Mate, don't read to much into people's comments 🙂, even mine. But from personal experience, I can assure you that nobody can or will stop you from doing anything here unless you try to obtain employment, that is, a paid job, without the proper clearance. Anything you do on your property, or any property you wish to help out with, is your business and no authority in Thailand will ever bother lifting a finger to bust you for this or any other reason unless you directly piss them off.
Yeh they’ve started a new pricing tactic based on where you come from, not where you were born, but where you lived between 1990-1997. 23 paper copies of official documents are required as evidence, and translated. 🙄… coming soon