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One more problem with Bolt etc is that the drivers don't know Bangkok. They don't have the slightest idea where they actually are and whether the way they are going makes any sense. Taxi drivers, however, usually know Bangkok quite well. In Bolt or Cabb you cannot import a location from Google maps or from line, you have to use their search function. Searching for วัดใต้ in Bolt gives you about 20 locations. Searching for my place in Bolt gives you exactly one location, unfortunately it is 6km away from my place.

Both Bisoprolol and Ramipril are not very difficult to find. I cannot imagine that Yasothon doesn't have them. Mukdahan and Ubon definitely have them. Locals will know which pharmacy is well-stocked. It can be quite useful to know this in the future. Maybe easier and faster than the online pharmacies. BTW There are several threads discussing the pros and cons of the different online pharmacies.

10-15k max is about minimum salary. 550 B/day is the average what companies pay industrial workers. Nurses in Thailand do have a degree and a salary to match. Your numbers were about right 20 years ago.

Clinics don't have the vaccine. Hospitals have it. Rat bites should be treated in a hospital. It's the same kind of vaccines, but as a preventive vaccination they are given 3 times (new WHO schedule since 2018: only 2 clinic visits necessary, but maybe 2 injections at each visit, depending on the injection technique used). After being bitten or otherwise exposed (e.g. by licking on a wound), they are given 3 (if intradermal injections) or 4 (if intramuscular injections) times if you haven't been vaccinated before (in this case you should also get immune globulin) If you have been vaccinated before, only 2 times. That sums it up very well. Post can be 3 times, see above (TRC-ID)

Easily available as cream. Ointment, I am not sure.

The advice to wait 10 days is hopelessly outdated. This is not the advice Thai medical professionals give. The current advice and practice in Thailand is: those bitten or scratched by animals should seek medical attention. And they will be vaccinated. Most Thais know this.

They do work incredibly long hours, very often double shifts, i.e. 16 hours. Financial situation as Shop said. Hard to find a nurse without a car. Multiple credit cards, of course. Houses more like 3-5m. It's all a bit less in the public sector than in the private sector, but perks a better in the public sector.

BTS staff told me the old ones expired after 5 years, the new ones will expire in 7 years. Years ago, they expired much faster, I think it was every 2 years. But you got a new one immediately.

Thx for a very informative post. Yes, i needed this. I really had no idea what the ladders were for until another poster explained it. You mentioned the safety videos, and you are right: I have never seen safety videos on the other systems. Here they made me look where the fire-extinguishers are, and how to open the compartment, so they had exactly the desired effect. If there were a fire on the old BTS I would be completely clueless. I still think fire extinguishers should be placed in the open for all to see. Sounds almost too good to be true. As of now, I can't use my rabbit card at all, it "expired". I can't remember how many times BTS staff told me that my card had expired, even before they had the rabbit card. But to get a new rabbit card, they wouldn't do it on the spot. "Come back tomorrow and bring your passport!" As if they hadn't my passport in their system. A bureaucratic procedure for a f...ing stored value ticket!

Same with me. Last year, they passed it back. This year, I didn't even show it. No problem. But about 7-10 years ago, IO at CW wanted a 1- year contract, scrutinised the contract and was very happy that I even had a signed copy of the landlord's ID. CW didn't want it from me, neither last year nor this year.

I avoid them. Reports a mixed at best. I have used Dental Hospital at Onnut (formerly at soi 49) but never for crowns and not in the last 5 years. They used to be the best dental care in Bangkok. Expensive. Dentista dental clinic at Onnut is good for crowns. Not cheap.

Huge advertisement at Central World for Pride Kleenex

At our local BigC, all 10 ATMs that were not at the bank branches have been dismantled. The ATMs at the branches have been reduced from 3 to 2 (BBL), 2 to 1 (SCB) and so on,

Since about January, but the first months they were difficult to get, systems didn't work very well. Not available from BTS stations. Only through rabbit rewards, only by using the rabbit app and paying by QR code and banking app. So it's not only that your passport has to be linked to the rabbit card (and all your trips are surveyed), they want much more of your personal data. 15 trips 630 baht, 25 trips 1020 baht, 35 trips also available. Unattractive prices if you live in the "old" BTS area, lets say between Morchit and Onnut. Basically free for the outlying stations, so it's good for the condo developers at Teparak or Laksi.

In addition to what others reported (bumpy ride, windows still transparent without commercials so you have a view): If you like zigzag labyrinths this is for you. Endless zigzagging walkways, stairs, bridges, skywalks. The stations look very cheap from outside. Stations wear the MRT logo, tickets the BTS logo. I am sure, by the time we have to pay they will develop a payment system incompatible with all the other systems in Bangkok public transport. Very few passengers (weekdays, daytime). Trains run every 10 minutes, but with so few passengers they will probably reduce this to every 20 minutes (like airport link), which would make it much less attractive. Driverless. They have fire extinguishers on board, well hidden in a locked compartment under some seats. In case of fire, you need to stay calm, don't panic but take your time to fiddle with the locks of the fire extinguishers' compartment. They also have emergency ladders. I couldn't figure out whether they are a staircase to heaven or whether you are supposed to climb down to street- level (in this case, you have to jump the last 5 or 10 meters as the ladders aren't very long)

Last time I made an online appointment at CW was 2 weeks ago. Free, no payment. No outside service provider. No documentation had to be provided online.

They aren't very good

Sure, a tech guy who makes a living selling tech cræp to mankind will speak like this. You can be sure, that he doesn't want to be treated by a "hallucinating" copy machine, he will want a professional when he is sick. AI for the plebs, sure.

In the pic, he doesn't look frail and gaunt. Looks more like a bullman. I wouldn't want to be near him when he is drunk (neither when he is sober)

Thanks a lot, very helpful

BTW with Bangkok Bank I have had the same bank account number and passbook on my fixed deposit account for years. Every year they roll the account over at whatever the going rate is on the day. Does Kbank do the same? Or do they give me a new account and a new book every time a FD expires?

Thx. I do exactly the same, with Bangkok Bank. I show the letter to immigration and the copy of the FD bank book. The statement (showing less than 800,000) I didn't show. Worked very well. I am switching accounts to Kasikorn Bank, it's good to hear that it's the same procedure with them. Why? I have never done this. Nobody ever asked for this.

I can confirm this

The problem with this method is that you will have 2 FD tranches (a poster in another thread called them "contracts") with 2 different dates of maturity, but in the same bank book. In this case the bank book will state 800,000, but the statement for immigration may only state one tranche, i.e. only 400,000. I just had this problem with Bangkok Bank at CW, and the poster I mentioned had the same problem somewhere else. Bangkok Bank at CW refused to issue me a statement of 800,000, only one tranche (which was 600,000).

Any problems with that? Or can I just do it?