ChaiyaTH

Bring someone looking half decent, speaking correct Thai with you, to avoid the language issue initially. Secondly bring that cash, sure it will get done. Make sure to collect the bank girls phone numbers after they started opening the account, they are likely interested.

That is nonsense, I smoke daily since 16 years with also breaks of 2 years and shorter periods of 6-12 months in between. Sure if you didn't smoke for a while (or long time), you will get high instantly just as you likely get drunk after only 2 glasses of wine. But once you have your 'base level' again, nothing really changes after how much or how strong it needs to be to get the same effect. Same as with alcohol, you might be able to drink X more but that's it. You describe some extremely rare cases of a serious hardcore level rasta pothead, like snoop dog, who would really not be cool with anything much less than his grade weed. Even then, he would be just fine without any withdrawal issues in the average Thai dispensary, even he might hate it. Changes the brain chemistry? Ehh ok, I guess many things do that, including social media usage of 12 hours average among Thais. The difference as always is between use & abuse. And for some people weed doesn't work, for others it does. Same as some only drink beer, while others only drink wine, and others only hard liquor. While the one drinking beer would be going bad on hard liquor, the one drinking it thrives on that and gets sleepy on beer etc etc etc. Idiot people are the ones whining doing something they don't, to protect their own insecure choices.

Doubt that makes any sense he says 'lets say a month' to stay.

Checked a bit on the internet, it is a nightmare... I got quotes for saying I wanted a travel insurance for 1 month, being 78 years old, to Australia only, 600-1000 dollar quotes... I would just go without insurance in that case, it is even the same to fly back here business class and then go to a public hospital. I'm paying 1600 baht a month for 250K USD coverage being early 30s..

BTS and Metro is the worst if suddenly needing to go, you often need to leave the entire stations and find some business nearby. Often results in losing 45 minutes time, time is worth nothing here... I never take long duration busses for this reason too, or not if not having a toilet. I'm one of the worst; I want to go during stops but don't need to, to then needing to go 10 minutes after leaving again.

What age, until 65 safetywing.com be ideal

I nearly pissed myself quite a few times in Thailand when drunk, due to the lack of public restrooms. A few times i pissed inside central areas in bushes or corners, no other option is there.

Malaysia changed rules since december, need to apply online to go few days before, similar to europeans visit usa.

By what? He still smokes, garbage video...

11 ;laughed at this lol

If you help the mother, the next thing is new debts or the uncle who now needs urgent help too. To then still leave you if you finally stop paying those things.

They should be concerned of what normal tourists think about these razzia's instead, as we all know the locals will be going to temples if we suddenly left like during covid. They even relied on foreigners handing out food and meals but that seems all forgotten already, over a few minor and common tourist crimes. Essentially the locals are showing their true colors, they do not respect us at all, just want our money and bye bye. Same locals now want to know how some foreigners can own company's or land, while they were the ones profiting from the sales 5-10-15 years ago themselves. But I guess that money is now already spent, so it would be ideal to just steal it from the foreigners, to sell it again.

Not even going to reply on this nonsense comment again from you. You know perfectly well what it is about, as it is mentioned in all shapes and colors, in the past 11 pages on this topic. Let me guess: you are old, retired, on a yearly visa and mainly stay at your house. Yes obviously you didn't notice any change, you don't do anything...

I know quite a few expats aside from myself, who are looking at options elsewhere, if it just gets a little bit worse here, and we all speak Thai, are long time integrated, has nothing to do with it. Most thais who have the chance even want to go. All this due to the negative changes over more or less the past 6 years or so (half of the years I spent here while that being 1/3rd of my life and 1/2 of my adult life).

You clearly do not get the point.

There is simply many bad CBD products, and for many medicinal treatments, you often also need THC as well. Sounds like a useless and incompetent study to me. There is hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of medicinal users who have good relief from all these products, and even not using the additional painkillers on top of that anymore. Many CBD products in countries are not potent at all, this is again due to the lack of full legalization in those countries. Same as they said extracts here can't have a lot % in it, makes no sense at all.

I guess it depends on the age groups, on the higher age end, usually there is some existing wealth already. There is also the younger ones, I moved here in my early 20s, I know dozens who did similar to me, and nowadays that is even quite normal to do as working remote is a 'new standard'. I would most likely go for a condo too, even if it was to rent out and then rent a house myself, if it was my own money. However in my case I am married and have a son too, so the idea is that all of it eventually goes to my son anyway. To protect a house one could do a 30 year lease as well, buys a lot of time. You might never own something but still be sure to outlive it, and compared to rent, still make a return or even profit on it too (this is why many do it in south). Last but not least in recent years, if people are married, it is not impossible to get at least 50% of your worth back if you take them to court. As long you can prove you paid for things and you bought it after you married, judges are not that fancy of girls taking advantage of guys here anymore, including foreigners.

Not at all, it is super logical to do even, as it is much easier for a Thai to get a proper mortgage and the foreigner is often bringing in money from abroad or working online, having his businesses or jobs abroad (making mortgages again hard to impossible). All the exceptions to the rule(s) is when people earn this above average amount of money, to even high amounts, where there are some doors opened. I can earn 100K a month and get no mortgage, even having 10+ years statements proving it along with other documentation and company records, getting no condo in Thailand for sure. My girlfriend can earn 40K baht for 6-12 months, and buy any 1.5-2M baht condo, basically.

Lol that is absolute nonsense comparable job in posts, those people can not even be found in Thailand, that is why the salaries for such jobs are extremely high. In fact most people doing those jobs in Bangkok are foreigners, just go look in one of the Booking or Agoda offices there. Also there are just some hundreds of jobs, in a country with 60+ million. Those jobs are also senior positions, even harder to find. And even those in Thailand who do earn like 30-40K baht, they are usually in big long-term (20-30 year) debts with having a education debt, bad car lease, credit card loans etc + spend easily 10K on a place to live in BKK and public transport costs alone too. But sure, you are right, there is also a good 4-5 million Thai people that do earn at least that figure, still few compared to all of them. Doubt there is more than half a million that earn salaries like the one from your linkedin screenshot, if they do they are business owners. Or police generals with side businesses etc. I believe the official prime minister salary is only like 70,000-90,000 baht a month too.

There is plenty where all 3 generations stay at the farm house and do nothing much at all, except when a big harvest is somewhere, they work for some weeks.

Just met someone telling me the same, he said Tokyo was cheap while he expected it to be expensive as everyone who went there in years before said so. I think many people who did not go there recently, will not even know how much it changed. According to him finding a room for like 20-25 a night was no issue either, that's the same I lose at least in BKK.

What does it change if you are married? I mean it sounds like the same issue? Curious to know.

What if the condo was owned by a company, and the company owned by her, and him as a minor share holder + will, would that change any? Just guessing it could give more than a year time as as long the company exists, it is still Thai owned.

That sounds like so messed up lol, so when you married together and bought a nice condo on mortgage, worked a whole life together and paid it off, she suddenly dies and you find out the foreign quota is not OK, you are basically 1) kicked out of your own life long home and 2) forced to sell it under the price to a Thai within a year. I would attempt to bribe the juristic person in the condo building to permanently 'reserve' a foreign quota in that case, or just transfer it before she dies. I guess this is one of the few benefits of having a child here tho, at least it can be in the kids name over time, but also still a gamble obviously, accidents can always happen.

We not deal with VFS at all, i do not get your reply at all, zero relevance to my comment. What i stated was very clear; many embassies do not renew when your status here is not legal, so that could require you to first need to give up to authorities, in order to have the paperwork satisfying them to get you a new emergency passport. That could also mean detention in the meanwhile. To overstay is not a big thing at all, to actually let ones passport expire and ignore it, is very unwise, let alone if your doing both...