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Yes so in the end this line is on hold till anyone decides to pay for it 🙂 I agree a lot of overpriced house projects now here around me and everyone is doing Marketing with "Skytrain is coming", luckily I bought years ago and didn't speculate on the monorail. Just monitoring what happens and will update again in one - two years here I guess if there are any news 🙂 I still believe in the next 10 years this project will happen hopefully 😄

Update 2024 regarding the Railway Bang Na to the Airport... https://www.thaipbs.or.th/news/content/336971 Bangkok announced the cancellation of the construction project for 3 electric train routes "Silver Line - Gray Line - Blue Line" due to insufficient budget and wanting to return it to the government to do it themselves. To connect to the future common ticket system with other electric train lines In the end Bangkok gives the responsibility for this project back to the Ministry of Transport so they have to use their budget and not Bangkok's Budget 😄 As a lot of the line is anyways in Samut Prakan I was wondering who takes care of the whole project. Not the best news in another article I read that the studies suggested that the passenger demand will only be high enough if the line ends at the airport which was planned in a later stage of the project and not from the beginning. While I still think the line is needed and would have a great demand (ending at the airport) this will be all postponed now and I don't see this line opening before 2032 or so if ever.

Crazy that we are now at 119 pages 😄 this topic is quite important for a lot of people here.

Yeah super disappointed that no one distributes this Ooni ovens in Thailand... you really need to bring it by yourself or risk big import taxes when shipping it here (which I wouldn't risk made already bad experience here with crazy high import taxes) Great stuff once someone distributes it I will also get me one and that propane conversion which seems to get better results. Till then Gallery Pizza and others have to just send me some good pizza via Delivery 😄 and my Weber bbq has to make me some Cheeseburgers.

And I tell you most of us are thinking the same. Yes we may all love Thailand and living here is still good (was better before Covid and the whole inflation on groceries) ... but it's replaceable by other countries in SEA ????

Point is... even if it's not targeting foreigners. It makes the whole process a lot more headache and most probably paperwork heavy. This will not attract money to invest into the country like real-estate. Maybe a lot of exceptions coming though e.g. for all Chinese? ???? The Real Estate lobby will make a statement soon on this topic wait for it ???? they already afraid now to loose customers.

Yeah exactly what I am trying to say... there is a reason this report is there and the sympathy for this guy is near 0 for me.

Legally you are right.

the fact that he got tortured is interesting for a motive if true.

You think so? Paints for me a total different picture on who he was and with what people he hang out. There is a reason why someone gets killed ???? we will maybe know more, maybe it was only the money.

No it's totally not okay and the media does a super bad job not even mentioning the stuff that happened 2018. Even if he didn't get convicted he got questioned and was present at a minor trafficking raid.

Who cares? You don't get just busted at a minor trafficking raid... he clearly was in these bars. Otherwise he wouldn't have to go to the police station if he just slept in his house.

Can someone explain me why no News outlet writes about this? https://www.pattayamail.com/news/2-foreign-pedophiles-thai-pimp-nabbed-pattaya-trafficking-bust-203448 2018... Police arrested Hans Peter Walter Mack and Omarath Kathueay for human trafficking of minors. Police arrested a German national and a Thai ... It's an easy google search. Motive? No idea but that Mack guy was definitely not a great good awesome guy.

@ttechguy what country was your passport from? Berkley does give 50% but it depends which country ????

Once you get a baby this house visit is waved by some immigrations though ???? just saying. Most annoying invasion of your privacy in the whole process.

Thanks for helping me with Visa questions the last years. RIP ????

Thanks this helps. Everyone should checkout your comparison. Opens my eyes now how it works. Literally when you insure yourself in Thailand you often end up with LMG. (You can also go directly to LMG but seems more expensive) The international ones are the interesting ones you want to get before you get old ????

Thanks for this. For long-term it seems smart to go with the European version of the same plan. Can you tell me which areas this covers? Thailand Zone 3 (NL, BE, FR, VN, LA, MM, PH, UK, NO, etc)

So there is April Thailand and April International? April Thailand goes via LMG INSURANCE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED, which by the way also Luma uses and I think Aetna too? How did you get April International and how much more expensive is it? My invoices/letter all show April International.. still it's via LMG

Yes with Luma and April. Both had no problems. Aetna as well was also no problem. I moved away from Luma because they like to exclude things in the coming years and they check hospital records from the past...

Want to give my opinion to this with some years experience in TH. 1. If you have a nice insurance from your home country for some years and you can keep it while you here ... keep it. I had for example a long-term travel insurance for the first 3 years. The European ones are still the best imo. 2. But after you stay longer here you need to check around and you get some insurance in Thailand and there it goes... the trustworthy party ???? -- Luma does good. Had no problems with them. April feels better, because they still based in Europe and you get some advantages traveling to Europe Aetna (Bupa) was also okay.. just checked they have also some good plans now but quite expensive. Allianz and Cigna is when you don't care about money. Allianz world-wide care is ofc the gold standard imo BUT super expensive. --- Am i right that most plans go via LMG insurance in the end and April, Luma, Aetna just the brokers? It's this one big insurance company?

This is the solution you are looking for. If you don't want todo it yourself these guys did it for us https://www.facebook.com/WeStopSmellShop/ not cheap but man it was a great service and they fixed all our bathrooms within 2 hours including the toilets.

@Lakegenevecatching up a bit on our discussion we had the last 2 years. Study is done and now waiting for cabinet approval. You were right it takes a long time haha 2029 is planned so 2030 or so is realistic for this new line https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/light-rail/bangkoks-bang-na-suvarnabhumi-lrt-feasibility-study-completed/ Living in the area around that line I still think this line will be used a lot especially because it will connect the airport in the last phase. Wiki Overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_Na–Suvarnabhumi_light_rail

yeah they work wonders no idea why to be honest. Seems to be a better technology than Repeaters. For newcomers that don't have a mesh setup yet.. just check first with AIS or True if they offer a package with free (rentable) units. I paid 0 THB for my mesh devices with AIS and the package wasn't that much more expensive per month for 24 months. I think in 2-3 years it will be the standard if you living in a bigger apartment or house.

I would disagree slightly. I also invested into better Routers and Repeaters even bought a super expensive repeater for 12.000 THB or so... nothing really helped much. Mesh Wifi seems really more stable. Was my last option and it worked well.