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I had a friend rather well placed in the military who 3 years ago asked me why I thought tourist came to Thailand. I told him families come for a look around and the Thai culture where as the guys come for the women and maybe a future wife ..

"You really think they just come for the women"?

I replied, "That is what they tell me" yet he found it hard to believe,, Three years later with all the crack downs on the bars and bar girls maybe I was a fortune teller after all, judging by some of the tourist numbers, No ?..

New organ donors on the way !

Like other Taiwanese if I lived there I would fight to the death before I surrendered and was placed under the yoke of the Communist Chinese.

Off topic, but, even Hong Kong knows better than to let the Communist extradite people with a dissenting voice if their 2 million strong protest is any sign.. Involuntary organ harvesting and the reeducation camps where an estimated couple of million are indentured slaves or worse should be enough for most countries to say, "No thank you" to the communist idea of a totally controlled society !

I bet China and their territorial war hawks are besides themselves with angst and are severely pissed. They have been doing war games of a full blown invasion of Taiwan for as long as I have been alive. Ooops back to the planning board.

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2019/july/terrifying-footage-shows-thousands-of-religious-minorities-held-in-chinese-thought-transformation-camps-i-love-the-communist-party

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But when the BBC journalist asks questions of those held, they espouse scripted, almost robotic answers.

“Is it your choice to be here?” one man was asked. “Yes,” he replied, without hesitation. “A policeman at my village told me to get enrolled in the school and transform my thoughts.”

As interviews are conducted by a heavily-screened group of journalists, Chinese government agents watch on.

If I would have known sooner I would have gone to watch. I personally find Singha a boring course, but it always seems the fairways and greens are about as good as it gets in Thailand.

Good luck ladies!

Sounds like the Muslims have taken over immigration at Chonburi

Most people end up living where their mate/wife is from.. Call it a family kinda thing..

All places have their benefits and not so good benefits. What are the things you like to do ? Golfing then find a city that has several golf courses within a reasonable distance and price. There is tournament pool for people who like to play pool/billiards in most of the small to larger cities that have westerners or Farangs ..

I nearly moved to Pattaya just for the golf several years ago but the traffic and roads were a big turn off for me.. but the golfing there (surrounding area) is hard to beat.

Unless you are talking about a small village most cities have restaurants and even a few bars if that is your thing..

Like another poster said it just depends on what you like to do... I would avoid the deep deep south unless you like the bombs and bullets of the radical separatist which can be bothersome at times.

All they want are their own separate lands with their own laws and taxes which will pay for more bombs and bullets while they breed more idiots to kill bystanders..  I could go on but sometimes it is better to just keep you thoughts to yourself.

I have killed two this year already, both were in the house.. No regrets on my part.

Think about life after the military. Get an education, go to flight training (if your health and eyes permit it) do your time in the military as a trained military pilot and when you get out (or are fed up with the military B.S.) you can go to work for an airline and make a decent living... There is a major shortage of pilots the world over presently and I do not see it easing anytime soon.. Conversely there are not so many military occupations that so readily transfer to the civilian word.. Aircraft Mechanics, air traffic controllers, and a few other occupations you can probably think of.. While being a grunt and the best shot in your unit does not transfer to a well paying civilian job usually..

Kim went to the bargaining table saying ease or do away with the sanctions or we will not do any more with regards to our missile development .... Trump said in that case meeting over (paraphrasing).... Does not sound to me Kimmy got what he wanted unlike in the past when he squeaked and uncle sugar threw money and aide at him..

Well I am kinda glad they made an official forecast.. The way I see it we stand to have a 50/50 chance of a very wet rainy season..

https://www.foxnews.com/science/10-times-experts-predicted-the-world-would-end-by-now

14 hours ago, fforest1 said:

Thailand had loads of high spending westerners for decades until they decided to trade them in for millions of zero dollar Chinese tourist.. 

The western guys bought houses, married Thais, and tried to live in country.. Are the Chinese or anyone else doing the same thing in such past large numbers ?

I guess they could not find someone at Fox who was a sure deal to leak the questions to the democratic presidential hopefuls before the debate ?

I do not like taxes or free hand outs as all over the world the system is abused to buy votes or give special privileges to those in favor. If any country wants to help the poor provide infrastructure, education, and jobs; which is money well spent IMO.

6 hours ago, TopDeadSenter said:

Bill Weld has the right to an opinion, no matter how misguided he is. Record employment rates for minorities, tackling historic trade defecits, a booming economy and hugely increased respect on the world stage. Doesn't sound so bad does it? Mr Weld is lucky in that he will get to tackle his biases and hopefully work through it over the next 6 years. Trump will ace the 2020 election. First the democrats do not have a single serious candidate, and 2nd the media still have not realized Trump is playing them like fools, all this free publicity for nothing. You just can't beat it.

There are so many things to look at down this road some are pushing that it is disgusting. I do feel that the socialist/communist/ or the destroyers of western society are not really after Trump but after you and me.... Trump is just in the way.. Why more can not realize that just goes to show how effective their programs really are.. If HRC had become POTUS it would have been all singing and praise as she and her cabal finished cutting down the tree of liberty IMO..

7 hours ago, Prairieboy said:

Forecasters have trouble predicting tomorrow's weather - this article is a waste of pixels.

NOAA said this winter would be warmer than normal back in November 2018 for the states and Europe.. They were wrong then as most of their long term forecast are.

Another month another bombing or shooting by these poor misunderstood little darlings. Maybe they should bring back display crucification.  Line the roads and see how long they can hang around (sarc)

What a sad story  !