KhunHeineken

$240AUD per week is around 20,000 Baht a month. You will not get a penthouse for 20,000 baht a month, but you could easily pay the rent on a half decent condo in a tourist area of Thailand for 20,000 baht a month. The rest of your disposable income would then go a lot further in Thailand than it would in Australia. Why stay in Australia?

Has Australia got any better since???? Eg. housing crisis, high cost of living.

In our minds, or is it reality? I think most people would agree "the boomers" saw the best of Australia. Why did it have to go down hill? Why couldn't Australia adapt and the prosperity continue?

Meanwhile, after a shift trolling Beach Road, they go back to their room where they do overtime on Only Fans. The only reason they are unhappy is because he didn't give them any money for filming them.

In next week's news, Bas is now in the Volunteer Tourist Police.

You know the saying here, "Keep your enemies close, and you friends out of "range."

........with their mia noi.

The app actually locked me out, forcing me to go to a branch. You may want to plan ahead and just go and register anyway. Eventually it will catch up to you.

Sure, but it may be worth 25% to 30% less as an expat in Thailand, in the years to come. That's the same AUD, but for 30% less baht for it. It may not afford a decent lifestyle in Thailand in the future. Some expats may have to move to the village, or move to a cheaper country. Eg. Cambodia.

That comment says more about you than me. I live in Thailand. I derive my income from Australia. I have never paid 1 cent in non resident tax. This is because I use a current loophole, and by maintaining a domicile in Australia, and an appearance of having the "intention" of returning, I can still be classed as a resident for tax purposes. Eg. have a house, car, utility bills, bank accounts, sim card, club memberships, friends, family etc. Basically, not severed ties with Australia. There are proposed changes to the current 90 year tax residency laws that, if / when passed, will see Australia move to a physical presence and time based model, not unlike many other countries, then, as I have read the proposed changes, expats will either have to do 45 days in Australia every year, or be prepared to pay 30% non resident tax, and this will include pensioners as well, as the pension is deemed an income. I never said you were. It takes one to know one.

Economically, Australia has been going down the toilet for several years. The economy is surviving on the credit card. When that credit gets maxed out, wait and see what happens to the AUD. It will fall off a cliff. $1 Trillion debt for a country with only 28 million people, and nothing left to privatize or sell off. No surplus for the next 10 years should push Australia's credit to the limit. What a mess successive governments have left for our grandchildren.

Are you happy now?

I remember seeing Yellow Tail wine in, from memory, I think it was Malaysia, many years ago. I remember how cheap it was, so I compared its price to one of the large alcohol retailers in Australia and it was around the same price in Malaysia, despite the transport costs and import duties, so, they had to be selling it at a loss. A quick Google search and I see it's selling for 63 Malaysian Ringgit now. That's about $23.25AUD each. Dan Murphy's in Australia sell it at $8AUD a bottle. As mentioned, sell it cheap, even at a loss, break into the market, take some market share from your competitors, force your competitors to compete, then up the price going forward. A common tactic, globally. https://albertwines2u.com.my/products/yellow-tail-shiraz?srsltid=AfmBOoquAirFXBZ_iTaW11vi1GTfIjQAKhC1-jmfNINVcrCSE-eouBn7

Errrr, he said it's the first time he has seen the D drive completely empty, so, I would think he has seen it with some data in the past.

Then create a war to absolve the debt.

Who said they reside outside Australia? They just have frequent one month holidays. Just another reason for the proposed changes to tax residency laws, but that in another thread. It's the Australia Passport Office official government website. Now, if you are doing something untoward, perhaps even illegal, best not to "educate" on a public forum. Yes, you are. Best "educate" yourself on the law.

No unlimited plan, so not for everyone.

Did you try other USB ports on your desktop? Did you try a different cable connecting the drive and the desktop? Also, try plugging in the drive to the desktop and restarting the desktop.

Are you running two disk drives, or one disk drive with a partition? If two disk drives, perhaps the second drive has died. You will need to replace it. If only one disk drive, seems strange you lose all the data on one partition, but not the other.

Perhaps you can ask another AI how to get rid of an opposition AI.

I'm still middle aged and a self funded retiree. I didn't want to die working. Like I said, one can't be far away from expiring. https://www.passports.gov.au/concurrent "A concurrent passport costs the same as a standard passport but is only valid for up to 3 years." Sure, but I have met a lot of FIFO Aussie workers in South East Asia, meanwhile, they are negative gearing a house / houses back in Australia, with the tax payer helping to pay it / them off. Same Same. A month rotation is a month rotation. Fills up a 32 page passport pretty quick.

Well, nobody wants to die working. One can't be far away from expiry. Welcome. So do many FIFO workers. It's just a revenue raiser. I don't believe for one minute it was due to declining demand.

That's the problem. Phone resolution. Holding the phone still. The lighting. Looking at the phone screen to center your face, rather than looking at the phone camera. The background. Changes to your face, such as facial hair. And so on. It can now take a considerable amount of time to do what used to take seconds.

Posted similar in the Australia Forum. http://australiandebtclock.com.au Australia due to hit $1 Trillion dollars debt sometime in the 2026 calendar year. A lot of Australian pensioners and self funded retirees would be thinking, "I don't care. I get my pension every fortnight.................." The problem is, with such high debt, comes a higher risk of default, and should Australia lose its AAA credit rating, Australians could be looking at 15 baht to the Australian Dollar. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-28/s-p-warns-australia-s-aaa-rating-at-risk-from-election-promises No surplus for the next 10 years. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-25/chalmers-federal-budget-preview/105092172

Was thinking the same. The OP states, "Why don't the transfers I make from my bank............." This lead me to believe the OP was manually transferring the funds, and did not set up scheduled transfers with the bank. Of so, it could depend on what time of the day in Thailand the OP does the transfer, and the international time zones, particularly if an intermediary bank in a third country is involved.