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Strict on what? I fly twice a week with both my normal day pack as well as a small hard suitcase. They do not even check weight as you can check in yourself nowadays, I always have much more than 7KG. Stop spreading nonsense, it's allowed in the first place to carry 2 items (a day pack or girl bag doesnt count as the main one). Even they make a issue you can always put your day pack temporary in the small suitcase and take it out after again.

CM became a crappy + quiet boring place if it comes to the expats and nightlife. Same with the super slow slow thinking and acting locals, if they think at all. It always shocks me when going to like Hanoi where it is completely packed and has this vibes that Thailand once had. The climate itself is also kind of a big mess: very long rain seasons, then the extreme hot months + after that the extreme pollution months. Essentially Chiang Mai is a horrible place to stay except for maybe 4 months a year. People I know still living here are looking to relocate or even leave depending on tax situations too. Many just switch between Vietnam, south of Thailand and 1-2 months up north aside of a visit trip back to their home countries. I'm personally ready to move out too but kind of waiting for these tax rules updates, kind of senseless to move domestic beforehand.

So you are wealthy and have a very decent pension? Or not? If not you likely never understood how money really works. Many people who are against debts or credit, and not have any debts / credit, often are also living super frugal as they never made good money as a result.

Seems you miss out on discounts, promotions, cash back, air miles and more. On top of that you miss out on leveraging your money, which would over time create more wealth, significant on 1-2 decades especially. There is a difference between bad and good debt but most oldies never learnt that. If you have 100K in the bank and a new business idea that is 70% sure to succeed, the profit is 10% per year and you can borrow the 100K for 4% as well, you would obviously borrow the money and not risk your own capital.

Guess people here are new with the Rich dad Poor dad concept

Yeah it's just this overseas tax thing to become real and there really is almost only Pro's about moving to Vietnam for 6 months a year.

Yeah it is, it's like 2-2.5 USD now depending where you drink it while the same average costs 50 cents to a dollar in Vietnam.

These things come in all kinds of variations, some are with a battery intended to bring along on holidays. I used to have the same in cambodia too back in 2016, i could just bring my router with me hehe.

Yeah the idea is to still have wifi as well indeed, in that case, I would just use a SIM router from Lazada together with a 1-1.5K monthly local sim. If you could resell to your neighbors you could consider a Starlink from Philipinnes with global access at 100 USD monthly.

Ehh unlimited data for 150 baht per month? Right, at 56-128kbps speed lol.

Try out saily

I started using the Saily app instead, they can't track me anymore that way in Thailand too and I can easily pay for other countries too except Laos only. Also possible to just change to access in entire region or even the entire world that way. I used to always want the unlimited ones with truemove prepaid etc but I realized that in reality I never really use more than 10GB data, per month, anyway, maybe 20GB in case I would be working from a hotspot a lot within a month, which happens rarely.

I started using the Saily app instead, they can't track me anymore that way in Thailand too and I can easily pay for other countries too except Laos only. Also possible to just change to access in entire region or even the entire world that way. Benefit is too when using that, it always selects the best networks where you are (AKA true or DTAC or AIS etc). I often have with my Thai simcard of choice that it not works great at all regions of thailand. Last but not least; costs are same too with Saily. I used to always want the unlimited ones with truemove prepaid etc but I realized that in reality I never really use more than 10GB data, per month, anyway, maybe 20GB in case I would be working from a hotspot a lot within a month, which happens rarely. It's made by NordVPN as well so I guess that is a good thing: https://saily.com/

I paid last 2 times recent years around 10,000 - 13,000 baht to move 2 bikes and boxes by truck from CM to BKK as well Phuket to BKK.

What a nonsense, the main reason I came here is due to the climate, cheap cost of living and weather. The entire girl scene wasn't even on my mind until I lived here like 3 years and broke up with my first girlfriend that was foreign.

They were making an advertising video for the zero dollar tours of 2025

I guess it depends on the age, with the ones that are still under 35-40 I would say they most times keep tight control. Not with all, I personally am free to do whatever, I guess it is a benefit i do business and it's normal to need and go away for X days or even a long week every while.

Their biggest fear will likely be after they are deported back to Iran.

I'm not concerned about it staying possible to smoke weed too, which is good for me, but in terms of the shops or the business as a industry I think it is sad to see that all once again ends up being owned by a few. Even it provides jobs, the majority of profits just go in some black hole.

Has nothing to do with the government or new government, it has everything to do with the board members of narcotic control and Anutin. No good news or changes happened so far at all, it is just that they stopped the plan so far to criminalize it again. Regulation yet has to follow too and likely just cancels out most small SME owners to then have the elite own 90% of it.

Yeah well that is truth at the end of the day anyway, isn't it? It is mainly This being so ignorant and lazy, that causes them often to be suffering due to their finances. There is a huge shortage to even find people cleaning up a place, which easily could pay 1-2K baht per day if doing 3-4 condo's. If it was only allowed for foreigners to work, this country would be running pretty well within a year with a huge service industry. I think it could give a kid a good idea of potential, even they could be the owner rather than the actual worker. Still better than working with 6 people in a tiny 7/11, having to share the income making the pay so bad... If they were actually competent it should mean they could easily earn 25-30K a month working there.

That is called lunch money, not pocket money. Pocket money is supposed for the person to do fun things aside of all you mentioned, and to learn how the world and money works / having to do something for money in return. For example to save up and buy a new playstation game, buy some tuning thing for his/her bike etc etc etc.

Sell it to the chinese. The buddhists actually did that before and sold haunted land to christians in chiang mai, that land is now worth fortunes. Same the old rich sold the beach land for farming land, to then see tourism making the beach land worth fortunes.

I don't get all this exchange rate talk, we are way higher than the previous low was and it still looks good on the long term too.

True and otherwise they will make a calculation on their own + fine you and/or simply jail or deport you I guess. Plus that tax evasion is a crime too, they better start building new jails.