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Any recommendations for a competent, knowledgeable, responsible electrican in the Bangkok area. Thank you

No different than the UK sending its police to Portugal to deal with drunken Brits

Yes, 200,000 baht is nothing compared to the price of the condo

Sellers of a condo we are negotiating on want to register the sale price at the Land Office as 35% less than actual, I assume to lessen income tax payable for capital gain. Explanation is that everyone does this and the Land Office said it was okay to do. I have no intention of doing this, regardless of whether it is a common thing

Could you please give me the contact details for your lawyer. Thank you

My wife had a friend whose husband made a fortune fixing botched nose jobs

Realtor represented condo to be 161 sq mtrs living area. Only after questioning did they tell me that was not all living area. Contrary to your experience, in renting or looking to buy higher end properties in Bangkok, I have found realtors to be lazy and try to push properties that did not meet the requirements they were told I needed. A common tactic, advertise a property for sale and once contacted, the response “it just sold, but I can help you find something else”. This has happened repeatedly. Recently looked at a condo that I leaned had a pending legal issue. Realtor told me it was not a problem. Subsequently spoke to the building manager who told me it was a significant issue. Congratulations on finding good realtors. My experience has been the opposite

Thanks for the information. Now I know

I also lived in two European countries and while living in Thailand, we spend at least four months a year visiting other countries. Place we lived in on the US east coast, people actually competed to get a “garden of the month” sign on their lawn.

US citizen married to a Thai, 20+ years younger than me and has US citizenship. I lived in Thailand for 14 years, working on an expat salary for a US company. After retiring, we moved to the US. Spent two years on the west coast (legal marijuana available) two years on the east coast. Had a 200+ square meter house in both places, an SUV and a BMW sedan. Left the US for various reasons - poor health care (I have excellent health insurance in my retirement), everything has to be bigger and better attitude of Americans, tired of seeing obese people shoveling down gargantuan amounts of food in restaurants, tired of people driving huge pickup trucks and SUVs complaining about the cost of gas, tired of shopping mall parking lots having more handicap parking spots than imaginable due to Americans not being able to walk 100 meters, tired of the racial bickering and tired of hearing about the constant shootings being defended by gun loving fools, etc., etc., etc. Following the US, we spent two years in Europe and decided to return to Thailand a year ago, and have no regrets. I also get my teeth cleaned in Bangkok by a dentist, not a hygienist, using the latest techniques

Over a number of years, I have seen university students in Bangkok, usually in malls, on the sky train, etc, but I have not visited a university campus so have not seen them at school. What has me puzzled is that 99% of these students never seem to be carrying books or a laptop. Can someone with knowledge of this please explain to me how the study process works. Are computers not used in Thai universities? Do they use books at all, or only at school? Is homework or outside of classroom projects assigned? I know that some of you will think that I am taking the pizzz, and I realize that a Thai university may not have the most stringent academic standards, but I am curious as to how the learning process works

Can be implemented, Spain has a wealth tax

Thought the article was an early April Fool’s joke

I really like the Akha Ama City blend for expresso. The founder of Akha Ama received a lot of training from Stumptown Coffee, a Portland, Oregon coffee shop i will have to try Phupanna

Actually, the consensus is that beans should be aged 2-14 days prior to grinding, depending on what type of roast and filter or expresso. See the James Hoffman video on YouTube. Of course, this is all dependent on individual taste