2 weeks in my case.
I was thinking I needed a new VISA, regular sex and a womb to gestate my baby in.
No mention of love, it was a purely expedient decision. And it's worked out far better than any previous choices I made for love.
Looks like a lot of accounts being closed are because the source of funds is unclear.
People having their pensions being paid into their account should be more secure.
You didn't read the story of HSBC closing the elderly Scots couples account and posting them a cheque for 35,000 pounds then, despite them both having their state pensions paid into it and using it for all their outgoings.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-12340459/CRANE-CASE-vulnerable-laws-got-debanked-HSBC.html
GiffGaff SIM, they'll post it from the UK to Thailand 10UKP phone credit required (good for OTP).
Skype UK phone number, makes you appear to be calling from a UK landline, $88/year(no good for OTP).
UKpostbox.com, street address makes you appear to live in the UK 120UKP/year.
I had a hive hanging from one of our mango trees.
Everyone came round for a look and to tell us how lucky it was.
After around 5 months they moved on.
Never caused any harm or stung anyone.
Why are you so concerned?
I think the world should be divided into two sections.
You get to choose at age 20 in which section you live, but you're there for the rest of your life.
Section 1
Everyone is forced to comply with extreme nanny rules 'for their own good'.
Eating/exercising/alcohol/drugs/sex/traffic/holidays all tightly controlled.
Section 2
You can do whatever you like, but don't blame us if you die age 25.
You can live in section 1 and I'll take section 2.
I've always preferred to live in the modern world with the latest tech.
So no, I don't wish I had.
When I moved to CM in 2009 it was still a bit too backward for me.
Dial up internet, True was the only TV option, only books on paper, just not satisfactory.
You'd need to define 'better' before I could answer that question.
My 'better' may not be your 'better'.
Was my Brit wife better than my Thai wife ....... no way!
Were my Brit children better than my Thai children .... not in any way!
Were my friends better in the 80s ........ I don't think so.
Was any part of my life better in the 80s, I don't think so.
People were more honest and outspoken in the 80s, now we're all too scared to air our own views, and if we dared the mods would probably have a busy time removing our posts and banning us.
We would need to compare them with forum posts in the 80s before we could accept your statement ............ wait ...... they didn't exist before the year 2000.
My opinion ...........
Every person present in the meeting room when they discussed that secret and disgraceful personal file on Farage should be dismissed along with everyone that participated in compiling that file.
All due to improved communications.
Wind the tech back to the 80s, and the changes would all go away.
I prefer now, free books, movies, tv shows, social media, comms, maps all give me a much more comfortable life.
I don't know anything about my parents politics, I never asked when they were alive, and they didn't offer to tell me. Were they racists? impossible to say as there were no non-whites where we lived (south of England).
At university I did better than most (who got none at all), a few guys got a bit more, but not much more.
Don't know what it was like in the 90s as I was married from 79-09.
I wanted sex every night, and only got it once a week (once a month when married).
I think INCELs don't get it at all, but I may be wrong.
But my theory is you're just a boaster, and probably got less than I did.
No, income sourced in the UK is taxed in the UK.
Although not knowing what tax you owed and what tax you paid seems somewhat foolish. I always checked my tax as it was paid (UK government gateway account) and applied online for refunds the moment they overcharged me.
Normally refunds were paid into my UK bank account withing 14 days of my claim.