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If the mom and the kid are living with you in Chiang Mai, move their house registration. You said you gave the officers the papers, but I don't believe you said wife and kid were present.

Is there any requirement that the child must live with the parent?

51% of the bar? Or his ex?

Really, dude? You can't come up with 200k baht to pay off your ex? That's a measly $5,571.20 and you can't find that in the sofa cushions? Well, count me in, buddy! You're just the kinda guy I wanna go into bid'nis with! Where do I sign?

Get a serious bike shop to install the engine and handle the paperwork.

Mom and granny should be residing in granny's house. No rent to pay. Water will be 100 baht per month, electricity if they have AC around 1000. Mom might be selling at the market or flogging used clothing on Facebook so there should be some income. Granny raises veggies and chickens. A couple thousand for basic foodstuffs. Are the kidlets in school, and is there tuition due? 45,000 baht/month? That's a lotta lottery tickets and spa treatments and hotel stays with special brothers. Tell her you want a detailed list of monthly expenses. Then cap it at 5,000 monthly.

Silly man! He could set up bank accounts for visa scammers to provide fraudulent documentation to immigration officials and get 15,000 baht for his trouble.

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1. Is your account frozen? Can you log in online? Can you transfer small amounts (5 baht) between your own accounts? 2. Go to your bank branch. Find out if (and then why) your account was frozen. Unfreeze it. Get the details of the alleged 5000 baht deduction. 3. You have the bank details of the person you owe. They can not pull from your account, and you seem to be worried about a transfer. So don't transfer directly. Walk into a branch of their bank and deposit into their account. No need to link your account for a 'lectronic transfer. Then you'll have a paper deposit slip to photograph and email as proof of payment.

Poutine is a dish of french fries and cheese curds topped with a brown gravy. Something I'd expect Vincent to remark on after he explained what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in Ottawa.

Apparently he had insurance, totally adequate insurance. He simply chose to ignore the contract.

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I wouldn't worry about luxury villas sitting empty. 306,000 Beijing millionaires might want to escape the traffic congestion and cold winters. They like shrimp.

Don't have the answer to that question. But if it's exercise in the outdoors you're looking for, why not rent a paddle-boat and ride around the lake for a couple hours. Celebrate Chinese New Year - year of the dragon - amongst the 2-meter long monitor lizards.

Dammit, Jim! I'm an aerospace engineer, not a paleontologist!

They left 3 KG of sushi on the table.

How about driver education, compulsory seatbelts and helmets, cops on the streets enforcing laws? That would cut about 100K needless deaths. Add their potential offspring and you're halfway there already.

The Chinese are capable of manufacturing quality products, but that's not what WE want. Not that many Chinese are here or in western countries flogging cheap junk. It's western buyers that travel to China, or shop on Alibaba, and demand the cheapest products with little attention to quality. Factory manager can offer higher quality at a higher pricepoint, but the buyer will just mosey on over to the next factory to find something cheaper to fill the dollar store shelves.

Maybe Thais see it differently? A group of us drove over to Tijuana for a weekend, one of the guys bought a cheap sombrero and serape from a tourist stand to wear around town. He was incredibly popular with the locals..........folks all over were pointing and yelling "Aye, Pancho! Pancho Villa! You come back to us!"

In the meantime, we did install the water hammer arrester v1.0 using the pressure tank from the water pump. While doing so we found that the pump was NOT bolted down as we thought. There were bolts, but only to the metal base plate. New bolts added. I also cut and capped a PVC line allowing the pump to pull directly from the mains. This appears to reduce the water hammer by half. There is still some hammer noise, but it can't be heard from inside the house. I don't know if this is normal for el cheapo pumps. Since we're now not using the pump, I won't bother trying to adjust air pressure or experimenting with the arrester v1.2

The problem has unexpectedly resolved itself. Previously, the village water had a higher flow/pressure than the city water. Assumed that was because we were at the end of the city line. That is not the case. When digging up the lines outside the wall, we found a metal shut-off valve on the city line, just before it spliced into the village water. That valve was heavily corroded and stuck at about 3/4 closed. Now with a direct line from the city, bypassing the pump, we have enough pressure to operate the on-demand water heaters. I was about to switch over to village water to see if we're getting higher pressure/flow from that system now, but both the city and village have just shut off water for this area, unannounced. We still have the water pump connected, so can pull water from the storage tank when needed. We'll probably re-plumb so the pump can be set to send water out to the garden faucets. We can use that for tree-watering and keep the water in the tank fresh.

Consider Cambodia. On the border to Laos, the immigration officials demand a $5 stamp fee for each tourist, in addition to the official visa fee. Multiply that by thousands of tourists daily, and you understand how so many low-ranking officers are cruising around in Lexus SUV's. This is standard practice, and I'm Shirley the higher-ups know about it and are getting their cut. There will be resistance.

Relax! Don't get your elephant pants in a wad. What will you do when the Chinese reclaim THEIR cultural heritage? Dated to at least 3,200 years old, the Turfan Man’s trousers are believed to be the oldest pair of trousers yet discovered https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pants-oldest-ancient-horseman-asia-culture-origin

Try another bank, or a different branch of the same bank. It could be the manager or the clerks at that particular location aren't aware of the procedures for opening accounts for foreigners. It could be (if you're a US citizen) they don't want to deal with IRS requirements.

Tanks are dirty? Sure, if you leave them uncovered or never clean them. All water systems leak. Mains pressure keeps the yucky stuff out. If you pull the pressure down, the yucky stuff will get sucked in through the cracks. Pesticides, sewage, motor oil..... I've got an automatic model with an attached 2-liter pressure tank, which has a schraeder valve to adjust pressure. This may be of use, has some comments about other pump types.