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Travel lighter .... hand luggage only .... a good solution when you have a home here

Hopefully they will accept that the property in question is my UK home ....purchased for that purpose originally by my partner some 40 years ago. Jointly owned for 5 years and now solely owned after her death. It is my legal residential address in the UK.

I used them ... they were excellent

Maybe I will transfer a small chunk first . then get my accountant to get a ruing from RD about its status as an inbound capital transfer ... by providing transfer details including evidence of the source of the funds as an existing overseas asset rather than income. If they are unfriendly and deem it 'income' ... it is only a small tax problem and I will not bring the rest into the country. If they rule (correctly) that it is an asset transfer and not taxable income, I can use that ruling to support the tax treatment of the rest of the inbound funds.

Lets hope you are right. Next year I plan to bring in a large lump of capital (proceeds of sale of a property with no capital gains tax issues) and invest inside Thailand ... if they want to treat that transfer as income, it will not happen.

Not unique to Thai exchanges. Bitfinex did that to me a couple of years ago.

Celibacy is not fully risk free - you might get hit by a bus /sarc

Many Thai girls use the "morning after" pill to prevent pregnancy

That is all true - but only if the person with HIV (measures as HIV+) has a detectable viral load (different test). Properly treated HIV get the viral load down to become undetectable - the correctly treated person is no longer infectious. At the same time, getting treated always means the person also gets much more aware of the need for adherence to the regime of daily pills, and living a healthier lifestyle. Kisses, scratches, condoms etc are not important. Testing <<<<, treating and having an undetectable viral load are the key here.