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Deposits are insured up to 1 million THB. http://www.dpa.or.th/ewt_news.php?nid=320&filename=index___EN

I agree, but under the new rules the minute you use any of the 800k for an emergency during the five month period around your extension date you've invalidated your visa. Another point about the new rules is they've effectively increased the 800k requirement to 1.255 million. To arrive at this number I used their 65k/month as a minimum income requirement then figured for five months I'll be able to live off the 800k deposit, but for the remaining seven months I'll need an additional 455k (7 * 65) brought over. Good we still have the monthly income method to use as I'll be using that

This really sucks as it means we now have to tie up 400,000 in a Thai account forever earning fuck all. It’s too late for me now to go the monthly transfer route of 65K/month, but I’ll be doing that after my extension to stay comes due in November.

Living further out from a city isn't going to help all that much as much of the haze is coming from field burning around Thailand and Cambodia. The NASA FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System) site maps the fire hot spots around the world. Here's a screen shot of fire hot spots recorded in the last 24 hours. Note the high concentration of burns taking place in Cambodia.

The Pollution Watch Thailand FB page referenced in earlier posts does a good job of providing daily PM2.5 readings from the Pratumnak and other Pattaya areas. Below is a post with this morning's readings. I'm with you on wishing for rain. Thought we might get a bit of shower today, but now it's looking less likely.

Beach Rd getting set up for Chinese NY celebrations.

A few pics of the current status of the beach reclamation project. Towards the north end they dropped off several loads of riprap. Wonder if that will be used for erosion control, or possibly a base for boat launch ramp.  Another hazy day. Could only make out the Pattaya City sign when zoomed in. Not many chutes in the air, but I confess when I took the pic I wasn't really looking that far out. One positive to the beach nourishment project, boat passengers are only one or two steps from dry land when getting on or off the speedboats. I just don't see h

I think having a pinned list is a great idea. Rather than just a list, perhaps an embedded map and Google Sheet could be used. The nice thing about using embedded maps and sheets is the reviewer would only need to edit the map and sheet and the changes would then be seen in the forum post. I'm doing that now for the maps of the dark side bars and GC's. What I envision is the map would have locations of the restaurants that have been reviewed, and the sheet a list of the restaurants with a column for noting which nation or regional cuisine the restaurant specializes in. The sheet could als

Sunset yesterday noted the air looked particularly bad. Very hazy, and seemed to be worse than anything I've seen before. This post on FB confirmed it.

This article obviously ignored air quality when compiling the ranking of healthiest cities in the world. Pattaya was no. 4 and Chiang Mai no. 2. https://www.travelsupermarket.com/en-gb/holidays/healthiest-cities-in-the-world/

I decided to put the air purifier I had offered for sale back into service. Made a noticeable difference in my home office, so glad I didn't sell it.

I wandered over to New Plaza last night. Liked how they had closed off the soi and set up three stages for music. The disappointment was no bands, only karaoke on each of the stages. Still the vibe was good and people were having a good night out.

A few pics as Pattaya gets ready to celebrate NYE. New Plaza is the new Walking Street tonight. Klang from 2nd Rd to Beach Rd just closed and the last of the traffic clearing the road. But at 15:30, Beach Rd south at Klang was still open with no barricades in sight. Mats out and Thai families celebrating NYE Thai style. Blustery day out on the water with parasailing grounded. 2nd Rd chock a block from the Avenue to Klang.

I found their FB page which you can use to contact them. Strange they didn't think to put a FB link on their website, had to use Google to find it. https://www.facebook.com/makerspaceth/

This site has an interesting article on "The Truth About Air Pollution in Thailand" https://www.thethailandlife.com/air-pollution-thailand?fbclid=IwAR0I3fMNIT3km89ifuqaaTgXgMCozgxUZo84ChhcRlV7HurC5GZLS9MLuUY

You can order N95 masks from here: https://makerspace-thailand.myshopify.com/products/n95-mask They also sell a Portable AQI Sensor: https://makerspace-thailand.myshopify.com/products/air-tricorder-portable-aqi-sensor?variant=5931871207453

This FB page has air quality readings at Pratumnak. This mornings reading was 124. https://www.facebook.com/PollutionWatchThailand

The problem is a lower contrast between the text and the off-white, very light grey background color. Definitely makes the text harder to read, especially for older eyes. For those using Chrome I recommend the extension High Contrast. Once installed select the Increased Contrast setting. Only draw back to this extension is some pictures are displayed very dark, but that problem is easily resolved by temporarily disabling the extension. As for double-spaced lines. If you want a single spaced line, use Shift Enter to start the new line.

You could be right on that as that was my first thought when I saw the crew.

The Bua Khao muck removal team has moved their base of operations a bit farther south. Should provide smelly entertainment for day time Bua Khao drinkers over the next couple of weeks.

Didn't see any thread dedicated to general pics people take while out and about around Pattaya. Feel free to add your own. Here's a couple from today. North end of Bua Khao the muck in the storm sewers is getting removed, by hand. Sukhumvit end of Pattaya Tai now has a super sized 7-11.

It might be worth his while to get the income letter before YE, then hopefully in January there is some sort of official word from TI on their acceptance for six months. If no official announcement is forthcoming by end of January, he still has time to go the 800k, 3 month route.

Hopefully the police order will resolve the discrepancies in requirements between offices.

There is, but it displays all new content. The steps I described allow you to customized the new content to the topics you want to see and ignore those you have no interest in.

And if BM's want to customize their Unread Content, see this post.