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Just walked past a used car tent. December 2023 BYD Seal with 4000 ks. 45,000 baht suspension upgrades. Wrapped with clear film and 45,000 baht carbon fiber accessories. 1,1 million baht. Even as a petrol head I am tempted. Thoughts?

You don't mention it but can you charge at home. The only question pertinent to owning any model of EV anywhere in the world is can you charge at home.

A youtuber with 7 years experience of Thailand and lives in That Phanom is on a great adventure, as he calls it, to the south of Thailand. Today he passed a Buddhist Lent procession and he had to make a comment on where the lady boy was, who should be dancing at the head of the procession . Also the three ladies in national dress would not be happy at you and your American mate passing a WOW "Sexy Lady" comment. If you know nothing about Buddhist rituals keep your comments to your self and your visitor friend. The person I feel sorry for is his wife who has spent her entire adult life in the States and passes no comments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Wzz4ax7qM&t=595s

In a nutshell, land owner sells property to Government for a price. Government issues 99 year lease to buyer for a price. After 99 years property reverts back to Government. So property never leaves Thai ownership, which as we all know is the most important thing.

From the Thai media. The group, Thai BYD owners association have petitioned the government about the unfair discount practices that have seen some members claim that their BYD EV has lost 340,000 in the last12 months on resale value. Also they were promised from BYD, free charging at dedicated charging points which turn out to be only open at certain times and normally there is a large queue.

Here's my rant. Came across a Farang utuber's, "I know everything about Thailand" channel, who posted with the clickbait title "Thai visa run to Vientiane". Was curious to find out if there was still anyone applying for a visa, how long to get an appointment etc, if you can just get 60 days cost free VE. As suspected after watching 15 minutes of this total drivel it turns out he is actually doing a border bounce using the Nong Khai crossing. Another rant. Another Thailand guru has posted his trip using the new Bangkok Vientiane direct train. Unfortunately he only says that you clear Thai immigration at Nong Khai. No mention of if you have to leave the train. How long the stop is. If you have an overstay to pay is it possible to pay. If you have an Evisa for Laos is there a Laos check point to get stamped in thereby saving time to head directly to Vientiane instead of staying with the train and heading 20 kilos north of town. And of utmost concern when entering Thailand what is the customs routine. What are the chances of a couple of suitcase of Beer Lao going unchecked.

To show the other side this is a 1,00,000 baht CONDO with swimming pool and top notch gym 800 meters from MRT. 32 sq meters

To give an idea here is a Bangkok APARTMENT not a condominium asking 200,000 baht and yes it is in the boonies of Bangkok. 30 sg meters

A situation that has been overlooked is that this could just be a scam to offload these cars in Thailand. Remember they are all according to the police and customs road legal here. I would imagine that the owners are the insurance companies. Are they going to go to the bother of recovering these cars back to the UK, or just hold an auction in Thailand and repatriate the cash received back to them. These "supercars" are only of high value in Thailand. Here are some values at auction of a couple of these cars,stolen recovered no damage. BMW M4 2017 UK value 14500 pounds sold for 5100 pounds. Mini Cooper 2017 UK value 10000 pounds sold 3000 pounds Range Rover 2017 UK value 23500 pounds sold 20000 pounds Nissan GT-R 2017 UK value 68000 pounds sold 35000 pounds. These are the prices as valued by the insurance company who entered the auction directly.

My Farang neighbor had his house and various land plots under the 51/49% company. He fled Thailand after having been caught exporting drugs to the UK. His house remained unoccupied. 10 years after he fled, his house was seized by the government and auctioned off.

If you are interested in the current state of returning expats to use the NHS I suggest you view a British Thai based utuber called Steady Eddy. Ed Sweeny was diagnosed in Thailand with a brain tumor. He was medivaced to the UK by his insurance company and put in to an NHS hospital. Today he complained that he has been in the hospital for one week and no treatment has been carried out. But he does say he understands there are waiting lists and he can not jump the queue. He demanded an MRI scan to see if the tumor has grown. The scan confirmed it had.

The reform party is not registered as a political party but as a business whose majority share holder is N Farage. They are not subject to "normal" rules regarding donor discloses. How do you think at the last election illegal secret donations were able to bypass the election commission.

Just remember the Thai based American utuber who mounted a 100 pound? solar system on the roof of his 70 year old mothers trike as he was worried about range, it tipped over whilst doing a turn breaking her hip. Luckily the 500,000 baht bill was crowdfunded.

My wife who is a house builder in Thailand recommends that you never build a roof in Thailand that has valleys. Every valley is a source of a leak. Hips are bad enough due to the ridges cracking over time etc. Look at the roof immediately above the entrance steps. You have a huge rainwater runoff from the roof to the left that lands on another roof then flows downward to the left to a solid wall. There looks like some sort of gutter system to catch the runoff. Remember in Thailand rain falls horizontally most times, not vertical so plan your roof accordingly.

And R Sunak the Prime Minister of the UK could not even be arsed to stay to the end. It was more important to record a fluff piece on why he lied at the debate regarding Labour's 2000 pound tax increase.