sidjameson

Smart phones are pretty cheap. 200AUD

Popular music is like religion. The one they grew up with is the best and they can't be told otherwise.

I think this is the hardest part. Can you explain how you changed your social life. How did you find new social things to do?

Seems it's the wife and kids in the video. 😭

How old are you?

Oops. Sorry you're right. What the person said is that you need to live in the UK 6 months before any reset that as you said occurs from day 1 is then not reversed if you then leave the UK again to live in Thailand.

You need to live in UK 6 months to reset the pension. A youtuber retired living the dream put a phone call with HMRC on his channel where HMRC confirmed this.

Thank you for that. Reminded me just when I needed reminding (after an hour doom scrolling) that happiness is a few good strategies and a choice one makes to be happy and grateful.

Self reported happiness is very unreliable. Maybe he is maybe he isn't. Grow up in a very dysfunctional family and just the absence of pain produces it's own happiness. I know from experience. Very low sex drive also reduces the need for status. Blessed with good dopamine production and without any effort life is quite happiness inducing. Put in the effort to remove suffering in oneself and live in beingness and often the default is a kind of contentment often know as happiness.

9 inches

Great. Who wrote it?

Pattaya is great for the guys with such low self esteem or game that even the good looking hookers make them anxious.

Thank you for your inspiring post. Can you explain a little why you find it better?

You like the rest of humanity have a need to express yourself to someone who understands you. We also need expansionary conversations. I'm guessing keice has that with swift. Does your wife add anything to the conversation? Good for you if she does.

Exactly. You don't think he knows this? Men who group up in healthy families want a partner for life. Do you think he'd be happier with the hottest girl from RCA?

Reducing all human interactions to transactions is very depressing. People want to share their lives and that means thoughts with another who "gets them" The two people the op are talking about live such rarified lives there's only a few potential partners out there.

That's AUD weakening against all currencies not bht strengthening.

So you're disgusted at being treated like a tourist? Do you work here?

20bht is a subsidized fare. Are you disgusted at the Thai people getting a subsidy from their government or that the Thai government isn't subsidizing foreigners?

I think you're forgetting about the curse of growing old for many men.

What rising bath? Barely unchanged against the USD over 5 years. Weaker against the £.

Increasingly realise if I'm offline I have a good time doing the typical stuff, cooking, reading, meeting a friend. If I spend time online it often results in a bad day, you tubing, forum posting, fbooking.

Thais love gossip.

I pick the phone up to answer a msg, check a sports score and then end up on here. It's wasting life but so hard to stop. Nobody looks back on a weekend/month/year and thinks...what a great time that was, if only I spent more time on that forum.

Thanks for the replies. It's 13k baht a month pension. As I feared she looks a risky proposition from the UKs point of view. She has a PhD and will start a post doc end of the year but she won't get a letter confirming that till September. I guess it's better to wait till then. We've been together 13 years and I'm the one who would fund her trip.