ChaiyaTH

Oh wow, so because you do a million less than what I said, it makes a difference... So with other words; you have no comment on my post and add nothing new to it.

Eh no, not at all. That area is a former army area and a lot of rich people live there. If you just sit around one of the soi 1 to soi 15, you see super cars almost every 5-10 minutes driving by. Many houses there are starting at 20M baht so to have a land plot + existing 4 story building with 8 rooms, this is actually not that crazy at all. In reality many of those old empty townhouses, you see all over Bangkok, have less rooms than this one seems to have, and also cost 10-15M in terrible conditions. Sure 18M goes really far, but 300M from Union Mall, I'd still say it is easily worth 13-14M baht. Imagine what another 3-4M on renovation could do, and with the room count then, it would easily be valued at 50,000+ rent justifying the price tag. For people with existing wealth, projects like these, are quite normal and interesting. They don't need the bottom barrel deals.

The reason they did happy hour is likely because it was draft beer in the first place, these kegs need to be used within time, it's not like a bottle that can sit in the fridge for months or years, basically needs to empty within 1-2 weeks. Often there is not enough people who buy the beer resulting them in having to throw a lot away, this is likely the only reason. Same they have to flush the system with the beer each day they open, while sometimes they then only sell 1-2 beers of it. I would ask the business directly. Big chance they even tell you it is only stopped for low season but coming back at high season. When selling draft, you need to basically stop selling other beers, to get enough volume, as a SME business, to make it worth while (unless you already have plenty of volume). Most places likely lose on it or make break-even, but perhaps still make profit on the food, or just want to offer it regardless.

Need to go Vietnam for that 😉

Watch out what you suggest, the next step would be to share all financial information and be able to tax as good too. What you say will happen sooner or later anyway, they want to make this 'One world system' anyway. A basic wage for every human and then additional is up to your performance.

Exactly that, they make money on it usually when the trouble came as well, by closing up the shops / selling off the assets. Even worse, they might even be the ones that alert police as soon they see a business does well. Or a house is finished.

Oh great, someone just landed in Thailand with the pink glasses on aside from being apparently high on some very good stuff, to think he can now plan becoming a Thai citizen 555. Some first class ignorance here by the poster, he will learn anyway, soon. This has nothing do with your options 1 and 2 but everything to do with you being wrong, naive, clearly a pink glass wearing newbie. At best you might secure Permanent Residency, but even this means Fk all, you might as well just have a sustainable running company with a work permit in that case. Perhaps if you are like 20-25 now, you might get a Thai nationality, if you really never give up, when you are 55 years old, LOL. PR means nothing much, it is in a way the same as a Elite visa is anyway. To get a visa here, and be here long-term, never has been the issue to start with. Last but not least, if you have any of these plans, moving upcountry is even more stupid. You would need to be in Bangkok, that is your only chance, by spending a lot of money, over many years, to make the right contacts and get any movement to your plans. I'm talking 100-200K monthly on networking. You want something that is for rich people, you better be rich. And being rich is not even enough, just the start.

Thaxland - The land of taxes

I changed to just selling USDT with P2P on various exchanges and get realtime Thai baht. I can also buy the USDT without fees in minutes from EURO/USD/GBP banks. The exchange rate is 9/10 times the exact same as Google says it is and it never takes more than 5-10 minutes in total.

Central festival: real clothing stores. Lazada is easy too, you just have to find a shirt you could buy a few from or multi colors, or from the same shop, as they usually have the same size for all their shirts. Then just buy usually one size larger than my size is + another bigger size and test it + buy in bulk right size. I've had sport shorts and sport t-shirts this way for only 50-60 baht each, even I first had to buy 2-3 sizes to find my size. After i bought 10-20 sets, good for years.

Just pay some agent and you can get any duration and type of visa in days time. Used to be only 300 dollars for 1 year business visa.

I asked yesterday at immigration and they said they are not instructed or updated for anything; it is just news so far. So all this is not even sure yet.

Governments are crooks, people work 30-40 years to then get screwed over being paid out, if living abroad. This while if you not pay tax and save up money yourself, and then add the same compound interest, it takes like half the time or half the money with the same time. Same with suddenly increasing ages from like originally 65 it's now at 71 for people my age. 1/4 guys not even make it to that age.

Never heard of this stuff actually happening to people myself in Thailand / Asia. I do remember they did this at a guesthouse I used to stay at a lot, they would need to close for several days before being able to open again. I could imagine we breathe bad things at places all the time, that have mid or long term impacts potentially, but is there seriously like the danger here to be in a room, where it just kills 2 people instantly, by staying there 1 or a couple of nights? Sounds like WW2 stories.

Chiang Mai is just incredible expensive compared to almost any other location in Thailand. I still can't understand this, as it should be one of the cheapest places. The quality is also not better, schools elsewhere look better for same or less costs.

It's a bit more bad than that, it is actually the same elite players, they just decided they wanna play in other countries now.

Sometimes there is maintenance from mid night to later hours with one of the banks, that is usually the reason. I have 2 Thai banks to solve that.

Change to apple problem solved lol

The classes are online indeed, many in the south do that with a university south of hang dong, chiang mai. They only have to visit here once in 3-6 months. It's around 60-70K per year and can be done many years. They do actually have a 1-2 hour lesson and some homework too but can be remote.

Yes the licenses mean nothing, without detailled regulation + the flip flop chances of laws changing in Thailand any day. As I explained in detail already; your tax duty and business duties stand aside from legal or illegal products and services. These are 2 complete different subjects, even 3 with the licensing part. Technically speaking I could just setup shop and even run without any licenses, that you do have, and then selling it would still not be a criminal issue. At most I would be fined for not having a license and stopped to operate. My wife does own the licenses by the way, but that is not relevant now. This is the entire issue, and the reason it is being addressed in Thailand. In Netherlands weed is illegal too, even having it is, but you would never be prosecuted if you hand it over volunteered. I know that sounds weird and fked up, it is, but it works. It is likely gonna be similar here. And you can thank the american lobbyists for it to still be 'illegal' in Netherlands too, they stole a huge business model from us by lobbying in Brussels (EU), to not have legal weed before in Europe. Germany might now change that.

Because of sex R&R of the americans.

He clearly lacks basic social skills and awareness in general. Many long stayers here do actually, somehow.

Because you choose to do it, what does that have to do with official lack of regulations etc? That you try to do something official doesn't mean it is official. To pay taxes has to do with making profit and income, not with the business you do. Even as a crack dealer you can pay your taxes if you want, the smart ones in the west actually do so. Dutch illegal growers do that too, even better, you can actually be honest to tax authorities in Netherlands about what you do, as long you pay your taxes. They even take cash. If you don't, they calculate what you could have earned, at max, and then you are still taxed on that + fined. Business 101? You lack knowledge. Even worse, they can even kidnap you for up to 2 weeks if they suspect you to avoid taxes, without a court order. Better hope Thailand doesn't learn about this. Why I talk about Netherlands while this is Thailand? Because it is going to be very very similar here. The reason it became legal here in the first place is because of that 100+ year sentence against a Dutch coffeeshop boss here due to taxes too. Most people don't even know this.

That's the entire point; the big guys (elite), do not own and control it for the most part. Same with the police not getting any percentages now. So semi illegal = solve that issue. Well ok, Anutin gets a lot of donations most likely, but that's about it.

I'm happy already if its 90 days total 60+30 yeah