ryandb

Not boarding but going through Phuket airport, they made me book a flight within the 60 days (I came in on a TV)

WOW, your hand must be sore from patting yourself on the back all day, I'm sure you are just doing that out the goodness of your heart and don't ask anything of your wife

There is a LTR for property investment... "Combined investment in Thai government bonds OR direct investment in companies registered in Thailand OR Thai property of at least USD 500,000" Why above 50? Property ownership is property ownership?

We have one (and his wife) staying in the house next to us, he's all about sending our help from NATO nations but is here... Now I'm antiwar and would never fight for the elites so I'd normally commend anyone avoiding conscription, but he's happy to sacrifice others for his cause which makes him no different from those elites.

How does this differ from what I said, conscription exists, but none are going to the frontlines

Conscription does take place as it always has but none are on the frontlines, it's logistic, inventory, admin type work etc.

The dude doesn't want to kill other people and you want to increase the manpower for the Russians.... the logic on this board of Russophobes is astounding, you understand revolting against the government would also put his children at risk of being orphans?

I wouldn't say it will, if you want to be in Thailand you can find a way easy enough, it still isn't as easy as the Philippines for example where you can do 3 years without exiting on a TV and now they have Starlink to solve the internet issue for DNs making it very appealing for first time DNs who are trying to grow their business

I'd class as a Digital Nomad as would most of the people I know living in the villas here on Samui, we definitely aren't on a limited budget, that's the average pensioner over here

$40k! That would qualify all the brokies (a remote CS job in the UK is like 2k a month so nearly 90k US if its a tech company 3-4k if) everyone is scared of coming, I imagine it'll be at least double/treble that which would be fine by me if it's renewable each year then it's much cheaper than other visas for under 50s even if they do a small taxation (think its 7% here) with the cost of living you are way up. My only thing I hate is why can't they just charge the 1900 on entry so you can book your onward flight correctly rather than having a cheap one to Singapore inside the 30/60 days and then cancelling it.

The same nonsense post we always see as if this is impossible. Quite simple answers could be provided, set up a business that makes money and provides Visa, work for a Thai company that provides a Visa. Why do you need to know?

it was barely the sniffles for most people in fact if you were to believe the nonsense they were spouting in 2020 then no symptoms were also a symptom as I stated unless you had underlying ill health it was barely a cold, unfortunately the hypercondriacs acted like it was everyone else's problem they refused to get on a diet

Not this bs again, I've never had one and never had covid once or been sick in the 4 plus years over this hypercondriacs wet dream people are living in, it's a cold unless you have underlying health problems, if you do, treat them or act accordingly.

I'm from the UK I've been jumped 4 on 1 by whites in my sleepy hometown over nothing but jealousy over me dating one of their exes.... When I lived in Manchester I saw many black and Indian groups doing the same in the city centre, this is not a racial make up its just a general thing that happens in all nations, only place I've seen different was Rio when it was groups with gun fire rather than fists, kicks and knives

So it looks like they attacked a foreign couple then went over the other side of the road and stabbed the other dude, did he know the couple and there was more to this before, or literally just a bystander. Whatever you say the flying knee started physical aspect and that was a Thai man. Also look at the little Thai throw the sneaky punch on the dude in the alley and get swatted off like a fly

As a Jew, nope, people don't like occupying nations, I don't like the US occupying areas of Libya to steal oil as much as I don't like the clear and obvious ethnic cleansing of Gaza so they can steal the gas and create the Ben Guiron canal. Perhaps you should check your own feelings about Muslims to see if you are biased in that direction. Did you have issues with Ukrainian flags being flown across the world for the past 2 years for or Russians being banned from nations and having assets seized?

In Thailand, Thais are the chosen people and have the right to take what they want! If you think otherwise you are anti-SEA

take away the state (all of it!) including the social security/benefits problem solved either you work to maintain the living costs of living in the stronger economy you fled to or you go back....

Once but that was because I was walking down a road they knew was a little bit flooded (i would have walked through the 2 inch puddle) about 100 meters further along and asked if I wanted a lift in the pick up truck through the water, didn't ask any details just being nice.

No idea these stories are always vague but to be honest if it wasn't in writing that he had the right to use the access that seemingly belongs to the restaurant then they can revoke it at any time. As mentioned I don't believe it should be criminal but false reviews also harm businesses and there should be deterrence for this but in the form of civil not criminal action if provable.

I'm guessing it wasn't just petty revoking of use there was likely noise or certain types of people joining him that the restaurant didn't want its patrons to see or hear, I don't for one second believe this should be a criminal case but if a provable loss of income from false reviews then a civil case would be fine

Alcohol lobby responsible I'm guessing? I don't drink or smoke but I'm actually sick of every new business in Samui being Weed related in one way or another but it should remain legal (like all drugs should be, we aren't children and don't need coddling, if there's a market someone will fill it)

I've been and don't see anything special about it but it has turned into a YT place to be and now it's growing their own eco system of YTers copycatting and going there to do the same thing, similar to Bali and Chiang Mai 6-7 years ago becoming a place to do "can you live on $1000 a month" videos

Reading through this thread I'm surprised how many westerners see it as a negative to be a Catholic nation, and I'm not religious but I see that as a positive when I've been

I never understand why you would deal drugs in a country you would never want to spend a day inside a cell in... Crazy, 6000 baht in cash only too, he wasn't doing that well either!