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A year or two? Are you sure? This was promised to be finished last year and then people said that it should be finished in the first half of this year with the train to BKK taking about 2.5 hours. Is this not the case any longer?

About 2.4 million people in Thailand have sought hospital treatment for medical problems linked to air pollution since the start of 2023, health officials said, as toxic smog chokes parts of the country. Bangkok and the northern city of Chiang Mai were among the most polluted cities in the world on Thursday morning, according to air quality monitoring company IQAir. There were 184,465 hospital admissions this week alone, Public Health Department Permanent Secretary Opas Karnkawinpong said on Wednesday. https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-air-pollution-leads-millions-to-seek-medical-help

1) Is your smog "locally produced" or is this coming down from Bangkok? 2) And what do you get the PM2.5 level down to with an air purifier indoors when it is this bad? (This says you have an AQI outside of 158 at the moment: https://aqicn.org/station/thailand/prachuap-khiri-khan/gaia-10). Thanks.

Somebody on fb posted she told the BOI she did not have a tax return since she was not living in any single country long enough to become tax resident and the BOI accepted this

... and very dangerous country with high crime rates

The problem is not only the politicians, but also the people, a large part of the population, which does not care: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/12/how-chiang-mai-became-the-worlds-most-polluted-city

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/12/how-chiang-mai-became-the-worlds-most-polluted-city

Look up the total number of road deaths per annum in Thailand via Google, divide by 365 and compare with the Songkran / New Year numbers. I actually did this sometime in the past and indeed the numbers are not really much inflated compared to the rest of the year

The number of road deaths is of course a total disgrace. But about 80% of the deaths are motorcyclists. So as long as you only drive by car, then things actually do not look so bad. Worse than Western countries, but not off the charts

The AQI in the U.S. where this whole thing was first invented is only defined until 500, presumably because people did not imagine that values would go higher: (https://www.airnow.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/aqi-technical-assistance-document-sept2018.pdf)

Not any longer after the huge influx of Russians apparently

Not true. Hua Hin also had significant bad air this year

You mean they are not legally enforceable?

So why don't you wait until transferring your pension money to Thailand, do it only in each following year and avoid the tax in Thailand?

Do they charge for the receipt of SMS abroad?

Thank you. And what do you do if you for example were to visit your home country for a couple of months so you could not do this? Really then either live with the mold or have somebody come into your place for ventilation regularly I assume (which for privacy reasons I would not really like)?

So that means when renting an apartment in Phuket long-term it would be difficult to leave it unattended for a month or two while traveling outside Thailand?

Installed Win 11 some time ago and downgraded again because various third-party programs did not properly work.

How did you manage to do this?

Not really as true as you think... "Conclusion This study does not support the strong theoretical claims of marital protection and suggests that marriage exerts a mix of protective and adverse effects on health." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12784

Malaysia still has a lot of rain forests, so no farmer there wants to burn something. Also in parts now rainy season and flooding

Military hospital for military guy

In spite of the less than stellar performance of the LTR visa in terms of applications and visas issued, the BOI is apparently still maintaining its '1 million LTR visas issued in 5 years' goal ... https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/visa/thailand-still-pushing-its-unattractive-ltr-10-year-visa

Do you know where you got it? It is currently far out of the rainy season which is why I am asking.

So you will NOT be able to get SMS abroad if you have not activated roaming abroad prior to leaving Thailand? And are SMS received abroad then free of charge to receive, please?