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His point was that he didn't want to keep skirting around the rules.

Guess I lucked out. Same thing happened to me at Laos-Thailand border (didn't get re-entry before crossing). Woman officer took me to private room and told me she'd give me a tourist visa and to go to my local Immigration Office and straighten this out. Not every Thai officer is corrupt.

I'm no fan of the PM, but she got this right: its nothing, it's misinformation, just move on.

2. You can work. Not necessarily Work permits are in the domain of the Ministry of Labor, not Immigration (who handles the Visa). See Work Eligibility and Work Permit https://thaivisaexpert.com/is-it-possible-to-work-on-a-marriage-visa/#:~:text=While the Thai Marriage Visa,and evaluation determine the outcome.

The Cars. Moving In Stereo is unquestionably the best song of it's Genre, and they created plenty of other excellent music. Boston, Rush - fine backup bands for the Cars.

A single-entry permit is around 1200b, multiple-entry around twice that. Unless you are CERTAIN you will only need the permit one time before your visa expires I strongly advise you get the multi, and when and if you renew your visa get a multi at the same time. And as to the advice you get here (including mine) I very much advise you to ask your local Immigration office - at the end of the day what they say is what matters.

Mark Zuckerberg as quoted by Indian Defence Review, telling us the replacement for smart phones. I suspect Apple and Google wake up shivering at these pronouncements of their demise. Mark, sorry to tell ya, but you stopped being relevant a loooong time ago.

You have a lot of good, intelligent responses here. But if it was up to me I would head to my local Immigration Office and ask them. Understand that every immigration office has the latitude to shape the policies and procedures for their office, and a baby hippo is what your local office says it is 🦛

In Udon Thani there are a number of good restaurants, 2 that stand out are Country Grille and Irish Clock. But really there are a ton of good recipes on Youtube/Facebook/etc. Toss out your microwave, get an oven and a couple of cooking plates, stock up on good supplies at cheese2meatu and/or ud villa. The final step is to let your woman see what a disaster you are chopping most anything; she'll kick you out of the kitchen and learn to use YouTube to make those meals your inner WesternMan™️ craves. Make sure and compliment her liberally - I find what works best is "you even cook better than my mom".

How long have you been waiting to use that one?

My Thai wife will often go to Youtube and find a recipe I like, like a meatloaf my mom made. Or a Thai dish (rice, pork and chilies) that I pimp up (like top it off with a gooey egg). Im in the USA right now, I cant wait to get home to eat her.

About 5 years ago I bought one of these cheapie tablets in USA and was definitely satisfied with it. The wifi was on the slow side but what do you expect for 5 years ago? I strongly recommend you buy from Lazada instead of Shopee. They have the 2100b versions you refer to, or you can toss in another 1200b and get a Samsung Galaxy plus you get it shipped from within Thailand, and if something goes wrong you get decent customer service. Expect shipped from China and a long wait from Shopee.

Try Cheese2MeatU (real name) in Udon Thani.

I always buy used company desktops, preferably thinkpads or dell. SSDs are so cheap the first thing I do is put in a new SSD and load it with a clean OS (google Windows 11, Ive found it for $10 us). You can never have too much RAM; sooner or later bloatware happens and 8G memory is just not enough. DONT buy hp laptops; the amount of bloatware they cram in is incredible. Finally DONT DONT DONT buy a Windows 10 machine.

You are kidding yourself if you think there is one western woman who would have chosen a man with an empty bank account. Its definitely not exclusive to Thais, it's how men and women play the game.