DrTuner

4 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

If you really want residency status it is available but you have to speak Thai and have paid tax for three years. Again, and as discussed before, this is really only for those of us desirous of immigrating here and assimilating. It is not for those that pour scorn on the locals at every opportunity, refuse to integrate and can't speak a lick of the local language.

I partly agree, but international investors are usually wealthy and don't care about integrating to where ever they put their money into. They can afford to build a lifestyle that suits them. They do care about access to their investments, though.

If you read the PR requirements, the 10M investment category does not mention the 3y tax requirement. It's something that was added on top ad hoc. The original idea might have worked.

Transparency, the most dirty word in existence for usurpers. 

Nothing will be done.

36 minutes ago, MrMo said:

Why not if they buy a house ?   They can do so,   Just can't own the land on which it stands.

Sounds like a most excellent way of .. losing the house when the lease runs out. 

It's blindingly obvious and has been for ages that Thais do not want permanent residents. They want the foreigners on short leash so they can kick 'em out, or as it is with covid, keep them out. Naturally while keeping the money that came to Thailand. Thais can try to sugar coat it and do diversion tactics, but smoke screens only work for the dumb.

On 10/31/2020 at 9:49 AM, SomchaiCNX said:

Out of stock already, so yes these are popular.

You can only rip out the emergency slidesand life vests from so many airplanes. If the flights ever do get in the air again, they'll be teaching you how to do breast stroke to swim back to the shore.

It's the diet. Subsisting on sticky rice is not same as stuffing the face with sugary processed foods full of who knows what.

13 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Which is why subsequently obtaining citizenship is probably the way to go. 

 

Not for everybody and it takes time but once you get that Thai ID card you've got your foot in the door. 

Citizenship could possibly give a bit more assurance. However not available for passive investors - need to work & pay taxes. And PR still needs a work permit, so it's only a small step forward. Those of us who are married to Thais don't need the PR at all to go for citizenship, if they can fill the tax part.

For investors, which they are after with these schemes, still not good enough.

Take Cyprus, a EU country: 500k€ (IIRC) in property for PR in Schengen, 2M€ for EU passport.

1 hour ago, saminoz said:

Part of this is that Thais want to buy new houses.  They are, for some reason, often loathe to buy second-hand.  Maybe they are scared of the ghosties!

They know the quality of the somchai builders. A house built by them only lasts a few years before all the shoddy plumbing, electrical work and roofing starts to give.

Even the PR requires a visit to police every 5 years. What guarantees it is truly permanent? TiT, safe to assume nothing that is promised is delivered as promised.

20 hours ago, Leaver said:

They near to put signs up in Chinese, something like, "If you pee pee in the water, it will attract sharks."  ????

They'd just hack the fins away and eat them. Opposite effect of what was wanted. Maybe say there are US submarines in the area.

It's much easier to chop off their legs to make sure they don't move at all.

Since the obvious goal is to keep them away at all costs while looking like doing something.

I'm going for classics this weekend, this trilogy:

I'd guess about 8000 - the rest of those desperate enough to jump through the hoops and willing to be treated like  a prisoner, complete with a GPS tracker. Real tourists - zero.

8 hours ago, jollyhangmon said:

 

... ewww, what's that, ectoplasmatic slime all over them trees? No doubt of alien (as in extraterrestrial) origin, so I wouldn't go there either ... 

 

9 minutes ago, philba said:

 A cum pier ????

Alien ladyboys.

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

So, in other words, you're not going to address the specifics of the programs the democrats want to enact. Rather you're going to stick with the features of an individual. Because someone is old, he or she can't share the same values and goals as young people? Even when those values are clearly delineated? That's nonsensical. You're just evading the fact the Biden's and the Democrats' proposals are much more closely aligned with the values and goals of the majority of young people than are the Republicans.

Yup, that's how I roll. I ain't going to Yai to ask how to program in Erlang, either. There's a clear gap between Silent Generation and Gen Z, the world has changed enormously in the last couple of decades. Still, given the choice between Trump and Biden I'm fairly sure most millenials and younger will go for Biden. They don't have a candidate closer to their age.

Northerthly winds. Not too hard to guess where the smog comes from.

The price would likely go down with mass adoption. It's useful tech.

double ( please bring back the edit next to quote )
 

36 minutes ago, placeholder said:

I've never understood this beauty contest business. I guess in the case of Trump it kind of makes sense since he really doesn't have a coherent program. But Biden actually has a set of concrete proposals. If the Democrats gain the House and Senate, most likely they'll get enacted. Try focussing more on the program, less on the person.

Not a beauty contest, it's the generational issue. While millenials are just about the most useless generation ever and I could care less about them, I'm rooting for Gen Z, my kids. I have high doubts people in their golden years represent them.