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It would behoove those people to turn off their TV, stop reading the news, and just get outside and go for a walk in nature. Maybe find a nice Mexican restaurant. Focus on the simple things in life that make you happy instead of all the infighting back home.

I’m sure that if we were to look back at history, people have always thought that things were about to fall apart. “The end is nigh” type of thinking. Sure, I’m not completely free of stress, and I understand where you’re coming from, but I always try to remind myself of the quote by Mark Twain… “I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”

I try not to even look in. I moved here to get away from it all. But I see so many people here that get their blood pressure up, for things they can’t control back in their respective countries, that it really defeats the purpose of moving to Thailand in the first place.

What does it mean? It means that if you care so much about it, you should probably go home so that you can join whichever protest/march/demonstration that fits your fancy…whatever side of the aisle you sit on…instead of thinking you make a difference from half a world away.

My private hospital sent me a text saying first or second quarter of next year with a “no guarantees” statement following it. Oh well…it is what it is.

Yes. I’m including the ฿15,000,000 condo in your net worth….which if you’re only assuming a ROR of 2% at ฿25,000/month (฿300,000 per year) you might want to look into higher yielding investments with less risk (damage from tenants/special assessments/vacancies/etc.). Even Thai condos, if purchased correctly, would offer more than double that. You have plenty of money for a comfortable lifestyle here. You yourself said you don’t smoke and only drink a little (good for lower health insurance rates/expenditures in the long run). Run the numbers through a savings drawdown calculator. At a 3% after tax return, you could withdraw ฿1,000,000 per year for 64 years.

First, I do agree with you completely. I too like to read about money saving tips and not have a thread turn into a comparison of incomes/bank accounts. But really… what’s the point of someone starting a thread like this when they already admittedly have a ฿29,000,000 net worth?

Apparently the OP who has already laid out his “millionaire status” in a recent thread he started. So, reading between the lines of this thread, the title might as well have been “how doooo you poor people survive?”

1. Seriously? 2. 10-15 million baht condos don’t come with kitchens “ready made from home pro” 3. Where is the living room? 4. Seriously?

I asked about one at Bangkok Bank about a year ago. They informed me that I would need to deposit ฿10,000,000 (ten million) in order to be eligible for a safe deposit box.

Get with it you dinosaurs! Polkadot and Twister are the future of finance!

If you think this forum doesn’t understand, try sarcasm (ประชด) with a Thai woman.

Where will interest rates be in 3-5 years?

Buffett gets his suits made in China (Dayang Trands). He gets them for free. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/27/warren-buffett-only-wears-suits-made-by-a-chinese-entrepreneur.html “The average price for one suit is $399－competitive even when compared to ready-to-wear suits.” http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2017-05/22/content_29437652.htm Would I wear a suit in Bangkok? No way.

The same condo is listed for 30k on hipflat (vs 35k on dd) https://www.hipflat.com/listings/bangkok-condo-yuwekkdg Not sure how low you could get it however.

Allow foreigners to buy houses as a primary residence in Moo-bans on postage stamp size lots? Have at it. There is too much excess supply already. Allow foreign corporate interests to buy up agricultural land and potentially end up relinquishing control of the nations food supply and subsequently having to buy your food from foreign companies? No way…don’t do it.

Seems as if many of these parties are busted up at “luxury villas”. Perhaps millionaire scofflaws aren’t the type of people Thailand wants to attract?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milieu_control

You can always use an agent. https://tdl-service.com/services/

I feel more like the ball.

There are more than 3x as many people in the 18-59 age group than in the 60+ age group. So, proportionally, far more of the elderly are being vaccinated than the young. You also fail to understand that there is a very large group of essential workers that are under age 60. Why don’t you think it’s important for those working in healthcare (doctors, nurses, customer service, maids etc), food industries (Food processing plants, grocery stores, restaurants, etc.), government workers and other essential services that cannot avoid public contact (and do not have the luxury of working from home), but are necessary for the most essential of daily services? Do they deserve to die?

Yes, you do. There is a proper way to interpret and present the statistics in order to have full comprehension.

You need to further break that down by population distribution by age for it to mean anything. Fail. https://www.boi.go.th/index.php?page=demographic

Various developers in Seattle did something similar after the US housing bubble popped. Their original asking prices were so high that the discounts weren’t necessarily good deals when the Price/Rent ratio was taken into account. Similar to what I see in your linked article is that there are undisclosed reserve prices and you can bet that at the reserve price, they’re still making a profit. Furthermore, when I saw it happen in the past, it was usually carefully selected units with some sort of drawback such as a low floor, blocked view or wonky floor plan.

If I choose to ghost someone rather than challenging them, and instead surround myself with kinder more accepting people, it doesn’t make me a “collaborator”.