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It is, a lot of names make no sense and there is no in depth information about each one either. I have visited the National archives in Netherlands several times, not only the one in the hague but also the one in the north, was part of my studies at the time. Knowing who I am today, if I lived at that time, high chance i would be on it myself too, if that would have given me food and I would have had no other options.

This will settle for money at the end... RIP.

Yeah because it is an extra ordinary amount that is locked unless you change the default security setting. So you did not allow yourself to pay the bill and now play the idiot blame game. If that same card had been stolen and someone took out 170K in one go transfer, you would have cried the other way around.

I doubt this list can be accurate, Spain has average incomes half of what it states for the Pension to be. In terms of pensions in Netherlands is about what you made, it can be zero. Social welfare from 67+ would depend single or couple and is around 800-1200. Most simply depends on actual pension you did or did not build up during career + paid off house / savings. In average proper done scenario's the Swiss figure is then the same for Netherlands, Germany etc etc too. A quick check says that Spain is anywhere from 650-1200 euro average. Gotta hate all these fake lists and data, same as with Americans where some people earn like 100-150K a year but nobody mentions the part they also have fixed costs for like 100-150K a year, to have a same life as a state where it is 50-60K a year.

I figured the secret is to switch multiple times per year between the south and the north of Thailand. It is just a bit difficult to do that when you have a family with kids going to school or you are older etc. You can almost entirely avoid the pollution seasons, the wet hot seasons, the raining seasons etc. For example the past months and still now the north is absolute perfect while Samui etc has rain / flooding. Soon pollution starts here followed by hot weather while it then is quite perfect down there / has a breeze. After when it gets super hot down there, it is kind of nice in between again up north. After the real rain starts in north, the south is again better. When it starts south, the north is better again.

I used to just smoke inside my own grow tent as it has the ventilator and filter in the first place to prevent weed smells. I likely would have done that too if I lived in a condo where others complain etc. It worked fine that way when it was illegal too. Is a win win situation anyway, you make your own quality clean weed too.

Meaning UOB sucks and Bangkok Bank does great. BKK bank simply has logical standard limits by default which you can easily change yourself in a matter of minutes.

Some of my European bank accounts already do this when I send over 2-2.5K euro at once I need to do a quick face scan. I think it works great and certainly don't mind it, it was more work to use these old school identifier machines.

That is not how taxing works, you can still be considered an economic resident if you are not a tax resident anywhere else. Many europeans make the same mistake by all making a company in Dubai to then still go back home for many months a year, turns out they are considered at least part a economic resident and are taxed back now many years in history. The same will happen by those who ignore this significant Thai change. They already fine tune the laws now, and you will see this in coming years globally more: if you were a resident for the past 3 years out of 10 years, you remain taxable. France already implements it as a test. You have to focus on minimizing your taxes legally.

Unlike what it seems, all these things are global designs, similar tot global efforts with taxes. What the OP refers to is not a maybe or some funny idea from an experience elsewhere, this is already the standard in most countries soon. It will all be unmanned, they will check you out before you fly already and then you are simply refused upfront or else still taken away as soon the AI camera sees you.

What was the point to escalate it if they were hotel guests in the first place, just let them sleep it out and then do the formalities. Jailing someone for breaking a glass table sounds insane to me.

Likely the webcam photo, that's the only reason I have to show up for 10 seconds each time using agents.

Yes.

Damn, these gangs on bikes are always dangerous. But who walks around those quiet areas or beach areas at midnight anyway, it's trash there always with junkies and stuff. I would find out who did that to me and make sure they get a lot, repeated, violence, themself. I'd spend a million baht on it even.

I always need to do a fresh and new TM30 that is longer than the extension is or at least until the extension... Super weird too because who says i will stay there the entire duration, or know upfront how long and where i will be. I could take a christmas holiday too. This entire system makes no sense but whatever... I just use a fixed address now where I have TM30 access myself from the landlord. All they want is these papers, the actual reality or facts is unimportant to them. For the DTV visa nobody seems to need and do it either, even they have to do it they don't.

Meanwhile on my Thai airways business flight they tried to get away giving me a fruit juice drink as a welcome drink rather than champagne. To then right after I made the champagne happen and every other person in biz also wanted that, them announce that being drunk is not allowed etc etc.

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.