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Index Living has different quality levels. Better quality items are superior to IKEA.

Car rental companies usually require credit cards and do not accept prepaid cards.

Good relationships require mutual respect, and gratitude on both sides for taking care of each other. Just providing support and expecting gratitude from the receiving part does not suffice. Taking care goes beyond money.

Rule of thumb: wine retail prices in Thailand = restaurant prices in Europe. I buy wine in the 1000-3000 THB range, but spend less money than my beer drinking buddies, because a bottle lasts 3-4 days maintaining the quality with the Coravin system.

As long as the forum provides useful information and help, I would pay a subscription fee for being ad free. The more ads I see, the less I use the forum. I manage my apps similarly: apps with ads are either purchased or rarely used resp. ultimately deleted.

My experience with progressively monetized forums is that the quality of the posts is decreasing. I read fewer threads than before. Maybe the ultimately remaining audience is a more attractive target group for advertising. Moving this topic to an auxiliary forum will not change the forum operators' dilemma.

If you feel morally obligated to your friend and the beneficiaries really need the money, I would only accept the executor role if all legal heirs and beneficiaries explicitly accept the last will and indemnify you from any claims. Further, you need legal advice in the UK and Thailand for ensuring compliance with respective (tax) laws. Advice for any future last wills: try to keep the assets separated by country, distribute the assets to beneficiaries in the same country, nominate executors for each country and notify your executors while alive.

AFAIK there are no prenups under Thai law for your Thai assets. However, your home country may recognize a prenup or marital agreement for your assets outside of Thailand.

If assets and legal heirs exist in Thailand and abroad, things may get complicated. Possibly, all heirs must agree in writing before bank accounts abroad can be accessed. Planning the execution of your last will is as important as allocating your assets. Even with my legal background, I got specialist advice before drafting my last will.

Update: it is definitely not possible for Thai nationals to add previous vaccinations from abroad in Mor Phrom, and neither to update the Swiss certificate with the Thai booster. Bureaucracy at its best. We have the yellow vaccination booklet with all vaccinations, but some venues in Italy asked for the OCR code last year. Hopefully, there will be no more restrictions anymore in Europe this summer. Worst case, we will get a 4th vaccination in Switzerland.

Thank you. Her Thai booster is recorded in Mor Phrom, but the basic vaccinations from Switzerland are missing. How to add these vaccinations to Mor Phrom? I did not follow up while we got the booster in January because at that time it was still possible to update the Swiss certificate once she would travel to Switzerland.

AFAIK the Morchana app is accepted as Covid Certificate in the EC. How can a Thai person upload Swiss basic vaccination + Thai booster to Morchana? My wife will travel to Switzerland this summer. Switzerland will not update her Swiss Covid Certificate (Swiss basic vaccination) with the Thai booster, because Switzerland does not require a Covid Certificate anymore and does not update Covid Certificates with non-Swiss boosters for non-Swiss nationals anymore. However, for travelling in the EC, my wife may still need a EC compliant Covid Certificate on an app, else she may have to wait outside the restaurant while I am having lunch.

A few smaller stores in Terminal 21.

55555 A few tourists taking, probably unknowingly, the risk to be forced to spend their vacation at their cost without symptoms in a hospital will not make tourism rebound in Thailand. I fully understood the restrictions as long as Covid infections were brought to Thailand with its low local infection rates. With Omricon, local infections are the driver and accepting triple vaccinated travellers with pre-flight tests but no restrictions in Thailand should not be a real risk driver anymore.

If you are sweating night wear is more hygienic protecting your matresses. Washing underwear at 60°C is also more hygienic.

20km in the extension of runways and 10km radius unless protected by hills which cannot be overflown. Noise maps only reflect actual situation and take off and approach routes may change.

High quality: foremost honesty and respect for others, treating other people how you would like to be treated. Further criteria are subjective. My drinking habits would not be high standard for a party girl. I have met women in the bargirl category which are honest, trustworthy and of higher quality than many men.

Still waiting for refund from Thai Airways for flight canceled in April 2020. Don't care much, there are other airlines with refund track record.

Women accept large age gaps if there is no alternative fulfilling their expectations. Older farangs who are not living on minimum pensions or low income have still much more market value in Thailand than in their home countries. More important for me is if both sides are emotionally happy. Looking in my neighborhood, many women complain how they are treated and many men hardly show a smile on their face. I think larger age gaps go with higher responsibility of the older part, and just providing money does not suffice.

We contemplate replacing the single glass gliding windows in our house for quieter nights. We do not require better heat insulation because the surface temperature of our windows is not higher than the 13cm walls, which raises the question if sound proofing the windows actually reduces outside noise. We would only need windows with the same sound proofness like the walls. I do not know if it was sufficient to replace the windows in our bedroom only - we sleep with the doors open - or made sense to replace all windows. It would be difficult to soundproof the bathroom window. What are your suggestions with regards to solution and sourcing? No, we will not use earplugs. I am not into DIY but we would have installed new windows by the seller or our trusted handyman. Price is not an issue, though it does not make sense to invest too much money in relation to the value of our typical Thai house.

During a test drive, break hard (ABS) and make some hard steering movements to check steering and shocks. Are there no strange noises while accelerating, switching gears, braking or at higher speeds. Check oil cap for clean oil. Check the tires for homogeneous wear and shake the wheels (shouldn't rattle). Are there no repair signs (welding, misaligned) under the bonnet or in the trunk? Is the interior wear consistent with the mileage. If ok, do you risk to trust the dealer? In my case, the dealer fixed the low performing brakes and I have been happy for the past two year.

Though I purchased two armchairs from Ikea, Index Living has more apealing furniture for me at the same price point. I think Ikea is also living from its image. And I hate to be forced to walk through the whole store.

Post-arrival restrictions are not the only problem for tourism in Thailand. Even if all restrictions are lifted, tourist infrastructure could not be properly maintained in the past two years and the next tourists will not revisit Thailand after negative experiences. I spent a few days on Koh Samet and the otherwise nice resort was not up to date, understandable with the low occupancy rates.

What are the current rules in Thailand for wearing face masks? I have read police may not fine for not wearing masks. Where can I find accurate information? Regardless of rules, I will continue to wear a face mask in public indoor and congested outdoor areas, and possibly in other public outdoor areas as well to conform socially. FFP2-masks reduce passive infection risk by up to 95%.

Being more than 180 days in Thailand, you pay taxes on income earned in Thailand and theoretically (AFAIK not enforced) on income from abroad if the respective funds are transfered to Thailand within less than 12 months and not exempt under a double tax treaty. With permanent residence, inheritances from abroad are also taxed, though Thai inheritance tax rate of 5/10 % kicks in only at THB 100 Mio.