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Thong Lor pet hospital on the middle ring road east of Ruam Choke.

Go back to your country to build up a retirement fund but you are over 50.  What makes you think you can find employment at that age.

 And what is your nationality?  How old is she?   How is her health?   That makes a difference in the suggestions you would get.   I bet you are significantly older than she is so the likelihood she predeceases you is slim.

If the only reason to marry is for YOU to have an inheritance, it doesn't sound the right reason.   If you die first, what would she have to live on?   Do you care? 

Too much info is missing.

I would suggest making sure you talked to a knowledgeable banker at your US bank.  I would think Thai baht transferred to the US under normal international transfer protocols would be exchanged into dollars at the international exchange rate.   If you called a customer service number and just talked to who ever answered, I doubt you got the answer a banker who deals with international transfers on a daily basis would give you.

Land & Houses

Can't answer or offer an opinion  (or even guess) since the phrase is out of context.

weird

3 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Ridiculous.  Since when has Thailand Post offered a Personal Postman Service?

Well, they provide such service to me when a registered package goes missing but shows delivered on the log.  Maybe it is our personalities and our approach to post office workers that makes the difference?"

3 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

Bainters & Mecorators. 

AND WHAT ARE BAINTERS & MECORATORS?  WORD GAMES WITH PAINTERS AND DECORATORS?

Terriyaki

Try going to the post office with someone that speaks Thai and ask the mailman that supposedly delivered your package to go with you in a car and show the two of you exactly where he delivered it.

I sent you a PM 

works in Chiangmai also

So many replies, I just skipped them all so you may have already gotten this advice:   Google tax treaty your country/Thailand.   That will identify your tax requirements and you will know what is the law instead of what Thai Visa thinks.

SEE MY PM

Don't take her post out of context; she posted about a very specific situation.  What wild animal would enjoy being chained and forced to sit on strangers' laps day in and day out?  

Breaker box has no expansion slots?  

You might add what is the rating of each breaker to make it easier for a knowledgeable person to offer advice.  I am not that person, but I had to double the amps to handle new loads for a couple of breakers in my house a long time ago.

18 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

The “Stranded Foreigner without money” stories are getting to be a regular occurrence.  This causes people to become skeptical.  This person’s story could be true but how many stories like this are printed on a regular basis.  

 

If she asks the US Embassy for help this will be the standard line:  1)Contact a relative or friend 2) The US Government can loan the money to get back home.  If the US Embassy actually loans an American Citizen money a notation is made on the passport.  This prevents the person from making an international trip until the loan is paid off. 

And the Embassy will facilitate contacting people in the states.  If she really got the $10K transferred to her, the Embassy could work with her to get access.   The story is very suspect (I did not read all the postsP).  The local police, if involved, would contact the tourist police who would know how to interface with the Embassy to get her whatever assistance she needs to leave the country.

I do not know about the other hospitals, but Bangkok Hospital Chiangmai has a web site with all the doctors searchable my name and specialty/clinic.  Sure, you can let price/cost drive our decision, but I suggest you also think about the doctors' backgrounds.   You get a doctor that got his MD back in the 1990s and shows no further education after that, it should make you wonder.   If the doctor got his degrees back whenever and only worked in Khon Kaen until recently moving to Chiangmai, you might wonder some more.

A expat didn't like the treatment he was getting at Khon Kaen Ram, plus the doctor refused to do some of the tests he wanted.  He came to Chiangmai Ram and he said it was like night and day.

And older woman friend fell down and hit her head in Chaiyaphum and went to Ram hospital.  Sent her home with pills, pain got worse, went back and found our Chaiyaphum Ram does not have an MRI machine.

So, DD86, you are wondering if they might be newer and better meds for you.  You will need to find the doctor who has kept up on his education AND works in a facilities that keeps up with the times.

My wife really likes the female gynecologist at Bangkok Hosp Chiangmai Dr. Atita Ruengsaen

Yes, send both.  As jerryonjay said, the bank draft pays for sending your self addressed envelope back registered mail.

You said "ON LINE".  Can you go on line and wire the money?  Get your bank's SWIFT code?