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The best option in my opinion is to use the 800k baht in banl deposit-method. You can use a 12-month fixed account for best interest, which at the moment is in the area around 1.5 % p.a. minus 15% withheld tax. Inflation – consumer price index – is low at present, 100.40 for May 2025 with 2023 as index 100. With a fixed bank deposit you can sleep well without thinking of exchange rate and that you got transferred equivalent to minimum 65k baht every month. I've used the deposit-mothod since 2007 and withdraw the interest once a year, so I keep clean 800k baht in the account. Use a separate account for immigration-deposit, so it's siomple and easy to prove the balance. You'll once a year need an balance confirmation letter from your bank together with a 3-month statement (typically 200 baht cost, valid for 7 days) nand copy of (all pages) on your bankbook, which also need to be updated, often same day or day before applying for extension of stay. When using the 65k baht a month foreign transfer method, you still need a bank letter, but also 12-month bank statement; which need to be ordered in advance at some banks, for example Bangkok Bank. Your transfers shall be monthly and never less than 65k baht.

Normally 7 days for letter and statement, but ask your local immigrations office. Bank book-update often needs to be same day.

The work you are looking for seems like work that are protected for only Thais to perform. To work as a foreigner in Thailand, you need qualifications that Thailand needs.

When a 59 years old man meets a 21-year old girl, a financial interest from her side might be stronger than falling in love with the man...

I mean exactly what I said: "...surprised how few Thais stops and help – for example call for ambulance – when an accident happens."

I must have a boring sex-life, since I never had any desire to inspect transgender ladies' genitalia...

To give you a chance to sit next to "two attractive girls"...

I wouldn't buy a water damaged condo or house.

She most likely indeed is...

I saved a bit from building, as I was my own project manager and there was no middle man to make a markup between constructor and final buyer. But more important: I got the house I wanted built with the materials I wanted and I know what is behind the nice paint and tiles, and underneath the floors. When using a turn-key construction, the building construction company might cut some edges on materials, which you cannot see when you get your keys, but after a few years paints drop off and thing begin to break. My foreign next door neighbourgh got a luxury house built at same time as mine – the price was double as much per square meter – made as a turn-key project. A month after they moved in the roof began to leak – lots of silicone was used during their first monsoon rain-storm – later they got major water damages. My roof is still tight after 15 years. After a year the paint began to pieel off, mine still sits nicely on my walls after 15 years. The difference being that I had double layer primer and a little more expensive, and thereby better qaulity paint, coated in three layers onm top of the primer. My neighbourgh got one times primer and two layers of cheap paint (I know what they used, I wouldn't use that on my house). Furthermore you can chose to use aireated concrete for walls insted of cheap blocks, which gives you both a better indoor climate, but also saves electricity when using aircon. And so you can go on with details. But, you need to be present when building your house, to use thar method. And you also need to either check up on varoous thin gs yourself – if you don't know about building construction; which I didn't, but and read and asked and listened a lot – or find some advisor.

I'm often surprised how few Thais stops and help – for example call for ambulance – when an accident happens.

AI unfortunately sometimes answers what you like to hear and even invent links that don't exist in real life. You can catch a Lomprayah express-bus ion both Bangkok and Hua Hin that takes you to Chumphon (see map).

Don't belive that AI is always right... In real life the Lomprayah catameran ferry departs from Chumpon via Tao and Phangan to Samui. It takes 4½ hour. Price is correct 1,200 baht pier-to-pier.

No – but probably – it's almost 9 years ago, and by that time we still got extension of stay back same day after waiting a while. So, what they did 9 years ago doesn't really matter much today.

For up-to-date info it might be best to ask at the registration on the ground floor. It is almost 9 years since I did a visa stamp transfer – soon due again later this year – nothing was needed apart from old and new passports. If your embassy supply a letter with the new passport then that shall also be handed over. I was charged a fee of 500 baht – Okay for me – but some people states that there is no official fee for that service; I however won't ague with Samui Immigration about a relative small fee.