Dean1953

<br />It is the nearest hospital from where I live but I would not use it anymore.<br /><br />For first aid maybe, for the rest absolutely not.<br /><br /><br /><br />

<br /><br /><br /> My wife gave birth to our son there (by recomendation) and I was very happy with the doctor and his staff. I paid by cash and got a 5,000 baht discount over the bill, as it was printed out. I may go there next week for a complete physical while I'm back in Chaing Mai .

I have a 4 bedroom, three bath lanna style teak house on one rai near Bosang. I moved back to the U.S. for probably 6 years while my three step children finish high school. I would like to rent house out, depending on what I could get for it. I'll be back in C.M. from March 6-12 and would like to meet with some real estate agents that have a proven record of being able to rent houses. I realize that, with the economy, this isn't the best time to try to rent a large house but I don't want to waste any time listing it with companies that just want the listing and don't actively try to rent the property. Can anyone recommend a good real estate agent ? Thanks!

I have only had the occasion to use the consulate in Chiang Mai a couple of times; to add passport pages, to noterize something and to get a passport and american "birth certificate" for my son. I wish they handled permanent residency visas, even if only one day a month, as having to go to Bangkok with my wife and 4 kids several times was a major pain both in time and money spent.

You are right about my technical prowess. I never touch anything electrical or plumming, unless it it simple, like putting in a toilet or changing a wall socket. Since I won't be there, I want to make sure that it is installed properly and no prolems arise weeks after I go back to the states (I'm only in C.M. this time for 4-5 days). Not that itis technical but I did dig the trenches for the pvc pipe, which took me a week at 4 hours a day. Thanks again for the information.

Last August, I had an underground sprinkler system put in at my house in Bosong. The first person hired didn't know what he was doing, so I got the plummer who did my house to put in pvc pipe and I had my sister send rainbird sprinklers. I didn't have time to find a sprinkler controller/timer before I moved back to the U.S. for a few years, so it was set up to operate manually. I have bought a Hunter sprinkler timer while in the U.S. (that runs on 240 voltage) and will bring it back with me next month. I would prefer this time to find someone to install it that has experience doing this. Last August, when I was trying to find someone to do the sprinkler system, I went by the Tesco Lotus which has the retail nursery next to it and there are some shops that do sprinkler systems but they were out harvesting in August. Does anyone know someone that they can recommend to hook up a timer to a manual sprinkler system/ Thanks!

Not that it will affect me for a few years, since I moved back the U.S. in October, but I did have a retirement visa with my Thai wife and kept it for a few years while living in Chiang Mai because the offices in Chiang Mai issued retirement visas but not marriage visas (I would have had to go to Bangkok for one). Has this changed?

Lets get all the flights back to Swampy and then the red shirts can have a go this time

From what I've heard, the next time the red shirts have a go, the Thai government will take a page from the movie "Blazing Sadles" and bring cardboard airplanes and people to populate D.M. airport and let the red shirts have a go there.

Star Visa is next to American Consulate, where you could probably also get the copy noterized., if you are American

I've only had two dealings with them. In July, 2006, I had a motorcycle accident and broke my upper arm and tore some ligaments. I was taken to McCormack hospital for the immediate treatment and they missed the large open hole below my elbow abd didn't clean it. I went to BNH in Bangkok to have an MRI done and was told to have surgery on the arm to repair it ($9,000 total). I went to Ram hospital and the orthopedic surgeon there recommended re-habing the arm myself (this dignostisis was repeated by another orthopedic surgeon in C.M.). I followed the advise of the doctor at Ram hospital and the arm is now fine. The second time, I wnet to Ram Hospital for the paperwork involved in getting permanent residnecy visas for my wife and her 3 kids. While the shots were exhorbandant, I don't think I could have gotten a cheaper price, as most of the price is the medication in the shots. I hope that helps.

A friend of my wife drives a tut-tut in C.M. Rune (the tut-tut driver) speaks good english and is dependable. She also worked with my wife as a massuge outside of a temple at T.P. Gate, where I met them. She still does that on the side, so you could have a tut-tut ride back home and then a massage. PM me if you want her phone number

I can get all the religious stations that I care for. I have talked to Dynasat employees when they have a booth set up outside of a large Tesco store. I learned how to put in the code that they give me but it usually only last 2-3 days. Its going to be a couple of months before comong back but I have seen the Dreambox DM500 with remote control for $160.00 in U.S. I'm going to assume that it would be more expensive in Thailand. Hopefully, if the box need to be programed, I can find someone, maybe even the person that sold me my Dynasat system, to do it for me.

I finally found an excuse to become a member of thaivisa. I (actually my wife) built a house jusst outside of Bosang. I was talked into purchasing a dynasat system that uses the F1 box and I can move the dish to pick up around 20 sat. systems. In actuality, I only look at KU aguilla and one out of Malaysia when KU aguilla doesn't work, which is often. I have had it since Feb. 2007 and for the first 4 months, it worked alright. It didn't work after sunset and on rainy/cloudy days. I purchased it from a local in Bosang that doesn't speak much English (and I don't speak much Thai) and for the first year, he came within 5-6 days after I called him to tell him I wasn't picking anything up (I'd wait usually at least 2 weeks before calling him to see if the box would re-set itself) and he could re-set it usually. For the past 9-10 months, its been getting worse, and the few times that I was able to get the person that I bought the system from to my house, he wasn't able to get it fixed (or put in the right code). I haven't even bothered to turn it on for at least 2 months. I am in the U.S. and could buy the DM500 dreambox now. Or wait 6 months and see if a semi-permanent solution becomes available. At least I know (or hope) that I don't have a completely worthless dynasat system and that there are alternatives in the Chiang Mai area to using my local dealer in Bosang.