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  1. On 9/5/2019 at 10:15 AM, Flashermac said:

    I'm planning to get the forms ready before I go anywhere.

    As to not telling them, it's your hotel that will report you if you stay in one, which is what makes it ridiculous. The hotel has already told Immigration, so why do we have to do it too?

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    Most hotels don't,  especially if you just stay one night,  and especially cheap hotels. 

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  2. On 8/31/2019 at 6:22 AM, baa99 said:

    What? They aren't implanting GPS trackers in farangs?:neener:

    They do.

    A guy who is here on a BoI visa now is GPS tracked by Immi.

    They didn't implant the tracker yet, just forced him to install a GPS  tracking app.

    He installed it on a second phone which is lying in his toilet 24/7.

    Google's (or whoever they use) Algo  wil find out soon enough,  and then the next logical step will be an implant.

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  3. I used 2 brands of CBD oil recently,  against pain. 

    First brand had no effect at all. 

    Second brand had only one effect: I feel the urge to eat 24 hours non- stop.

    Doctors will tell you that CBD without THC doesn't help against pain. 

  4. On 5/11/2019 at 8:57 AM, Flashermac said:

    I got mine through the desk that issues renewals of tourist visa. I was sitting there waiting for my number to be called, when a woman sergeant saw me and asked what I wanted. I told in Thai, and she immediately called me over and did it for me. So now they've moved it to the 90-day report section? That place is always packed. :(

     

    Not the 90-days area, but next to it. B counters, used to be J counters. 

    Not packed,  but slow

  5. On 9/11/2018 at 11:36 AM, Flashermac said:

    I got my residency letter through Jaeng Wattana Immigration. I think they charged me 180 baht. Several weeks later, I received a very nice letter all in Thai from the local police station confirming my address. (If the police even came here, I never saw them.) The embassies are ridiculously overpriced. It costs at least 1,500 baht at the US Embassy for them to sign a piece of paper for you, plus nowadays you have to make an appointment just to see them! Even back in the 1980s the US Embassy would charge you $1 a page for photo copies, when you could go out on the street and have them done for half a baht.

    There's a special desk for the residency letters. Let them know what you want and you can save yourself time, since it's the same window as used by tourists extending their visas. Once the police sergeant saw what I wanted, she called me in and did my form on the spot. Otherwise,  I'd have had to wait for my number to come up - with dozens of tourists ahead of me.

    As i said before,  CW will give you a residence certificate only if you have done a 90-days report. A TM30 seems to be ok, too, but as TM30 is usually not done in Bangkok you run the risk of being fined for not doing it earlier (and your landlord runs the risk of having to pay taxes).

    The desk for residence certificates changed,  it is now the one for reentry permits. They made me wait 150 qeue numbers. Plus I had to wait again because only the boss does residence certificates. 

    200 baht without receipt. 

    I am waiting for the letter now.  But they wrote down my address in a very haphazard way, i doubt if a letter will ever arrive. If not,  I have to go again and pick it up there, they gave me a slip.

    An unpleasant experience. 

    BTW 1. if your drivers license is not from an English speaking country, Bangkok DLT requires a translation into English,  certified by your embassy. 

    2. In Pattaya, all this is much easier (and you can get a driver's license as a tourist), but it cost more. And you need to have an address in Pattaya. 

     

     

     

     

  6. Jaeng Wattana didn't give me a residence letter because i hadn't done a 90day report. 

    I didn't need a 90 day report because i traveled abroad before the 90 days were up. And I will travel abroad again before 90 days are up.  And again...

    So they told me they will not give me a residence letter. Residence letter in their opinion requires 90 day report.

     

     

  7. No limit on hours?

     

    No limit on hours but limited speed.

    I tried 1000 kb/sec, it is fast enough for everything except big downloads and HD movies. Every provider has it, usually 399 B/month.

    Line works very well even with a speed of 256 kb/sec (except video calls).

  8. Some corrections:

    Line does have end-to-end encryption. Servers are not in Thailand. It is leaky, though.

    It is the messenger app for Japan, Thailand (penetration 95%) and Taiwan.

     

    Main difference to Whatsapp: the cute stickers, and Line needs less bandwidth. Sending pics is much easier with line, it's a pain with Whatsapp if you are used to line. Line still works if the signal is very poor, even phone calls with line work where Whatsapp doesnt work anymore.

    Line was developed for Fukushima, after all.

    Groups work better with Line.

     

    Nowadays it is unusual and a bit weirdto exchange phone numbers. Usually you add each other in Line (many ways to do this)

     

    BTW ICQ was used when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

  9. I was home for a while too, this year.

    And I was very much surprised that Bangkok is not really cheaper than Germany anymore.

    Some things are cheaper, some things are more expensive - in the end it evens out.

     

    I bought one big ticket item in Germany for which I had been quoted a special price of 10000 USD in Thailand.

    I paid 8000 USD in Germany, regular price.

    Oh, and my kebap vendor in BKK just raised the price from 60 Baht to 75 Baht (as you know, there is deflation in Thalaind :)).

    Not cheaper than in Germany.

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    Prices of everything are steadily creeping up, but it is still much less expensive to live here than in the west. Money goes at least three times as far.

     

    are you kidding?

     

    now lets compare prices in Bangkok with prices in the most expensive city of Germany:

     

    room rental for housing with simple Western standards (ie concrete walls less than 50 years old, simple western style bathroom, central heating in Germany, a/c in Bangkok etc) not in the inner city, but not far from it, with decent public transport, 40 sqm:

    BKK 15000 -20000 THB

    MUC 500-800 EUR = 20000-32000 THB

     

    local public transport per month

    BKK 3000 THB (BTS, MRT, buses, motorcycles) + 3000 THB for taxi as public transport in many places is so poor

    MUC 59 EUR = 2400 THB but you can ride your bike for free (not advisable in BKK)

     

    food in supermarket: BKK twice as expensive

    in fresh market: BKK maybe 20 % of the price of a German supermarket

    eating out: BKK maybe 20 % of the price of a German restaurant

     

    furniture and appliances:

    in BKK thousands of THB for incredibly poor quality

    in MUC you can get everything for free from friends or people who want to get rid of stuff, and the quality will be better than the paid stuff in BKK

     

    electronics:

    expensive things (like S7) are a bit cheaper in MUC than in BKK

    cheap things like imobile are not available in MUC

     

    telecommunication:

    in MUC you can pay a flat rate of 15 or 20 EUR for all phone calls and some 3G

    there is no flat rate in BKK, you end up paying a lot more, depending on your usage

     

    entertainment:

    generally much cheaper in BKK

     

    medical care:

    if you pay out of pocket, its somewhat more expensive (on average maybe 50%) in BKK than in MUC if you want comparable quality

     

    2 years ago, members of a German forum generally agreed that Thailand (not BKK) was about 20-30% cheaper than Germany. Since then, prices have gone up again in Thailand (haircut from 70 THB to 100 THB, taxi fares have risen etc) but not in Germany,

  11. the green Superrich always gives the best rate. Only one shop., opposite central world. Low overhead. Very low spreads.

     

    The orange Superrich has many shops, eg Bts Prom Phong or even upcountry. These peripheral shops offer much lower rates.

    The flagship shop opposite central world has good rates, sometimes - especially for USD - as good as the green Superrich.

    Never better.

     

    They split several years ago, different business strategy.

     

    Green and orange are the colors of their website.

  12. Yes, Mr Iuytrede, if you could elaborate on "Dengue is harmless for young tourists (farang Dengue patients are usually backpackers in their twenties)" I would be grateful, what is your take on 55 yr old farang male, overweight and until recently smoker and heavy drinker? immune or highly susceptible to a bad trip on Dengue?

     

    by "harmless" I mean the disease is self-limiting and the patient will make a complete recovery without permanent damages, usually within a week or so.

     

    as to 55 y.o.: "the elderly" refers to people usually over 60. Once you are over 70, dengue may still be self-limiting (in most cases) but it may be a very debilitating, protracted disease, prone to complications, whereas the typical 25 y.o. backpacker is fine after about a week.

     

    People who spent a big part of their life in the tropics are more at risk to develop serious complications (the theory is that they have been infected before).

     

    Children (even teenagers) who grew up in the tropics can easily die from dengue. That includes the children that your Thai wife brought into your marriage, even they now live in farangland. When they visit Thailand for the holidays and contract dengue you should take this seriously.

  13. Dengue is a tough one. I was not on that team but had some friends that were/are. As I recall there are three big types or "serotypes" of it. Getting one for some reason makes the other two a lot more deadly if you get them. What is really odd as getting one serotype makes you immune to that serotype, in odd combinations makes an other one 100x worse. There is a Nobel prize for figuring out that one. As I remember, there is no working vaccine right now but there are some promising trials.

     

    Like Flash said, watch out for the mosquitoes!

     

    there are 4 serotypes, not three

    they are named DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, DEN-4

    the theory is, that your first Dengue infection will trigger a misguided exaggerated immune response when you later get infected by another serotype (you have immunity against the serotype that you had before)

    this is still the main theory but it is contested (some people have very severe Dengue infections even it is their first infection)

     

    Dengue is harmless for young tourists (farang Dengue patients are usually backpackers in their twenties)

    it is a life threatening disease for local children and for the elderly

  14. Thailand is the kingdom of make believe.

     

    Scamming (in a broader sense)is what makes this country tick.

     

    People come here for "jungle trecking", are led (for a fee) to some sadly deforested, degraded landscape, and even after the fact they will not admit this was not jungle trecking.

     

    Bumrungrad is considered by most farangs a "world class hospital". Yes , but please remove the cockroaches from the room. And don't worry if the cleaning lady never really cleans the room for 2 weeks. Most patients like it the way it is.

     

    Didn't another poster here say Thailand has nice beaches? See, Thailand doesn't have nice beaches, but who is going to admit it?

     

    Thais are best in the world in pleasing others. It works very well.

     

    Mundus vult decipi.

     

     

     

     

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