@Glenn ****

Well, lesson learned: keep your information up-to-date. Check the bank records in your app and make sure they are correct. Sorry you had to learn this the hard way.

@Glenn ****

Makes totally sense to me. So you setup on a new phone with a new number and you are surprised that doesn’t work…Right, I would at the same time change my birthdate, address, surname, signature and bank account number. Possibly include changing your country, passport number and gender.

Much easier…

Ahem!

Really first you change, and once that is successful you change the other. When you get a new phone subscription and a new phone then first you install the new phone number on the old phone. Once successfully done, you move the shebang to the new phone, using the new number.

Using esims? Then first add the new esim to the old phone, etc etc etc. Change multiple things at the same time is asking for trouble and believe me, it’s not quite fair to blame the bank.

@Steve *********

Get some decent personal accident insurance while you can.

@David ***

I know. It starts with e.g. a 90 day non-o and once you fulfilled the financial requirements (2 months so and so much in the bank) you can extend for a year.

(Not detailing all requirements for all types of visa)

The 90-day non-o is not really a long term visa, but having one demonstrates that you will possibly qualify for a long term visa.

If you don’t even have a 90 day non-o then having a Thai bank account won’t help you get one.

What visa are you on?

@Us ****

1) Not true. I won’t repeat myself. Believe what you want to believe.

2) Age has nothing to do with it. A 40 year old on a non-o visa is still a person with a non-o visa. Your blind eyesight limits your perception to retired people.

3) Nobody said anything about short term visa. If you want to invent stories sucking your thumb you should specialize on visa for Disneyland.

I suggest you visit a bathroom and get rid of what you’re full of. Don’t forget to use the little shower.

@Us ****

it is totally easy to open a bank account with a non-o visa, which is exactly what I wrote.

If someone else start writing about flying to the moon visa them feel free to answer to that person.

My statement was, and is, that anyone with a non-o visa and a residence certificate can open a bank account. Period.

BTW A residence certificate is, contrary to your statement *not* proof of a 90 day report, but proof of either a lease of property, or a tm30 from a hotel for more than 15 days, as stated to me by the lady of immigration and demonstrated with a written requirement list at same immigration. Do not write nonsense when you don’t know the facts!

When you have the certificate the bank will still require proof that you’re on a long term visa. A non-o or similar stamp in your passport, combined with residence certificate will suffice.

Easiest Bangkok Bank. #2 Kasikorn Bank.

Don’t let anyone seduce you into paying them (or their friends) 5000 baht.

@Tore ********

“Above 40 you consider it madness to not have any sort of inpatient coverage”.

You don’t have a clue whether your opinion is right or not. Maybe you’re right, or maybe you just have the wrong friends with too many bad habits who are all on some mind altering stuff because they don’t like their jobs in the coal mines”.

“I know many” is statistical nonsense. I know a lot of people who won the lottery, so not spending your income on lotteries is madness?

I sincerely wish you good fortune and health and I hope you will die wealthy.

For myself, I couldn’t care less about my bank balance when I die. Cheers.

@Tore ********

I quote from my comment:

“Surely you can come up with three or five or ten horror stories of people landing in the ditch after getting some disease. But how many are that really? What are the odds? Ten people out of 20 is a big risk. Ten people out of 80 million is futile.”

@Anthony ***********

I get that. Do you play in the lottery? Did you ever consider having an insurance for the financial consequencies of having triplets? Did you put enough money under your bed to cover your ass in case the banks go broke?

What are the chances you will ever land in the ditch? Now, offset that against the cost of insurance and then make a non-emotional, well-informed decision.

All those emotional what-if discussions don’t mean anything to me. Surely you can come up with three or five or ten horror stories of people landing in the ditch after getting some disease. But how many are that really? What are the odds? Ten people out of 20 is a big risk. Ten people out of 80 million is futile.

I know someone who walked outside and suddenly was hit by a hailstone. Does that mean you constantly need to look up when walking outside? You’ll soon need medical treatment for your neck.

If you want to, then please do not let my opinion stop you. Just like if I don’t want, I won’t let your opinion stop me. It’s a free world (in a lot of places, that is). 😉