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This happens a lot, I am always shocked when someone tells me they're thinking about doing migrant work overseas, it's usually advertised as an amazing opportunity until you get there and things take a turn for the worse. Really sad.

Hm, I should have asked while I was there today, I hope they do as usual and extend my visa out 60 days from the last day the visa is expiring

Is this new? They usually gave me 60 days from the last day of my visa expiring. Logically I would have assumed otherwise, that they would want to spread out the extensions over a longer period to not cause huge line ups at immigration offices.

Bangkok Hospital has been pretty fair with me whenever I went so I think they would be fine with doing the outpatient treatment like you suggested if it is indeed just a short chemotherapy infusion. I am not a chemotherapy specialist, and have no clue the procedures for the OP's Wife's cancer, but some chemotherapy infusions can take several days, I am assuming this is what Bangkok Hospital is recommending. Although this isn't that relevant to the topic, I have to say, I personally would rather spend more time in the hospital than at home with family. It's actually quite comfortable at the hospital, have nurses to take care of you etc. and there is a certain emotion you have, of not wanting to be sick or suffering in front of friends/family and having them watch you. This is a personal preference though. I guess there is the aspect of wanting to spend more time with your friends/family, albeit in the OP's Wife's case she is doing the chemotherapy as post-treatment after having the cancer removed so she doesn't currently have cancer and would have a longer life expectancy than someone who has cancer that is un-treatable and is prolonging death through chemotherapy. Once again, all a personal preference.

I would assume they won't change the date as I was just there and they told me to go back in a week or two. But I am getting the feeling there won't be another one.

If it is indeed true that chemotherapy would decrease chances of the cancer returning, I would 1000% do the chemotherapy. I know with thyroid cancer they have the patient do radioactive iodine treatment to kill all traces of cancer even after removing the thyroid glands. Cancer isn't something like a migraine where you can go the whole natural route with very little consequences, it's a very serious disease, if not treated, will result in death. It is a shame that insurance isn't covering it all though, but you don't keep any money when you die either.

It's definitely not a requirement for everyone, I am assuming it's because I stayed here so long. Yea he's a really nice immigrations officer, I was actually hoping to get him. I went a bit early because I was worried if they just flat out said no you stayed too long I could try and get a ticket for July, I know the closer you get to the date of flight the higher the price of the tickets are and I remember looking in May at July tickets running at like $4000 when the normal price was $600 in March. I was also worried if I went like 1 week before, they would do the whole "deny + 7 days to leave country" stamp which I read would mean you have no options in terms of getting an agent to help. Its BKK to NRT to YYZ (Air Japan + Air Canada), was 78k Aeroplan points and $80 or something. I took the same path to get to Bangkok (in reverse), there was a few other cheap tickets that connected through UK/Europe but I didn't take those routes before so I figured I'd just take the same route. After checking, I realized ticket prices are a lot higher now, even tickets out to November are $1500+ for the same route (I remember looking in May at a September ticket, same route, and it still being around $600) Debating if I should book a return flight to BKK now, but not too sure about the visa on the way back, I should have booked in May, they had unlimited free flight changes on any tickets purchased before then.

I thought it was 30 days before but I’ll go in a week and see if they’ll do the extension. I didn’t mention anything, I just put the paper down + passport + money and he looked through the documents. It was right after he saw I had a bunch of covid extensions that he said to come back a few weeks before and he wants to see plane ticket, I just said ok thank you and left. He was the nicer Immigration officers from what I’ve gathered the past few times. He did my last extension no questions asked last time, but I guess I’m staying a bit too long. Not a big deal though, I was actually planning to leave next month if I didn’t get an extension as I have some things I have to do back home (medical checkup/banking/seeing family) . If they give me one more extension in 1-2 weeks I’ll most likely actually go back in September anyways, I don’t want to fly back to Canada in the winter. I got lucky and found a cheap ticket just now so I booked it, same route I took to get here.

So they’re definitely getting more strict, they asked me to go back in a week or two and bring a plane ticket I went 28 days before my visa expires, I’ll book a plane ticket tonight and go back in a week or two

5 hours on a motorbike? your hands are going to be cramped just from braking/clutch, I could barely do 1 hour commutes on a motorcycle because my hand would cramp from having to keep using the clutch/brake in traffic, although I lived in a country with no lane splitting so maybe thats not an issue here. I personally would never take that trip for a few reasons - the longer you're on the road on a motorbike the chances of accident increases - if it rains you're screwed, I dont know how Thai's do it, when I used to ride a motorcycle and it rained, it felt like being hit by rocks with each rain drop - just the trip itself is going to be boring, Elon Musks idea for AI driving was to allow the rider to waste less time commuting, I find this to be true, a lot of time wasted on driving, which is why I just take taxi's instead of buying a motorbike. - hand cramps I read online its about a 2.5h commute by car, which actually isn't that bad, but I wouldn't do 5 hours

I was pretty bored at life by early 20's but I just realized it was because I didn't realize how many opportunities the world has. Not sure your interests but its possible to really do anything, once you realize that, it opens a lot of roads. a year ago or so I was back at university studying dietetics because I wanted to research cancer in that field, but I found there was already people smarter than me working on that so I wasn't too interested, plus I think cancer research should be geared towards more treatment than prevention since it's pretty obvious how to prevent it. I am thinking of going back to school, finishing some degree(s) and then going to US to work at a tech company, really interesting people in tech. Steve Jobs said “For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? ' And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

lol what? why would anyone hold money in wise with a negative interest rate?

When I lived in central Bangkok AIS was great, never tried another provider I noticed you said gaming so this package from AIS would actually be great, it's what I used, AIS esport package 999 baht 1000/500MBPS, they give you 2 separate internet connections + 2 routers, so since you have 2 kids each can have their own internet connection (separate IP address) . It was good because I had my gf use one connection and I used the other, that way nothing she did would interfere with my connection while I was working. Plus if one gets ip banned for cheats the other can still play. Also I haven't compared it as I didn't use other providers but it claimed to have the lowest latency with this package which would be good for gaming, I did notice the condo public wifi (in the lounge) had higher latency and they also used AIS fiber. Also there were a few times people complained AIS' internet (in the condo group chat) was down but my internet was still working, so I wonder if they give you a direct separate line from the rest of the condo, which would be even better. I will say though, at least in my condo, not sure if it was just the infrastructure being poor (although it was new) I never got 1GBPS download speeds, it maxed out around 700mbps, but honestly theres not a huge difference once you get that high.

Just wanted to ask incase someone knew it was closed tomorrow, will have a go at another immigration covid extension, I heard in another thread some cases of people getting denied so I am going with the expectation I will be denied but thought I'd give it a shot, have plane tickets ready and was due for a trip back home anyways. Will update this thread with how it goes.

How is the real estate market holding in Thailand? after coming to bangkok and renting a condo, I’d never buy a condo in Thailand, the condos aren’t very well built and this was a top developer (ap Thai) so I can’t imagine lower end developers

The key to investing isn’t timing the market but investing in companies at fair or good prices and right now the valuations are good. valuations are at March 2020 lows when the world was literally “ending” because of a global pandemic. Can go down more but in 5 years probably will be up a minimum of 100% from todays prices, even after the dot com bubble good companies stocks returns to all times highs within 5 years which is a 100% gain for a lot of mega cap tech stocks, even TQQQ would return over 100% (triple leveraged nasdaq100 etf) if it returned to all time highs

Oil is already rolling over inflation only really affects profits with companies with high input costs real rates are still negative so growth stocks still going to grow

I only like tech stocks and high growth, most are done correcting, what’s holding markerts up is other sectors not tech, tech is near done it’s correction

I don’t look at markets I look at stocks, oil for example is still rallying, tech stocks already corrected to 2020 lows in most cases.

Maybe not 3cents but if I had to guess, it’s going to be more like a dot com bubble crash vs a tropical stock market correction.

Lots of Mega caps and growth stocks already at March 2020 bottoms, so unless they were overvalued during a market crash in 2020 then they aren’t overvalued now as their revenue and earnings are even higher.

People tend to forget the bigger the pump, the bigger the dump, with the whole crypto craze all those buyers are going to be liquidating their positions, hundreds of millions of people hitting sell. 18k is the first support level, lets see if it can at least hold that over the weekend before more dumping on the bright side oil is rolling over, inflation rolling over and 10 yr yield is rolling over, great time to buy stocks (not meme stocks)

Crazy, one second you're alive, the next you're not.

Not a fan of Crypto/NFT ponzi but a fan of blockchain technology, I guess he is another grifter

I think you have to do more research on blockchains, there are both private and public blockchains.