Cardano

There are no VPN providers specific to Hua Hin, it is a web based service. Sign up and pay a monthly subscription to ExpressVPN, NordVPN, SurfShark etc., and you'll be fine.

10 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

While illegal in Thailand, but legal in most other countries, many people have turned to vaping as a way to stop smoking cigarettes.

Vaping IS safer than smoking cigarettes. But only if used short-term to help stop smoking. 

This does NOT mean vaping is safe.

Medical science has proved this with repeated peer-reviewed scientific testing. Vaping can lead to a condition called 'Popcorn Lung,' and only takes a few years of vaping to create the problem.
Use the vape to break cigarette addiction, but then wean yourself off the vape.

and another fake news poster......the popcorn lung myth was debunked years ago. Do some actual research before posting drivel.

1 hour ago, still kicking said:

Some people say vaping is not as bad as smoking I have news for you

If you read this, you’ll never vape again

Here’s what you’re really inhaling with every puff of a vape | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site for latest headlines

I have news for you........some people don't fact check they just believe everything they read and then post it on forums thinking everybody else will believe it as well.

On 6/26/2025 at 9:25 AM, OJAS said:

 

Presumably you mean Krungsri Biz online account? And I take it that one will need to have an existing bona fide business account with Krungsri in order to be able to open a second one for personal use?

 

 

and pay the requisite fees

On 6/11/2025 at 1:18 PM, renaissanc said:

To be quite honest, change your bank to Kasikorn or SCB before you leave. Those are modern banks. Krungthai and Krungsri are old-style banks. They probably even use manual typewriters still. I've used SCB for many years. Their online app is very good.

Utter rubbish

13 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Facebook marketplace is a great place to sell, sold golf clubs and a motorbike, of course some tyre kickers but not a big deal

FBMP is a total sham it is completely unregulated and full of scammers, resellers and time wasters. Yes you may get lucky and sell your goods but for every genuine interested enquiry you'll get 20 idiots wasting your time or even some Thai No Mark copying your Ad and photo's and reposting with a 10% mark-up.

On 6/22/2025 at 6:18 PM, scubascuba3 said:

Sell on Facebook marketplace 

and at the same time get inundated with 100's of hoax messages and "add me to your line" requests, use FBMP at your peril.

On 6/15/2025 at 9:29 AM, save the frogs said:

There is a cute little gecko that must have been in my apartment now for at least a few weeks.

 

Ocasionally I see it on the kitchen counter, but then it scurries into corners .... out of sight. 

 

They are fast. So how to catch it without harming it?

 

I just want to let it loose outside. 

 

They are harmless, right? It won't crawl into my ear at night and eat my brains? 

 

Yeh, they're harmless they just breed like rabbits and sh*t everywhere

If you eventually find sausages here that are akin to a traditional UK butchers sausage let me know because I've been looking for 24 years and tried many different brands including Manstons and Prime unfortuetly I'm still looking!

2 hours ago, Crossy said:

Our local "wholesaler" is open 9AM - 6PM with no apparent restrictions on quantity.

 

They do sell a small selection of non-alcohol goods, but I'm not really sure under what laws they operate. This is Thailand after all

 

The law applies to selling to the general public, licensed business can buy from wholesalers at anytime

3 hours ago, transam said:

So school children could not be sold booze during lunch times....

It's available at lunchtimes, it's banned from 2pm to 5pm

3 hours ago, Dan O said:

Its stems from the need to have the labor force semi coherent and going to work rather than sitting around pissed all day. Its not effective but gives the Thai appearance of doing something which is normal

If that's the case why is it illegal from 2pm to 5pm and not 11am to 2pm (lunchtime)? 

17 hours ago, Cardano said:

And this just shows the pathectic mentality level of the average Thai! arguing that B2000 is too high a price to pay for breaking the law but B400 to B500 is okay. God help this country because Buddha's thrown the towel in.

To the average Thai person who gave a thumbs down, thank you for proving my point regarding your mentality!!

You've not mentioned how the wife and her cousin are going to pay you back the 3 million, so one can only assume it will be from the sale of the existing property. If that is the case and the existing property has more than 3 million in equity then they could get a secured loan from the bank to purchase the new property.

On 5/28/2025 at 6:07 PM, recom273 said:

 

I don't believe that is the only viable option, there seems to be plenty of other options, for example, using a financial advisor will limiting the tax payable, as mentioned above, opening offshore accounts may help with dealing with TRD and HMRC, along with international SIPPS may suit my purpose.

Ok believe what you want, if you think you can sort it out from Thailand good luck.

Samitivej Hospital on Sukhumvit 49 have a dedicated endoscopy department using the latest Japanese technology. It is very popular and gets quite busy so you need to make an appointment.

On 5/25/2025 at 12:10 PM, Blueman1 said:

If you have a way to see your itemized charges it would be interesting to know what happened. After I make an int'l call I always look at my itemized charges and so far I haven't had any issues. I Actually Went to the AIS Shop & Got them to Check,The Guy TOLD Me I Hadn't put the 003 in before I Dialled....What a Load of Rubbish,I'm NOT That Stupid.....Also NOTE That with the 003 Code You CANNOT Make 0800 Numbers to The U.K. Just comes up as " EMPTY Number when dialling ....003800 Then the Number !!

probably because you need to put 44 (country code) before the 800

On 4/8/2025 at 5:40 AM, jerrymahoney said:

CIGNA policies offer $1 million PER YEAR in coverage. Do self-insurers set aside that much?

How many people can you name that needed to claim $1 million in a year, even in the US the average annual claim is less than $600 per year, go figure.

On 4/6/2025 at 7:27 AM, Ben Zioner said:

And you do that with all insurances? Car, house, sports, loss of income..

Some insurances' are mandatory the rest are optional.

On 4/6/2025 at 1:45 AM, BigBilly said:

Who cares?  When you self insure, you don't buy insurance, but instead set aside cash of at least the same amount of the insurance policy maximum coverage.

 

Certainly a winning strategy if you can comfortably afford to set aside that much cash.

Even better if you stick that cash in to investments, which is exactly what the health insurance companies do with your premiums.