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You could take the luxury greenbus to Chiang Rai, then take a grab taxi or other bus to the Laos border, it's only 1.5 hour away (Mae Sai is closed). You can tell the laos side you do a visa run, then you can return right away to the Thai side, they are relaxed and then not need to fill in the form and photo. They stamp you in and out in like 5 minutes. Would be your easiest shot.

I had the exact things since 5-6 months ago, never ever been back at CM immigration. Always had my non-o child extensions there without any issues, now they make a issue, elsewhere no problem and as the old days. I also have a son, so sounds like exact same. Don't think about going to Hanoi as well if your low on cash, those idiots now want to see 400K in your bank, to even get a 90 day non-o visa. It is easier to be a visa runner with tourist visa's than it is with a child, in terms of paperwork lol.

Sounds like a ladyboy from khao san road. They always give people BJ's in the side streets for 500 baht too, not knowing the real goal is to steal their wallet and phones in the process. Used to happen daily multiple times.

Not to even start about their ice coffee and tea, this is like 5 spoons of sugar each already, if not 10. No wonder then that there are sugar shortages in the world lately, and a <deleted> load of obese + diabetes as a consequence. Or those slurpies in 7/11, same thing, kids love those.

Nah like 5-20K in court. Even it says up to 60-100K.

Same thing obviously: 5 units.

Not sure what the silly reasoning behind this is, for a lot of more simple healthcare, this is no issue to pay in cash, even with a small pension. For bigger things, one can simply fly back home anyway. People who reason like the OP, limit themself, all their life, and miss out on the best things in life. 25% of guys die before even making it to 65 in the first place. People should learn to enjoy life more instead of saving for a 5% chance of becoming 90+

If something works; don't touch it. Same with your diet. Easiest way to find out is by basically starting with a 0 diet and then adding things week by week, to see which things then cause a negative or positive effect. Your results seem to show a lot of super healthy foods, that you somehow should not be eating lol.

Not sure you are aware of the fact that Samui was always busy already and barely has flights, even today? Is not comparable to Phuket, at all. We can only wish that was true, then I would not have to pay 5-10K one way tickets with Bangkok Airways too.

I don't see any difference compared to last year at all, always been a mess on roads.

By paying a salary like this, there are plenty good ones if you pay like that.

This just becomes so tiring and repeating... clearly they really have few brains here. It's a bit like the stuff I deal with at home, you talk about it for dozens of times and then they still do it their own (not working) way each time, to ask for help when it goes wrong, to then still do the same again after having received advice.

Are you serious or what? There is like dozens of not hundreds of people here that have the same or similar names. And this has zero to do with using illegally or taking advantage of too.

1k is the normal rate, less is rare to come by / can cost you the difference in time wasted + travelling.

Funny you mention, I noticed the same at 23:00 and again a bit at 00:00. Confused me as I thought it must been midnight. Anyway, China already occupies the world in terms of dominance, so to worry about that is bit too late.

Lol are you trying to fool us or what? Everyone knows Chiang Rai is that small and quiet by actualy city and city center, that you could fall a sleep in the middle of it. I come there since over a decade every few months, but never longer than 1 night lol. It's more like a village with 2000 active residents for the most part lol. If not including all the traffic and bus traffic passing by, doing nothing else than that. Chiang Rai became a province in 1910, that consists of 200,000 people.

This guy is treated like Trump for real by now.

Even if they would be doing that, and started actual enforcing it, people would just pay minimal nonsense tax or leave Thailand. In both cases Thailand + economy loses. We should be happy anyway, less tourism + less of money from long stayers + more printing money & minimal foreign money inflow, maybe a cheaper baht for us many years to come.

The difference is that people earning this much in Thailand, have proper set-ups and not pay the classic tax percentages and schemes. Also the taxes in usa on this scheme, explain very well why the countries social healthcare system etc is so <deleted> up lol. In most western european countries you would be at 30-40% where it is 12-22% on this example. The tax in thailand would be about the same but the issue here is that you get a EU + USA mix: maximum taxes for minimal returns.

Sounds like a lot more bla bla bla, not sure what the point of giving to a spouse is as well, they would still need to pay their own tax over it? Otherwise it is nothing new, you could setup a way to do that already. Meanwhile I do not see a Thai yet that has been confronted with the never paid taxes, in a lifetime. Wonder how they even are thinking to go check on us foreigners, knowing it is not only bank information domestically but als abroad (fail already, at best they get what is reported or known by the tax authorities of the other country, banks not give anything for sure to them). To then also keep track of our visa movements etc. They would need some very high tech system to make this work for sure, and that is a problem for Thai jobs as well, last time I was dating students, 2-3 in 10 was becoming an ''accountant''. Those jobs would all be eliminated if going high-tech. Similar to all those smart camera's giving fines, I received once a photo with fine, it didn't work longer than 2-3 weeks in total, local police broke it i guess. I mean this entire country drives on corruption and cash money, it would collapse once all revenues would be officially taxed.

Old traditional Thai law that often still unofficially is followed in places I guess. Technically they would need to marry for buddha and it's done.

Let's see which choices most people make, if reality would be to be homeless and 100% broke, in countries like these. To then imagine a lower average IQ and no education on top, not really helpful. But yeah, sick stories.

Yeah like effectively they only work what, 9-9.5 months a year? Not to mention the record public holidays in Thailand on top. Could be even 8.5 months.

I guess most people with jobs could claim that, so that is nothing new to this actual story too.

So she decided to also run the snackbar, which only takes 2 hours a day, the waking up early part doesn't even count, they all do that here anyway. To then also earn more money, then when she would not be doing that. To then talk about burdens for teachers. First of all she should not be allowed to run it, as being a teacher already, secondly if so, it should not be allowed to affect her main job: teaching. Thirdly; these teachers get paid much better than most other ordinary Thais, and often decided to buy brand new houses cars and more on credit from it. That is their burden only.