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That's the normal way via Bangkok bank but the costs are rarely lower, unless maybe at some lucky shop in Pattaya. 35K is usually the base visa too, you still end up paying 3-4K more for the multi-entry, and your own travel or time costs to visit them.

Interesting post, I have heard similar from people around me and now my non-o based child also expires december. My agent now suddenly wanted to have near 40K too aside of the procedure being more complicated, causing there to be additional travel costs and a night hotel too, as it's done in BKK. Decided to just do a few 45 day on arrivals, or get a new single non-o, extend that with 60 days, and before that time just put the 400K in the bank. After all I can just use the same money and refill it during most of the year. My son his school fees are big enough. All that aside, if having to pay like near 40K of having to go somewhere but still lose 10K travel costs and time, it almost equals anyway what you would get in interest or returns. Very decent even at 10% with 40K on 400K. 5% on 800K still not bad. I still not consider it impossible we leave TH over time too, and then we will need easily 400K in THB during that process too.

Lol, you again. He is still fugutive, and was on bail.

Yes, that is normal, they usually never do. You can do it yourself if you fear so much. Same with staying at many guesthouses, who not do it. The fine speaking nonsense would only apply if you would be on yearly visa extensions where you usually stay at the same place, otherwise you could still have your last stay at a legit hotel, and thus have the most recent TM30 report too. Beside the fine being peanuts. Imagine they would check each of your 365 days stay and verify it lol. For what reason even, you could still purposely fake it too. They track us down based on the phone number, if they need you.

He must have a lot of money if he didn't let anyone get the 19M in cash....

Let's talk actual numbers and patients that had something serious, and then compare that to the ongoing alcohol related issues. End of the meeting, next subject.

I would feel like a idiot condo buyer, as the view is not good in the first place and you can expect anything to happen on that size of land. I know condo's that have had a view on the green lush of bangkok and river for 20 years, to then suddenly see a huge condo develop, even it is 100 meters away, so big and tall, it blocked bottom to top units on the entire side their view. Turned valuable and beautiful units into suddenly another ordinary room with <deleted>ty view, I am sure nobody is paying what they did before. And to say you could see it coming? No, that entire area used to be developed already with old houses like you also show in your picture. Worst part being is that that new condo is not even populair or filled (way too small unit size and high price). To not forget, 2 years of noise, almost daily, even late nights. Lucky it was someone i knew owning it, not myself.

Why you can just buy one of those electric rails with a seat, they aren't that expensive, specially in asia.

Depends if your fury friend was religious, no different than humans right, except less rules hehe. Ironic in a way how buddhists totally forget about buddhism when their animal dies.

It is but would actually help a lot with Google and result in more visitors and potential users. This is why you usually setup a forum properly to divide these areas, one where the long-term members don't have to follow those repeating or new posts.

The fact the platform decreased in users and activity stands entirely aside the new domain name, even that took a while. However the name change sucks regardless.

Usually it rains more in the week before full moon, and is quite good weather in the week after. Right now a lot of rain.

Average good kindergarten would cost easily 10-20K per month, so to pay 15K per term is peanuts, this are usually the cheapest options (4-5K a month). Kindergarten is a option to choose from parents, so it is not offered by the state. I personally yet have to send my son to start going, he is 4 in a few months, the doctor agreed with me. We used the money to do activities and the like with him, there was covid anyway for the past 2 years. But the one he is going to, the cheapest, is 200B per day or 5-6K a month. After he goes to Inter school at 20K a month.

Even Stalin would be impressed, that's cold man.

The condo has a discriminating policy for sure, they never heard of dogs suffering overweight too.

You can obtain a tourist visa at any embassy or consulate, requirements are standard ones, specific ones you can check online or on location. So both KL and Penang. Normally nothing too difficult but long-term repeaters sometimes get issues in KL. In fact the 60 day tourist visa is kind of useless, now you get 45 days on arrival already, that you can extend with 30 days...

The article you refer to actually says it can be noticed when either using it as a edible as well when smoking it. Personally I would not be tricked with dodgy weed. I think most longer-term smokers agree. I know my stuff too well for this but that would be harder for a random local or tourist, who does it for the first time / only does it rarely. So actually health impacts should be nominal for the ones who get victim of this too, as they rarely smoke anyway. As long Thailand leaves it possible to have many home growers, the diversity and quality should be fine and dodgy weed will never really get the over hand. However when they would criminalize things again, similar to holland, you will get the big growers dominate the market and they will use pesticides, don't care for taste much, sometimes even dry weed with heaters or microwaves. I think we should be more concerned about the amount of pesticides in Thai food and drinking water, to be honest.

The picture is a little bit tricky as there are strains that can look like the PGR example, while they are not. Having said that, in the shop I visited in holland (oldest in it's city), they always were very careful picking the growers they bought from. To support them they also had a grow shop which provided organic plant supplement and boosters, that you would also stop using in the last 4-6 weeks and clean out with water only. I guess it is a matter of time before this becomes more widely available, in fact, I might call a friend to ask the brand name and see if we can get. Could be a little niche to sell here on Lazada and Shopee for my wife i guess.

Not sure, let's say 200kW would be lights, they would do at least 25 million baht per harvest weed, for the electrical cost he wouldn't complain lol.

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So there is your answer, you were wrong but you personally rather save 200 baht on the room only. The guesthouse doesn't care, you don't care, nobody cares.

That is totally subjective to say, that there are rooms similar to it for 500 baht, or better ones for 700 baht, says zero about the reasons for another business to price it in whatever way. If they were actually so wrong, 80% of them would been closed since a decade. You might think it is a loss, they might think they rather have 10 days of 800 baht, at one go. Then to have 20 days of 400 baht spread all over the month. You would also need more cleaning, more time, staff on more days. And this is just one tiny example of thousands. Last but not least, I have seen rooms worse than your example, even in middle of Isaan, that cost also this amount. Or way worse ones that still cost 400 baht, the 24sqm studio types with no view and noise. If you now paid the higher rate, you kept your relationship, perhaps that resulted in 2 free coffees worth 120 baht aside of getting early and late check outs, or being better located.

BTW to stay on topic, I think in this case those guys knew perfectly well, as it is unusual to pay 2K (1K is normal) and source it this way (everywhere available in PTY).

I remember having been at bars that would always have girls that are at least 20 years old, usually the youngest would even be 25 on average, and many older already. However the longer I stayed I noticed how things didn't make sense, for example I have seen girls I did not sleep with myself that recently celebrated her 21st birthday, then I realised she is around 5 years already, the thing is that means she had a baby at 16 already too from a Thai. In terms of appearance, so often they are much older than they look as well the other way around. Only way to notice potentially would be if they were unexperienced but usually they already passed the Thai entertainment places before arriving with farang places. Think they should be focusing on the latter, it all starts at those local places from as young as 15 year old, with weddings. I find it kind of a conflicting thing in Thailand, it is perfectly fine to let your parents decide at 15 years old to be 'sold' to whatever guy interested. It is also to have sex. But it is illegal to work in a bar, even if not drinking, even at 18, until the age of 20.

True usually Thai girls get real from 30, also as they grow up later here than in the west, usually.