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I was not debating the electric power costs, my son. I was simply giving my experience, with my electric bills, in a variety of different housing sizes, with a variety of different sun exposures, and with none of my bills ever reaching 5000 baht a month in the 11 years I have lived in Thailand with my partner. No guesthouses, by the way. That's not to say that you can't run up an electric bill of 5000 baht or more. Of course, you can, especially if you never turn the AC off, as shown in your example. But, I think for a lot of folks it's less than than 5000.

My partner and I have lived in all sorts of housing in Pattaya--from studios to 1 bedroom condos to 2 and 3 bedroom condos, as well as a pool villa of 3 bedrooms. We always run the AC at night and during the day when we are home and it gets too hot. We don't, however, run it 24 hours a day or when we are not at home. We also use a clothes washer and a clothes dryer and usually do a load of laundry each day. We've never had an electric bill of 5000 baht, even when we've had family stay and had more AC units going. I think our biggest electric bill was around 3000 baht. Most bills are around 1500 to 2000. I should mention we don't keep it super-cold. We have the settings at 26 at night and 24 or 25 during the day. Our first house had solar panels which helped with the bill. We have just moved into another similar-size house with a pool, but no solar. We'll be curious to see what the electric bill is each month running the pool equipment and everything else.

About sums it up. Anybody else?

Yes, how sad, depressing, and disgusting. But, on the bright side he did lose by over 7 million votes. Loser.

Ah, yes. If I remember correctly, this was Trump lie #4059 of the 30,573 lies the Washington Post tallied while Trump was in office. Lord knows what the figure is now.

Well, he did lose by over 7 million votes last time around . . .

Absolutely true. Things are topsy turvy here. I could never afford a house in the US when I lived there. The biggest place I ever owned was a 2 bedroom condo, most were smallish 1 bedrooms. Even a townhouse was priced out of my financial reach. Single family? Forget it. This year, my partner and I sold a 79sqm 1 bedroom, 1 bath seaview condo in Pattaya for 9MB. Turned around and bought a 3 bedroom, 4 bath pool villa in a nice, gated project by Lake Mabprachan for 7MB. We'll do some improvements and be at about 8MB. Still a million less than the 1 bedroom condo. Plenty of other single family homes available for less than what we paid--and less than lots of condos. Topsy turvy--in a good way if you prefer a house.

Seriously? Trump did more good in 4 years than any other President???? You've got to be kidding. His Presidency will go down in history as one of the worst. In a nutshell, he passed a great big tax cut for himself--his only goal in running for President--and then pretty much lost interest. Never got around to much of anything else, including his big, boastful pledge made many times to replace Obamacare with something much better--and, in his words 'beautiful'--whatever that would mean with health care. Maybe free boob jobs. We'll never know. Instead, he spent his time playing endless rounds of golf at his golf courses, while grossly overcharging the American tax payer--always a big, fat, grifter at heart, our Donald. When he wasn't teeing it up, he spent his 4 years tweeting countless lies and other assorted unhinged nonsense; believed, unfortunately, by far too many.

Well done, JP. But, at the same time, I'm thinking of those poor fire victims getting far less.

Correct. Trump only said Pence 'deserves' to be hanged because he disobeyed his asinine, unhinged order to break the law for him. That's sooo much better, innit?

Yes. And, even though she won the popular vote by 2.9 million votes, she didn't act like a spoiled crybaby like Trump, didn't spout the Big Lie at every opportunity that the election was 'stolen' from her, didn't call state officials and demand they find more votes for her, didn't ask Vice President Biden to nullify the election and declare her the winner, didn't institute over 50 unsuccessful lawsuits trying to overturn her loss, and, yes, didn't urge her supporters to storm the Capitol.

Yes, and that's what I find most disturbing.

Lock him up already.

No. Just one of the joys of owning.

Totally agree. I have a large, extended family and everyone, except my youngest niece now just out of college, has wanted, and has managed to, purchase a home--in states ranging from Pennsylvania, to Colorado, to Florida, to North Carolina, to New Jersey, to Virginia. I think they all saw their purchase, as I did, as both an investment and a home--with all the personal things involved with "home" that make a home investment something different than investing in a stock, a bar of gold, etc.

What's confusing? They go easy on all the laws.

Yes, always just 'plans'. Lots and lots of planning.

Keep him in jail and pay the 300,000 baht bail to the victims--as just a start in the compensation.

So true. And they refuse to eliminate parking on the major roads, which would instantly add another lane in each direction without any construction. North Pattaya Road is a good example. Large parts of it are already striped no parking but you have small stretches where parking is allowed. So, cars will be driving in the no parking/parking here and there lane, come to 1 car parked blocking the lane, and then have to merge into the traffic lane, causing tie-ups and delays. Just nuts, especially since the road is often grid-locked on weekends with all the cars going to the beach, T21, and all the big hotels in that area. Bad now, and all the tour buses haven't even started up much yet.

He still alive?

How many children does this dude have???

"Just a slap", says the teacher. Clearly thinks she could have done much worse if she felt like it--as many of the sub-standard teachers here have done, with all the news reports we've seen. And, likely, the many unreported. Give her a warning and if she does it again, sack her.

Yes, that was the case with the last condo I owned in the US.

Your items 2 and 3, along with a number of other reasons, are why I like living in Thailand. Even your number 1 is not bad here, at least for things I routinely deal with. Today I got a reminder email from Immigration that my 90 day report is due later this month on the 24th. I'll renew it on-line in a few days, now an easy process.

As always, no doubt he is 'satisfied' with his performance and he has instructed himself to continue with his fine service to his people.