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I'm on my 4th retirement extension. I've used the same Pattaya agency to facilitate my Visa Renewals each year. Now I'm considering moving longer term to another province, but I want to keep renewing my retirement visa with my Pattaya Agency. Has anyone ever tried this or do you always have to deal with the immigration office in the new province you move to? I once went for a month trip to Hua Hin , the trip happened to intersect with my 90 day report dates. So I tried online reporting and it didn't like my address at my hotel. So I went to the immigration office in Blu port mall (Hua Hin) I'm dressed nicely and smile with a polite tone and the female IO wasn't about to help me at all. All she would say to me is "do online or go do in Jomtien office". These people need to be fired or just not deal with customers. In the end I was able to report 90 days online, on this occasion by putting in my previous address. I guess the hotel didn't report my location to immigration. So I'm hesitant to try to deal with another immigration office and would rather let an agency do it.

Has anyone had any experience trying to buy a house and land where your wife/girlfriend owns the land and leases it to you for a 30 year contract, and you keep ownership of the house itself?

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Sure I understand that, I have been on the owner side before. However where I'm from it would have been a more equitable and I would have held the deposit unless I was actually able to rent the room and therefore not lost any rent I would return the deposit. I had a contract that had not started yet. There is a contract start date. Just my 2 cents. But this is Thailand and I wanted to verify if there was any legal basis. Thank you for the replies

Back story, I found a room I wanted to rent, unavailable until a few weeks in the future. Went ahead and signed a contract to begin when it became available and payed a 1 month deposit. With a couple of weeks until the contract started I had a change in my situation and had to cancel the contract. They decided to keep my deposit stateing they missed out on other customers. This room will rent itself, high floor ocean view great location, reasonable price. So I'm pretty sure ( not certain) that they won't lose any money as they still have time to rent it to a new customer. Was it legal to keep my 1 month deposit?

Where can I meet a nice girl who's whole family tragically died in an accident. No more family drama. Dealing with inlaws sucks ????

If a friend back home ships me something in it's original packed box, older gear, will Thailand customs want to charge an import fee or tax it? Thank you in advance for your replies.

Insurance is a racket, the money spent on premiums and I could pay for the lost items several times over. No thanks. Increase security, check. Dear thief, please come back again, I'm ready ????

If you lived in a house where you had a thief breakin while you were sleeping. Would you stay in that house or area or would you move? Having a hard time , going between being pissed off, sad, violated etc. Feeling like I'm being blamed, like I brought crime to the neighborhood, but nobody knows that I live here, no other foreigners. Also this has me doubting my longtime GF of 3 years. If somehow she had a "friend" involved. Highly doubtful but these are the thoughts that can enter your mind when you are trying to make sense of a bad situation.

Retired here in Thailand. Does anyone have a bug out plan ready if the <deleted> hits the fan? I don't have much doubt about which side Thailand will take if war starts. Wouldn't want to end up in a farang concentration camp.

Every town and province is different. Just curious how is it here in Hua Hin? I see a good number of Thais riding without helmets as usual in Thailand. And a couple of Farang here and there without a helmet. Do the police actively have checkpoints to check helmets and license etc as I've seen elsewhere?

What is the going rate for the extra service? ;);) Actually a serious question as I don't want to get hit with the stupid noobie pricing. Thanks