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No doubt that bell is a sweet sound for you. That's the bell signalling the end of anther round in which you are getting a beating.

No problem. As mentioned, keeping it on the network may save you going through the hassle the member in the other thread is facing. Leave it sitting somewhere for a year, but as more and more businesses move to 2FA, I am sure it will come in handy one day.

I enjoy the same comforts, if not more, in my condo, which is near the beach, not in a rural Issan village. Location location. You are the one that suggested I had been stung before, yet you are the one at risk, not me. You are justifying your actions by stating the affordability of rural land, and construction in Thailand. The fact still remains that you have exposed yourself to being "stung" and I have not, but then you seem to think I have been. Your posts about how you have a caveat on the property etc etc was just great entertainment from you. It gave me a good laugh. Yet, some of us simply don't "invest" here, so stand to lose nothing. The money for the purchase price of my condo is making more of a return for me back in Australia than the monthly rent costs me. The monthly rent is well worth having no property and maintenance costs, and the freedom to move should I want to / need to. It might be different if the rent was depleting my asset portfolio at a rapid rate, but it's not. Condo owners cringe when they see more and more development because it negatively effects the value of their condo. I smile because it's not only keeping rents low, but also driving rents down. A nice little story about love, but time and priorities, as well as health and family can change. Sometimes slowly, and sometimes in a split second. Who knows about tomorrow? Maybe one of her family members accrues big gambling debts, or gets locked up, and she has to sell the house. Maybe someone in the family gets sick and needs an expensive life saving operation and she sells the house. As mentioned previously, maybe she dies before you. Anything can happen. Yet, you post here how the house is yours because you can put a caveat on it. The question whether she would have still "loved" you had you not bought her land and a house is for another thread, but most would agree that had you not, you probably wouldn't be together right now. Not exactly a solid foundation for a relationship, yet, you want to preach on here about "love."

Article 18 relies on the Provisions of Article 19. When I asked for your "interpretation" of the Provisions, your reply was, and I quote, "Forget about Article 19." It's laughable. I merely said I would like to research more on the Provisions of Article 19, and their effect on Article 18. It wouldn't matter how many people on here agree with your interpretation, it's how the law is applied, and the way the ATO and Court/s implement that law. "Forget about Article 19" isn't exactly "crossing T's and dotting I's" is it?

You work all your adult life to barely exist in your latter years, yet boast on here how you own properties. You can't even dine out even once a week. You must watch a lot of "free" TV.

Get in touch with Surfshark and tell them to refresh one or more of their UK IP Addresses. Eventually, as UK expats all around the world see that this Surfshark server works with WH, then WH will blacklist that IP Address and your contact Surfshark again and so the Merry-Go-Round continues. If you have friends or family back in the UK, you can VPN into their router, if it's a half decent router, and not locked by the telco. This requires some technical knowledge of Port Forwarding. If they are capable of setting it up, get them to email you the VPN configuration file. If you / they can do this, you are done with WH blacklisting, forever, provided you don't share your personal VPN with 20 of your friends. For many, this will be too difficult, so, if you don't mind spending a few quid, I suggest you have a look at the below product. It's plug and play for your friend / relative in the UK. They do nothing but plug into power and into their router. Nothing more for them to do. You then do the same to the companion dongle in Thailand and connect to it's WiFi with a default password, which you can change. If you buy the companion dongle, there is no annual subscription, ever. The two mini routers make a constant VPN, and the speed is good. Whenever you want to go to a UK geoblocked website, you just connect to the AlwaysHome WiFi signal, then, for general surfing in Thailand, you connect to your home router's WiFi signal. If you want to just buy the home dongle for your friend / relative, and you use their app, there is an annual fee. https://www.homingsystems.com If all of this is too difficult for you, or your friends or relative, or you don't want to spend the money, I suggest you try a decentralized VPN. You pay really small money, usually in the form of crypto, to rent bandwidth off someone in the UK, usually at a residential address. Decentralized VPN's are reasonably new in the market. Due to being pay as you go, I have played with Mysterium and it it works for me. I keep it as a backup. https://www.mysteriumvpn.com If you persist with commercial VPN's, you will always be getting blacklisted. The above fixes the problem, permanently. I have a commercial VPN for privacy, and a personal VPN back to a router in my home country for geoblocking.

Did you read my post? I agreed with you to a point. Where I disagreed with you is having an Australia citizen who has lived and worked overseas most of their life, and never paid tax in Australia, return back to Australia at 65 or 67, receive the pension, and fly back out the next day. I would see this as "just pure theft" from the Australian tax payers. You seem to think it's fine, as if it's some kind of birthright. In this case, what does the Australia government / tax payer "owe" this person? Zero. They have to put something in place to stop the above. They set it at 2 years. I have suggested a perhaps more fairer system, based on "buying in" if overseas, or "paying in" in the form of tax, if inside Australia. The UK has a similar system. I have posted a list of countries that Australia has a social security agreement with and Thailand is not one of them. That's probably for another thread.

As mentioned in another thread, you might consider enabling roaming on that sim and keeping it on the network, as Two Factor Authentication (2FA) slowly becomes compulsory for many businesses. I rang a call center in Australia last week and before the staff member could even access my account I had to tell them the 6 digit code they sent to my Aussie sim card / phone number. I would not be surprised if the banks start to implement this for internet banking in the future.

Late to the thread, and you probably already have your new vacuum, but Dyson are available in Thailand. They are a leading global brand of vacuum cleaner. https://www.dyson.co.th/en-TH/products/vacuum-cleaners

Couldn't stop laughing at your post for 4 weeks. Finally composed myself in order to post again.

Hopefully, the proposed changes to residency tax laws will not make this year's May budget. The Labor government has shown an interest in the proposed changes, with the Assistant Treasurer stating they are in the government's "in tray." (link previously provided) Also, the Labor government moved the proposed changes onto the consultation stage, which has since ended. (link previously provided) This tends to show that both parties have shown a willingness to pass this legislation. https://www.pwc.com.au/insights/federal-budget-2023/analysis-and-insights/unenacted-measures.html "There are several tax measures announced by the former Government that are outstanding with no indication of whether the current Government intends to proceed with them, including the previously announced changes to the tax residency rules for individuals and companies, and reforms to Division 7A (relating to private company deemed dividends)."

Checking in on Australia's debt clock. https://australiandebtclock.com.au "She'll be right, mate."

That's a shortwinded admission that I didn't use the word "anyway" in my post. How did you manage to mess that personal attack up so bad?

Weren't you the one that begged me to "come out and play" and boasted how you "shamed me" and I left with my "tail between my legs." For someone who believes their "interpretation" is right, and everyone else's is wrong, you have been quiet lately. I guess that's out of embarrassment.

Wrong, as usual. Never sent money for a sick buffalo. Never bought property here. I have nothing in Thailand I couldn't walk away from tomorrow. You, on the other hand...................

Quite a few on the list. https://www.dss.gov.au/about-the-department/international/international-social-security-agreements/current-international-social-security-agreements

Why would you think that an Aussie who has lived and worked overseas for most of they life, without paying a cent of tax in Australia, be able to come home at 65 or 67 and put their hand out for the pension, just to turn around and leave again? That would be "just pure theft" from the Australian tax payers, and I suggest, that's what the 2 years is for. When you look at it in this way, 2 years is generous, not to mention, the person receives the pension upon arrival. Where the 2 years is unfair is when someone lives and works and pays tax in Australia for most of their working life, then retires early overseas, say around late 50's, and a few years later, come retirement age, are told they have to stay in Australia for 2 years to achieve portability. It appears the system is based on time, rather than the amount of tax paid. Maybe something closer to the UK system would be fairer, where you can buy into the pension, regardless of geographic location, which is a little like our Super scheme.

Does your friend have dual citizenship? If so, that may be the reason.

+1. They can do everything via email, print, sign, scan, and internet banking.

Set up an Australian Pay As You Go mail forwarding account. Here's one from the first page of Google. I can't recommend them. Just found them on a Google search as an example to show. https://hotsnail.com.au Go online and buy one of the sim cards mentioned. I recommend Aldi Mobile. $15 a year for 365 validity. You use the Aussie address of the mail forwarding business. That business then posts your mail to you in Thailand, or anywhere else in the world. You will have to email copies of ID, but it will get activated. Then, go online and enable roaming. It's free to receive SMS when roaming. You should be right from then on, provided you recharge every year and don't let the sim drop off the network.

Where's the rest of your expenses? Transport. Do you have a car? If so, how much for insurance, maintenance, and petrol. What about food? Do you eat? Do you buy healthy, but expensive food, or cheap, processed, and unhealthy food? What about entertainment? Do you catch a show, or sporting event, or dine out sometimes? Do you go to the local bowling club? Do you drink alcohol? Clothing. Do you buy any? You'll have to one day. Telecommunications. Do you have a mobile phone and internet? How much a month for these? Household products. Cleaning items. Eg. dish washing, laundry, toilet paper etc. Household appliances. TV, Fridge etc. They don't last forever. Where's your budget for them? You mention "rent." Even for those pensioners that own their own home, what about council rates and insurance, then maintenance? Health insurance. You can't rely on Medicare these days. You mention energy supplement, but don't mention the total cost of the energy bill itself. That's heating and cooling, during winter and summer. Water bill. No mention of it. You mentioned only one outgoing, and that was rent. What about the rest you need to survive, and then some little things to have a basic quality of life?

Yes, the rumor is true, and the human being you eventually get to speak to is based in an Indian call center.

AN's biggest online competitor. Probably can't post the name here, so I won't, but the core group of haters on the Australian forum may very well be working for AN's competitor. How much damage to AN have they done already? Serial reporters working for the opposition under the guise they are so offended by a member and / or their posts in order to frustrate them and have them banned, so that member gives up and goes to the website they work for. Guess what, I'm still here.

I have a friend who no longer reads or posts on AN because he got sick of being put on a holiday and now posts on "the other forum." It's possible some members, or the same member but with multiple usernames, is working for the other forum. George would do well to recognize these "serial reporters" as possibly playing for the other team.