So technically, if I lease the land our home is built on from my wife I could get a blue book also?

Yes, so you lease the land the house is built on? But I thought you needed to own the land for the blue book?

@David *******

foreigners cannot own land therefore you cannot buy a house and if your company bought it that has to have a Thai partner with 51% shares, so how can you? Or do you mean your wife?

residency cost about 200K and only about 100 applicants a year are excepted, the process takes about 18 months and you have to take a Thai language test etc.

Not until Jan 1st

Not everyone has a smartphone or even internet access. I need to use a phone to call my mother in the UK, she doesn't want or know how to use the internet. I bought her a tablet to use for talking to her sis in Australia and other family members. It's still in the box. Also many business calls still need to be made over the phone, contacting banks, and even if you have problems with companies like FB, Paypal, eBay, you have to contact them by phone and usually a US number. Also, my friend's wire transfer to Blockfoli went missing, and guess what? It was a US number. So there are many occasions when a US number are required or handy to all those negatively responding here.

@Jon *******

and UK license is accepted in Thailand, no need for an idp

You need to tell them you are only coming for a few weeks, you can extend your VOA once you are in Thailand.

UK travel has been banned: 81-brits-banned-from-travelling-internationally-including-to-thailand/?utm_source=newsletter-308-1346&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news

@Natalia ***

yeh, I don't quite get that ever, but hopefully as the vaccine is more widely used things will gradually return to "norm"