barrykay

i am from Australia. no way are we ahead of NZ or the real champs....Taiwan. where is No. 8 Lithonia? it can't be Lithuania because they are hopeless. I wonder did the Gullivers Travel Company include the land of Lithonia for this survey.

Sorry but don't believe one word coming out of China.

i have read a lot of comments here about having pumps to save houses and chainsaws to cut down trees to reduce fuel for fires. firstly we are talking about an area as big as the UK. these fires are travelling at up to 40kph. the warnings are. do not stop and defend your homes because the heat from the fire WILL kill you. the fires are melting steel engine blocks. the roar of the fires is like a locomotive coming toward you. they are creating their own weather storms called pyro(fire) cumulonimbus storms. they are so great that they lifted up an 8tonne fire truck and dropped it on it's side. all you armchair critics would sh...t yourselves if one of these fire storms came your way. give me a category 5 cyclone any day. none of you have been through a fires like this.....i can tell by your comments. houses can be rebuild but when your dead, your dead. if there are only 10 dead. that in itself is unbelievable.

International Living has just released it's top 24 places to retire in 2020. Thailand has slipped down to 17th. for years it was in the top 5. it received a score of 57 out of 100 for visas and residency. 35 percent below Malaysia. it had the lowest score for this division in the top 24. the only thing that kept Thailand in the top 24 was it's score of 87 percent for cost of living and as we know the strong Baht is going to kill this score. all the BS and false attempts to put sunglasses on a pig is not disguising the truth and that is why people are bailing out.