A World Redefined: The Global Rise of the Right
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Bottle beers banned Koh Phangan
Apart from the recycling benefit, cans do not shatter and leave broken pieces on the sand where they can cut your feet. Then there are the professional scavengers. These folk go through the bins etc and collect the cans to sell to the scrap people. I had one pool guy who left because he could make more money scavenging - and flexible hours. -
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Wise Card?
Use mine all the time across the counter and never had a problem. I don't use it at ATM's as there is a charge (I think 200B a time) and fairly low monthly limits. Obviously you have to maintain a balance in Wise. It will debit your THB balance if you hold THB. Otherwise it will debit your home currency and convert to THB at their standard rate/fee structure. Occasionally it may debit a third currency in your balances - I think it does a multiple cross rate comparison amongst the balances and if it concludes that you save 3 cents of your USD by converting GBP to THB instead, it will do so. Kind of an arbitrage thing. -
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I love the internet but it's filled with so much garbage and lies now
Oh, come on. Not all politicians are bad.😉 -
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Due to Thai Night-Sky Loss: I am planning a move to the Gobi Desert. For the stars…
Further west than me, I used the Kidman Way. -
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I love the internet but it's filled with so much garbage and lies now
I love it!… A thread on this forum about garbage on the internet!… -
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How safe is the retirement visa as a strategy to live in Thailand permanently?
It is safe - if YOU follow the rules and meet the requirements. In other words - do what you are supposed to do to live here legally. There is no need to use an agent - unless you do not meet the requirements. An Extension of Temporary Stay costs 1,900 baht. That's it. Add a couple hundred baht for photos and photocopies every couple of years. I put my 800k in a Fixed Term account the year before I could apply for a Non-O (and then apply for an Extension). That money has sat there ever since. Doesn't earn a lot of interest but technically it earns more than enough to pay the fee for my annual Extension as well as those photocopies/photos and a Re-Entry permit or two. And I never have to worry about "topping up" the account or withdrawing "too much" or having to pay an "agent" to scam the requirements. I've done 13 Extensions so far with NO problems and don't use an agent. 15 years ago, my 77 year old dad who was dying of lung cancer was still able to go to Immigration to apply for his Extension - 6 weeks before he died. If he could do it - without an agent, there's no reason anyone else can't. Pro tip: It's the SAME paperwork and photocopies needed every year. THINK about it and prepare it AHEAD of time. Get your photocopies done, update your bank book the day before you go. Sign your photocopies. If you don't have a computer/printer, get extra copies of the TM.47 from Immigration and photocopy them and make extra copies of the required passport pages. Each year it takes me barely 15 minutes to update and print the TM.47, print the scans of my passport pages, attach a photo and sign all the paperwork. A quick run to the bank to update my bank book and get my "bank letter". When you arrive at Immigration all your paperwork should be 100% complete. It takes me maybe 4-5 minutes with the IO from the time I hand over my paperwork until I've paid the fee and he's taken my photo (with the "ticket number") and I'm heading for the door. Pro tip: Take a pen with you so you can sign all the pages you didn't bother doing beforehand or the photocopies you decided you might not need this time. Pro tip: SHOWER and wear CLEAN clothes before going to Immigration. Seriously - WTF are you thinking when you show up stinking of body odour and looking like you haven't changed your clothes in weeks ? And yes - I HAVE seen people sit down with an IO and hand over their passport and bank book - and then expect the IO to fill out the paperwork and make the photocopies for them. (And of course they are ahead of me in line every time.) And yes, there are always people who "forgot" to make photocopies or sign half their paperwork and need a pen. And yes, far too often I've had to stand in line with people who stunk so bad it almost made you retch. And it sucks when they are directly behind you and you approach the desk/IO and they see you and then get hit with the smell and think it's you. (I've even made eye contact with an IO, pointed at my nose and then behind me so he knew it wasn't me that stunk so bad.) I spent 10 years working in Afghanistan and you could literally smell them from 500 meters away if the breeze was right - and they didn't smell as bad as some people I've seen at Jomtien Immigration. And people wonder why so many of the Immigration Officers seem to be in a bad mood all the time. (Another good reason to show up really early - to catch them before their mood turns really sour !) Still shake my head when people claim they'd rather pay an agent 20,000+ baht to get their Extension for them - because they "can't be bothered" to spend 15 minutes to do the paperwork themselves and only pay 1,900 baht instead. Uh huh.
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