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There Is already an excellent PR thread on this forum with detailed information and actual experience about the PR process, rather than speculation.
But on the more general point about “why”: in my opinion it depends on an individual’s situation. The more invested you become in Thailand, the more permanent you might want your residence status to be, hence the term “Permanent Residence”; and that “investment” could be financial and/or business, and/or personal.
For example, for people who are living off income from abroad and who have no personal commitments to Thailand, PR is pointless (and unavailable). For people who have business and/or financial and/or personal commitments to Thailand it makes a lot of sense.
In any event PR does provide some useful administrative benefits in addition to the security of tenure. And the usual nonsense about bribery is just that – nonsense.
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Well the older Thais that I know say that it is much hotter than it was when they were young. But climate change doesn't just mean getting hotter.
We've had flood followed by drought followed by flood in the last few years. None of the Thais that I know can remember a drought like we had 3 or 4 years ago.
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Biggest expenses
Fuel for cars - 12,000 pm
Alcohol - 0 to 20,000 pm
Books 100,000 in the last year
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I think the OP mentioned how he yearned for the beauty of the Cotswolds (an area of genuinely outstanding beauty c. 100 miles west north west of London).
I can definitely empathise with that myth, but the reality is that this area is prohibitively expensive, the villages are no longer functioning villages but dormitories for celebrities. It reeks of the class structure that England is so famous for, albeit an updated version. There is no local employment worth talking about. But it does look nice from your car window – unbelievably nice actually. Like one of those pre-war Ealing movies. This is very far removed from the reality of modern England.
I’ve just come back from a 1500 km tour of Thailand’s North and Northwest, not my first. The greenness is astonishing, not prim and proper and pretty like the Cotswolds, sometimes even scary in its wildness. No pubs unfortunately.
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It's not a binary choice.
Comparing your experience here (or in any foreign country) to the arbitrary country of your birth just demonstrates how you haven't transcended your arbitrary origins, or travelled much.
When a potato travels around the world it remains a potato.
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A lot of interesting perspectives here.
I’ve worked in about 25 countries, and haven’t been based in my “home” country for about 30 years.
Thailand is working out fine for me.
The only thing I really miss is educated conversation with “my own kind”. That’s why I visit the forum ?
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Re MoI, I meant Immigration, not Interior. My mistake.
Re Non B and land ownership. I'm advised by Immigration that the category of Non B I have at the time of receiving PR (imminent) will affect my land ownership rights post PR; hence their advice to change my non-B status now; they say that the advised status is rare, and I certainly haven't found any reference to it on the forum.
I've also read the excellent thread here about PR from beginning to end, but have found no reference to this.
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Thanks Joe,
this is my 5th education-related year Non-B and the first time I've heard of fingerprints being required. In the last 4-5 years I have only provided one Thai police check - at the beginning of my first year, and fingerprints were never asked for. I guess the local MoI office/police station interpreted and processed it their own way!
This situation has only arisen because the MoI recently advised me to apply for a different type of Non-B - one with a slash number /nnnn, which they say will give me the right to have my name on land chanotes as a co-owner up to 50%. I'd never heard of this before either, but greatly appreciated if you've got any info on this,
cheers.
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Hi, I’ve recently been advised by the MoI that:
- the Thai police check for Non B now requires fingerprints (I know this is a requirement at the late stages of PR approval, but I’d never heard of it for Non B before),
- there are different types of Non B designated by slash numbers – Non B/nnnn,
anyone else heard this?
Thanks.
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About applying for citizenship after receiving PR.
Anyone know if it's still 5 years (for a foreigner not married to a Thai)?
Or has it been reduced?
thanks
British Embassy Bangkok to Stop Certification of Income Letters
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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A great bit of Womp Schmomp from someone who has presumably never been to the Uk or a British embassy.