sometimewoodworker

I am tax resident in Thailand. I still have my active RBS account, they have my Thai address. Your question could be “is it possible to open a U.K. account while not being a U.K. resident” the answer to that is technically yes, but in practice virtually impossible unless you are a high net worth individual, so in reality no it is not usually possible.

Sadly, or conversely to our great financial benefit, you are responsible for virtually everything. A main fuse box/consumer unit in Thailand costs from as little as ฿2,000 while doing the same job in the U.K. for a one bedroom flat was only ฿64,800 So in Thailand, including a top of the line AC and CU you will pay less than half the U.K. cost for the CU only. A qualified electrician with all the correct equipment and 3 people just cost less than ฿20,000 to retrofit 24 x triple outlets (including (HäCO fittings about 1 ½ days work and half a day’s maintenance and travel expenses. In the U.K. or US that would have cost 4 times the amount, I could have got the same total amount done by a Thai bodger for half the cost less with lower quality sockets.

I agree that they are quiet in normal mode, however in quilt mode the only way I know mine is running are the lights on it and our bedroom is virtually silent.

It would seem that English is not your native or second language, so it is quite difficult to understand what points you are trying to make. The NI contributions are governed by rules of residence and income, so you have to pay based on those rules, you don’t get to choose. U.K. Taxation depends on residence in the U.K. or income from the U.K. so isn’t usually a choice for most people. Contacting the DWP by letter may take a few weeks for a response, I haven’t used email so I don’t know how long that takes, contacting them by phone depends on the time of day and how busy they are, however when I call it has always been a few minutes before talking to someone. So I have no idea where your vastly exaggerated response time comes from, did you confuse months and minutes?

No advice, suggestions to investigate.

If you are doing a coding class that rather suggests that you should be rather less than intellectually challenged. So is that correct? A couple of seconds will get you to WU’s website with all the answers.

My RBoS account knows I am resident in Thailand as my address is in Udon. They probably keep the account open as they receive several payments a month from the U.K. Interesting idea, will do, thank you. I use Wise to transfer, though I have not yet told them I emigrated. I have a debit card, suspect it is only available to residents in Europe. That was my suggestion above though it’s pointless to just have a bank account. Do not use Wise for a large transfer, it’s much more expensive than SWIFT. You do not have enough to invest it in Singapore. However I have just called my investment advisor in HongKong to confirm. They have a minimum amount to open an investment account of £250,000. If you are interested I can confirm contact details by PM. My advisor speaks perfect English and he can call you to discuss if their services are a good fit. As far as I know I gain nothing from the referral.

Could easily be the case, I have no use for sending money outside Thailand so don’t know the economical ways. SWIFT will work but too expensive, western union used to be expensive, I’ve heard it’s cheaper now, it’s very commonly used by Filipinas and Filipinos to receive money

It is possible that Deemoney (I don’t know the exact spelling as I don’t use them) may be able to help.

Whatever you do do not close your UK bank account because you will never be able to open a new one unless you are resident in the UK. There are competent wealth management companies who can advise you on sensible investments that are low risk and incur no UK tax. You can expect about a 5% ROI. That is what I am getting on a low risk portfolio You can do better if you want to work on the investments, you may do much worse. My 5% is an average from around 15 years so I am reasonably confident that it will continue to maintain that ROI. With the sale of the house of your house, you may possibly have enough to leave some money in the UK bank account and have enough to get a wealth management company probably in Hong Kong who can assist the reason for using Hong Kong is that you need less money to open an account through them. If the amount you got from your house is enough you can open an account in Singapore that does the same thing though to open a Singapore account. You need a minimum of 1 million Singapore dollars (£600,000 ฿26,000,000) to invest

You can not use a Thai account to fund a Wise transfer. Transfers in Baht are incoming only . You can fund it from your USA account, you can also use a US credit card or debit card, each method has costs, the credit card is the most expensive. All the information you need is available from the wise website. Wise also has a call centre if there is something that is not clear as well as chat and email

Talk to the AIS call center. A work permit is not an absolute requirement for a post paid SIM I don’t have a work permit and have both a prepaid AIS number and a prepaid AI number.

No the iPhones in Thailand only support a single physical sim but up to about 16 e-sims. the only iPhones that support dual physical sims are the Chinese ones. Virtually all of the Thai providers can transfer a physical sim (pre-paid or post paid) into an e-sim. I can guarantee that AIS will do it. Probably True will also. In Thailand you have to go to the company store to get the sim changed, this is because you MUST have registered the number with your passport or yellow book/pink card

This rather depends on the way the lock is implemented. The best and easiest way is to contact Telstra and ask them. If that doesn’t work it is possible that some of the suggestions above may work, it is also possible that you will just brick the phone by trying them.

Virtually every shopping mall has them, just look for the used phone shops.

@NoshowJones A thumb drive is a thumb sized USB drive. While you certainly can do that process and it will work, my preferred method is to use either VLC (it’s free) or GoodReader (a paid app) and to download the movies onto the iPad directly. 1 movie is likely to be between 800Mb and 2Gb possibly less. The advantage of moving the files onto the iPad is that any USB drive can get knocked and easily damaged, also that you can transfer the files via WiFi (though it’s not so fast) also you can use an older iPad rather than needing a USB C one

Virtually the same for me, though the majority of the time was waiting for the lady to type on the computer. 2 items signed 1 a paper with no special information, the other a copy of my passport and bank book

You misunderstand the Japanese used market. It’s the opposite of the Thai market, used products in Japan have very low value so the ¥3,500 for that keyboard is actually quite a high price. So, so cheap? Not really and bargain basement? Definitely not. Take a walk around the back streets near akihabara junko street on a Sunday morning and you will see real bargin basement items virtually all totally functional, branded mice and keyboards at ฿22 (¥100) so a keyboard at ¥3,500 is really expensive. That looks like remapping individual keys. But you want the function to use a different keyboard, that will adjust everything so the new (to you) keyboard functions. That remaps the whole layout Having spent a few decades in Japan I do have a bit of an understanding and you are looking in the wrong place, but you may also need a bilingual windows installation. As I said what is a trivial minutes change on Mac can take hours on windows, and as such you may decide that the work isn’t worth doing.

There is also the virtual standard that wiring is almost always either vertical or horizontal from fittings so the best option is to choose a different place for fasteners, that is certainly something you can do. Of course because TIT there is nothing to have stopped the builders from using any other orientation. Choosing to drill vertically or horizontally from a fitting multiplies you chance of hitting a cable exponentially.

Why not from Apple’s online shop? Free shipping, free returns, also guaranteed original zero interest 10 month instalments etc.

@Kenny202 There exists a system of changing keyboard mapping in windows, (I may have known how 25 years ago) that you happen to be using an Apple keyboard is of virtually no interest to the windows system. Within the MacOS keyboard remapping is a trivial exercise and is done on the fly as are virtually all language changes since they are virtually all integrated into the core OS. Windows is not remotely as versatile and requires a complete system install for many language options. You will have a better chance of finding a widows tech who can easily tell you how if you first do not add information of the origin of the keyboard (it’s irrelevant) and second ask in a computer software oriented forum. Asiannow is a rather poor choice as the numbers of subject matter experts is extremely small. There are many forums with vastly more users who can answer your questions, though not the best as it’s not specialised, Reddit, if you can find which subreddit to post in, will probably give an almost instant answer.

It’s rather strange to ask windows questions on a dedicated Apple products forum. Better to ask in a different forum as you are likely to have more information available.

You reduce the heat that is transmitted to the board. Best is reflective silver, but as you probably can’t get that then a quality white paint. Again the best you probably can’t get is a correctly formulated barium chloride paint but you can make it. FWIW PLYWOOD isn’t a good insulation material.

No it’s cheap lightweight, closer to chipboard https://www.thaimdf.com HMR or HDF is probably closer to the quality you need.

There are various qualities of MDF that is a particularly low quality version, it is far closer to chipboard, the particles are big and it is probably quite lightweight (relatively) These are better. go to a quality supplier, virtually all are in Bangkok, and find the most expensive (it’s still quite cheap) sheets the have that are the heaviest they have.