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Why people have their own specific luxuries, just as much there is people living in cheap rooms, eating thai street food only but blasting 4 nights a week thousands in bars aside from thousands on girls. Same time plenty that rent expensive condo's in BKK to then mainly cook and stay at home.

On my lowest months in 12 years or so I have lived on like 35-40K baht a month and that was very tight. Keep in mind I did also lose like 5K monthly on renting a motorbike and visa costs alone. Then 5K more for rent incl utilities (studio room CM). So basically the average real budget would be like 500 baht daily if it comes to food, drinks, snacks and if anything left; whatever else. To then still have like 5K baht left for some random things incl. perhaps 2 times a month a cheap 1K fun short time. You then still have to like pay for things like insurance, replacing clothes, a phone, laptop etc, X amount to have a 1 time a year trip back home or even if it's 1 time per 2-3 years it can still add up too. As well as a general emergency cash buffer. I guess if you would do groceries and home cooking, own the place, have a yearly visa at like 2-3K baht a year, insurance, no girlfriend or children plans, it can be doable. But to do that budget then in Pattaya? A lot of temptations... Guess the big benefit of lower budgets today is that weed is also legal, and you can even grow a few plants and smoke free. This already offset a lot of costs compared to doing beers. Guess if you can get that budget to at least 30-40K, you would be able to have weekly 2 nights out, it actually becomes quite realistic assuming above. Maybe you can supplement by becoming bar manager in soi 6 :D But if i would otherwise be stuck in the west on a similar tight budget, I would do it. Then again, in case of being single too, you def get way more for your money in Vietnam. 20K is like 35-40K there. The streets and street food are still much more alive and vibrant in Vietnam as well, this makes the low budget much more fun as you actually can just keep going outside and wander around while even having within budget food + beers.

The oldies here all took 3-4 booster shots of this crap so they will defend it to be good stuff until there is 100 research showing how bad and useless the shots were. It's like the naked emperor, it was already during covid. But hey no worries, all these turbo cancers, the excess of deaths at older age groups with 20-30% increases etc all mean absolute nothing and are just a coincidence. Nothing to see here move on, until it's you...

In my 17 years smoker experience / history I can tell that usually the people who get fked by weed, first of all smoke some strains that really mess you up hard AND/OR do absolutely nothing in life aside from that. This is not a good combo. Weed is like this magnifier glass, if you have a productive stable life and smoke on the side, no issues. If you have a lazy life, you likely get even more lazy. If you are slightly paranoid, you get more paranoid. Etc etc. Same weed does not make you more creative, it can just positively influence/strengthen your own creative thoughts.

As with anything it is about using or abusing it. I just buy weed bulk, quality indoor from 70 baht a gram, always have 50-100 grams of various types stored properly laying around. It's a bit like a wine collection in that way. So cost wise it is not really a subject, at least to me, it's practically the same as the cost of small beers. Then to drink 10 beers daily or not, I want as little as smoking 5 grams of weed daily. For me it is just to relax / meet with people, same as it is with drinking, when I drink i drink a lot. I do not really crave any substances itself, it is more that I simply becomes a very dull life, at the end socializing and networking takes places in venues. Sure one could make a few sober friends at some 'hobby places' but I rather have the fun moments, meeting strangers, tourists, see funny things happen + business networking instead. To then come back to the weed, I would see no harm in it, as little as casual wines / beers X times a week. Smoke weed every day!

I am but that does not make you the legal father nor would you have any rights. This is only the case if you were married before a baby was born (then you still have no rights but are the legal father). Hence the entire confusing, even within the Thai government. The judge wasn't happy too when I mentioned that CM immigration was the main trigger for this entire case after I explained I did get my extensions until half way covid and then suddenly didn't as of demanding this. For example my girlfriend could not even apply for a Thai passport for my son, without me signing. Same I could just obtain non-o child visa's as embassies abroad... yet our brilliant CM immigration told me I can no longer get 60 or yearly extensions without it. Pretty sure the are going to get a call about this. Long story short, I needed to do it before my son turned 18 anyway so now it's done (for EU nationality). Got the 400K in the bank too so soon I will be part of the yearly multi-entry crew for 15 years to come.

Covid shots?

I doubt that flight costs or border trips would the costs, that's not that much at all, peanuts even at just moderate income and taxes here. However to have like a proper offshore company etc like that, would easily add a few K a year to the costs. Unless being quite wealthy I would say they are really closing the gates everywhere. Governments are desperate and broke.

You understand that as soon Thailand sees you as their tax resident, and they request CRS information, this will all be visible just as easy right? It doesn't really changes much to the reality if they actually start enforcing it. Best would be some offshore business with a bank card and then do cash withdrawals (outside Thailand) which you fly back in from short holidays.

If I have to mention that after what he already did he deserves to arrive without it lol

I became the legal father now after the judge approved my claim and basically that is now done. However it is just the formal legal procedure that someone could still claim I am not or has objections against this within 30 days. So the document just states it is now official, without me being married with her. This is what the amphur wants and what immigration or my embassy wants it he document from the amphur. Yes I know it's confusing as hell, I used to not need it with immigration too, I had non-o visa + extensions for years somewhere end of covid they suddenly refused me. I could always get non-o visa on child abroad at embassies though.... TIT. It was worth it, for many things, same if she would get sick or crash in accidents, there is never parental right issues or what so ever. I didn't / not see the point of (still) getting married (in general). Once my son got his EU passport this also enables my girlfriend to move to EU and get 2-5 year visa's hassle free based on Chavez verdict (children can't be separated from their parents), in case we want to move back there. I already have a lawyer for this on pre-paid and can get travel documents within 2 weeks whenever wanted).

Yeah I think he overestimates that one too. Thai = Thai. Foreigner = Foreigner and Farang = Farang.

True I would go for suva airport bangkok, or CM. CM would be super relaxed.

BTW your post is full of lies, you state he overstayed 5+ years while he did covid extensions. Last time I checked my son is 5 years old today and born in jan 2019.... So we talk about you or what?

First get the emergency document / passport by doing a basic police report without behaving like a idiot, this is not a big deal and could be any local police station really. Stating you lost it but aren't sure when and need to get a new one. You could first try with embassy to see if without is possible in this situation too. If your friend survived this part, you should be able to obtain an (emergency) passport to travel home. When having this, you book a ticket and get to the airport 3-4 hours before the maximum early possible with checkin options, not to hang around there. At the checkin counter you right away tell the steward(ess), you normally get this tag with overstay, this already puts you safe. If not, just continue to go to immigration itself and surrender yourself there. As this was a long time + a new passport, it could take a bit longer as usual, but my guess is your friend would still be in free duty within 1-1.5 hour max. If you do it another way, your friend might face the music with X days or weeks in jail before being able to leave. For this scenario you as his friend can be his support only and prepare money (control) to buy his fines, food and ticket out.