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Messaging 'gateways' need configuring on your phone - they should have done this in the shop when you bought it. Easiest way is to visit one of their shops and get them to put the settings in. If you want to send photos via message there's a setting for that as well - no idea how it works but it is specific to each network. 100% on this by the way - if it's not done then it won't work either properly or at all but for me in the past it only affected MMS messages when changing provider.

Half a million in what?

I set it to 22 C, turn it on an hour before I go to bed and then leave it on for the entire time I'm asleep which is usually between 6 and 8 hours. I use a duvet to keep warm but I like my head cold. In a way I'm recreating the same environment I was used to in Europe.

And here we go....

@Mike Lister I got a bank loan from a foreign bank and paid into a foreign bank account this week, I will wire the proceeds of this loan here to live off for some time - lets say until beyond the end of 2024. Assessable income or not? Bear in mind that people often remortgage property which is merely a secured loan and use the proceeds to live off or purchase something else - like a second home. I don't have a TIN and would like to avoid ever getting one, that's another longer story which involves leaving the country for 6 months during a year when I both 'earn' and submit a far larger sum of money.

This is normal.

Service the Aircons in March and make use of them.

The odd thing about this is that the money declaration is usually done on the way into the country. But some countries do have restrictions on the amount of cash you can take out of the country without making a declaration, maybe this is what they were checking for. Regardless of this - is it a customs/excise officers job to do this or a simple security guard at a scanner? It's odd because their job is to check for weapons and other items not allowed to be taken 'airside'. The cash sniffing dogs are very real in the UK, if you get caught with even just a few thousand without proof of withdrawal they can seize it - you will get it back eventually if you can prove withdrawal from a bank, etc. The lesson to learn is to keep receipts from any withdrawals and you're good.

Indeed, they are under massive scrutiny for bery good reasons. The Alaska incident is just the tip of the iceberg here. They have some serious problems at that company. I don't know how such a company can go from producing a solid and sound product for decades to planes literally falling apart because some idiot didn't tighten the bolts correctly - which they also found on many other planes based on what I read.

I use it every day, have done for many years

They pay for the change of name with proof, it's not about getting a driving license which requires proof of id 🙄

Yes I guess, also he spent his life in finance, I think he'd had enough of it by the time he retired to tell the truth.

My 'retirement target' is a kind of moving thing, but a few years ago I reckoned I could pretty much do anything for the rest of my life on about $2m, but more would be welcome and 100-150m Baht seems very reasonable for a worry free life in a nice house or two with plenty of room for more investment income than most people dream about earning during their working life. I'll do it as well. Settling for 7.3% pa is very conservative - there's plenty of room for a little more risk with some percentage of your funds - all depends on how you invest it of course. I know a guy with about $10m and it's all in US treasuries 🙄

Interesting, did you undergo antibody testing for all variants?

I heard it gets you hardest when you've had it before, even if you didn't realise that you've had it before - which is a thing.

Can't the parties just make a new coalition and form a new government. If all the coalition partners support this scheme (and I don't belive they do) then they continue as they are. The clocks ticking on this delicate coalition. What is it - 9 separate parties - it was doomed from the outset in my opinion - too many different parties.

What about abused prescription only drugs like Opiates?

-5000 - so you somehow became overdrawn - that's a negative balance right?

I know I got a letter issued along with my new passport which is somehow required to get the current entry AND extension stamp moved over to the new passport. I'm not sure if that letter is only regarded as being valid for a certain amount of time. But I will say - probably best to do the transfer sooner than later once you get the new passport as you never know what's going to happen at immigration when you go.....

A wise decision, always allow room for the unexpected.

Too late to get a new passport now, they will almost certainly just issue the visa up until the expiration date of your passport. So do this first, then get a new passport some time this year, move the appropriate stamps over to your new passport and your new extension date will change in 2025. I had this issue with a Thailand Elite visa, in hindsight I really wish I had renewed my passport at the time even though it still had about 2.5 years left on it because it was a real pain for me to do it the lazy way. Unless of course you live in a country which still produces passports and issues them in the local embassy.....

Apparently so.

Yes, there's been a number of reports of people being mysteriously arrested at the airport before they made it onto the plane. Did they all have no money to pay the fine or are the Phuket Police intercepting these passengers before they get to immigration? Or are immigration simply making up the law as they go, saying oh - that's far too many days to just pay a fine - so off to prison you go?

I wonder if it's the fabled 'Thairannosaurus Rex' 😁

That's expensive, it's 3000 Baht per KG. The 8000 Baht 'fine' suggests they over ordered and had 2.6 KG of uneaten food which is a massive amount of food. What are we talking here? Chicken feet soup or steak & lobster?