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Only some people care about this nonsense. If a black guy tells me "white Men Can't Jump" so what? Besides he is right most of the times 🙂 The only problem is when you tell someone there is not any white man that can jump, that is simply factual wrong. Like when I see a 7 foot man I assume that it is likely he plays ball. Same when I see a bodybuilder likely he is not an m.d. it is simple probabilities. Vice versa it works even more a thin guy is not a body builder and only very few m.d. are Body Builders. So chill

Fully agree it is a disgrace for Australia to have such high electricity prices as AUS is full of natural resources where Germany has close to none. Supply fees also exist here plus a ton of taxes and other nonsense added to your bill. Average like 15USD -30USD per household monthly fee just to be connected to the grid.

There are contracts here in Germany were you have to pay over 60 US Cents per KwH in a fixed contract. Pretty sure AUS cannot "beat" that. The lowest you can get is around 31 US cents.

In Germany there is now a fasttrack for asylum seekers to get a citizenship and a German passport within 3! years of arrival... Not only has a Germany now the dumbest energy policy of the world according to the WSJ GER also have one of the laxest immigration laws in the world. Of course Germany has the highest welfare payments in the world as well as the highest taxes.

A lot of your posts were about the obligation to file taxes in TH, is/was that scaremongering too? I would say no as you pointed out something that could very well happen but others considered it ludicrous and scaremongering. This should be an open discussion of adults IMHO.

183 days and yes they tax ww income on paper (but apparently no one cares if you do not file but that is just hearsay I heard)

Why is it that you keep insulting others? It does not help your argument.

It could very well be a bubble! Does anyone have any insight how much the developers are actually paying to build those villas? In Hua Hin they are also building pool villas like crazy around Soi 112. A friend of mine was however not able to sell his 5 year old villa and is now renting out instead. I do not trust those developers at all claiming that their villas have sold out. It is beyond me that anyone would buy a villa that is not yet fully constructed as I have seen abandoned projects everywhere in Thailand. The biggest problem for me however is that I cannot own the land the villa is built on. All in all you are investing in a country with no real independant jurisdiction IMHO. On the other hand there are more and more people willing to reloacate to Thailand full time and prices are about half regarding property vs Europe and even lower for US or AUS guys/gals.

I was accused several times of scaremongering too. It is only you Chiang Mai and Mike lister that accuse people of scaremongering. (Pun intended)

The darkside is a great place to live if you do not go out partying every night, I fully agree! I really enjoyed living at the darkside.

FYI officially Cambodia taxes the ww income not just the remitted income. I understand that currently this is seldom if ever enforced however the potential tax bill could be far bigger in Cambodia.

If you have a condo in Thailand and do not pay taxes what do you think will happen? Next time you step on the ground in Thailand you will have either to donate a BIG brown envelope or you visit the BKK Hilton. Key board warriors turning into desperados is usally a bad idea.

Thanks! This is something we westerners tend to forget. These guys (chinese, russians, etc) they tend to buy a thai condo not to make money or save money they buy just to get money out of their home country as they are afraid their government will confiscate their money at home at will.

Goebbels was a socialist, Hitler not so much. Did you read Goebbels diary? Goebbels more and more went away from socialism the more Hitler talked him out of it. The distinction for the German Nazis was Marxism (in Russia) and socialism in Germany. I agree however Nazis and Socialists are/were very close. The opposite of Nazis are libertarians like Hayek not socialists! VIVA LA LIBERTAD CARACHO!

I was looking for rentals would not know about sales. For rentals it was even more then 90% that were duds. When asking on the phone they would instantly tell me "no longer available" so they knew right away.