always deny. 

How do they do this? 

33 minutes ago, Saltire said:

Didn't want to post it but many here still do, mostly from Myanmar and Mon State in particular. Saw one getting nabbed and killed just a few days ago.

Maybe you can send them to Bangkok?  

2 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

I have not gone to any place or event that charges more than a Thai and it will remain that way, until it changes.

There is not much you can do if you arrive by boat with your family and can choose between paying 200 Baht or going back with the same boat.

48 minutes ago, Eindhoven said:

400?? Used to be 200 baht and that was a rip-off. If 400, I will not again step on the island.

Last week Thai 40, Foreigners 200. Too much if you visit for only some hours.

6 hours ago, Puccini said:

What do mean with "Transferwise incoming bank account"?

Transferwise changed the IBAN of client accounts from Germany to Belgium. So if you want to use Transferwise and want to use a bank transfer to fund your Transferwise account you now have to use a different IBAN.

Although this shouldn't make any difference. If you can transfer money to a German IBAN you can also transfer money to a Belgium IBAN.

1 hour ago, MrShin said:

was moved from Germany to Belgium and the company has problems with cross border transfers

It's only an IBAN. It really makes no difference if you pay to a German IBAN or Belgium IBAN. And you can also fund a Transferwise account with a German credit card. And I see that you can even use SOFORT to fund the account. Are you sure that the Belgium bank account is the problem?

If you have an address in Europe somewhere (or family with an address you can use) you can try to open a N26.com account remotely. You will get a German bank account + internet banking and the freedom to move money to Transferwise.

28 minutes ago, Arjy2000k said:

How do i book a quarantine hotel, or my future appartment if i have no idea on any dates

I have read somewhere that it is possible to change the dates after booking. But I would contact the hotel you want to book before booking to ask about this.

11 minutes ago, JCP108 said:

This isn't even high season and I assume there is little business.

They try to compensate for "little business". I mean, they need that money!

I was in Pattaya on Tuesday, it was really quiet.

Sunday and Monday the Rayon region was almost deserted. Koh Samet was quiet also, only Thai people.