BritManToo

My plan is to do nothing, and expect them to be too lazy and incompetent to notice me.

I think RP is correct and you are wrong! Let me just pick some holes in your long long post, Cavendish bananas, still 40bht a bunch, same price as the last 15 years. Potatoes still 32bht/kg, same price as the past 15 years (although there are wild seasonal price swings). Mangos 20bht/kg when in season, no change. High fibre diet, I always have granola, 75bht for 250gms, cheapest it's ever been (younger farms or daily mee) The 2 guesthouse I stayed in 15 years back still 5k and 6k month today. Even Mainland Vintage cheddar at 275bhr for 500gm has only risen from 260bht in the past 10 years.

All women ......... Apart from the two he married!

I couldn't advise anyone to retire to Thailand, they hate foreigners and will jail/fine/deport a foreigner for a trivial offence that won't cost a Thai 500bht and an apology. While Thais can gang up to stab and beat us at anything that makes them a little angry ..... And they all have very short fuses.

I'd be depressed too, if I had to work as a hospital cleaner!

Just watched Civil War, complete tedious rubbish, mostly viewed in ff. Atlas is better, except Miss slutty hit the wall a few years back.

2 sci fi movies just released Atlas ....... Slutty girl fights AI. Civil war ...... Journalists following civil war in future USA.

You're wrong, all the plant has some THC, especially the 'sugar leaves'. https://thesanctuarynv.com/how-to-extract-thc-from-trimmings/ "People who cultivate and sell cannabis know the importance of every part of the plant. Most people discard cannabis plant trimmings, but you can easily turn them into THC concentrates. Next time, you don’t have to throw away the trimming during harvest because you can convert it into something useful. "

Well at least they will no longer be able to test for cannabis, as the test won't tell the difference between consumption of leaves and consumption of buds. So unless you actually get caught holding buds, no problems.

But the school year only started 2 weeks back!

Before COVID I was spending all. Today I have 20% I don't spend. Also need to take into account GBP exchange rate 15% up since COVID.

My pension rises have vastly outpaced any inflation in Thailand.

Exactly what I do!

Are you using the Lazada smart phone app? Not much free delivery on orders from your computer. I always use the phone app and get free delivery on 90% of my orders.

Younger farms 230gm, 76bht each if you buy 3 packets. https://s.lazada.co.th/s.MkF2e Grain tropical granola 169bht 500gm https://s.lazada.co.th/s.MkuCe Daily me granola 250gm 80bht. Https://s.lazada.co.th/s.MkuKd

Do gypsies visit Chiang Mai?

I either buy it for 30bht/gm or grow it myself for nothing (but effort).

It was raining at the time ............

It's on lots of items, but not all items. Also, buying 1 item is often free delivery, but add another item from same seller and the free delivery is no longer free. I'm currently buying lots of granola, as it works out at around half price of Rimping and Tops with the free delivery.

I've found smoking 0.5gm of cannabis every night before bed has completely cured me, even the joint swelling has gone. Not all strains work though, critical orange punch, tropical punch, red diesel, godfather all work for me. Before cannabis I was taking 8x paracetamol a day, just to reduce the pain.

English teacher?

Like anywhere else, government healthcare is cheap, but for some reason foreigners choose to frequent private hospitals. I'm OK with government healthcare, my recent accident (5 broken ribs, broken clavicle, collapsed lung, much skin loss) essentially 4 months in a wheelchair cost a total of 13kbht (including physiotherapy, meds, x-rays, hospital stay). And government minimum insurance paid that. Never cared for expensive restaurants, used to eat at Claridge's in London, but only if the company was paying. I'm OK with KFC, love Zinger Burgers! Education is an odd one, how good an education does an average kid in Detroit get? Same for mining villages in Cornwall, or the estate schools in Oxfordshire? Where are these mythical places where top quality free education is provided?

No good for couples, but great for a single guy that is prepared to sleep with (and impregnate) the locals! Locally sourced food is cheap, locally sourced alcohol, tobacco and weed is cheap, accomodation is cheap, utilities are cheap, local women are cheap. Like everywhere else in the world, anything imported is expensive. Health care is mostly cheap, but it's probably not a good move for the chronically ill that get free medical in their home countries. Government school education and university is very cheap.

My kids been at school for 2 weeks! Off today, off 1 day last week.

I blame it all on Rudyard Kipling .......................... "Now I aren't no 'and with the ladies, For, takin' 'em all along, You never can say till you've tried 'em, An' then you are like to be wrong. There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, There's times when you'll know that you might; But the things you will learn from the Yellow an' Brown, They'll 'elp you a lot with the White!"