What do you call “tourist” sim?

There’s prepaid and postpaid.

Most Thais use prepaid because they don’t know if they can pay next month, and prefer topping up 20 or 50 baht.

@Jan *********

One can live outside of the US.

Surprised?

@Sean *********

That’s weird. I hope you got it right with a person in charge.

@Cruise *****

Never changed after they started that.

Stop interpreting rumors as truth.

@James *******

Good reason. Hard to watch what’s happening there ;)

@Lewis *********

Good that Switzerland isn’t Europe 😂

@James *******

Regulations.

In Europe you can’t put cash of euro in your account without official documents where it is from.

You can’t send money outside the country on weekends because there is nobody to check if this is legit.

The banks would gladly take whatever you give them.

A other example.

Until recently we (Swiss) had a “bank secret”, no one could ask anything about a persons accounts if they didn’t ask about a certain transfer from or to a certain account validated by a judge. And then came the USA. Since then every single movement on an account of a foreigner must be copied to his country’s government: automatic information exchange!

@Robert *****

Does your normal home insurance not cover that?

Mine did (while I still was registered in CH).

@John ********

The DTV with border bounce is nice, but the DTV doesn’t let you open a bank account.

I would just officially be retired and work from home part time. Nobody will ever ask questions as many farangs live on passive income.

@Jorge *******

Yes. Exactly as with Wise. Just the fees and rates aren’t as transparent.