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rwill

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  1. You can get most vitamins cheaper from iherb or vitacost even with shipping charges. But you have to keep the orders small, under $45 US to avoid customs. Technically you can not import vitamins without a license.
  2. I'm one of the weirdo's. My wife is older than I am.
  3. up until the visa expiration date in Dec you can leave and enter Thailand again before that date. Each time you enter you would be given a new 1 year permission to stay date. If you are leaving and returning after that date you will need a reentry permit to keep your current permission to stay date valid. You can get a single entry permit if you are only leaving once during that time. Otherwise get a multi entry permit. 1,000 baht vs 3,800 baht.
  4. Of course getting an MRI at a government hospital should be way cheaper than private ones. Specially if you live in areas where the private hospitals charge very high prices. Like for example not all Bangkok hospitals charge the same rate. It depends on their location.
  5. I've tried various car covers but when I take them off the car is still dusty. I was using them for awhile because neighborhood cats were going on top of them and scratching the paint.
  6. Thai banks will start to take out 50 baht per month if you have no activity for 12 months and the balance is 2,000 baht or less. The money will continue to come out until the balance is 0. I had this happen to me at SCB on an account I wasn't using. A couple of years later I decided to use it again and was able to just deposit some money into it to make it active again.
  7. When I applied about 3 years ago it was automatically moved to the Philippines office. My wife had been collecting SS before we moved here. When I applied they asked if my wife was living here also. So they said her account needed to move to the Philippines office also. The biggest difference seems to be the date you get your payments each month. The ones out of the Philippines are paid on the 3rd each month. Previous to that my wife had been getting her payment late in the month. Pretty sure in the US the payment dates are set based on your last name. Also there is some form you are supposed to submit each year when living overseas to verify your address I guess. I have not had to do it yet because they had cancelled it the last few years due to covid. I would not be surprised if your initial application is handled in the US but then moved to the Philippines. Pretty sure mine worked like that. I applied online and then later received a phone call from the Philippines office. They sent me some emails with forms to fill out and send back to them.
  8. There are leaning poles and dangling wires throughout Thailand. Nothing new.
  9. I'm sure he did not personnally give out any 'bananas'. More likely that would be handled by someone beneath him.
  10. Psst, we can help you spy on the tourists!
  11. There was a comedian, I don't remember his name. But he had a joke that went like this: "I've travelled around the world. I can tell you the prettiest women in the world are the men in Thailand."
  12. These ETF/ETN you can put money into and get high monthly yields. But these are not going to grow your investment just give you good dividends. Sort of like buying an annuity. Where you are ok with putting the money in and not worrying if it shrinks. If you know for sure you can just leave the money there and hold the shares no matter what. QYLD, RYLD pay about 12% USOI pays about 30% A safer one with growth and dividends is SCHD but only pays around 2.9% There are other etfs you can look at some around 6-7% yields.
  13. You can open a TDameritrade account and get US index funds.
  14. I'm guessing only his time since the 2019 election will be considered. So he will be able to run again.
  15. ???? I would imagine that is more the fault of the author and proof reader of the article than the doctor actually saying soup.
  16. And who did she get it from? And who did that person get it from? Ad nauseam.
  17. Online notary service? I fould this one looking real quick. Australian Notary Services | Document Preparation, Notary and Legalisation Services
  18. I would expect that they are making less than that. More like 8-12K/month.
  19. Well if they were blocked or locked would it have mattered if they were aware that they were there?
  20. Hard to sympathize with anyone traveling with drugs. Just a silly thing to do.
  21. If it truely hits the fan everything will be useless for a couple hundred years.

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