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3 hours ago, mommysboy said:

high blood pressure is a minor, controllable condition

High blood pressure is NOT a minor condition.  Stop spreading fake news.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-pressure/in-depth/high-blood-pressure/art-20045868

3 hours ago, cmarshall said:

Food is about to go up in price.

Considering that prices almost always increase due to inflation, except in economic depressions or recessionary cycles, not exactly going out on a limb with your prediction are you?

Hard to believe that many people live in a bubble of ignorance, in which they think that exchange rates never go up or down.  Bring up the 20 year chart for any currency pair and learn.  Teaching moment over.

15 hours ago, Tongjaw said:

Seriously, what the flip is that in the top photo, looks like slops, ????.  Second plate doesn’t look very appealing either. 

C'mon, play nice!  Throw a deep fried Mars Bar in that pic of slop, and life is golden!

48 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

I expected some idiotic responses, looks like I have one.  Read my post, read 'acceptable standard of living', read, 'we don't intend to leave our home and life here', read, 'I am retired'.  I don't need a job thanks. I am financially secure. in both my home country and here in Thailand and I don't sit around 'twiddling my thumbs'.  

Idiocy is sitting around twiddling your thumbs and whingeing instead of  getting off yer duff and proactively finding a solution to your problem.  The "woe is me" routine is tiresome.

On 8/10/2019 at 8:24 PM, Pilotman said:

I am a Brit expat, dealing, as many of us are, with a reducing income due to a very bad exchange rate, Pound to Baht.  It is now impacting our spending habits quite substantially. It has curtailed all of our family plans, no travelling holidays, including cancelling a planned trip back to the UK for a family get together. No eating out, no nights out, watching the utility bills, reducing the grocery bills. No spending on the house or garden, no purchasing of large items.

Instead of sitting around twiddling your thumbs while the sky is falling, why not get a job in your home country.

6 hours ago, glegolo said:

Good night (again), enter the que.... again

Enter the que?

Your name isn't Miguel by any chance is it?

23 hours ago, glegolo said:

I think that you are shooting "over" the target my friend, and more focus on wrong spelling and strange sentences....

 

Maybe if you consider that the writer may NOT be a native one, he can be excused, and you can oversee that, and try to figure out the contents of the writing instead. Is THAT too much to ask for?

 

glegolo

No idea what shooting "over" the target means.  You were the one who shamelessly attacked another poster for their reading "scills".

Now that the shoe is on the other foot, you start whining.  People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!

Oh, and one more thing....I am not your friend!

1 hour ago, glegolo said:

Your scills in reading is????

1 hour ago, glegolo said:

instead of crying out laud

Looks to be about the same level as your "skills" in writing!

riveting topic

8 hours ago, garyk said:

_{I have had a retirement visa in Thailand for years.} 

Personally I will not be going back. I still have 9 months left on my visa in Thailand.

 

Here are a few pics of the house I rent in Mexico. This is a lower middle income housing project.

240 US dollars a month.

 

IMG_20190626_082406.jpg.download.zip 5.48 MB · 1 download

Looks a bit sketchy to say the least

who will be the lucky poster who bumps this inane thread to the 100 page mark.  Stay tuned folks!

On 6/12/2019 at 6:34 AM, wisperone said:

What happened to the Portugal/Europe thread...did that die on the vine?

LOL.  It was a rebadged version of this thread, along with a few other "Let's all go somewhere" fake news threads.  Same trolling nonsense, but you will be told to go somewhere else if you post a divergent opinion.????

On 6/21/2019 at 6:21 AM, simon43 said:

Sadly, this forum is populated by trolls, idiots, mentally ill posters, fools, those with split personalities, those with anger and extreme high blood pressure etc etc.

Don't be so hard on yourself......

51 minutes ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

Just got back from Panama last night.  "Wonderful" and "fantastic" strike me as a bit of an oversell but maybe I'm just jaded.  Prefer Rio beaches but overall Panama does offer more.  Agree Lima is pretty much a sh1thole.   

That's a very aristocratic username with a Hapsburg like appeal.  Maybe if you added a "Von" in the middle, it would complete the package.

In fact there is not a single water front hotel in Copacabana (all separated by road), let alone one that can match the quality of that Panama City place.

On 5/18/2019 at 12:09 PM, Jingthing said:

Beaches NEAR Panama City. Again, Panama City Panama (unlike Panama City Florida) is NOT a beach city. Rio de Janeiro IS a beach city. If the water is dirty, OK, but the Cariocas still go to the beach regularly in droves and if nothing else, you can feast on the eye candy. Cartagena Colombia IS a beach city. Panama City Panama is a city where you can take EXCURSIONS to beaches or you could move to Coronado.  People may want to move to Panama City for a lot of good reasons, but one of those reasons is not that it is a beach city because it is not. 

 

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Guide-g294480-k4694-Panama_City_Panama_Province.html

 

The whole myth of the Rio beaches being filled with supermodels in bikinis was long ago debunked as a tourism publicity stunt based on that Ipanema song.  Amazing that many still fall for it.  The reality is much more a favela surrounded, sewage plagued beach filled with obese people, living the dream.  Many of them are retirees from Sao Paulo.  Lots of thieves target the beaches as well. (check reviews on tripadvisor)

https://www.ibtimes.com/obesity-rates-soaring-brazil-prosperity-flourishes-436768

Try and snatch the pebble grasshopper, is the best advice I can give.

From the credible Deutsche Welle  or DW is Germany's public international broadcaster.

https://www.dw.com/en/rio-residents-protest-favela-violence-on-copacabana-beach/a-39515273

Rio residents protest favela violence on Copacabana beach

Hundreds of favela residents have rallied on Rio de Janeiro's world-famous Copacabana beach, weary of the violence in the city's slums.

https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-images-favela-near-copacabana-rio-de-janeiro-view-brazil-image39549604

View of favela near Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil

Panama City is a fantastic beach city, recognized and acknowledged as such by credible sources.

https://internationalliving.com/top-5-popular-beach-towns-in-panama/

“In Panama, even those who choose to live in the bustling capital can enjoy the best of both worlds…city and beach.”

The address of the beach in the photo below is….wait for it….. Playa Bonita Panama, Panama City Panama. Only a few minutes from Downtown!  In fact Copacabana  is almost 1 hour from Rio business district, but close to crime ridden favelas.

Panama City is truly a wonderful coastal beach city.

There are also options all around the city.  Taboga Island of Flower, is one great option.

If people want to spend hours commuting to go sit in front of raw sewage in crime ridden Rio suburbs, or Lima and call this a beach experience, then that is their business.

Teaching moment over.

17 minutes ago, utalkin2me said:

I would never retire to lima myself. It is not the weather, it is many other things. 

Have to agree on this one.  Lima's "la garua" fog is bad enough, but the beaches in Western Lima near Miraflores are some of the ugliest, and dirtiest . 

https://perureports.com/efforts-clean-lima-sea-stifled-garbage/5693/

"Last year, Carpayo Beach in western Lima had been named the dirtiest beach in Latin America. This was also due to waste dumping, and was reported to contain 2.8 kilograms of garbage per square meter."

The options you mentioned are better.

12 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Also it's not directly on a beach.

Fake news.  It is a coastal city directly on the Gulf of Panama.  Whether there is a beach or not is irrelevant.  In fact, the sand on a beach might actually heat up the city.  During the windiest time of the year it is around 30% windier than Bangkok, resulting in a cooling effect.

12 hours ago, DingDongLing said:

You are talking out your ass.  I have been there, done that and the cartel was killed off, now there are many rivals fighting for the same area.  If they think you are friends with the old cartel, they will kill u too.

 

Its best to not talk to the cartels or drug pushers much.  It will implode soon.

You did the "tied to the plastic chair" thing.....yeah right!