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20 years ago there were people griping that Chiang Mai wasn't what it used to be. And 20 years from now there will be people reminiscing about the 2020s as if it was Chiang Mai's golden era.

Depending upon what type of account it is, there could be other explanations for there being only transactions initiated from abroad, but it's understandable that it might trigger a letter being sent asking for verification of your address. If I was creating an algorithm to detect customers that might have moved abroad, accessing the account only for foreign IP addresses is one thing that I’d include in it.

From what I've heard before, all that Fidelity does if they find out that you're living abroad is restrict you from buying (but not from selling) mutual funds. That wouldn't be the end of the world. And as I said, it doesn't seem like Fidelity trying very hard to catch people. The only ones that I've heard of (except perhaps for you) having their accounts restricted were people who told Fidelity that they had moved abroad or had taken absolutely no measures to spoof their location. Seems like they are taking a "don't ask, don't tell" approach - though of course that could change if the Feds start leaning on them to better "know their customer".

They might have tools for that but it doesn’t seem like Fidelity tries very hard to catch people. I’ve tested my VPN the best that I can to make sure that there are no leaks but I regularly use a Fidelity ATM card from Thailand and I’ve been doing that for 14 years without them saying anything about it. It seems like it should be pretty obvious from the ATM withdrawals where I am living. If you, or anyone else here, has specific knowledge of howwhat tools banks detect your location when you’re using. I’ve tried to anonymise as well as possible using https://whoer.net to find vulnerabilities. Certain things that might tip off a bank are obvious, such as not turning off your devices “location services” but whoe.netr looks for a lot of more subtle things too, like DNS leaks and whether the time zone on your computers matches the time zone of your IP address.

With or wiithout a VPN?

Before you started using TeanViewer, what was it that tipped them off that you were outside of the United States?

Why not just use a phone as a hotspot?

Iraqi Dinar is where the action is.

Of course you did, and you probably talked other people into investing in gold when it was slightly off its all-time have as you did with Bitcoin. An estimated 75% of people who invested in Bitcoin are underwater now, including a disturbing number of retirees with limited investment knowledge who were swayed by Bitcoin evangelists last year, just as many similar people where swayed by goldbugs 10 years ago.

Except perhaps the reduction in IQ that it causes in teen users who overindulge.

The best exchange rate that you'll get is from ATM cards and credit cards that have no foreign exchange fee. Some ATM cards, such as ones from Schwab and Fidelity, refund the 220 Baht fee charged by the bank that owns the ATM machine to boot.

As bizarre the claim is, some do argue that. Goldbugs argued that about gold too when it tanked after peaking out sometime around 2012.

In retrospect that $200K investment wasn't very well timed but if it's any consolation, people who "understand" bitcoin tell me that it doesn't matter if the price of Bitcoin goes down because 1 BTC will always have a value of 1 BTC.

Is Avastin (bevacizumab) available at Thai hospitals and, if so, how much does it cost?

You don't say, I thought that all the lady boys were in the West.

Being from a different social circle is likely to be as much of an issue as any difference in age.

Yeah, if you're looking for a girl to strap one on a eff you up the a.

That's a pathetic looking scene.

High roller.

And that 2M Baht for the chemo drugs was probably at least 2X what they cost in the US.

Yes, but they were not up to date on technology in the 1980s either.

If the story is legit at all, it’s probably the immuno drug that they are talking about is most of the cost and it's not an FDA-approved treatment. There are cancer clinics in Thailand, similar to ones in Tijuana, that charge thousands of dollars per week for cures that “the government doesn’t want you to know about”. Some of those treatments are legit drugs that are under clinical trials elsewhere in the world but in many cases they are offering things like Vitamin C infusions and Coffee Enemas for even more money than what chemotherapy would cost in the West. Few insurance policies, Thai or Western, will cover any of that.

Theoretically a US citizen could assume residence somewhere in the US and get coverage under an ACA (Obamacare) policy within a month of applying. You can get one of those policies regardless of pre-existing conditions. However that can be difficult to do if you've been abroad for a long time since you need to have money to move back and you might not have any connection to any particular place in the US anymore.

I've consulted with many. The doctor that I talked to at Siriraj Hospital was the only one in Thailand that seemed to have any depth of experience with cases like this. Erivedge was mentioned to me by a doctor in the US who has only seen pictures of the affected area but has not examined me.

Here dermatologists seem to prescribe Aldara (imiquimod) instead of that.