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Seems odd from the London website it shows non o retirementhttps://london.thaiembassy.org/en/page/retirement-visa, i would not advice the O-A visa as it will tie you into a few approved medical insurers better to arrange cover from a decent insurer You can always enter Thailand visa exempt/tourist visa and apply inside Thailand( non o retirement) it is a 2 step process but easy enough

I see this lady https://www.bangkokhospital.com/en/doctor/prof-dr-somlak-chuengsamarn my Diabetes was severe 3 years ago, i am no longer on medication, i just have 6 monthly check ups, she now teaches/practices in the public health system but does a day or so private work, i see her at Bumrungrad she does a morning shift there once a week. as far as diet/exercise goes, there was little on that aspect from any of the doctors i saw. it seems here it is down to the patient do the research, as there a number of medications available. you will have options by going private as opposed to the public health system

In Bangkok, in middle class families they hire nursing care for the most, their children have jobs and their own families(they drop in daily) , the cost varies and the standard varies, my partners mother needed H24 care after an operation, through an agency they hired someone for 25 000. after 2 weeks she was sacked, if no one was around she basically stopped working and would do nothing she was asked to do, but when someone was around she would appear to help, though it was quite clear she had no nursing skills let alone training, from a more established firm the cost was 125 000 baht a month for 24 hour( not sure what nursing skills they had) fortunately her mother improved enough so care is not needed at the moment The worker was entitles to a daily food allowance think it was 50 baht, remember most of these people have no qualifications or experience, and there are a lot of Myanmar people employed in this filed, it is the same the world over who wants a job of looking after a strangers elderly parents

Had an email from my tenant showing me my water bill has gone up 30%, being a suspicious person logged into my water account and it is true yearly bill nearly 900 pounds, why are people not out protesting don't even start me on the council tax and gas/electricity increases

Yes Chaeng wattana has step frees access, there are also wheel chairs at the entrances, i like the other poster seen some very very frail people been wheeled in, the IOs do give wheel chair users priority so at least no queueing

Utter rubbish, why would Russia want any of the bankrupt European countries if he did he would have invaded years ago, and if NATO thought Europe was under threat it would have gone to war in 2022, Europe has not built its forces up in 3 years as it knows there is no threat , this war is about natural resources that the west wants, and getting Ukraine into NATO, the lives lost do not matter to the defense industry they have made billions out of Ukraine. billions out of Afghanistan, 2 gulf wars Libya, remember global Jihad that was going to destroy the western world, well lucky a few billion was spent on that, and in the last 40 years, has the average person in the west life style improved And remember the people of western Ukraine are ethnically Russian and speak Russian, it was Zelenskyy who was banning speaking Russian and banning the Russian orthodox church etc etc, anyone with a basic knowledge of world affairs knows that the Russians have been goaded for years over Ukraine, anyway China is the new threat, billions must be spent or we will all be speaking Chinese. don't forget India, print Billions more or else

If his Alzheimer's is bad. he is going to need a fit to fly certificate at the very least and may well need a qualified medical person as escort, depending how bad it is, the airline may refuse to carry him. I have seen this a few times and as usual it is the families abroad that shoulder the burden

I was at CW today for the non 0 90 day, they wanted TM30, rental contract valid at least 3 months the also wanted proof of payment to the landlord (ie receipt) they did accept a screenshot showing transfer to their bank account, 800 000 in bank that can be on the day ,also they wanted bank certificate(letter) dated today, a copy of landlords house book and their ID, as well as copy of your current stamp and copy passport bio page, and completed form TM86

What i will say through experience as a farang, It has nothing to do with the hospital everything depends on the doctor/specialist never let a hospital dictate the doctor, you select your doctor, using the hospital websites (they should have the bios of all doctors), the excellent service you can receive means you go straight to a specialist and not waste weeks/months dealing with a GP. Make sure you keep your international health insurance in place, currently health care costs are going up around 20% per annum

I retired at that age, the first thing you need to sort out is Health Insurance, i am self insured, what are you going to do all day? the first 6 months is relaxing then it hits, with no hobbies interests etc you will be bored out of your mind and end up drinking most days at home(seen it so many times with people living in rural locations) I live in Bangkok, with dogs, 7 aquariums. used to go to the driving range, do all my own cooking using quality products, there is not enough time in the day to get things done, weekends cinema maybe eat out, or down to Hua Hin. for me average 100 000 a month and i do go abroad a few times a year for holiday

All i can say if you want a decent pie, make your own

Thai health insurance jumps up a lot every 5 years so at 66 you have gone up a band (it will also go up a lot at 71) they yearly increases seem to be linked to inflation, though i am impressed they did not just add exclusions to your policy

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Correct, Starmer this week or next is due to to announce defence spending to rise to 2.5% of GDP, it is about 2% now and under Sunak who said it will be rising to 3% of GDP within 5 years, this alone will add billions a year to the tax payer, unless they can cut billions else where,

Simply wrong, Zelensky won his election on making peace with Russia, the US and its allies wanted war, they wanted Ukraine to be in NATO and they wanted the resources of eastern Ukraine (it is a proxy war with the west using Ukraine manpower) Russia always said it would not accept NATO nuclear weapons in Ukraine. The US and NATO have spent billions on this war so far and Russia has destroyed the Ukrainian army, make no mistake all those high tech weapons are not fired by Ukrainians, they are fired by the western allies using western satellites and information, the info input into the targets is done by the western allies, we in the west have been at war with Russia from the start, and it is not going very well for the west, Ukraine. IF the info is true and the west are now going to target points deep in Russia then you are simply at war with Russia and how are the Russians to know if the missiles are nuclear or not? they will assume they are, and we all will know what happens then. Remember the lies we were all told about the weapons of mass destruction that Iraq had, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and the billions the defense industry is making out of the never ending wars, why not spend all that money on the health service and invest in your countries infra structure