bkk_mike

That link had a phrase I didn't expect to see. Consular letter from the embassy is free. FREE - from the British Embassy? I don't believe it.

In the UK, the airline doesn't check for overstay. They solely concern themselves with whether you have the right to enter the country you're flying to. Think of dual nationals flying to one of their "home" countries. They will check in with the airline with their passport for that country, but it's not necessarily going to be the same passport they entered the UK on. Not checking passports when leaving the country is why the UK has no idea how many overstayers there are.

No it's not. This isn't for check-in. It's for immigration. It would presumably mean no exit stamp in your passport. How important that is for you is a different matter.

Have a Deebot X2 Omni that I use at my flat in Hong Kong. Just tell it to clean when I go out if I think a clean is needed. Just need to leave the internal doors open for it to do the whole flat. You do need to make sure there's no cables dangling though (one day I came back and it hadn't finished cleaning as it had gotten tangled in the cable for a fan). And it doesn't handle steps so I still have to mop the bathroom because that's got a step as it's a wet room. But that's just a wipe round after a shower occasionally. But even when all I have to do is press a button (and occasionally empty the dirty water container and fill the clean one), I still don't mop every day. At the house in Thailand, we pay for a maid to come once a week. But then the house has two floors and the robot vacuum/mop doesn't handle stairs.

Rental income in Thailand would have already been taxable for people living here.

Remember Iceland is the country where the bankers who screwed up in 2008 were jailed.

North Satellite terminal at Hong Kong, and the satellite terminal at Heathrow Terminal 3 both use moving walkways. Hong Kong uses a skybridge, and Heathrow an underpass. (Just listing ones I've actually used).

Between this and the UK freezing my pension if I don't spend most of the year there, I can definitely see me doing something like 5 months of "winter" in Thailand, 7 months of summer in the UK - once I retire...

I once did one of the kids renewals in Bangkok when my wife was in London. She had to go to the embassy in South Kensington to sign a form to say she was OK with the new passport being issued. And the passport office waited for the physical form to arrive from the embassy before issuing it. I.e. My wife couldn't even DHL it to me. It was sent to the passport department by the embassy directly. Bangkok main passport office in Lak Si, but it was around 2005... I think it was rather unexpected for the foreign parent to come to the passport office and the Thai parent to be abroad. I don't know if they'd have been as unbending with the rules with a male child, but my daughter would have been 5 as it was her first renewal... Possibly complicated by the fact that she was born in the UK, so her original Thai passport that we were renewing had been issued in London.

Not wearing a helmet Makes you look stupid. Couldn't agree more. Only idiots ride around on a motorbike without a helmet on.

90% of rare earths may be mined in China, but it's not because it's the only place with them. It's because it's willing to put up with the environmental impact of mining them the less expensive way.

https://nomadsembassy.com/thailand-digital-nomad-visa/ It's not a visa on arrival as you need to prove income for the last two years, etc.

You can get a visa as a digital nomad. For which you don't need a work permit. As (by definition), you're not working for a Thai firm.

I remember, after paying the tax for myself, being volunteered as a good samaritan for a couple of other people on the same flight who didn't have their departure tax. They swore blind they would pay me back once they got back to the UK. - I wasn't altogether surprised when they didn't though... But yes - better if it's in the ticket prices, so it's not a shock to people as they leave the country - and other passengers aren't guilt-tripped into helping them out.

Last time I tried to get a government gateway ID in Thailand, they kept giving me a website where I had to enter the authentication code that they posted to me within 30 days of requesting it... The problem was that the mail was franked second class, so although it got sent internationally OK, it went by boat, so that by the time it arrived it had expired. I only ever managed to get the ID in time when I made a trip back to the UK and got it sent there...

I know a place where they actually did create the "Technology Integration Team". Obviously they'd changed the name before anyone (who mattered) realised what the acronym was.

Do they still have the ~10kW restriction (nominal) on the panels for grid-tied systems? (I'm guessing that's why your system is 10.6kW) Personally, I think I'd want to get more panels than that, biggish battery, and an EV, and try and be as close to off-grid as possible. But our house in Bangkok was built in the 90s, so I don't think the insulation in the walls is particularly great, all the windows are single-glazed, and some of our aircons are ancient. Size of the battery would obviously depend on the choice of EV as some do vehicle to load, and some don't.