sidjameson

What percentage of those 6000ish books have you actually read?

How is boiled rice more expensive than fried rice? Same with grilled versus fried chicken? Cheapest and healthiest protein. Lentil Dahl. Easy to make. A microwave mug cake cheaper than a 7/11 cup cake and use mashed banana instead of sugar. Reduce oil and use coconut oil instead of a seed oil. Thais are addicted to hyper palatable food like the rest of the world. The food industry is now a chemical industry.

How good is your Thai?

The winner of the 2025 Hemingway award.

Or just an honest mistake?

Take 5 deep breaths. 5 seconds in. Hold. 10 seconds out. Hold Ask yourself what advice you would give to someone in same situation.

One is donating his own money. The other stopped the government from donating other people's money without their agreement. Both ethical choices. Charity with other people's money is theft. If you disagree send me your bank details and let me choose who I give it to.

That's 800 bht. One restaurant meal. Relax.

Not at all. It was in Exeter, not the cheapest part of the country either.

Just had a root canal and crown in the UK for £1500 about 66k bht

I agree with you except that there is no evidence for there being nothing 1 second before the bang. Everything from nothing? That's a belief.

Do you prefer the big bang story from an imaginary nothing?

Are you losing weight?

How dare they want to stay with their own kind. Where are the elderly Afghans and Syrians? And 25% of places should go to retired from social housing too.

I have the same requirements and I always end up Thailand south of Hua Hin as the best option. Bit nosey, but you've been earning relatively good money for years and living frugally. Where has all the money gone? Expensive coke habit? 🤣

Hmm, the UK, like Europe was once covered by forest with great biodiversity. It wasn't the Chinese that cut all the trees down.

Another place bites the dust. South east Asia is not what it used to be. I first arrived in 95 when the population was half what it is today. Average age was twenty years younger. Temps were two degrees cooler.Tourism was a trickle not a flood. No burning season that I remember. Most places were without traffic jams. Get away from the main spots and locals hadn't spoken to a foreigner before. Sorry it's off topic, the OP just made me sad.

Lived with a non Japanese wife in Japan. It would have been much easier if I had married a native. Dealing with government taxes, utilities, other problems much easier if one of you is fluent in the language/culture.

Lovely sunny story on a forum that specialises in dark clouds. How long together before you knew she was a keeper?

Subatomic particles don't have morality. Do you?

1980 average salary £25k pa (today's money) 2025 minimum wage £25k pa.

Good point.

If you're up for a proper discussion about 80's Uk compared to today then say how you disagree.

The op was comparing the UK now to the UK of 40 years ago. Not to Thailand now. I agree Thailand is better. And he was talking about the UK in general not your life in the UK. Any of these groups: on benefits, on minimum wage, skilled blue collar, skilled graduate, the UK of 2025 is better than the UK of 1985.

Better food now. Skilled working class labour like plumbing much better paid now. Better TV, free (entertainment online) now. Better minimum wage now. Houses better heated now. Anyone can and does enter university now. Better flights to Europe now. Much cheaper. Better state pension now. Better access to information now. Less perverts like Jimmy saville now. Better place to be gay now. Better place to be a woman now. People less racist now. Cheaper pubs now. Things much better now, albeit there are problems that need fixing.