BritManToo

Government workers are the laziest and most inefficient people in the world, even if they could do what you suggested, it's too much effort for them to bother.

More of the usual BS, They didn't record past exits/entries .... So knowing if you left may happen today, but it didn't happen yesterday. They also don't know where you went, so again even if they know you left, they don't know if you're entitled to the uplift or not. There have never been any prosecutions of anyone getting pension uplifts while living in a no uplift country. You are not required to sign any documents from DWP except to state you're still alive once you pension has started. Finally, their own published rules state they are not allowed to reduce or stop pension payments unless they think you are dead.

Usual BS. They don't know where you are. They can't get the money back if they did. You shouldn't use your UK bank account for foreign spending as the bank will close your account. All these scare posts link to stories about stopping means tested benefit fraud. Enjoyed my 10% rise last year. Looking forward to an 8% rise this year.

They've already cut Tom and Jerry to remove all the racial jokes.

I don't allow my wife to speak to other foreigners. And I don't mix with foreigners that drag their wife around with them.

Up in Chiang Mai there's been no change in rents, the first condo I rented in the centre was 6kbht/month ..... 15 years later still 6kbht.

The only prices that have significantly gone up in the past 15 years are airfares and barfines. It's as cheap here as it ever was.

Only 1c increase over the past 300 years? I can live with that!

Best to either bring your own, or better to have lived here a few months first. Back in the UK I spent all my time (and spare money) on hifi, here for some reason it just doesn't seem worthwhile. Having extremely restricted access to women backs most of us in the western 'hobby corner'. Here we get different hobbies.

Bring enough for your VISA/extension and a year's worth of living expenses. No guarantee you can stay in Thailand, or get your money in the bank back if you had to leave in a hurry.

WISE do the same. I assumed it was to hedge against currency swings over the weekend. Seems reasonable to me!

Thanks, bought some today .....

I don't like other people much .............. so last dinner party I attended was 2010.

The full payment was as little as possible.

I'm into my wife 3x a week!

I don't socialise with my wife or her friends.

Nobody thought Trump was good for anything, they just thought Hillary was worse. And for the next election they now know Biden is worse. Until 'they' start offering real candidates (with the ability for make decisions for themselves) for elections, and keep on offering their mindless and easily controllable puppets, democracy is finished.

Every woman is the wrong woman, you just need to take a few precautions so they can't take too much at their end game. Their genetic imperative is to change sperm donors regularly and breed with variety of men. Essentially no woman is ever satisfied having sex frequently with just one man. Once you move in and become a couple, the frequency of sex reduces, and they're looking around.

Thai government hospitals are very inexpensive.

Can't say I like any groups that have imaginary friends.

You don't have phone banking app?

I swear by norfloxacin 400, 1/2 tab morning and evening for the first 10 days of every month until it's fixed. Obviously there's the risk of ligament damage for those susceptible.

They might be able to flag your next use of passport, but they certainly can't find out where you are or where you were if you don't cross any new borders. The police were still looking for me by checking known address and associates in the UK for at least 3 years after I had left the UK.

Spider mites.

It's not as if it's harder or more expensive to grow weed than any other crop, a kilo of potatoes retails for 50bht, no reason for 1-2ozs of weed to cost any more. 200-300bht/GM is foreign tourist prices, the Thais don't pay anywhere near that. Eventually all weed in Thailand will be sold at a max 50bht/gm.