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Give it a rest Jingthing. You know you're not in my intellectual.league and I can see right through your poisonous obsfucation. I have seen no one else propose that Trump will enact a coup after the election. Only you - but you've always been a special type of Internet "personality."

I agree. The change in the last 15 years is already astonishing. By 2040 the city will no longer be attractive to retirees. The same applies to Phuket. There will be no "idyllic bubbles" left. Property developers will.make sure of that.

My first stint as an expat was as a child in 1970, in West Africa. I bet most of you hadn't been further than Bognor Regis by that point. Over the last fifty-four years I've observed more than my fair share of morons, alcoholics, mentally ill, personality disordered weirdos in the expat community. And before you start, you will have met them too so you know I'm correct. Here today we have someone saying - my Thai wife couldn't get me Thai citizenship or the ability to buy land - so I won't bother ensuring she has access to UK citizenship. Some of you really need to think before you post.

Off topic, just be quiet and go back to punishing your wife for things beyond her control. Cos that literally is what you are proposing. "Did your THAI wife get you to get citizenship in Thailand? Did your Thai wife help you buy a house/land in Thailand?" Farcical, repulsive answer.

Correct, utterly absurd article which tries to move the blame to the government for the husbands failing.

The bizarre thing is, you think that's a clever answer. Wake up.

Scooters are a poverty indicator, a thing that most farangs fail to recognise. My first question here was why are two 14 year olds on the road at 5am? Were they coming home from a party, were they heading for a morning market to help out their family - I don't know. Where they drunk? I don't know. But there certainly was another poverty indicator here - they ran out of fuel. Like any parent I wince when I see the age of kids on motorcycles in Thailand, but unlike the sanctimonious brigade of farangs, I know it's all down to poverty and a shocking lack of public transport alternatives. Anyway, I'm sorry for this tragic loss of life.

Two things can be true at the same time. Phuket can be a hostile, rip-off hellhole for some, and an idyllic location for the long term expat type. The sanctimonious among the expat types giggle about the continual rip-off stories in downtown Patong, but not so much when they venture into the same areas and are treated with equal contempt. Phuket is well on its way to being the second Benidorm of Thailand. I think its a good thing that Pattaya and Phuket take in that mass tourist market and give the rest of the country a chance to crack on. However, I'll put my hands up to this - I'm CM biased, but the CM we saw between 2016 and the start of COVID was also descending to Benidorm levels. That's why I and many others fled the city to the countryside. Years ago I predicted that CM would become the Singapore of the North. COVID interrupted that but with the influx of Chinese money, high speed rail plus a new international airport, downtown CM will grind to a halt. That's only the first problem - land prices downtown have gone nuts. Within twenty years cheap Chiang Mai will be eradicated. Phuket is already well down that road and property developers will choke the place to death, as they will also do in CM.

I've put this into the general forum as the issues here will also affect expatriates married to Thais. Brits have a tendency to think that by merely marrying a foreign national they can wave a magic wand and that foreign national is automatically entitled to arrive in the UK any time they want. The truth is, your utter laziness or inability for financial reasons to gain British citizenship for your spouse will have dire results in many cases. While I'm not expecting Thailand to descend into a war zone, there are many stories over the years of Brit nationals being forced to return to the UK through financial or health reasons and being unable to bring their Thai partner with them. So if you are sitting there with a child who is a British passport holder, and a spouse, who is not, you potentially have a serious problem. This family is "angry" that the wife and mother were denied boarding. I'd be angry if after twenty years my husband ( or wife ) couldn't be bothered going through the process to get me citizenship. Here's the link to the whole story - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx25egegpx6o

No chance. It's more likely Trump will win both with a wider margin. Youa re posting you think Harris might win Texas - the poll AVERAGE has Trump in a six point lead. Tell me, in which state where Harris has a six point lead do you think Trump will win? Don't bother answering, it's worthless fantasy talk. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/texas/

I know what he did in the last election and once again, for the hard of thinking, I have continually posted that he was all wrong with his actions around J6. Your new badge of honour is to be the guy who thinks Trump is going to somehow end President-elect Harris before inauguration day. This is moon-man level stupidity. If your truly HAVE ALLOWED YOURSELF TO BELIEVE THAT then you are in a sorrier state than even I believed. ps - are you still living in Jomtien?

My question is - how did they find accommodation for 30,000 people in a town of 52,000? Was it a ghost town before?

I know what he did and personally I think his conduct around the J6 issue was appalling. You've crossed a different Rubicon here. I'm not prepared to type out what you are suggesting. And I will refrain from delivering unto you the mockery you deserve.

I'm not playing your conspiracy theorist game. I've always had a low opinion of you but, dear me, this comment is a genuine jump the shark moment.

I've been predicting a Harris win for weeks and I first tipped her as a Presidential candidate in 2018. So give it a rest with your yippering foolishness. ............................................ Different subject - where do you live these days? Are you still in Jomtien?

Dear me. Pitiful.

Are you familiar with the word if? Are you familiar with the phrase "I don't know the truth?" And it will be a cold day in hell when I take lessons in spreading lies from a demented Russian hoax conspiracy theorist.

I've read varying reports about the state of NC after the hurricane., If FEMA, as alleged, are slow-walking aid then the independents will destroy the Democrats. I don't know the truth, the people of NC will know and act accordingly.

You were never of age to ever sign up for the US military?

The question basically us- and I thought it was clear - is 232 Trump's base line? I don't see any road to victory that doesn't start with Georgia. And no road exists if he loses any state he won in 2020.

What did you do? And that's a genuine question.

I support neither and I am ex-military, I signed up to oppose communism. I'm also opposed to idiocy and childishness. Give it a rest.

Which state that Trump won in 2020 will he lose this time, if any? Or is he entering this election was a rock solid base of 232?

I'll say it again - you are on an international forum. So quit with this childish growling about "foreigners" having an opinion.

You do realise that you are commenting on a Thai related forum with an international membership, don't you? Give it a rest with this repetitive "foreigners, American politics" drivel.