BritManToo

Working my way through all the Louis L'Amour westerns.

It's their normal alternative occupation.

My 30bht breakfast ............

Write 'Multi Entry' at the top.

My local government hospital (MaeJo/SanSai) sees everyone that turns up ........ never heard of 'limited slots'. Same as my previous local government hospital NaKornPing.

Just not true, they went out for a beer every evening, sat in coffee shops, the occasional freelancer. I don't understand what so many foreigners spend all the money on. The condo's at the end of my road rent for 2,500bht/month and they're really nice. If I were a single OAP on a limited pension, I'd much rather live in one of those than a UK housing estate. Most of the world is 'just surviving' as far as I can see.

How bad can 15 minutes get for a week's wages? Try being a rice farmer for a week!

Retirement VISA extension much easier $300, no paperwork, no visits to immigration.

If the alternative is a freezing bedsit in Bolton surrounded by Muslim refugees .................... Anyway, I had several pals living in CM on 20kbht/month and doing quite well. Without the 'hangers on' I could easily live on that.

Have to wait for divorce before judging how well he did!

If it was in the UK, they'd be preparing a 5* hotel room for him and giving him a bit of spending money.

Did you miss 'billionaire's daughter'?

Can't say I eat Thai food either.

According to me any cannabis sold in Thailand is unlikely to be what is claimed. Unless they are claiming it's Lao brick.

I've always made my own rules for everything! And as far as I'm concerned, a man who doesn't take what he's owed isn't a man.

I paid 20% of my income to buy my state pension and NHS entitlement. As far as I'm concerned I'm entitled to any pension payments other pensioners get, no matter where I live. Maybe you should spend more time worrying about Tony Blair's sudden millions and David Cameron's offshore accounts, these guys are crooks, I'm just claiming what I paid for..

I paid more taxes than most of them.

Potential dangers, More worried about the danger of dying on Thai islands than being mugged in PI. Beggers, The occasional kid or granny outside 7-11 or walking in the road. Generally much less begging than from the Rose ladies walking in Thai bars or tuk-tuk drivers in Thailand. Food, Every meal was great, although I mostly ate at Mexican, German or Oz/Brit restaurants. Did have Pork Adobo at a local street restaurant, which was perfectly acceptable. Alcoholic drinks, A fraction of Thai prices. Beaches, Much nicer than any Thai beaches I've ever visited. About 8 trips in the pre-COVID 4 years. Zero problems with anyone. Here's the Pork Adobo, Essentially pork and potato stew served with rice.

Been there lots of times, walked through the Barrios after midnight in Manilla, never a problem of any kind. Everyone very polite, they actually seem to like foreigners (unlike Thais). Saying that as a large white male.

Do you always drink a $10,000 bottle of wine, or is a $10-$20 bottle sometimes good enough? Back to the OP, If someone goes to an emergency room with a cut finger or stubbed toe, but admits to regular cannabis use, is that counted as a cannabis related emergency treatment?

Why would you tell any government agency where you were or what you were doing? You got yourself no 250 pound winter fuel allowance, no 10% pension rise and no NHS treatment, pointless!

I use the last UK address I lived at, I don't know the people that currently live there and nobody ever checked.

4bht/gm doesn't seem expensive to me. My kids get 50bht per school day, they can easily afford cannabis. As for hospital admissions, I'd be more interested in the actual numbers of people admitted with serious problems, doubt there's be 10.

Isn't this a Chinese problem?

It's usually ladies accelerating when they intend to brake. Although I did see a Chinese couple rent a m/c and drive straight across the road, hit the kerb and flip themselves into the moat. It's not always drunks causing accidents!