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Bangkok bank emails me copies of the year's statements next day. I print them out and take them to the bank to have them stamped, or whatever they do.

As a few others have suggested, explain to them that you like to take it slow. If they text you and say "See you tomorrow", say " I'm free next Thursday, but in the meantime, we can chat" if you want to see them again. Don't tell them where you live and don't give your phone number. Here's why. A few years back I was chatting with an attractive woman in her mid thirties. She was a school teacher and owned her own home. It was a pretty good set-up for a girlfriend. She lived a couple of hours away. Eventually, I invited her to visit me over the weekend. I had noticed she was somewhat insecure, but the alarm bells didn't ring. She came and spent the weekend, but we weren't a good match. It was a constant struggle. She was continually putting herself down. Come Sunday, I was getting ready to take her back to the bus station so she could catch a van back home, and she refused to leave. She said she was going to quit her job and stay with me. I eventually told her that she could stay if she wanted, but I would leave and go elsewhere (I was in a hotel). I finally got her in her van and off she went. I even tried to encourage her after she got home, but it was no use. She had terribly low self-esteem, and what I had done lowered it more. From that point onward, I've been careful about letting women know where I live until I get to know them better. And LINE is much better than a phone number. I have one gal who climbed over a security fence, in the rain, at 1:30am, knocking on my bungalow door, claiming men were chasing her. She had my phone number and got new SIM cards and texted me from new numbers for months. So, part of it is realizing that yes, they may take dinner far more seriously than you do. Part of it is you being clear about a pace you're comfortable with. And part of it is about protecting yourself. Personally, I'd make it clear in text, before you meet. I'd consider a coffee date rather than dinner. Good luck. PS: I'm no prize. I'm older, don't have much money, and I don't dress that well.

What makes Dee money better in this instance is that Wise doesn't transfer to the US from Thailand -- only to Thailand from the US.

I would live In Chiang Mai were it not for the pollution, which is a risk factor in heart disease, stroke, and dementia, as well as the more obvious emphysema and lung cancer. And I sure wouldn't live there with a child. I was up there a couple of weeks ago and remembered how much I love the city. Yeah, the afternoon traffic sucks, but everything else is great. 71 baht for a taxi from downtown to the airport! I might look for a way to stay up there 6 months and somewhere else another 6 months. But that's a lot of moving back and forth.

I've sent a direct message to you, with the contact info of a guy who did work for me in Chiang Mai. ????

I just got back from Chiang Mai. I would probably live there were it not for the air pollution. Air pollution is a risk factor for the obvious lung cancer and emphysema, and less obviously for heart disease, stroke, and dementia. Not all of these conditions have warning signs (for those who say "Air pollution doesn't bother me.")

I mask up when the AQI is above 70. Air pollution is a risk factor for not only lung cancer and emphysema, but heart attacks and strokes.

I have a Thai friend who runs a restaurant. She regularly checks with me about how to write things in English. I also wonder why more don't check with a native speaker.

No coups in his watch. But will there be watches on his coup?

A while back, I met a gal on a dating app. I asked her about her job, and she said she owned a coffee shop. I thought, "Great. A businessperson. Someone who can support themselves." Then, strangely, she asked for my opinion on which purse I liked, because she was online shopping. Then, after a day or two, she asked what I do during the day and I told her. She said she spent her day trading forex. That's when it hit me. She was just trying to give me the impression she was successful so I would buy some software from her, or some forex trading system, or maybe engage in a pyramid scheme. And I thought she was talking to me because I'm so handsome ????

You criticize for stating an opinion as fact, then you state your opinion as fact. While it's possible there is a God, it's very unlikely. But the gods I've heard and read about so far? Too many contradictions and ridiculous claims to take seriously, at all.

Agreed. And Russians taking Thai people's jobs is not the problem to be concerned about. The Russian Mafia is ruthless. If they get a foothold it will be difficult to root them out.

Which immigration office?

The mistake many people make is in saying that the pollution doesn't 'bother' them, and thinking they're ok, because they're not coughing. Pollution increases the risk factor for multiple conditions, including strokes, which might not have symptoms until it's too late.

My Xiaomi unit works very well, and has for 5 years. However, the meter that reads the pollution level is <deleted>. Therefore, it doesn't come on automatically when it should. I recommend you go down to Makersplace in Chiang Mai, and pick up one of their more accurate meters.

I've never heard of a car flipping being described as 'doing a summersault' before.

Ridiculous. Men end women have also abused children.

If you're talking about Wise not being instantaneous, they work a different way. They don't actually transfer the money from your foreign bank account to your Thai bank account. For much of the world, they try to match up transactions. In other words, if you're moving money from the UK to France, they'll match that up with someone who's moving money from France to the UK. That way, they can just transfer from one UK bank account to the other, and one French bank account to the other. Obviously, this gets complex pretty quickly and relies on volume. I don't know quite how they do it in Thailand, as you can't use Wise to transfer out. But anyway, that's why they're not instantaneous,

I'm general, gay men may be more likely to check out skin abnormalities more quickly than straight men. The numbers might be misleading.

They'd better make sure those cockroaches are clean for the high class tourists who are sure to come.

Just because they're not making good progress with air pollution, doesn't mean they should stop all other forms of progress and wait. Smoking is one of the greatest evils in history, killing somewhere around 7 million people per year, and causing illness in many times that number. At the same time, I think people should have the right to smoke, if they want to. Outlaw it in all public places, and give smokers designated areas in which to smoke. They did this in Washington state years ago and it was a tremendous improvement.

In the US, flu deaths/year typically run 20k - 60k. That's from roughly 300 million people. I wouldn't expect Thailand, with 1/4 as many people would have 100,000 flu deaths.

In the US, flu deaths/year typically run 20k - 60k. That's from roughly 300 million people. I wouldn't expect Thailand, with 1/4 as many people would have 100,000 flu deaths.

Phuket Town is 59 aqi as I type, and has mostly remained in the yellow or green zones last few times I checked. As for all these pictures of pristine mountaintops -- you can see the gray in the air as you look out over the distance. I can generally tell in the city, when the aqi is high by how quickly the gray appears in the distance. If you have a meter reading that says it's good, that will convince me. Just because you see white fuzzy clouds and blue sky doesn't mean it's good air. Air pollution Is a risk for stroke and heart disease as well as the more obvious lung cancer and emphysema. One of the reasons I moved from Chiang Mai is that the air is not that great, even when it's not burning season, with the exception of immediately after a hard rain. I didn't like the risk factor over 10-15 years.

According to their website, yes.