BoganInParasite

My take is that the judges are either sight impaired or only managed to assess six airports.

Silly me thinking the government might be better focused on fixing the housing crisis, or providing relief to the high cost of living, or maybe the environment, etc.

We've been trying to sell land and a 4bed/4bath home (build completed early 2019) in northern Thailand for 30 months without any interest. Priced sensibly, quality build, amazing views, western kitchen, undercover parking for four cars...listed on many websites, plus our own built site and the engagement of what passes for an agent here in the remote rural wilds of northern Thailand, two of them. We are yet to get even one inspection from a genuine buyer. Bit frustrating really.

Yeah nah. Likely just leave before extension due next September and not come back.

An application on my laptop provides online weather updates for my location. It has been noticeable this year that notations of temperature near record or new record (like this morning) were quite frequent. And these have only been for higher temps, not near or new low temp records.

Seen the news today. Not going to be collected by any airline nor applied to Thais.

In the north I'd say Nan. Temps, humidity, rain, etc pretty similar to the other northern provincial capitals but the Nan River valley does seem to have less heavily air polluted days.

A lamentable lack of safety equipment there. Yes I know this is typical of a Thai worksite but hard hats and enclosed shoes would surely be an easy step and cut down on injuries.

Likely at the same rate as less corruption, better education system, better footpaths, burying cables, finishing railway lines (of several types), less social inequality and flood/drought preparation and mitigation.

You've set out enough facts for a sensible person to know it is time to move on. She made is to 27/28 without you, she can survive again that way. By all means help her on her way in a kind and generous manner if you want to feel less bad, but get rid of her. You're young enough to find another.

100% cash in Thailand. The Thai wife is a little more sophisticated and does a lot of online payments and the occasional debit card in-store.

Yeah nah, not keen on this. Happy to move towards a greater percentage to be cashless but cash needs to be there for power/comms outages.

Yeah sure. Another benefit of living in remote rural northern Thailand; no Bangkok style footpaths. Our small town and smallish provincial capital have substantially better footpaths.

My Thai wife was absolutely staggered for several trips to Australia how all cars stop, even if the pedestrian was not yet on the crossing strip. I guess I was as well by the no stopping on my first trip to Thailand.

A noble aim for sure but I'm assigning it to the same category as fixing footpaths, burying cables/power lines, finishing railway lines (of several types) and flood/drought preparation...all have always had unrealistic and constantly missed schedules.