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Specifically, what are Starling like when it comes to transferring large amounts of money out to other banks? So for example some people have savings in other savings accounts with other Banks in say like a one or five year bond. That would then mature and the money would come back to Starling. And then you would move it out again into another new bond account which was paying the best interest rate. Now this is something I did on a fairly regular basis with Santander and they were an absolute nightmare! If you tried to move any real amount of money their security systems would kick in and it would lock you out of the account on PC & mobile and it was extremely inconvenient trying to phone England, waiting for hours etc What I had to do eventually was try to move chunks of less than £5,000 and that seemed to work for a while but even that then became problematical I'm just wondering what Starling are like in that regard many thanks

Interesting about Chase..... Last night before seeing your post (and several others) i successfully opened a Starling current account. It was a breeze! I did that rather than just using the Switch guarantee service as ive no knowledge of them and also i admit im a bit nervous of things going wrong So next few days i will research switching my current account from Santander to Starling using the switch service ie hopefully there are no issues with me not being in UK for that Yes, im probably overthinking it!

Yep, all done online thanks to whoever it was above who first pointed that out. I say again I definitely read somewhere on net it was UK only and wasn't just some random person it was kind of 'official' I'll come on here next time to verify, as per bank queries Thanks all

Anyway back on topic re Banks(but thanks for info on Driv lic) Huge apologies to PPGuy..... I shouldve checked first(my bad) but the reviews for Halifax are truly awful, only fractionally better than Santander but still well into the 'bad' category Starling and First Direct come out well on Trust Pilot will check out Monzo If anyone has used the the UK switching service from here in Thailand please advise feedback thanks

Absolutely doable, no issues with that , thanks

Crikey! I swear I've seen several posts on the net saying it can only be done in UK Obviously I'll give it a go Thanks

Understood, thanks and will do ????

"which helped with initial verification requirement - for that I had to visit a UK branch during a rare trip to UK)." Sorry im confused, you said you opened it from Thailand but then state you had to be in the UK As im sure you'll appreciate im trying to open a Halifax current account FROM Thailand without setting foot in the UK please clarify, thanks Side note- wouldnt you just know it, my UK Driving Licence expires in 2 days! And of course that can only be renewed in UK in person. Hope thats not an issue, surely some bank customers dont drive!

That's useful to know many thanks. But just to clarify, the key point is did you open the current account whilst in Thailand (or anywhere outside UK/EU)? Or just moved to Thailand afterwards and changed your address? I think there's a distinct difference

Er, probably yes I'll look into it. I had the card from when still in UK. Hopefully now I'm not they will still treat with me for a current account

Ah my bad

I have that too as mentioned above, thanks

I will be looking into First Direct thanks but wanted to get feedback on other UK banks used by expats in Thailand eg issues with mobile apps transfers etc Thanks

Which bank please?

I already have a UK phone number as mentioned above thanks

Perfectly fair point but my question was "which one was best?" Based on answers I'll then happily try to do it Thanks Ps I used to watch you on the telly on Sat afternoons when I was a kid! ????????

I just need to find a way of paying off my Halifax Clarity credit card as that's what I use to live on here ie to get cash. I then transfer from Santander to pay off the cash advance to nullify any interest charges I have some savings accounts linked to Santander but going forward I could link them to another UK bank whose systems didn't lob me out every time I used them! Hence me asking on here how others get on with other UK banks

Not rented out for clarification. Cards are forwarded by my son who checks property bi monthly thanks

1. Thai number - Santander have repeatedly assured me they are OK with Thai number and that that's OK for OTP. But in reality you may have a huge point here and I'm going to challenge them on this when I eventually get the little swines on the phone! 2. As re UK address I can prove everything re my house council tax you name it. But it gets back to my previous question. What is the precise definition of a UK resident versus a non resident? I'm just on a long vacation. At what point do the UK government say eg "now you've been out of the country for 3 years, you no longer qualify to be a resident"???

Thanks for the replies I have a fully legit address in UK (my house) and telephone number I believe that entitles me to claim UK residency(I might be wrong on that???) I also submit tax returns However would I still be able to open account from here?

Looking for feedback from forum members as to what they think the best UK bank account is to use whilst here in Thailand on a long term basis. However I would need to able to open it from here in Thailand. I've been with Santander for about 8 years now and I am absolutely sick to death of them, they're the absolute worst! Even when you simply just go on their mobile app and ask a question it will lock you out not only of the mobile app but on the PC as well. Which means that you have no choice but to phone them up from Thailand which takes at least an hour and cost a lot of money and a lot of stress and anger. If you simply move money from one account to another the security gets triggered and again you get thrown out of the account. They're an absolute nightmare, I've had enough of them I'm looking to change to another Recommendations please?? TIA

any word from your pal? i really feel that the cushion rule should apply in Killer too, otherwise its open to abuse also im looking for pool forums but especially Thailand if anyone know any please send links thanks

Anyone got a fix for New Pipe - my subscription channels video tiles just won't show. They will show if I go into the ALL section but not into the individual channel which is how I want to view them. I don't want to governed by chronological order Plus many videos just crash and throws me out of NP altogether. Plus error messages, sometimes when there's not even an error! This is on an Android 11 box. Version 23.3 was same problem V24 not helped. Is Android 11 the issue here?

Yes obviously 1 per rack because once the black is potted its off the table But to be clear you play that you can gain lives back multiple times during the game subject to max of 3 lives at any one time I know people who play max 1 life back per game(not rack) But the purpose of this post is to see what the majority of others do, as there does not seem to be hard and fast, black and white killer rules Thanks

Ps to above Hear what you say re 'cushion rule' not applying but what if previous player misses all the balls? Do you play that as ball in hand?