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Would you contribute to a beggar's GoFund me page?

So you'd be ok if Thai tourists started visiting your country and were begging on a daily basis?

Well there is a requirement for visiting foreigners to have a certain amount of money &/or enough money to support themselves, and if they are tourists, where's their follow-on airplane/travel ticket? It's not just Thailand that feels this way, many countries have the same requirement.

Those falang backpack beggars have been in/around Bangkok for decades, always seem to be same Khaosan road types.

If you don't know much about buying used cars, I'd suggest buying one from the "certified' used car sales places on Sukhumvit. Certified cars are inspected by mechanics and come with a warranty. https://www.toyotasure.com/home/used-car/ชลบุรี?filterlogid=1190605&isnewcars=false&ismostview=false https://usedcar.honda.co.th/about.php

Looks like the OP situation has been corrected, but there is something call "greedflation" that many companies are doing these days, basically they are raising their prices just because other companies are raising their prices. The term 'greedflation' refers to a price rise introduced by companies to take advantage of inflation and boost their profit margin, even if they do not need to. Production costs have not risen enough for price increases to be justified. I know a farang business owner here in Pattaya that sells food, when I asked him about rising prices, he just smiled and said, other businesses rising their prices, allow him to raise his prices even though his overhead costs haven't gone up.

The OP would be better off trying for a ED visa with a school that more interested in collecting school fees than attendance.

Why do people that detest Pattaya so much choose to read about it? There's cities in the USA that I have no interest in or desire to visit, would it make sense if I followed those cities local news outlets and then went on their local forums and complained? Wouldn't that make a masochist?

I know that final destination, it's out in the sticks. That farang should worry about some Thai drivers getting some payback.

Yes, after a few months of me doing monthly transfers and feeling sure about how to do it, I started using that money for other things. One small mistake I learned about was; that time I was using that one bank account for daily shopping, cash w/d, bill payments, etc. and I didn't update my bank book right after the overseas transfer and after several weeks, all my payments, deposits, w/d got consolidated and the FTT code wasn't in my bankbook but easily obtainable from the bank. Now I have 2 bank accounts, one only for the monthly transfers, and the other for daily transactions, less photocopying during visa extension time.

In the past, I've bought wood at Home Pro and they cut it to the size I needed, no extra charge. Maybe stop in and ask them.

Check those stopovers carefully, I almost book one where it had a 27 hour layover.

I just finished my extension based on retirement last week, and when I showed the IO my bank letter with the 12 months of transfers, he asked me where does this money come from, pension or other? I replied pension, and he asked for a letter showing, luckily I was able to produce it.

About 3 years ago I switched from parking my money in a Thai bank, to doing monthly international transfers using Wise. The way I did it was about two-three months before my annual extension using the money in the bank method, I started doing FTT transfers (just to learn the system), then once my money in the bank extension was approved, I let it sit there for a few more months but continued the monthly transfers. The following year, about 3 weeks prior to my extension, I requested the bank letters (they take 5-7 business days) and got my extensions from then on, no problems.

Unless they were wearing police uniforms, I doubt they were actual cops.

I read from another source, he jumped off this building several times before, and he had a friend on the ground filming this jump.

I don't need a cordoned off area to see if the ground is safe to walk on or not.

Older, fatter, uglier women (and men) are always more desperate.

Test it out on the cats, 555.

Same here. if I have the time to listen to their fake sales pitch, after their 1-2 minute presentation, I'll string them along as long as possible with a series of "OKs, Yes, Mm uhs, Wait (in Thai)) or long pauses, they end up hanging up on me, 555.

And how do you know the feelings of the "majority of Thai people" when it comes to someone assaulting their children?

If this happened to my son, I'd have a hard time not finding a way to retaliate.

Another negative Pattaya story with Brits involved? Here's a question for you armchair experts, what's the breakdown by nationality (Brits, Aussie, German, Russian, etc) in Pattaya?

Perhaps as well as you read Thai.

My wife doesn't read AN, but we will discuss some topics that she sees on the news and I read on the internet or AN.