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Mate, you have 1.5K posts - you should know by now that you don't have to justify anything to anyone here. Although it sounds absolutely perfect! It's great to read your reasons. Lots of people dont know the value of a perfectly square plot for starters. I'm pretty sure you know what title, I think you already know you can't own land here and are buying it for your wife and family, just as I bought mine. When we bought our pieces, people said, "that's expensive - maybe you paid more because you were farang" - well it wasn't, my wife of 20 years did the first approach without even mentioning me and I negotiated it down with the seller close to a price I had in mind after - its also a perfect rectangle btw. We looked at quite a lot of land in the area and were well aware of the price as we had already bought and sold another piece. Hope everything works out! Sounds lovely.

This is interesting - A Thai bittorrent indexer being busted. I dont think torrent downloaders need to worry so much, but going after a Thai website is a first afaik.

I guess they mean Goi - Raw Beef Salad. Anyone eating raw Gai or Moo needs their head examining. I'm with @Gottfrid - I dont have a problem with raw beef, its quite tasty - not everyday, just some occasions at busy Issan restaurants.

We buy string sacks of onions - they are labelled, "Product Of Australia" I presume most carrots and potatoes to be Chinese grown.

Try posting in the real estate forum. I have travelled with 2M for a land deal before, not a problem - When withdrawing cash at a bank outside your province be aware they will sting you, I think I paid about 5K or more when I just jumped on a plane to buy land without the cash (the first and last time). Yes, you could get rolled at any time, I was worried leaving the bank, someone could be watching you withdraw the amount and snatch it off you in the car park, also at the land office the next day - you see so many people walking around with A4 envelopes of cash. If I was a Thai criminal I would hold up the land office at 11:00 am in the morning. Even tho' there is a lot of dodgy dealings at the land office (the seller claims a lower price for the land, the tax paid is less and the buyer needs to confirm the lower amount to be paid) they will not transfer the chanote until they see the money change hands - we were told that a bankers draft or bank transfer was OK, but would take an extra day to process, meaning we would have gone through the whole process of waiting for a number to come up the following day - it was easier to carry the cash. 1M THB is disapointingly small when placed in a brown manilla, there were others waiting with far fatter parcels than I. Cash deals are quite normal when buying land, the land may be family land and no family member trusts another, not enough for millions of THB to be put into an individual account - they all want to hold the envelope on the way home, they speed home and divvy up the amount, maybe debts need to be paid, maybe an agent needs to be paid a commision, afaik cash is the norm, although others experience may vary.

Don't worry, you aren't the only one - I would have preferred not to have become an expert in any building trades, but these guys are so full o'sheet you need to be watching every step they make, it really wears me down. We are currently doing electrics, and yeah, I have had to pretty much do all the planning and containment myself (more like my laborer) and the electrician arrives tomorrow. btw - how about your roller door? Is it economical? where did you find a supplier? I have only casually looked at it yet, but im thinking about an economical solution for a workshop door.

Keyless? .. you only get one - dont lose it, they are a quite expensive to replace apparently.

I would get a better roofer to take a look at that. You have a gap between the horizontal ridge and sheets. The “cop jua” (sorry, I only know the Thai, means like ridge covering) should cut the ridge to go around the vertical ridges. The metal ridge covering isn’t so expensive, if you end up replacing it, get a wider sheet and a thicker gauge metal, it will cover any existing screw holes and look a bit smoother.

No - this is an app on a home server pinging a server in BKK and graphs the results. There is a widget for controller but just limited to uptime and connected users - https://gethomepage.dev/latest/widgets/services/unifi-controller/

I can confirm that The Beekeeper is as bad as mentioned. Avoid at all costs, the fight scenes are more like brawls.

I had a renderer doing some work on my build, young guys, obsessed with money and the price of every little bit of work - older and more experienced guys gave a price for all the work combined, but these guys just wanted to walk around with a tape measure. It became a problem later on in the job as they "oh, sorry, we didn't include that in the price" the answer was tough luck, you didn't provide me with a list of work that was included in the job, the price was to finish the job. Anyway, one piece of work we did agree to add on after, one panel - 1.5m x 3m - I asked for the price, I repeated the sum for the dimensions of the wall we were standing next to, he looks at his wife who climbs out the window and runs for the calculator on the phone.

I notice all my aliexpress orders are via flash these days - They are getting really good these days. If I have an order of electrical components, shipping is usually free and the components so much cheaper than from a Thai supplier. I spread the order amongst different companies, I can pretty much guarantee a bag of parcels will arrive within a week now, it used to be two months.

+1 - Just own it! Blaming me for not picking up the phone? I have a cool lazada driver who I know is under pressure - He made some deliveries at 7:00 pm+ and I said, ffs, just bring the next day - to his credit he calls and asks if the next day is ok, generally its fine and I'm happy that he has called.

Currently watching @Jingthing recommendation Griselda - worth a look if you enjoy South American drug stories

I sometimes feel that companies in this country are its worst enemy. The other day I needed to send a subwoofer back to the service center - the importer / agent is Powerbuy - I called Powerbuy and I / my wife couldn't get it across to them that we couldn't carry a 18kg subwoofer in a box 70cm cube through central festival. After a few days of back and forth we got to discover they had a collection service - however, it was just two employees who turned up in a Nissan March. The guy called and said he was leaving the shop and we were to pay 300B x2 trips, we had to pay 500B for the technicians in BKK to open the box and check it - all of which I was delighted to pay, the employee gave an account number, which we then discovered was his personal account. The guys showed up and took the speaker, I asked my wife for the service receipt, nothing was offered, they just took the speaker. I can't think of the specifics, but there are a few times where I have had to pay employees personal accounts and presumably they forwarded the payment to the company, I have no reason to assume otherwise as receipts were always provided - but it does happen quite frequently. I assume in this instance the email is warning us of a scam call centre rather than rogue employee, but true occurrences like this are quite frequent.

Yes, I have a 3BB supplied GPON ONT running for many years, the Huawei model numbers seem to be different, but they still do the same thing, maybe the same inner workings. @Mutt Daeng Is your setup still functioning?

I think you have the answer here. I was a non-degree teacher for some time, I knew many others in the same situation and the problem wasn't getting a job, it wasn't the authenticity of a degree, the provincial labour office were never a problem, I even had a work permits. The issue was with immigration who wouldn't issue the one year extension without the collection of correct paperwork from various sources. The system used to be self policing, without a visa, how can you stay?

You can contact Ubiquity Thailand 02 114 7275 to check if it's possible. I haven't seen them for sale here, have you? I don't actually see much benefit - they aren't unifi, so im guessing the don't appear on the conroller dashboard. I can monitor my 3BB ONT (same model as @Mutt Daeng details above, on my own home dashboard.

Yes, for sure - agreed .. I know two people who still use old photocopied certificates (one from SA, one from UK), they say that their universities don't exist any longer, they have become part of other universities or other excuses and immigration and their employer, a university still believe them (I think working in a Thai uni is has different rules to a Thai school, right?) The OP is asking if certificates are checked, and the answer is generally no - you obviously wanted the job in China and wanted to supply all the necessary paperwork to get the job, so you went the extra to get the job, but a lot of schools still don't ask too many questions, they just want the teachers. Anyway, If you take a look at the OP posting history they admit they don't have a degree in another post, so the question should be "will I get caught as a non-degree teacher on the blag"

There is no TEFL governing body, so accredited TEFL courses are a bit of a misnomer, some are accredited by some schools or organizations. If you look closely, you often find that these organizations are connected to the school that's offering the certification. So, no they dont check the accreditation - however, as mentioned, you dont need a TEFL certificate to teach - teachers who worked at my agency were asked to provide TEFL certificates by the labour office, most just did a $20 course online, smashed out in a day to keep everyone sweet. It doesnt stop people from studying a well respected TEFL course, but even then just because you pay good money, doesnt mean its a good course. Degrees - Not really checked, because imho, who from Thailand is going to make a call to a university to check. I was told by a school manager, that they could tell who had a fake degree by touching the quality of the paper, they would know and wouldn't care, at that time, they just needed to see a degree. I think that in this day and age of data protection and privacy the person who picks up the phone won't be able to confirm or deny. However, it's not as simple as that, you will need a teachers license, to receive a waiver, I think you must provide sealed university transcripts. Anyone can provide a fake degree certificate, you can make them yourself, but to provide authentic looking transcripts is impossible. No one is going to check you paperwork, but if you cant provide the right papers, then immigration isn't going to grant you an extension of stay, therefore there is no need to check degrees, the system is self policing. Things are a little different for older teachers who may find it difficult to provide papers other than a dog-eared photocopy of their degree certificate, but it think these guys are gradually fading away. Fresh graduates should be able to provide the correct papers.

Because you seem to be having difficulties - you mentioned getting your girl to talk the dealer around. I find it easier to do this, there are no misinformation such as "you need a work permit to buy a bike here" - I don't advocate keeping the bike in your wifes / girlfriends name, just let her buy it and just transfer the name at a later date, its standard procedure at DLT, you don't need to deal with clueless salesmen, everything is fast, you walk-in, get it on order, pay and done - no time wasted on Internet forums asking the details.

Just buy it in her name and then change the name to yours at a later date at DLT with a certificate of residence.

Exactly what I would have done, said, "certainly, that's no problem - but you understand that it's a livestream" watch them scuttle off, then just upload the video anyway.