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Or you can just deposit the 800K in a bank and receive a one-year retirement extension from your local immigration office.

The best discussion of why and graphic of the result I have seen is here

I find this Android application helpful as it has photos and categories (e.g. appetizers, drink, mains, and fruits) and more comprehensible menu descriptions than any 'bi-lingual' menu I have seen (albeit less howlers)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... d&hl=en_US

In the middle of life plans comes bad news. Once the medical prognosis is firmer and immigration questions answered it may be time to have a sit down and think through together where best to spend the rest of the time you have left. My wife is adamant that she could cope with a seriously ill spouse ...

A bit farther afield than Viet Nam and Cambodia, but not so far as Finland lies Taiwan which was occupied/colonized by Japan for ~50-years (compared to the Pacific Coast of Russia [~40-years], Korea [~35-years], and mainland China [<15-years]). On a visit to Taiwan in May I noted relatively little r...

The only problem with Thai DL for ID is that the 5-year validity does not correspond to the passport expriration so the passport # will be out of sync much of the time. I carry a copy of the current passport together with emergency notification #s and contacts as well as health insurance cards and D...

I would second the recommendation for the Honda 7-seat CRV. Haven't looked but their smaller BRV does a good job of folding the two rear rows of seat down f;at to allow loading of larger purchases. We live up-country and have one of the orphan Chevrolet Spins - bought it for its seven-seat configura...

You might check Lazada to see if they have a cost of glass screen/digitizer (typically sold together) or only the complete screen/lcd. Just replaced my wife's Samsung tablet screen/digitizer for ~300 baht using a Chinese screen and instructions on the internet with the help of my stepson (who had dr...

A multiple-entry O-A is valid for multiple entries of up to one-year each for the first year. So if you re-enter close to the visa expiration date you will be stamped in for another year. You will need a re-entry permit should you need to travel in and of Thailand during your second year. You can ex...

Many people 'lost' Adobe Acrobat as Adobe seems to delight in 'breaking' earlier versions of their software when OS changes - for me I lost 9.0 Pro when Windows 10 did their anniversary upgrade and I am sure when I get back to Thailand I will have lost my copy of Acrobat 8.0 Standard. Even after dil...

I generally believe that a solar installation is more complicated (requiring panel, battery storage for evening use, charge controller) than is warranted for a simple fan controlled by a thermostat. I would be happy to wire up a fan and set it to run off of a timer or thermostat if I could be certai...

SCG offers a 'system' that incorporates an electric rooftop vent, but when I inquired they would not sell the vent fan as a separate item even though we were going to buy our tiles from them. The 'ballpark' quote I received for a 'system' including solar panel, controllers and such was 90,000 baht. ...

Oops - the Security Council foolishly dropped Canada and included USSR (now Russia), which probably gave the Thais qualms.

Sweden =15-days but Italy = 30-days. And the logic behind this is? TIT? The Group of Seven is a self-appointed group of significant economies who began meeting in 1985 to coordinate policies - members are U.S. Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. Why the Thai chose this group to extend an...

Depends on your passport. Group of Seven and Malaysian passport holders get 30-days at land borders, others get 15 no matter how wealthy a country, e.g.Sweden =15-days but Italy = 30-days.