stratocaster

Regarding the utuber going for PR he has posted an update today. Scroll to 5 minutes to miss the drivel. He also has an interesting take on the new tax rules near the end. What annoys me is that people take life changing decisions on guys like this. His site has a link to the law firm he uses.

In the 70's and 80's there was a company that did a train run to Penang weekly to collect groceries from Penang, primarily to service restaurant owners in Pattaya of Western items unavailable locally. Unfortunately to to the rising standard of living in Malaysia this service lost it's cost advantage. As a 450 g tin of baked beans is available today at the equivalent of 34 baht in Malaysia, perhaps the service could be restarted. Today I spent 1550 baht in Big C. Exactly the same items in Cold Storage Singapore would be 1400 baht. In Lotus Malaysia it was 1360 baht. In Asda UK it was 998 baht using current exchange rates.

Regarding a link to the person claiming he is entitled to PR due to being "rich" and married to Thai. I have been reluctant to say who it is as he is an eight year veteran of Thailand who has a very limited knowledge of things Thai. His site is notime2besad. But I must warn you that you will have to trawl through 29 minutes of drivel per vlog to extract 1 minute of his reasoning for PR. The strangest thing is that he pays a retainer of 700 baht a month to a Bangkok law firm so I would assume they are advising him accordingly. Or do they know the back door to PR? For you to understand his knowledge of things Thai his last vlog stated he is going to Bangkok to get his US passport translated to Thai so that he can be added to his FIL's house blue book. He also mentioned that his Falang friends house is available for sale with a 90 year lease.

Vinfast have announced they will be entering the EV market in Thailand. They will be selling fully built up cars as they fall under the AFTA trade agreements and are not subject to Thai import tax. They have 15 dealers with 22 showrooms nationwide.

Just to update, as of yesterday he has stated that in around 6 weeks time he has his first interview for PR.

According to a conservative think tank the only way to keep the triple lock is to keep increasing the retirement age in stages. The consensus is that if the Tories win the next election 555 they will increase the pension age to 68.

There is an advert for a high end condo in Bangkok. As they state all foreign quota is sold out, but a 90 year lease agreement is still available for foreigners.

Last month the president of the Thailand used car association issued a memo to its members to exercise caution in accepting used EV's due to the fact that because of new car price cutting a used EV will lose value on a daily basis. Today the head of GWM issued a warning that this year will see a price war among EV manufacturers in the Thai market. My first 32inch flat screen TV cost me 32,000 baht. One year later they were selling for 5,900 baht.

The latest innovation in the UK is the pop up charging connection. You bury the cable from your house to the kerbside using a horizontal drilling machine, so the pavement is not disturbed, and have a rubberised pop up connection at the end. The pop up is activated by an app on your phone.

I am in the same situation as OP. I have found an old number in an old wallet. Could this be my tax identification number. Formatted as this x-xxxx-xxxxx-xx-x

Wife went to look at a BYD Atto extended range, full option, July 2023, 7000 kl, 870,000 baht. Seller claimed he paid almost 1,000,000 baht. Seems a heavy depreciation for Thailand. She phoned a dealer and was offered a brand new car for 899,000 baht. Is that a correct price? If it is the seller will have difficulty selling.

If the terminology is right and the car has been pawned at a government run pawn office the normal procedure is you buy the pawn ticket from the seller for whatever price they ask, then go to the pawn office and pay the outstanding pawned value to the pawn office, they then release the blue book and vehicle to you.

So a government that is trying to get out of paying legally granted payouts for the Post Office scandal, infected blood scandal, Windrush scandal and Grenfell tower scandal will entertain overseas pensioners demands. Ha Ha. Try again when Labour is in power.

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A related article. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/schools-02252021125933.html