KhunBENQ

He plays naive and lies. Bet he knew what he was doing and got a good premium. Coffee and pet food from the "black male" 🤣 Recipient in the dark until the smuggling succeeds.

I don't want to create a long list of yellow book threads. Google for: Check age of threads.

You start with obtaining a "yellow housebook". Procedure can be simple or close to impossible. You are exposed to arbitrary handling at the district office (amphoe). For me (married to Thai), upcountry it was really easy. Simple passport translation by local translator and copies copies copies. Name transcript was ready from marriage documents. Procedure for yellow book includes creating a 13 digit foreigner ID analogue to the Thai persons ID. Also your name is transcribed to Thai script. Can be funny. Some say this ID nowadays is a valid tax ID (I can't confirm, never bothered about the much hyped tax for foreigner topic). Whether yellow book and pink card are accepted also varies from office to office. Here it's quite handy for proof of address at the DLT (motor office). Pattaya will deny (from reports). Toyota dealer even registered my new car based on this pink card. Doctors assistant will be happy to file you under the pink card details. Which region do you live? Living on one year extension? Visa type? Yes, try to check what your district office requires. Depending on that you can decide whether it's worth the office. Worst cases: been sent to your consulate in Bangkok for passport "verification" and then to foreign ministry (apostille) etc. Would have given up in such case. Tons of older threads about the topic...

Confusion to the max 😁 Don't hold WISE responsible. Thai bank (BoT) get paranoid.

Unfortunately yes: only with Kasikorn Bank, Bangkok Bank and SCB such transfers (in one) are possible. SCB has 1.5 million limit from last what I read This 50k crazyness goes since a while. Who wants to do 17 transfers to reach 800k+.

I miss the Brunei forum, was such an ocean of tranquility

Hope dies last

Read through this:

Yawn, you get so tired reading about the next campaign. Then you drive down beach rd and see hundreds of rent a bike occupying most of the left lane. Same for some Sois like Soi Post and others. Same story again and again. It's a Mafia town, a country with little policing what can you expect.

Heaven help it's May! And they will never know whether to attract the masses from China or India or should continue to dream about the high spending quality tourists (which they scared away long ago).

The Sanctuary of Truth in Pattaya is a wooden self-made construction and helmets are mandatory. No helmet no entry (guess you rent it at the entrance). Nothing to do with Chinese. Even the girls on social media do their selfies with helmet.

All said but still worth to look here:

Exactly. Which Thai would wait at a stupid red light at an empty intersection The traffic lights here are switching stupidly in fixed time intervals. No smart adapting to traffic. How much time have I spent staring at empty intersections...

+1 of the 50 or so daily. Sad but true. No more comment needed.