ozyjon

Why would you want to in the first place

It's all just too complicated.

Everything i ever did in Thailand i was happy with

no regrets

EXCEPT 1

I would have built a shack instead of a 5 star home

now occupied by the parents living in it with a pig in

what used to be our bedroom, a waste of effort and

money.

Researching the topic, i am alarmed at two things

(1) Peat swamp soil is the result of thousands of years of accumulation of organic

material. Left alone, it is one of the most effective landscapes on earth for sequestering carbon.

But when drained and ignited, it releases a carbon bomb into the atmosphere.

(2) The animals, vegetation and people that are displaced by this.

- - - WHAT CAN WE DO - - -

The answer is simple, people power, find out what products use palm oil

and blockade them, don't buy their products same for the paper pulp, make

it a public awareness campaign and put them out of business, the underlying

factor is greed, you can make a difference.

In Europe a new law state ''no more free plastic bags''

they cost €0.10 cents each and supermarkets report

low sales of the checkout plastic bags, sales of rolls

of plastic bags are going through the roof, you can't

just stop years of habit, they must have an alternative.

W.C. Fields

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

I exercise extreme self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water.

I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve.

Fields gave this rationale for not drinking water:
Fish <deleted> in it.

A woman drove me to drink, and I'll be a son-of-a-gun but I never even wrote to thank her.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew.

We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than

anywhere else.

We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus,

we'll be seeing six or seven.

I have many friends in Thailand that hold office, like

lawyer, government workers, police and more,

i have often visited them and stay with them in

their house, nothing has ever been done, no

forms, passport ? didn't know anything about

that? I hold Aussie passport.

Who cares, if they make it too hard i'll just go elsewhere

and take my money with me, i have no attachment to

Thailand, built a house, got kicked out when it was finished,

managed to sell the car, gifted the motor cycle, now i do 6

months in the tropics, 6 months in Europe, i want to own

nothing except the money in a (secure off shore) bank.

So all this bitching over what visa to get, visa runs bull

dust, should i buy a condo,, it's all too much, i'm so happy

to be a nomad 6 month's of the year in South East Asia,

wherever i lay my hat,,,,,,,

It angers me also that in your case, a US citizen, worked

hard payed taxes, stars and stripes etc, YOU HAVE NO

RIGHTS yet if your wife claimed to be a refugee or Mexican

maybe that's not a good one, let's go with refugee, they

would welcome her with open arms, the inequality in the

world sickens me.

Next time your lawnmower is finished replace the grass with

Japanese grass, you will never need to mow, or like my family

did, buy a buffalo.

one bart,,,two bart,,,three bart,,, whose counting

Overheard at a Lao grocery store,,,

I would like a bag of Kip's please.

lets say, you decide moving finally to Thailand

THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO ME

Many of us have gone through the experience,

now it's your turn, let us know how it went.

I'm glad i did away with my retirement visa,

now i do 6 months either side, much easier.

6 months in Thai, 6 months in Europe.

A Thai girl i met in Sydney, has now got P.R.

Permanent Residency, she will import her 2

children followed by her mother who will be

entitled to free medical and welfare, try it

the other way around.

I once arrived at a 5 star hotel in Bangkok and at reception was

a tall skinny guy holding a glass of red wine welcome drink, had

a white T-shirt that had seen better days and looked dirty, a pair of

small shorts and thongs (flipper flops) a real quality tourist, saved

up his loose change for a holiday in Thailand, i was very embaresed

to be a westerner, the reception girls looked really beautiful and smart,

probably had more money than this high quality tourist.

Funny looking at young western women showing off their

Laos language skills, at any market, can't speak a word

but ''kop jai lai lai'' every chance they can, it made me

laugh one time at the markets, it was all i could hear.

All the good girls have been take

only ugly ones left

don't even bother going to Thailand

did someone say India, now that's

a place for me.

https://youtu.be/ajMqhpCBPAY

Let's go the other way,, what happens if later, years later you

decide you want to return, back to square one, in life we get

ahead sometimes with family connections, friends we made

at school and general networking, who will you network with

in Thailand, buffaloes don't speak English.

plastic bottle mousetrap

love the Koreans

use peanut butter

https://youtu.be/QDgAuVK1Br0

what about vientiane -laos

If Trump becomes the US President, I would think that, if you are American, Mexico should not even be on your list. If you like latin flavor, try Ecuador or Panama..

I recently read a story on Bloomberg.com on the top 5 places to retire

and Ecuador was at number 1, it surprised me, i'm seriously thinking

of a holiday there, Panama was also there, we hear that Colombia is

also a nice country to live but what worries me is what the country is

famous for so i pass, don't want any red flags on my passport.

I agree with your remark.

I went to the Thai embassy in Lisbon,,

the lady at the desk told me the Embassy

in Lisbon will only issue Visas for Thailand if

you have a residency permit for Portugal, <deleted>,

i have an Australian passport, i went and got

it in the UK

Soon the focus will go elsewhere

always does.

I would rather pay 500 THB fine,than loose my passport,

to get a new one would cost more, maybe they want to

see the passport to see your visa.