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I stood there and calmly answered their questions and even threw in a little bit of Thai. It's hilarious reading these comments from the peanut gallery speculating that I must smell bad, be wearing offensive clothes, have offensive tattoos, and was arguing with them. 🤣

Besides the buffering problems, the other problem with Wizz is that it is more UK focused. They have lots of UK/EU sports channels, especially soccer, which I have no interest in. They have some US channels and sports channels as well but not as many as other more US oriented streaming services. You can switch servers with their service, so I have been using the US/EU servers lately. Those seem to have less buffering than their Asian servers. The main reason I got Wizz was because of the Asian servers to avoid buffering while in Thailand, which doesn't seem to be the case, so I don't see any technical advantage with them in Thailand.

Don't believe these sham reviews from sockpuppet accounts with only 2 posts. They must pay someone to post these on various forums. It's been a horrible service for me in Thailand and now I am stuck with it for a year. I also have a US based service with more US programming that has not had nearly as much buffering as this does, also a lot more of the US based programming I want to watch. So now I am paying for two services when only one is of any use. It was supposed to be better than other services because they have Asia-based servers. That has not been my experience. Waste of money. No it's not just me. It's been so bad they even sent out an email about it trying to blame Thailand internet providers. Spoiler, the changes they claimed would fix it didn't. I was having problems before this and these new apparent problems and changes have only made it worse. MUCH worse.

This has been my experience as well. I used to need at least 8-9. Now I can get by with 7-8. Six is ok sometimes but I will often feel like a nap in the afternoon if I only get that.

The easiest for beginners is to breath in and count on exhale. Do that up to 4 then repeat. Only focus on that and nothing else. I use that to help me take a nap in the afternoon. It's technically not supposed to be used for that but that is what often happens to me when I do it. If you get really good at it and can totally clear your mind, without falling asleep, then it gives you the some of same benefit as sleep.

I have exactly the same problem as OP. Good to know I am not the only one. I've been tested for sleep apnea and snoring and it's not that. I don't need to get up to pee that often either. Tried some of the suggestions here by eating a banana before bed and taking a melatonin. Didn't really help. The biggest annoyance is waking up several times at night then often not being able to fall back asleep. I found that getting some direct sunlight (no sunglasses) first thing in the morning (before 9am) helps me a little bit. I read that it helps to reset your circadian clock. I also quit drinking coffee completely and avoid any other caffeine beverages. Both those seem to help a little bit as well. Especially when it comes to taking a nap in the afternoons, which I also recently started doing. It is still a problem sometimes though. Taking some diphenhydramine early in the morning when I wake up and can't get back to sleep seems to work pretty well. That's not a long term solution though.

Could be just about anywhere as it's a problem almost everywhere. That is just one reason why I would never want to buy a place and try avoid any kind of long term lease I would not be willing to walk away from.

Oh come on now. I suppose you also think the swastika I have tattooed on the back of my neck, the "I'm here for the Ho's" t-shirt I was wearing, and the fact I haven't bathed in over a week might have also been a problem.

I am of the opinion this website should do what a lot of other sites are doing and ban all political talk. It's too toxic and attracts all the wrong sorts of people.

Yes, I suspect that was it. I didn't want to go to Vietnam near Tet & Chinese New Year so delayed by a week, which mean't I would come back after my multi-entry expired. I knew I would be here less than 30 days when re-entering with a legit return ticket as proof, so that is how I planned it. I will plan more carefully next time to make sure I don't do that again. I am still concerned that it would have been a problem even if my multi-entry did not expire. They didn't specifically say that a waiver was the problem. They just didn't seem to like that I was mostly in Thailand for 5 months, besides the 2 weeks in Vietnam. The issue of using a multi-entry in combination with a waiver never even came up. The agent spoke decent English, so communication was not a problem.

Your point? I have been coming here for 20+ years, not once ever having a problem....until now. My plan until this happened was to use Thailand as a base and travel around Asia for 6 months of the year. The 6 month multi-entry is supposed to be designed precisely for that exact purpose.

My appearance or smell was absolutely positively not it, but thanks for the laugh. As you can see from my picture below, I am a distinguished older gentleman of impeccable taste and charm.

Hopefully this is something SCOTUS cannot try mess with since it is a civil state trial. I would not put anything past them trying to find some loophole to get around that.

Do you have some sort of mental condition where you only see words in bold?

But the rules say I can come and go as much as I want on a multi-entry within 6 months. They also say you can come and go from airports as much as you want on waiver on arrival, within reason. If those are not the rules then change them. The uncertainly of what random immigration agents decide to do, depending how they feel that day, even if you do everything by the book, is the problem.

I could do that, or just get a retirement visa since I am over 50. That's not the point. The point is that I followed the rules and was still made to feel unwelcome. No guarantees that getting either of those other visas will solve that. It makes me want to reconsider retiring here when there are other countries who seem to have much more welcoming visa rules for people like me. There are limits to what I will put up with no matter how much I like it here. The new tax rules are another thing that concern me. It's not just this.

What you are talking about is people who do stuff that is not by the book. Multiple border runs and just doing visa waivers several times over and over again. I didn't do that. Everything I did was completely by the book.

This is a first for me. I did everything by the book as far as I can tell. I'll follow the rules but it would help to know what the rules are. I've been in Thailand almost 5 months on a multi-entry visa. Extended by 30 days once and did a border run to renew for another 60 days. Then I went to Vietnam for several days. During that time my multi-entry visa expired so I knew I could not use that again on re-entry. However, I am going back to my home country within 30 days, so I knew that a waiver on arrival would suffice. Upon arrival they pulled me off to the side and kept asking me what I am doing here. What do I do for work. Do I have a girlfriend here. How long am I staying. They asked me how long I am staying several times. I think what ultimately saved me is when I showed them my return ticket back to my home country within 30 days. However, they didn't ask for it. They didn't seem to want to give me a 30 day waiver no matter what. I had to sell it to them that I was definitely going back home within 30 days this time, no more border runs or extensions. I will not be here longer than 6 months total and this is the first 30-day waiver on arrival I have gotten in that time. I was out of the country more than just a couple days so that can't be it either. What was the problem exactly? They never really said and I didn't want to ask. Once I got my stamp I was out of there. This new BS trying to get back in and all the other bureaucratic hassles for renewals piling up, like the TM30 requirement they are getting strict about, and now the tax thing, doesn't make me feel very welcome here anymore. Vietnam is talking about give out 90 day visa waivers on arrival for people from North America. They don't seem to care how many times you do border runs to renew that, land or air, so if that happens then Vietnam will start to look a lot more appealing to me. Philippines doesn't have any visa hassles either. Also, no tax issues to worry about.

Aaand it's back up again. I'm sure the anonymous internet people will be claiming they timed the market almost perfectly again. It's funny how they seem to be so good at that.

9 Karat is quite a bit worse than Nirun. I would say about as bad as Flybird but more quiet location. The pool is not bad though. Pattaya Pad is about the same as Nirun imo but no pool. It's more of a high rise so hard to compare. Pattaya Plaza is not a consideration for me being on the other side of Sukhumvit. If I am going to live in a dump, I want to at least be on the Pattaya side. I would rather live in Spanish Condo than on the other side of Sukhumvit. Looks very quiet and peaceful there. Haven't look inside any of the buildings though. The ones closer to Sukhumvit don't look too bad. Bit if a walk to anything.

I'd never been to Flybird before so I decided to check it out. It was every bit as bad as it looks in the pictures. The hallways are even worse! I hadn't been to Nirun in a couple years. After seeing Flybird it looked downright posh in comparison. Better than I remember. Maybe they are doing a better job cleaning the hallways and fixing light fixtures now. Some of the condos for rent there don't look too bad for the price.

It's not that easy from what I have heard.

Why don't you post your links that say they are going to be taxed? Let's start with this one. I can't be bothered to watch whole video again to give you the exact time stamps so you will just have to watch it yourself. Or this one.

Pensions will not be taxed, but I am sure you will find some other reason to whine.

They appear to have Heinz brand as well.