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It is fake data, looks like a survey done by an agency which employs foreigners in Thailand, this then gets copied and amplified by tens of other copycats. The wonders of the Internet. Here are the Bank of Thailand numbers: https://www.bot.or.th/App/BTWS_STAT/statistics/ReportPage.aspx?reportID=667&language=eng

103K THB per month would be around 15-20% below the median salary in Australia or UK. This link here provides more realistic wage, which is 15K per month. https://tradingeconomics.com/thailand/wages A lot of people work in informal jobs and without contracts, I suspect the government has little idea what they actually make. I believe nearly 95% of the Thais never filed an income tax return in their lives.

Just soldier on. Wear mask when you go out, everything is ok. There were times when the words "I just tested positive" were really frightening in regards to other type of virus, my initial thoughts were that you are HIV positive.

I still can't figure out the Thai national parks entry fees. For a starter is never clear how long you can stay there once the fee is paid. I was kayaking around the Chicken islands near Krabi and the rangers didn't charge me anything as I was just staying less than half a hour there. Otherwise 400 baht - seems pretty steep to me.

Golden times for the Pattaya bar stool commandos, you can hire them to protect what you have. Didn't you watch that Rambo movie where he single handledly killed a few thousand Burmese savages?

False positive, it is going down again, about to enter the 23 range. Still not as bad s against some other SEA currencies, bar the covid times it is pretty much at 5 years low against the VND.

Hopefully the biggest decisions people watching this unhinged moron can make is whether or not to open the fridge to get another beer.

You are probably in the best place, that's why the uber rich have many deluxe "end of the world" underground residences on the South Island. Maybe you can befriend some of them, they can use your local knowledge ????

The Internet resilience is very complex topic but it boils down mostly to 2 core protocols - DNS and BGP. Don't want to go to technicalities but aseannow.com is resolved by the authoritative servers for the .com domain, and you can rightfully guess Thailand doesn't host the authoritative servers for .com..so Cloudflare can't help with this.

I've participated in preparing IT disaster recovery plans for corporations, and can pretty much assure you that things like "global nuclear war" are not considered. The most critical component in these plans are the people, probably the smart cookies assumed in case of disaster like this pretty much nobody would turn up to perform their duties.

Well if you brainwash the sheeple everyday with "nuclear nuclear nuclear", in the end they take it as given that nuclear war is quite possible, even winnable. The Russia - Ukraine conflict is just a warm up, Russia is not really a competitor, they can't produce even a good vacuum cleaner. The target is China, and if the competition can't be won by economics means, the only thing left is war.

Do you think even for one second that the Thai Internet infrastructure is designed to sustain massive nuclear war? Not to mention that many of the sites are hosted outside Thailand, including probably this site. Most DNS servers will stop functioning properly if they can't reach the root DNS servers...me thinks you are totally out of depth here. The whole thing may be reconfigured with the right people at the right time, but that may take days and weeks, that's in case they are willing to turn up at all.

This is not going to save you, you need really deep pockets... https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff Although the uber rich are also not safe, the main issue being the reliability of the staff. If it is only me and you, you being uber rich and I being uber poor staff, single shot can change the roles...

I would say within 15 minutes you won't be able to post any trolling post as the root DNS servers will be down across the world.

Wait until the single brain cell warmongering trolls appear here with slogans like "Nuke them!" or "Our nukes are better than theirs".

So you think in case of nuclear war the Grab drivers would roam through the radioactive clouds to deliver you radioactive food? Unbelievable.

Try again. The first thing is to have air purifiers with the best HEPA filters that you can afford, don't forget that these require electricity so you need either solar or batteries. New release EV cars can help as you can draw power from it. Water is easier to secure as the bottled water lasts long time. Food is even easier. The only thing which can't be prepacked is air, and this is where the radiation will come from. And don't worry about the uber rich, they prepared expensive bunkers in New Zealand with swimming pools and food to last for 5 years.

This subject was thoroughly researched from both sides during the Cold War. Go search the Internet or buy a book to educate yourself, instead of seeking the opinions of people which probably dropped from high school. There were many models loaded with possible inputs and generating outcomes, most predicting the end of the world as we know it.

Thumbs up for the post office too. At the moment Kerry may handle larger dimensions cheaper, but probably the OP is not shipping 75 in TV. Also if near Pattaya check if is not cheaper to use the new ferry service, probably there are no extra charges for bigger baggage for the passengers. You can also buy a motorbike near Pattaya if cheaper and come with the ferry. However not sure yet whether the ferry service is on regular schedule now????

As khunPer mentioned the Honda dealer at Maenam is a good one, we thought before buying from Surat Thani, but the price difference was negligible and not worth the hassle, we bought 2 new Honda Clicks from that dealer. As for rentals for around 5k you can get a bungalow with a bedroom and kitchen in the areas between Tesco and the Fisherman's village, but it may not be up to your standards. My Gf staff rents in that area for around 4-5k per month. Many foreigners rent long term in the sois off Khao Phra Soi, but the rents there start from 8-10k. The best thing IMO is to post first in the Samui FB groups, lots of business is done this way. Maenam rentals as far as I know are around 20% cheaper. As an island a drawback would be going anywhere out of it, airfare is expensive and the ferry charges have gone up a lot. Also everything is more expensive than the mainland, it is a tourist destination.

You sound like my Thai GF who can't get a good sleep because if she dies tomorrow her money won't be spent... I don't like nice rooms, don't like swimming pools, don't like to mix with the two week millionaires in any places. Sleeping under a bridge will create much better memories. I'm going to leave all my money to my kid, who I'm 100% sure will use it much better to contribute to the humanity than myself flushing it down the toilet because I can't take it with me.

I think it was posted already somewhere in this thread that this is rather large publisher with millions of readers/subscribers.

Believe or not it is good publicity for them.

Me? Cheapskate? Absolutely! I'll try to pay as little as I can get away with it. That doesn't mean I'll try to get something for nothing, I just won't pay for anything which is not aligned with my lifestyle and values. Business class flights is one of these things. Everyone is different, in my books any hours spent in a metal tube is anything but good experience no matter what. For me "unbelievable experience" is for example cycling the mountain bike in the Indonesian jungle with wild boars and monitor lizards running in front of me.

Second that. When my body is asleep it wouldn't know if it is in 200 or 20k room. Money better spent on something else. IMO the dumbest is to pay thousands for better chair for 5-6 hours as the case in business class. Would you take 2k pay cut if they offer you better chair in the office for one day?