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Rental prices grew in the USA too. The multi year rent moratorium certainly didn’t help though. I wouldn’t want to be a long distance (or local) landlord myself and thankfully, I don’t need to look at my choice of housing as an “investment”. That being said….99% of condos here aren’t worth buying IMHO.

If the majority of the sleeverollers that I have met weren’t fat, chinless, goiter necked examples of the merits of physiognomy…. Nah. They’re gross. Pay no attention to them.

Couldn’t get 5% risk free (bank interest) a few years ago either

Says the guy who has been posting about multiple health problems over the last couple years. Hearing come back yet?

Like wow….I have no position on the tariffs. Just interested in the outcome from an educational standpoint. But it’s quite funny how leftists such as yourself like to try to paint everybody into a corner. Do I need to remind you too that I have never voted R? Appealing to emotion won’t work on me. That “do it for the children” card was overplayed during covid. Nice try though.

The new tariffs will certainly have companies looking into that. Hasn’t Japan been relocating factories over the last number of years? Thailand was already pricing itself out of the market. Seems like people will now explore other options. The US is a rice exporter. They just might have to export less. Whoever bought it before can then buy from Thailand. Can also import from Vietnam too. WRT shrimp and seafood….I’m sure that can be sourced elsewhere with the Thai shrimping industry (with the stories of the Burmese labor) cast in a negative light. I’d bet that the big V8 trucks (F150, Ram, etc) would sell well here. Perhaps some SUVs. Maybe the Corvette, Camaro and Mustang too. Most other US vehicles (sedans and such) are very meh.. Some models are already produced with RHD and for the ones that aren’t, there are conversion companies (convert cars for other countries) that are based in Thailand. Sounds like a win win. Copying other people stuff without attribution and posting the same rants over and over is “efficient”? Hardly. I’m far from the only person who points it out.

Philippines only got hit with 20%. US seems to like them. That’s why we import a huge amount of nurses from there.

I didn’t vote for Trump. I don’t subscribe the “vote for the least worst” candidate. And with regards to only thinking about my own….I’m far from Medicare age. I was thinking about the forum geriatrics. But hey….you do you and keep being a leftist.

I didn’t realize that ME conglomerates were buying up agricultural land (or trying to….did they succeed?). Thailand (or any other country) would be foolish to sell off assets like that. Should just stick with condos for retirees.

That’s a good question. There do seem to be a number of different countries that supply the US. Perhaps they might increase production or maybe even some other countries will find it to be profitable to make them. It will be interesting to see what Thailand ultimately brings to the negotiating table. For myself, I’d love to see a deal where somehow Medicare is finagled into it and can be extended to Thailand so that the US expats who are over 65 can have a little bit of financial relief and get their healthcare here. Of course, that alone is a complex issue.

From what I understand, Vietnam recently (in the last couple years) won the “worlds best rice” medal knocking the Thai Hom Mali rice off it’s pedestal. And the people who import the rice…..do they need more? One can only eat so much. And like I have asked before…..which countries would fill the supposed void?

He’s getting his figures from his cut and paste posts that are repeated across multiple….no….many threads. Much of what he cuts and pastes is copied from news articles, Facebook posts etc….with no attribution of course. If you think you’re asking a question that will be answered honestly by a person who actually puts some thought and effort into their replies…well….. @Yagoda Hilarious eh?

To quell his jealousy I suspect. He really seems to have a problem with how this family chooses to live their lives and raise their children.

Who (which countries that currently are not buying hard drives from Thailand) will absorb those 250 million hard drives. Many people are saying “Thailand will just sell to other countries”….but they can’t say which ones.

It sounds like the sleeve-rollers are the ones getting sick.