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Thainess: The ability to queue at a government hospital for hours without rioting. The ability to give incorrect directions about two-thirds of the time. The ability to tell anyone what the interlocutor thinks they want to hear. The ability to sleep at any time in any body position without benefit of a bed. The ability to have extraordinary physical flexibility, even obese or elderly Thais The ability to consume food over four or five hours. The ability to converse with a friend for a similar period. The ability to lie convincingly, and be unembarrassed when caught out. The ability to be Olympic - class fence-sitters. The ability to regard the most abjectly incompetent driving of vehicles as perfectly normal.

A couple of inconvenient facts: Stalin killed about 6 million Ukrainians during the Holodomor of 1932 -33, and replaced them with Russians, mainly in the Donbas and Luhansk regions. Theft of the richest Ukrainian soil by stealth. When the Nazis invaded during World War II, they were greeted as heroes. Kyiv surrendered without firing a shot. The Ukrainians very quickly found out being trampled by a German right-wing jackboot was no different to a Russian left-wing jackboot. It did give a succession of Soviet leaders the convenient label of Nazis for a country that simply wanted to be shot of both versions of tyranny. History is written by the winners. It is novel Russia is attempting to rewrite history on social media via an army of trolls. Make no mistake, Russia is losing. Badly. Poorly trained and led troops, with lousy logistics, are being slaughtered on the battlefield. It's a pariah state with a ruined economy. With its size and resources, it should be one of the most prosperous nations on the planet. I don't know which is more depressing, the lies you are posting, or the thought you may actually believe them.

You need to speak with a Financial Services Officer at Centrelink, they give unbiased and knowledgeable advice on such a situation. Make an appointment. Don't take the advice of the run-of-the mill employees . Your age pension will reduce as a home-owner. There are also tax implications, if you are classed as non-resident in Australia your income from assets AND any pension will be taxed at 32.5%. In your shoes, I would rent out the Australian house, and rent in Thailand. Return to Australia within every 183 days so you can continue to claim you are an Australian resident for tax purposes. Invest any spare capital in blue-chip shares that pay fully-franked dividends. My policy is to tell Centrelink and the ATO as little as possible. Everyone's circumstances are different, good luck.

You may be right, I won't care.

RIP Fitz, one of the originals.

It costs me 1900 baht at Immigration, and 200 baht for a bank letter to renew my retirement extension. OTOH, the opportunity cost of keeping 800K baht on permanent deposit might make the OP's proposition worthwhile. Minor point - the OP needs to work on his math. 6 months at his proposed tariff is approximately 12,000 baht, not 10,000.

I am not disagreeing with you, IMO drug use should be decriminalized. You are correct in stating the adulteration of pure drugs with other substances for profit is a major problem. Prohibition did not work with alcohol, which if anything is a worse drug than many of the illegal ones.

Zelensky is Jewish, the claim he is leading a "country full of Nazis" is deluded. So you are praising the Russians for shelling non-military targets such as hospitals, schools and apartment buildings. Even nuclear power stations?

I detest oil massages, feel like I have been basted ready for cooking. It's not hard to say "bow bow krap" when getting a massage. I usually use massage shops with older women, more experienced than young women, who mostly regard massage as the preliminary for sex. Not that I object to that for anyone else. The village has one very experienced masseuse who would normally get my custom. As she simply would not back off in pressure when asked to do so, I gave up after two sessions. IMO it is very important to relax when being massaged, otherwise bad things can happen.

ICE vehicles have stored energy, in the form of fossil fuel. EV's have stored energy as electricity. You may be right, the person making the claim is wildly exaggerating. However, there is a ship at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, with the most probable cause thought to be an EV fire. The point I am making is ICE producers have had nearly a century to get the stored energy of the vehicle into a safe condition. Permit me to doubt the stored energy of an EV has reached that level, given the pace with which automotive manufacturers are attempting to achieve market share with EV's. IMO current EV owners are lab rats. While I think EV's will eventually replace ICE's entirely, I see no reason to become one myself. What is the biggest selling vehicle in Thailand? An Isuzu pickup. There's several reasons for that.

The only items that are on topic on this thread consist of positives, no discussion of negatives allowed. One hand clapping. Have you heard of V2L ? That technology is on the latest MG EV's. Basically, the car battery can be connected to a household to power appliances in the event of a grid failure, or cut costs by feeding in electrons during times of peak tariffs. Creating a thread which only permits positive references is of little value to prospective EV buyers.

So the video of firefighters around a burning EV is fake? You're right, there are other threads that can accept a balanced view of EV's - the positives and the negatives. That's not bashing, it's rational thinking. You think you are saving the planet? If the world converted to EV's overnight, it would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 8%. Coal, oil and natural gas are the major contributors.

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Thailand is doing what it does best, sitting on the fence.

" I lost all my super when I moved to Thailand". Doesn't take Einstein to work out how that happened. If you still own a roof over your head in Oz, a full pension gives a reasonable lifestyle, although I suspect skyrocketing costs will change that. If you are renting, 50-60% of the age pension will go in rent alone. Your advice is noted, as I have been living very comfortably in Thailand for 12 years now I'd say I did things differently here.

I get close to the full base pension, a friend of mine in CM gets the full base pension. I don't get supplements such as utilities and rent assistance, which is fair enough. Rent and electricity here is far cheaper anyway. My son's electricity bill last month was over $400, mine combined for the house and condo was $50.

Older tablets and iPads are cheap for a reason. One is out-of-date software, the other is the battery, which in some cases needs to be tied to permanent charge if it is to function at all.

The AUD was close to 25 to the baht recently, now 23.6. About an 8% decline, I would not call it a collapse. Statistically, one needs 7 data points in a row to call a significant trend. Some posters seem to be content with one. As the pension I get from Centrelink has increased by 4.5% recently, I am not too concerned. The Australian economy is strong compared to basket cases like the UK. I've seen the AUD fluctuate in the 12 years I have been here, yawn.

Talking of unpleasantness, you've just raised the bar. Obviously a person who thinks their opinion trumps basic physics, with zero evidence. On ignore now, goodbye.

Perhaps it's because they go to the website of the hospital, and see the services they advertise.

The second law of thermodynamics states heat cannot flow from a colder to a hotter body without work. IMO you've got it assbackwards, without insulation heat will flow from the roof space into the cooler room space. Perhaps convection is not a familiar term to you. Q = hAdT. True, the process is slower with high ceilings. However, that also gives air conditioning more work to do.

You are extracting the urine, yes? Yanhee is all plastic surgery, how many expats need that? Did you get some lap banding done there? Or a rhinoplasty? No argument dentists are cheaper here. As far as comparing Thai private hospitals with Oz private hospitals go, just as expensive and less qualified, although Bumrungrad is probably an exception. IME many Thai doctors are shills for the pharmaceutical industry.

Quite true, but the devil is in the detail. Unless one is in the private health insurance system in Australia, the wait times for public health care are months, even years. I know one guy there who had to wait in considerable pain for 18 months to get a hip replacement done.

I don't know about the other brands. I always buy Michelins here, because I feel safer in wet conditions. The previous set I bought were changed after 70,000 km. They were not down to the tread indicators, my mechanic recommended changing them due to tread cracking.

I really doubt Putin will attend in person. 2 km distance is now routine for trained snipers. IMO there's no security that can cover 360 degrees at that distance. Given Putin's paranoia, very unlikely. He knows there are a lot of people that want him dead, and it's not only Ukrainians.