BritManToo

The leak is nearly always where the pipe from the mains enters the house. The ground shrinks away from the house and pulls the fitting apart. A chap came around and hammered into the back door slab and found it first go. He wanted 500bht, I handed him 1,000bht.

There's a 7-11, BigC and a Lotus fresh just up the road to me. Got to 7-11 and Big C all the time, never been in Fresh, the locals say 'too expensive' avoid. Empty car park, no customers.

Being a rice farmer ain't all that great either, and sometimes they step on a snake. Come to think of it, My job back in the UK, 12hr shifts, at least an hour commute each way ........

I'm using the Gigabyte Aorus Elite B450M @ 2,700bht (now 2,200bht). Good solid performance ...... is the 550 worth paying more than double the price?

Not that great ......... out of the 16, one is high, 3 are low. I've ordered another 4 so I can try to match the 16 cells. I've also bought a 4 cell 5A capacitor balance (500bht), no need to balance 16 cells, I think I can just put the best and worst next to each other in the pack and just put a balance across them. But the good news, I now have enough storage to last 2 nights and a day in-between with no sun (lots of rain and cloud here). Today, my batteries were full by mid-day and I still had enough spare to cook lunch and run 2 computers and TVs most of the day.

I think you will find they are all scammers with no feedback. Never buy from Lazada sellers with no feedback. I built a system with a Ryzen 5 3400g last year and am very happy with it.

Only 2? I have 5 pages of ignore. Mostly people who are rude.

How about if she had a nice house?

Most old people have no choices due to lack of money. Moving home costs a lot of money, especially if you've already paid for your existing home.

I want to marry a woman and live off her the rest of my life, and have a free house.

I've had some dates with 'trailer trash' in the west. Thailand ain't that far behind with their lazy women. They just miss out on the option to pop out a couple of kids and live free the rest of their life. (No welfare/alimony/child support)

I thought Ploy translated as 'release me'. Anyway typical 'tall' ladyboy. All those guys in pubs claiming to be former SAS .... I never thought flight attendants!

Not bad, shame about the chest tattoos.

But who's to say the first world countries are right, and the 3rd world countries are wrong? Back in the UK I didn't see many happy women who'd passed beyond their 'club slut' days. IMHO most of them seemed depressed and mentally ill.

1. An easy life, no need to earn money. 2. Nice home and decent treatment, no beatings. 3. Personal freedom, she can more or less do what she likes. 4. Education, I sent her to high school and then University.

........... or had nothing left to lose.

I assumed they would choose accept any man, of any nationality, that would take them out of their life of poverty and hard work. Will B. Good's story seems to confirm this theory. Many Thai women don't appear to have many choices, so they take what they can get and make the best of it. My current woman seems in no hurry to move on, life is easy, and she gets a pension if she sticks it out to the end. Even now I find it hard to believe that attractive Thai women have so few choices compared to attractive women in the west. Welfare has a lot to answer for!

It doesn't matter how long it lasts because, 1. We'll probably be dead soon. 2. The women are instantly replaceable, usually with one younger and prettier.

I wouldn't dare drive a car in Saigon.

Nah, women like bad men, it's a choice they make. Sad she was killed, but dangerous to interfere in a man/woman dispute, I would have walked on by, not my business.

Odd, I get good advice from anonymous strangers all the time. What's the best cream for this rash ..... How do I build this battery bank with Lifepo4s .......... What documentation do I need for a VISA to country xxx ........... Where can I buy Marmite ............ I nearly always get good answers.

Agree, but would add better down south in Vietnam. But this was before COVID, no idea what it's like now. Basically, any country without welfare is good for single men. Also agree with CharlieH, no need to avoid Thailand, just change towns.

True for any country that doesn't give single moms welfare.

Agree, over priced tourist trap. Best avoided completely.

Tired of sitting on Da Nang beach ..... there's a public bus to Hoi An.