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Exactly my point - it doesn't, yet UK residents in these countries do not have their pensions frozen. Oops. I had missed your point. My bad. As I understand it, that's due to treaties that probably benefit the UK in some manner. There is no such treaty with LOS. But there is with the Phils. I'm wondering if any Brits will be moving their residence from Thailand to the Phils to kill 2 birds. To get their full, fair adjusted pension and to dodge any recently announced Thai income taxes. Seems to me that spending half their time outside of Thailand may be a good idea. Or is that a flawed plan? In any case, I'm just spitballing.

Was that recent?

I guess I'd ask if anyone has been refused entry without first being warned to get a visa next time? Being pulled aside for extra scrutiny isn't the same as "almost refused". It happened to me once and I'm convinced that the IO was just curious why I was the only white face in a huge holiday queue of Malaysians coming in at a land border. I think they took pity on me way back in the hour long holiday queue. They pulled me out of that scrum, for extra scrutiny. I was pleased.

Isn't that the same city where the Dem politicians insisted that the illegals only took over one apartment complex, so nothing to see here? It's the same state, for sure.

Dollars to donut holes, the MSM starts doing their "From in front of the White House" reporting in front of a green screen so they don't have to report the murders. Now the WH needs to send Leavitt and Noem and Homan out do interviews in front of those posters.

Ostracized? What's also interesting is that he got a front row seat.

That's 4D chess. The posters sit right where reporters usually do their blurbs "From in front of the White House."

Though the OP is a good heads up, I'd suggest that someone without 14 years of experience needn't worry so much. There's people reading in that are now unnecessarily worried about their 2nd or 3rd ever entry. And even with 14 years of entering Thailand, the OP was still allowed in on visa exempt after filling in some paperwork and answering some questions. Which is a good cautionary tale to have your documents and cash lined up.

How does that benefit the British economy? Or the British taxpayer?

Nope. Outer Slobovia is just what I use when I don't want to offend any real country. Some of them are downright sensitive.

I go to a lot of trade shows in Thailand and see how easy it is to buy packaging equipment that can easily knock off any pill bottle and print any label. And press any pill in any size, shape and color. Make of that what you will. Or walk down Sukhumvit and ask yourself if all those blue pills they're selling are real. Realistically, there's no way that Lazada can stop that kind of thing. (Not that I trust the brick and mortar shops in the malls, either).

I can 'splain that, though many may not like the explanation and I'm not sure I agree with it. To your former employer, it makes no difference where they send the money. It's gone to them, whether you live in the UK or Outer Slobovia. To the gub'ment, it makes a huge difference. A pension pound sent to a UK resident bounces around the economy several times, being taxed and creating GDP along the way. A pension pound sent to Outer Slobovia is gone. Sucks, I know. But fair play to them that they haven't changed the rules. It was that way when retirees made the decision to retire in Thailand. (I'm open to being ridiculed and corrected if that's wrong).

Yet another wingnut conspiracy theory turns out to be a spoiler alert.

I doubt that it'll be made in Thailand soon (if ever), but here's some eye candy from a company backed by Xiaomi, for $32,000 USD in China. 0-100 km/hr in less than 3 seconds. It's called the JMEV-01, but you can also Google SC-01. Released for public sale April 15. https://carnewschina.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/jmev_01_launch-800x450.jpg https://img-s.msn.cn/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1DIguk.img?w=768&h=1826&m=6

Is Trump the most corrupt US president in history? No. That dubious distinction probably goes to Joe Biden. At least in my lifetime. But thanks for asking. Edit: Though it's a close race with LBJ.

I honestly believe that more and more are trying on despicable behavior so they have something to post, for the clicks. Just look at some of the stupid "challenges" where they do something stupid for the sole purpose of posting it. Some of it just irritating, but some is downright mean and even dangerous.

Because he'll get more money?

Honest question here... Other than "I like Thailand" (or the Thai family) what would be the impediment to picking up sticks, cashing in your 400K baht (or 800K) and moving to the Philippines? I'm looking more for a comparison of the legal and financial hurdles than a discussion of the relative merits of life in LOS vs Phils.. Is that even doable? And if a Brit did move to the Phils, would their pension be boosted all at once or would it just start where it was in Thailand and be adjusted each year?

Legal immigrants. Duh.

Obama and Clinton didn't have activist lefty judges fighting them every step of the way. Not because deporting them is (or was) wrong, but Orange Man Bad. They won't let Trump succeed, no matter how much they have to damage the country to fight him.

Joe or Eugene?

Can you imagine the screeching if they didn't let the mothers take their kids with them, because they're citizens and she's not eligible? It doesn't matter what Team Trump does. The MSM will paint them to be monsters. Like when Team Trump "put kids in cages", but what they were really doing is keeping out the pedophiles. Team Biden lost track of 300,000 kids. There's going to be documentaries about that in decades to come. Like those Canadian schools for indigenous kids.

While that well and truly sucks, I suspect he's doing better than a retiree that's getting the full adjusted pension back in the UK. The saving grace back home is that a retiree can pick up some work. Not legal in Thailand. It should be a cautionary tale for anyone retiring with nothing but a state pension. You really need a nestegg, or you're going to struggle. Edit: On an aside, why not move to the Philippines?

Tough crowd.

I got an SMS from AIS in Thai, mentioning ID. I figured that it was related to this. So this month when I came to Bangkok, I went by an AIS shop in T21 and asked. They told me it was only for Thai people. Go figure...