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Luckily, trying to overthrow the government and election tampering do not fall under official duties.

Hello. I looked into Cigna Close Care when it was mentioned some weeks ago on another thread. I am male and 72, close to your age. The quote I got for Close Care, with coverage in Thailand, was $397 a month with $3000 deductible, 10% cost share, and $2000 out of pocket max. If I remember correctly, there are several options to change the deductible to reduce the monthly cost. At that point in the application process, which is as far as I got, they did not ask for any of my medical conditions. I currently have hospitalization insurance with April International insurance, out of Paris, and I am paying considerably more than the Cigna quote, although with no deductible, which is not available with my plan. The Close Care was tempting but I decided to stick with April, mainly because I have been with them since around 2011. One thing possibly of interest, when I did not immediately sign up for Cigna, a few days later they sent me an email offering a 10% lifetime discount if I signed up befoe the end of June. Should you decide to go with them, you might wait a few days and see if you get the same 10% dicount offer. Good luck with your health care search.

Unbelievable.

Once again, hold the ridiculous hype in headlines and reporting.

Could have been worse. I have no recollection, as I was just a baby at the time, but I remember my 3 older sisters talking a number of times about a train trip to Pennsylvania to visit the grandparents when we lived in Oregon. Dad was on an extended overseas assignment with the military and Mom decided to make the trip on her own with the kids even though she was short on money. Apparently, they ate peanut butter crackers the entire train trip there and back. I think to this day none of them can look at peanut butter.

Also liked Ripley.

Forgot Lessons in Chemistry. Terrific.

TV: Bridgerton Melancholia Slow Horses Sex and the City New Amsterdam Glamorous Moon Embracing the Sun Queen Charlotte Outlander Misty Queenmaker Yellowstone Schitts Creek Business Proposal King the Land Shogun The Glory Something in the Rain Hacks A Gentleman in Moscow The Penthouse Start-Up Masters of the Air All the Light We Cannot See My Love from the Star Movies: Jason Bourne The Post Miss Sloane Narvik Leave the World Behind The Monuments Men Luther: The Fallen Sun Red Eye The Resistance Banker

All good news.

Luckily, I'm in the same boat of several earlier posters in that the people I associate with and those who are my friends don't fit the OP's post.

It's always newsworthy with Asean Now--especially if the flooding is in Pattaya.

Realtors would likely not maintain a list but they would be a good source to contact if you are interested in a condo in an older, well-maintained project. Any of the big, established agencies would be able to point you to possible choices once you told them the area you are interested in living in and your price range, condo size, etc. For example, if you tell them you want to live in Wong Amat, they might list Saranchol, Park Beach, Silver Beach, Sky Beach, Garden Cliff, Ananya, Nova Mirage, and Pingpha, among others. If you don't want to be 'riding for days', I think starting with a realtor would help you narrow your choices.

Just caught the latter part of the debate. From what I saw, if you liken the debate to a fencing match, Biden dutifully followed the rules and showed up with a sword. Trump, who never follows the rules, used an AK-47. Biden's handlers should never have agreed to the debate, knowing that Trump would not debate at all but use the high-profile, high interest event to spew his campaign stump speach, no matter what question he was asked. What will Trump do about the problem of child care? Who knows? He was asked twice to answer the question but, instead, as with most of the questions he was asked, we got his campaign laundry list of everything bad about Biden. The moderators should have muted his mic every time he began to not address the question asked. Don't get me wrong--the tactic was great. With the added benefit of lazy Trump not having to learn anything. If you have no intention of answering the question what is 1 plus 1?, you don't need to learn 2. While Biden was mostly adhering to the debate format and sparring with his sword, struggling to throw statistics out here and there to support his arguments, Trump was mowing every question down left and right with his assault rifle, debate be damned, and talking about what he wanted to talk about, regardless of the question. Sad but true, statistics can be boring, especially in prime time. Do I care what was the exact number of historians who said Trump was the worst president in history? No--just that they said he was. Keep my interest, and earn my vote, with anything but boring statistics. Somebody, I don't care who, should have given Biden a strong and simple closing statement, not the awful muddle he tried to deliver. It was the one thing he could absolutely control in the debate and he failed miserably. To wit, something like this: If you're a billionaire, Trump's your man. Vote for him. He'll look out for you--heck, he wants to be you. We saw that in his horrible, lying term as the worst president in history. And, now not only the worst president, but a convicted felon. If you're not a billionaire, I'm your man. I'll look out for you, to protect everything important to you that a billionaire doesn't have to worry about--but the rest of us do. It's that simple, folks. Thank you.

Maybe I'm missing something but I'm filing this in my 'Duh' folder. Anybody with health insurance and monetary assets available is already doing both. Although I don't have a pile of cash earmarked 'health self-insurance', I have money I can easily get to if I ever have a health expense that is not covered by my insurance. Ditto if my car is totaled in an accident and my car insurance only pays half. No 'car self-insurance' fund but the money is there to make up the difference, if needed. SOP.

I'm waiting for Georgia, which I feel is even more serious than his NY crimes.

I suppose it might be useful to have this information available somewhere. For our purposes, it was only necessary to check the projects we might have been interested in. At this point, we have moved on to a house and no longer own any Pattaya condos.

It's a 'big deal' for places like Pattaya, where many of the most desirable condo projects have foreign quota that is full. To buy into one of those projects as a foreigner, you would have to use either a Thai to purchase in Thai name or set up a company and buy in company name--both options considered by many foreigners to be inferior to owning the condo in foreign quota in their own name.

We've always checked with the Juristic for foreign quota available at any condo project we have been interested in.

The 'percentage ownership of condos' has nothing to do with leases. When you buy a condo in foreign quota, Thai name, or company name, you are normally not buying a condo with a lease, unless it is in a condo project that has been built on leased land. Easily avoided if you want to own a condo without a lease, which I always do.

Primarily personal experience in trying to buy desirable condos in foreign quota in Pattaya for the past 14 years. As soon as we heard about the 75% proposal, my spouse and I joked that there will be a stampede of Northshore owners switching their company-owned condos to foreign quota.

Nor FDR. So much for stamina in walking being important.

Uhh-oh. 'considering'. Me, too. I'm 'considering' losing 5 pounds. Also not going to happen.

Yes, that's the problem with trying to get anything done--owner-residents vs. investors doing ST rentals. And, more of a problem, in many cases, with newer, large projects with lots of the smaller-size condos new projects have, vs. older projects with fewer and larger unit sizes. And, easier for investors to buy blocks of small condos in new projects. Northshore in Pattaya has less than 200 units, with the smallest unit 64 sqm. New projects often have 1000 units and 64 sqm would be one of the largest units, in a project of mostly 25 to 35 sqm units.

Likely true for a lot of places but not Pattaya, especially for desirable projects.

Totally agree. I think there are glimmers of hope here and there. At one condo project I owned at (not the one in my other post), the management is now making an effort, this after being very lenient in the first years of the new project when I lived there. New technologies, if adopted by a project, can make the illegal renters have a more difficult time getting in and out, and make it more difficult for the owners doing the illegal rentals.