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I'm doing an ongoing cost benefit analysis, at some stage the Phillipines is gonna look very attractive. At the moment, cos of my long residence here, I get stuff very cheap, it doesn't make sense to relocate. That may change. My UK State pension constitutes about a third of my total pension. The problem is my committments: a woman, dogs, a pick-up,, all the usual stuff. I would really like to end my days here, whether life will allow, we 'll see.

To address the question, walking stick defense is probably the best option. At 62, you can get away with carrying a cane. Personally, I'm all for risk avoidance. Don't bounce so well, these days (67). Apart from that, get psychologically attuned to violence, as Mike Tyson said: "everyone has a plan until they get to get punched in the mouth". At 62, how you get this, I don't know. Maybe do some Muai Thai stuff, just to ground you in reality. As far as I can see most Thai confrontations are based on hidden knives, guns, or mob violence. I can tell you one thing, having dabbled in a lot of these things in my youth, traditional martial arts won't work, and I include MMA in that definition. It's all great for one on one confrontations with rules.You might also want to look at "Get Tough" by W.E. Fairbairn. Good enough for the British commandos during WWII, good enough for me. I must say you should've learned all this stuff in the schoolýard, coming to it this late in the game is rather telling of modern society. To sum up: risk avoidance, develop your situational awareness, psychological toughness, and have one or two tricks up your sleeve if push comes to shove, and give yourself an edge, carry a cane.

Gallows humour, I suppose.

My main UK based pension is CPI linked so I'm expecting that to keep pace with Thai inflation, albeit with a one year time lag, so long as sterling stays relatively stable. My big worry, given geoplolitical developments (which I won't go into here), is that sterling may tank, and I mean really tank. Given the CPI time lag a significant drop, say 30-50% or more, is going to give me real problems (and I'm not sure whether the CPI thing would even be maintained should we enter a super high inflation environment),

Alternative media is reporting that the mRNA vaccine may fix the antibody response so that the immune system cannot properly respond to variants. Apparently, this may have messed up the typical natural cycle whereby viruses decline in virulence over time. They are predicting that there is a high risk of a more deadly version emerging affecting the mRNA vaccinated. Make of that what you will, ravings of a madman or whatever, but for those interested Jacob Dreizin has a video outlining his concerns on the Rumble platform (obviously would be banned on YouTube).