Seems over the top, no? Could understand a few fake profiles to sucker a guy in, but 60+ women in 2 days is a lot of effort?

Oh wow. Have you ever tried dating sites that actually match you with people who are already in Bangok?

Where the **** is pooter, lol69 and jspill? This thread needs life

I was recently laid off and is looking to take a break from the corporate life. I'm seriously looking to move to Thailand for a 1 year "vacation" to pursue the dream I have had for 20 years now to live the lavish lifestyle of a pro poker player.

If it doesn't work out or I don't enjoy it I can always come back to the rat race.

A couple of questions I have before taking the jump:
Let's say I have a Thai bank account as well as a Charles Schwab bank account.
How do you deposit into Pokerstars? (from which bank account?)
How do you withdraw from Pokerstars? (into which bank account?)

Probably you need to figure out your visa situation 1st. I'm not up to date on the currents but if they are still offering the 6 month multiple entry tourist visa, that's a good start. If you can arrange to have some monthly revenue coming in from outside the country that you can document you may be able to get a non b (not an expert here) but I think having a hassle free visa for 1 year will be a bigger hurdle than figuring out the PS withdrawls.

5 South, thanks for the thoughtful response. My wife has dual citizenship Thai and US, I plan to do the "marriage/family visa". "Monthly income of at least THB 40,000. A letter from the foreigner embassy has to be shown to verify this income" A question I have is how do I show the income when I won't be having a normal job. Is there a substitute?

I've actually have done a bit of research and planning for the move already. The list of things to do for a move is quite long:

1. Visa - family Visa
2. Renewal of US passports - easy can be done in the US embassy in Bangkok if needed
3. Banking - Charles Schwab US bank as well as a Thai Bank to be used with Pokerstars?
4. Rent - we plan to rent a nice 3 bedroom condo near a mall for ~$1000
5. Car - we want to buy a car for ~$10k. Cars in Thailand seems to be 2x as expensive as cars in the US for some reason. So this is one of the bigger concerns we have right now.
6. Shipping of our belongings - don't know how to do that yet
7. Then a long list of misc. things we need to tie up the loose ends in the US like USPS address change and closing electric and a bunch of other recurring bills.

I'd be quite surprised if you could find a nice 3 bedroom condo for around $1000. Unless the mall is nowhere near anything else. Prices seem to jump dramatically from two bedroom to three. I live near Emporium and my three bedroom costs over $3,800 a month.

Not sure a car is optimal/necessary either considering how terrible is Bangkok's traffic, a motorbike + grab/skytrain/bus when needed would be best imo.

A car only makes sense if you're driving outside of Bangkok a lot. Quite a few of my friends have cars and go upcountry or weekend trips to Hua Hin or Pattaya. Driving in Bangkok is insane.

Marriage visa would be the best. Used to be you didn't need to show income, just 400k in the bank, maybe it's up to 800k now?
A car in BKK for me is a waste of time, too stressful driving. $10kusd is like 10 years of taxi fares and just rent a car if you want to travel outside. A scooter is a must have imo though for making beer runs to 7-11, etc...
Housing of course is going to depend on where you live. I live near my work which we can call Chatuchak adjacent and pay 25k for a proper 3 bedroom house with a yard, maid's quarters, etc... but the same place would be quadruple down in the suk or silom area.
Shipping belongings is definitely not going to be cheap but probably worth it as the quality of the stuff out here is subpar and way overpriced for what you get I think.
Going to be a lot easier having a Thai wife to deal with the stuff you got that going for you.

Emporium is sweet, amazing location. We're looking at near Central Eastville mall which is much cheaper. Here's a couple
https://timeline.line.me/post/_dbmNl...85480202086101

https://www.baanfinder.com/th/proper...B8%A7%E0%B8%99

Huh interesting perspective on car, car rental, and scooter. Makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately for me, I have two little toddlers who would need rides to school / kids activities everyday. Not sure if there's a way out of not needing a car. Maybe our nanny can use her car to drive them everyday...

I'd look around bangna it's about the same price range with 3 malls, closer to the skytrain, a big park (rama ix park) and night market (train market), the area you're looking at would be a bit boring, just one mall and not much else and a bit cut off from everything. Or a bit more for rent but there's a cheap school there to make up for it, Grace Bangna which is 80k/year compared to 350-600k for all the other international schools and they have a minibus service to transport kids to and from. If you don't want to put them in a Thai school.

ya, if you have 2 kids then it's better to have a car around even if not for daily driving. The used car market is a bit absurd here compared to the states but it is what it is. The plus side is repairs are quite reasonable but like anywhere, a good/trustworthy mechanic is worth their weight in gold.

anyone have experience with bodog? im looking to move countries and was wondering how long the process would take to get set up in thailand.
how long does it take to confirm address?
deposit / withdrawal methods?
would be grateful for any insight : )

Set up account with thai simcard, deposit & cashout bitcoin / thaibank

No address verification

Does anyone use coins th? They are really starting to ask me a lot of questions about where my money is coming from, requesting id and bank statements even tho I did all of that a few months ago. Is there any good alternatives to get BTC into thai banks?

I just use an Australian btc exchange to sell and send international xfer from AUD to baht. Don't have to worry about em asking questions, although you pay a good chunk in fees/rates. Don't think there's really any good Thai btc options.

Post an ad to sell it on localbitcoins.com and you can make a profit, just make sure your ad is first in the list, which you should be at around 0.5-1%, as most sellers on there try to make over 2%. Might take a day or two to sell large amounts but it'll get bought if you're the lowest rate. No ID needed

Anyone been to “Landmark Forum” – EST training in Bangkok? Heard good things. The only concern is they view taking Scientology coursework as resulting in the person being “damaged” – and I’ve taken “unofficial” Scientology coursework.

(I say “unofficial” because my father was involved in Operation Snow White to overthrow the US government when he infiltrated the IRS – so he can’t ever admit to being an official Scientologist or the FBI would be interested in questioning him.)

Scientology also has the same view – where someone who’s undergone Landmark training is “damaged” in their opinion and needs a specific rundown in order to remediate the bad teachings - EST Repair Rundown

Dont you think you are compromising your father by posting this? Since your picture is known here + your golfing and other skillset can easily pinpoint you

I have been following this thread since 08-09 and Goldenwierdo has to be the biggest nutter
poster in it's history.

Double up the tin foil on your hat bro.

Over rehabbing fish? That's quite a statement

It's completely fine. Operation Snow White was in the mid 70's, and my father is 74 years old now. He publicly admits he's up to no good. I went to a funeral for a cousin, and my dad's own brother told him, "You can't do that you're going to go to jail." My father's response was, "I'm too old to go to jail, they should have caught me when I was younger." So, an admission of guilt and also saying he DAGF what anyone thinks.

yea +1

I can't tell if hes a troll or an idiot.