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And, once again, the US is squandering vast amounts of money it doesn't have, going deeper into endless, bottomless debt, on yet another useless, unjustified war, while China is wisely spending its money at home. Didn't learn from Vietnam. Didn't learn from Afghanistan. Didn't learn from Iraq. Slow learner.

The vast majority of Pattaya's resident population does not live in the bar areas, which make up a very small part of greater Pattaya. You can easily live in Pattaya year-round and avoid those areas completely, as many do, including my spouse and me. In 15+ years here I've walked on Walking Street once, haven't been on Soi Buakhao in years. My everyday life here is really not much different than my life in the US. A typical week in my town in the US would find me making several trips to the mall and to the grocery store, maybe going to the dentist for a check-up, doing some shopping at big box stores like Home Depot and Best Buy, eating out at local restaurants a few times a week, getting together with friends now and then, sometimes going antiquing and flea marketing, and maybe taking in a movie. Normal stuff. And, I do the exact same weekly things here, except Home Pro instead of Home Depot, Power Buy instead of Best Buy, T21and Central Festival instead of my local mall, Tesco or Big C instead of Safeway, local restaurants and several big, local Japanese used/antiques stores here instead of the US versions, etc., etc. About the only difference is we eat out more here as it is so reasonable, we travel more, and we live, far from the tourist areas, in a much nicer, bigger abode than we could afford in the US.

As always, lies, lies, lies spewing out of Trump's mouth. When a reporter finally called him on it, his answer was somthing like, 'well, I didn't know anything.' So, if you don't know anything, don't automatically make up a lie. Just say you don't know. Is that so hard?

Yes, I get the time outs, too. And, I don't know why when I clicked on 'Quote' to reply, your message came up twice.

Sometimes it's ok, sometimes it's slow.

Oh, dear. "Trump says . . .". While one hopes it to be true, 99.99% of what comes out of his mouth is a lie so the odds are not good.

Probably too dumb to realize legislation that is passed becomes law anyway after 10 days, with or without his signature. With this Republican president and this Republican Congress, probably better anyway if legislation is held up.

Another dumb war started by another dumb Republican president, which will accomplish, like the other dumb wars, only two things. 1. America hated even more, by even more of the worlds's population, while achieving absolutely no real change in the long run. 2. Vast amounts of America's resources squandered uselessly on foreign soil, spent on foreign people, while China uses its resources usefully on its own soil, for the benefit of its own people.

Looks like a nice project. Prices have gone up, it seems. Gecko has two of the 221 sqm units listed. One is 8.69MB in FQ and the other is 8.5MB in company name. Northshore is another example of a Pattaya condo project that likely has a majority of foreign owners, in FQ and company name.

Absolutely not true. I lived in a condo complex that only had 6 floors total. I owned a condo on the 4th floor, in foreign quota. Sold it to another foreign buyer, who bought it in foreign quota. All perfectly legal. Per Google: No, foreign buyers are not prohibited by Thai law from buying a condo on the first 5 floors (or any specific floor) of a condominium project in Thailand. Juslaws +1 Foreigners can purchase any unit in a registered condominium building on a freehold basis, provided the total foreign ownership in that building does not exceed 49% of the total floor area.

'technical mistake' and 'incorrectly coded'. Yeah, right. Release everything.

Dad lived to 95, Mom to 101. I am 74 and hope for another 15 or so years.

I like the eyebrows on that famous Thai actor. I don't know his name, I always just call him the 'eyebrows actor' to my Thai spouse. He does a lot of commercials for just about everything.

Totally agree.

Fitness helps, yes. Also, motivation. My mother broke her hip in her 80s. At that time she was fit for her age but Dad was using a walker, partly due to polio as a child and one leg weaker. Mom motivated herself to walk again so she could help Dad, as she had done before. And, she did. She was able to walk until her late 90s, when she finally had to use a wheelchair.

If the US ever does ask, give them a hard no.

Too many undesirables being let in for too long periods of time.

Like Thailand, she's been removed to an inactive post.

Next up, removing Trump. Her replacement sounds just as bad, though. One horrible, incompetent hack after another, so Trump supposedly looks marginally better--but only in his eyes.

Once again, 'bystanders' had to intervene, not the police, who, once again, were apparently nowhere to be found, as always.

Well, I wish them luck but I'm not sure it will help much with the always traffic-clogged intersection by the Phetchaburi MTR station. Just way too much traffic for the roads, with the added complication of a surface train still going through nearby the Makkasan train station, which halts traffic for a number of minutes, on top of the very long traffic light cycles.

Good. Give her a tough, hard grilling, after taking away her notebook of off-topic, change the subject barbs to hurl at the congressmen instead of answering the questions.

Hope many others will see the light--especially the mid-term voters.

I've parked the 800k and don't give it a thought but once a year when I do my renewal.

Nope, it's definitely his actions, starting with every time he opens his mouth out pops a big, fat lie.