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Is this forum full of hypocrites? Remember a guy asking for if he could live in Thailand with 2K social security and close to 100K USD, and everybody jumped in and said no you need more money while I find Youtube bloggers bragging about 5K baht rental and 50 baht lunch in Bangkok as if they have found gold nuggets.

Hmm. A professor who does not care that he must be legally staying in the country that has given him a wife, a life, and a place to stay. No difference between an illiterate Laos or Burmese who have fled to Thailand to earn a livelihood.

write a novel using CHatGPT and your imagination. Maybe a great opportunity to recoup some or all of the money. Heck, you are 75. What do you do all day? Spend 10 hours a day and finish your novel. Self publish in Amazon.

They are pretty prompt. My friend sent an email and he got reply within 24 hours. Everything sorted out for him for 12K (maybe 12.5k).

There are plenty in Western societies also and if the person is a public figure, they will try to hide it. All those sugar baby sites and expensive escorts in the Western societies are not only for Arab men but also for the local if they could afford them.

My friend who stays for 6-month in Thailand keeps his 800K in the US where he earns as much as 20% and donate 12K Baht to agents and IOs for his yearly extension because he feels sorry for their misfortune of not being born in a foreign country where they could have earned in dollars.

A pack of soi dogs near my condo looks healthy and not always scratching. The sick and infested ones should be treated and all male dogs should be neutered. Let their population decline by natural means of not able to reproduce.

Does his platform advocates for electing senators? They can still elect senators but senators from all factions of societies should be elected by a council under the king and appointed by the king. Instead of all senators from military, they should limit how many members from the military should be elected. Maybe 50% give to military and other 50% from prominent organizations, political parties, civil institutions, etc. Senators need not be elected, they can still be selected. Political reforms should happen in small steps, instead of uprooting the the current convention. It took almost one and half century for the transition of selection to election of US senators.

Yes. I don't like all the foods in the menu. But I have not found any British food that I like except lamb roast but I consider lamb roast as a universal food.

They don't become one of the most popular food on the planet for nothing. Tell me another food that is as popular as McDonald's on the planet Earth? No British puke inducing food will ever come close to the McDonald's. No I don't like everything in McDonald's but I like their french fries and the fish burger. I don't like most Thai foods only a selected few. And there is nothing to be ashamed for of for that. Most of the YouTube guys extolling Thai foods because they can eat a meal for 50 baht (less than $2). I'm yet to see a YouTube video extolling expensive Thai foods in a decent restaurant. Go to India, you can find foods even cheaper than Thai foods and some of them are more delicious than Thai foods.

As I said, I don't eat British foods at all. They taste so yucky to me. I puke by looking at British foods. I want varieties like Japanese, Korean, Mediterranean, Greek, Burgers, McDonald's fish burger, some Thai and Indian foods. I change everyday of the week to a different variety.

I tried most of them. I don't live in Thailand. I don't have to like foods to stay in Thailand. There are so many varieties from all over the World, why should I limit myself to only one country's cuisine?

All those British breakfast with baked beans in tomato sauce and different pies filled with meat, fish and chips, Bangers and mash, kidney pie, etc. I like roast lamb but not sure if it's a British or not.

Yes, I like this one also. My problems is I cannot eat the same food (for dinner) everyday except British foods that tastes yucky ot me.

Yes they do have. But 30 baht dishes are rare. Bottom line except a few Thai dishes I don't like most Thais dishes. I like to change my foods (the dinner) every day of the week. So, I sample, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Mediterranean, American burger, McDoand's fish burger, and some Indian foods. Hate the British foods.

Except tom yum kung, steam lemon fish, and Massaman chicken I don't like any other Thai foods. I hate Thai noodle soup sold on the streets. I like Japanese noodle soups from restaurants.

I never said I only diet on farang foods. British foods are all yucky and I abhor them and don't eat them at all. There are other foods also besides farang foods. I don't repeat the same type of foods more than once a day/week. I like Japanese, Korean, Middle Easterns, Greek, Mexican, limited Thai foods not from the street vendors, and limited Indian foods. I never eat British foods.

I can't live on street foods and I hardly eat any street foods.

Wow, quality tourists want step by step instructions for renting an apartment. Only in Thailand.

I noticed lots of people are bragging about how they can do extension easily within 10 minutes, just walk in and out.

Who will do it? People who have fled their homelands to secure a living in a foreign land on "wify visas"? Your rage has no meaning except increasing your BP, I hope you understand.

That is the key. Unless you know every aspect of a business, never venture into that business. It is always better to stick to what you know. I get lots of call from agents of US franchisers and they even tell me that they will train me. But I am not interested because not only I don't know every aspect of the business, I also understand that all businesses require hard work. I was involved in real estate AirBnb rental when interest rate was almost 3% and bought a few condos/apartment in Las Vegas, Fort Lauderdale, Albufeira (Portugal), and Benidorm (Spain). After running those for AirBnb rental through rental agents for five years, I found my return in five years averaged less than 5%. In the same period, my investment returns from equity market was between 15-20%. I sold all my real estate holdings by 2022 and reinvested the money in equities, bonds, etc. Real estate is good for creating generational Wealth so also businesses and one can leverage OPM and the wealth in real estate/businesses to buy companies and take them to public to become a billionaire. But It requires lots of hard work. I have experience in equity markets and I prefer to stay in the field where I have 20 years of experience. Except the year 2022, I never had a loss year in the last twenty years, including the the crisis year of 2008-2009. This year so far my gains are above 20%. No, I don't do day trading. I buy index funds/ETFs and hold them for at least a year before selling them.

The reason is that it is the tenant who needs the immigration. Tenant can walk out without availing the services he is asking for.

Ok, I have two laptops and one NUC, each are i7 and have 32GB and 64GB memory. One laptop is Windows and the other is Mac. Have one Android and one iPad. Have two phones both Android. One for World wide use with Google Fi service and the other has a Thai sim card. Thai sim card works worldwide if I pay 3000 baht/year. Thinking about ditching the Google Fi but all my US banks have US number for OTP verification. Never used any anti-virus. The Windows laptop has company installed antivirus and they take care of all updates. Phones are automatically updated and no anti-virus are installed.

After that what happens? New senators are elected to selected? If selection who select them?