JackGats

I was thinking that under RD 743 foreign income was tax-free, period. No seasoning required.

Let me guess. The warning for kratom will be passed. The warning for alcohol will be rejected or watered down.

Age of consents or the enforcement thereof getting nastier and nastier, child custody to women only, false rape accusations .... the whole misandric bag of tricks. Then wonder why men drop out of the family game. Society doesn't want to know of course. This way women can further be showered with incentives while not altering their birthrate one iota. Anyway, too many people on this World already, 8 thousand millions too many by the latest count.

Even if your Thai is much better than their English, what they will do is say "Oh you speak Thai good, how long you be in Thailand?", after which they will return to only speaking their Mickey Mouse English. "Oh you speak Thai good, how long you be in Thailand?" = "shut up with your Thai and let's practice my 15 English words".

Hardly any. I was flamed not so long ago for stating Thailand was, relatively speaking, a prostitution-free country. Well, there you are.

Meanwhile I know more about my condition. What I have is post-nasal drip, maybe made worse by ED pills but not linked to vaping as I haven't been vaping for months now and see no improvement. I also have non-allergic perennial rhinitis. I'd much rather it had been due to vaping as nasal drip is untreatable. I've had a look at nasal cryotherapy (available in Bangkok) but the Reddit reviews from people who had nasal cryotherapy are not encouraging.

"Promises to improve and expand". In other words, expect another round of work, chaos, dust and noise.

Where do you live? I find Thai food very low on proteins. Contains plenty of offal and skin though. Anyway, only one third of blood cholesterol comes from the diet. The rest gets manufactured by the liver. Dieting can lower cholesterol only slightly.

In April 2023 I was turned down at Chonburi on the same grounds. I was told "you want a long-term visa, you need a long-term contract". What I had to show was not a real contract, just an agreement letter stating I was renting for 3 months and what the rent was. When I went to immigration I was 3 weeks away from the end of the 3 months in that condo and I just wanted to get the extension before flying back to Europe for the summer months. This was my 4th extension and the first time I was trying to do it on my own without an agent.

Of course, since in that case you are not a resident or tax resident in Thailand. The Thais never said they wanted to tax non-residents or consider people who stayed less than 180 days tax residents. In fact when the bomshell came out they specified tourists (= stayers < 180d) had nothing to worry about.

From what I gather from many posts here, the UK might be as much of a problem as TH for expats unfortunate enough to have to answer to both the UK and TH while living in TH.

Quote: "I am willing to go as far to say that pensions will not be paid unless you are a resident of your country or some kind of reporting requirement to your government, similar to 90 days here in Thailand." Our woke-fem governments don't want us to be far away spending our money on foreign women. Instead we should be ATM-slaving for the man-hating post-menopausal parasites back home. There might even be a no-passport policy like in the former communist block, with the World becoming a mirror image of the cold war: freedoms for the Russians and Chinese, fettering for the so-called Free World.

No wonder, after searches for "lolita" and "teen" now elicits a nauseating warning about seeking sex with young people. PornHub needs to engage in virtue-signalling to survive, what better way than to push menopausal sex.

This has precisely not been the point of the change, as discussed many times in this thread.

What happened in many EU countries is that men with some means stopped marrying a foreign bride because she got indoctrinated in her rights soon after landing and quickly sued for divorce. Hence, the only men who could afford to import a wife were men without money, from which there was no money for the woman to steal. A flourishing market for pro forma marriages even ensued, with poor men receiving money from well-off men to marry the latter's girl. The state of affairs was not "only the rich dare fall in love" but rather "only the poor dare fall in love". The gynocracies in the West want a woman to not only be able to repudiate their husbands but also make him her slave for life. Under muslim law the husband is the one who repudiates, but he is not entitled to turn the repudiated wife into his life slave. Under Western law repudiation is called "no-fault divorce" and it entitles the repudiator to turn her ex into her slave (make him work for her).

I hope he succeeds. Argentina could become a country in which to retire.

There's that of course. But if I'm not mistaken Australia is also one of those countries where any woman I've never met can point at me from across the street and shout "he raped me!", and off I go to jail until she retracts. That's why I'd never travel to eg Sweden either.

This post gets the agecuck post of the year award.

Thailand has no "less well-known" destinations outside the 3 months when temperatures are bearable. Outside these 3 months the only bearable destinations are the (dwindling number of clean) beaches. Unless you consider cowering under a hotel air-con or soaking all day in a hotel pool a holiday destination. Sensible measures to promote "less-well known" would be abolishing dual pricing in the cancerous national parks that pre-empt 80% of wild-life areas, and relaxing the stifling dress codes for tourists in temples and monuments.

People (mostly women) in Europe often ask me why I, a seasoned traveler, never visited Australia. I sometimes reply I live in TH where I keep meeting lots of Australian men who will go to great lengths to never have to go back to Australia again. So, I add, there must be some ill wind for males in Australia, and what is detrimental to Australian men would also be to me.

Domestic tourism in Thailand fills hotels ... on week-ends and holidays. On week-days hotels stay empty without foreign tourists.

Third divorce! I had one 30 years ago and swore I would never marry again. I've got enough things threatening to ruin my life (taxes, health ...) without adding that big no-no, ie marriage.

What are you afraid of?

Never mind which particular verb of the English language I used. I couldn't write with multiple choice, so I used the verb "volunteer", indeed maybe to emphasize no one is forced to accept a job (much less to have offsprings they can't support). Forcing anyone into a particular job isn't called "forced labour" for nothing. Supply and demand is what determines the price of goods and services. Once you let governments set such prices, the worm is in the apple and you start seeing distortions and inefficiencies.

You don't understand how a market works. The value of goods and services is what people (customers and employers) are prepared to pay for them. If a job is too poorly paid, nobody volunteers to do it and employers are forced to raise wages to attract labour. Conversely if a job is overpaid, an excess of people gravitate to it, and employers lower the wages.