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Taiwanese man dies after hospital in Thailand refuses to treat him | Thaiger (thethaiger.com)

It won't be the radiation that kills most of the population, it will be the nuclear winter, caused by smoke, that will plunge the world into freezing darkness for decades and make it virtually impossible to grow food. Seethe second post in this thread.

It seems he also blames the Chinese for his actions. He stated a group of them trespassed on the property earlier in the day and observed his wife in the pool. He thought they were back! As is often the case with this sort of incident, money talks. If he offers enough to his victim, it won't get to court. May cost him a couple of months' rent.

Which continent did you think included the countries joining North and South and all the scattered Island nations in the region? I will admit I couldn't have drawn the boundary between the two continents. Check out who's included in the continent of Oceania to really blow your mind .

Try to understand what is being explained to you. A Doctor (Ophthalmologist) will not make your glasses. It's the same as expecting an architect to lay the bricks in your house. You need to go to an Optometrist shop to get your eyes tested and glasses made. There must be plenty of shops with English speaking staff in Pattaya. How well trained is anyone's guess.

The Thai wife won the lottery by finding a very rich falang husband and people here really believe she wouldn't support him to the fullest extent!!

Perhaps because he doesn't own it. From the link: "You know, I am not paying a million baht a month to rent this villa for you to sit, OK?”

Yes, every time I go Soi 6. Glitter Man?

That's certainly one way to approach the situation, but becoming one of the indolent living on the dole would not be my lifestyle choice. Good luck with your retirement on the government purse.

It's always fine until it's not. It's quite possible for one person to ride, or drive, on Thailand's roads for decades without incident, but that doesn't mean those roads are safe statistically. It just means you won the lottery on what are proven to be among the most dangerous traffic conditions on the planet. The strict rules and at times over policing, in our home countries can be irksome, but Thailand's alternative of virtually nil policing of road rules and drunk driving until after an accident, means you need luck to survive the carnage. Riding a bicycle "on Sukhumvit Road, in the Sattahip district of Chon Buri, late on Sunday night" is pushing your luck.

I consider the fools to be those who have to live off the pittance handout from the government.

As stated, I don't have the need to tell Centrelink anything. I left Australia at age 62, before qualifying for the OAP. I had/still have a comfortable superannuation pension and other assets, which pretty much would have disqualified me from the govt pension at 65 (I used their calculators to check). So, to answer your question, no, I couldn't have claimed the OAP a few years later. Selling the house for much more than double what I paid 8 years earlier and organizing a second pension stream with the cash certainly put that out of reach. With my intention to move permanently, and having previously endured the pitfalls of renting property, considering the age of the property and likely ongoing R&M, the sky-high property market at the time, selling my house was the only sensible option. Anything else I can help you with?

Not in my house mate.. But, but you can't be serious. But, but my house doesn't have a grinch with a stick to repel children. I didn't feel the need to specify, but the various kids being babysat by a tv (or playing on their phones) at my place, are all related in some way to my wife. I can't keep up with all their names but do know to whom they belong. Their parents (or grandparents) are generally working in our fields at the time. I have a self-contained suite in the house and am really only affected by the volume these kids need on the living room tv.

In a way it's a pity that such a comprehensive Migration Report was based on the year 2019. While graphs of the dramatic drop-off of arrivals midyear make for interesting viewing it does despoil the true statistics. The next one may restore some equilibrium. I just noticed something similar was posted above. Apologies.

Did you read the report? Before reading the report can I guess migrant workers from neighboring countries would be the largest group?

By definition, those living here don't have a tourist or other temporary visa. The figure given has to be taken from PR and non-imm visa arrivals and extensions.

That time machine is turned on again. It would be nice if it also provided the numbers that were drawn on 1 march!

Noone deserves death at such a young age. However, the victim, while young and innocent looking, was a member of a rival drug gang and had himself been implicated in several violent crimes. He was just one of about 5 murders of young people in this cesspool town.

Seems there's still a few Shri Krishnas around.

I now live in Issan where the cultural practice pf dumping kids on the grandparents to raise, while the parents enjoy a quasi-single life in the city, is still very prevalent. Mostly, the GPs also work, usually in the fields, so have little time to coddle kids. The smart phone and iPad are used extensively to keep the kids occupied. Despite the usual austere village lifestyle, all, from about 2 or 3yo up, have various devices constantly playing games, cartoons, etc. I often find their model is better than mine and feel I should upgrade to stay ahead. Annoyingly, various kids are often dumped in the falang house where they take over and expertly manipulate the big living room tv at full volume. I lost one large screen tv when small kids whacked cartoon characters with sticks. Edit: As I posted this some kid just walked in and turned on the tv!

I'm from Perth, retired in Issan on a farm I bought, but obviously in the wife's name. Haven't been booted out yet, but it would hurt her more than me as I have a couple of permanent income streams which fund daily living here. She would struggle without that coming in. I could live comfortably elsewhere in Thailand in a rental with a hired maid/carer if it ever came to that. I sold my house in Australia as I do not plan to ever return there. I am Centrelink independent; my income would probably preclude qualifying for any OAP. Certainly not worth travelling there to apply. I haven't checked rental prices in the Perth for years, but at your age, would advise to rent rather than buy. Your cash reserves can be better utilized, as a poster above suggested. I presume your kids don't live in the central city, so the Murray St rental mentioned above is probably unrealistic as a guide. Perth is reputably the longest city in the world so you may end up living a long way from the city itself and have little reason to go there. (cricket?)

The OPs rank is that of Star member. Click on the blue and purple star shaped thing. I'm unsure why the words Advanced Member are written underneath.

I found the suggestion that I was soliciting for trump to be deeply insulting. I have previously thought more highly of your posts on this forum.

Not soliciting (thanks for the insult!), just pointing out a very newsworthy facet of this topic and the depths to which this man and his crazy disciples will sink. Censorship by hiding relevant news behind rules has become very common everywhere.

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