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Pacific Prime in Bangkok are a good and regulated agent. In my experience policies from international insurers are far better, whereas as local companies don’t even cover the cost of hospital room at international hospitals.

Bumrungrad is around 20k per night last time one of us was there. Important things to consider are direct billing, pre-approval, not pay then claim back. Get a policy without outpatients as it reduces the cost a lot. Also policies that cover you when traveling for x amount of days.

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Michael Daley not difficult if you have a job offer and it’s usually (in my experience)the company that’s hiring you that arranges it. You can’t get one without a job, as it’s tied to the job and the company that’s hiring you.

Also, if you work with a marriage and WP, and you quit or get fired you don’t have to leave the country to. Yet if you do it the non-B and WP way you have to leave.

If you remotely then DTV may be better, but as someone mentioned you can’t get a bank account, so you will need Wise or Revolut card to draw cash at ATMs or pay electronically.
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Last time I did it for my kid, the bank insisted we sellotape them into piles of 10 coins, before they accept them.
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With Revolut you can set up a Thai baht account, and you get a digital card you can use for contactless payment on uour phone, and physical card for drawing from ATM, tap n pay etc.
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There are notices all over my condo warning owners and those that rent rooms shoet term. Hefty fines for both. Nevertheless thousand still do it
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Anonymous participant 628 amd Airbnb is illegal in Thailand
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