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Reality is, you, I and every other expat here, is looked at the same as all the others. Yes, they make it look worse for us, but a lot of old school thinking is still here, and we are all lumped together, even though the majority of us doesn't cause any trouble, spends almost all of our money here, and are taking care of a lot of their women and children. Expats trying to give other expats advice, telling them to stay home, is still negative talk, which we don't need. The best comment when any expat does something wrong is none. We and they already know what some do here, and the locals do the same things on a much larger scale and most of it never makes the news. Good news about us is good news, bad news is bad for all of us.

Yes, and I can't use it here. If anything serious happens to me, I have to go back to the US for treatment, besides an emergency.

Attention pedestrians, the killing zone is 10 meters outside your front door!

There are countless thousands of retirees that still make mortgage payments on their homes. You don't own it until it's fully paid off, and then you pay taxes yearly forever. I often wonder why a few expats try to see that Thailand has less expats all the time. Are they trying to have the country all to themselves? One thing they don't understand, Like Lacessit said, anyone can be made to leave at any time here. You might own your house here, but you'll never own the land. I don't think many expats are out to stiff the hospitals with the bill. Locals pay nothing more than 30 baht for their hospital stays, unless they want a private room, which isn't many, so why would an expat be stiffing the hospital if the locals aren't? Free health care for locals of course, but it's still something to think about. A locals bill will be the same as an expats for services rendered,even though the bill isn't paid by them, unless the hospital is charging more because they are expats, which is wrong also.

When you have kids, much of the time there is no safety net. Expenses for them take away much of what you have. Thailand is cheaper so many come here just for that, because rents are much lower for a house here.

I just took that from research. I know some that make more and some less. A lot are on Medicare and only pay if they have plan B. People living in Thailand have no idea how little millions live in the US, and that many are a few lost paychecks away from losing their homes or cars.

When I'm with my girlfriend, and she isn't cooking, which I enjoy because she's excellent at it, we go to noodle shops or restaurants and have soup, Pad Krapow or something similar for less than 100 baht for both. Most shops here offer the same thing. Thai restaurants, meaning the higher "class" ones, charge more because of AC . The food isn't any better than what the good shops offer. If we have pizza, burgers and maybe a couple beers, we pay about 500 baht. I cook all of the food when I'm home with my daughter and only spend about 3000 baht a month, and this includes oatmeal, soy and regular milk, eggs, chicken, ground chicken, salad greens, oil, rice, vegetables, fruit, yogurt,tea, coffee, pasta, sauce, bread, Italian Bread, parmesan, tuna, Equal, jelly, garlic, and a few other things.

I'm guessing you're not taking into account there are hundreds of thousands of people living in the US on 65K a month, or less. The average Thai lives okay at 15K a month, but of course they expect foreigners to spend more, even though a foreigner could live here fairly well on less than 40K a month, as long as they weren't huge drinkers, ate food at home, and didn't spend more than necessary on eating out. Like BritmanToo said, you can eat easily on less than 100 baht a meal, even for two. Street food is as good as much Thai restaurant food. Amazon coffee is as good as Starbucks. You can get pizzas for less than 250 baht, hamburgers for less than 200 baht and other western food for less than 300 also. Some westerners need AC all day long, and rarely go out, so living here is just like anywhere else, besides the fact you can get women and rent cheaper here. After your house is built, if you have one and don't rent, the only expenses could be electricity, if you have a well. Add water and it's still not much. Paying for a car if you have one is another expense that can be less than 10K a month. Of course there are foreigners that made money in their countries raping the earth or swindling others, and they have money to burn, but the average retiree makes enough every month, around $1781 USD,and that makes living here easy, as long as you're not throwing money away to show off.

The pump goes on when water is needed. The pump does go on to fill the toilets and sink use. I'll turn it off later and see what happens.

From the tank to the house and pump there's a split line. If there was just the one to the pump, the pump would cycle and I would hear it, so I'm guessing the other line that also goes into the house is leaking. I'm not sure where that other line goes but perhaps the toilets. It goes straight down into the ground from the tank then I'm not sure where. I don't really understand how the builder rigged it because I wasn't here when they did the plumbing, and now he's out of the area so I can't ask him.

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I have a well that I use to fill the water tank at my house in the country. The above ground pump pumps the water from the well through the pipe into the top of the tank. Water can not go back uphill so the water stays in the tank when it's full. The water pump to the house only runs when I need water in the sinks or toilets, and off otherwise. After I fill the tank, the next day it's almost empty. I also see no leaks anywhere but thought one had to be somewhere between the pump and the house, but in that case, the pump would cycle and I would hear it unless it's very slow but constant, but a trickle in the faucets does make the pump cycle so???This would mean there's a leak under the house between the pump and the house, and our builder wasn't the best, so I'm thinking he missed a leak that's been there ever since, so that means digging under the house to find it.

No, I have my ideas and you don't understand them, as it is easy to understand what an example is. I am right in what I said, as anger is in everyone and some can't keep a lock on it, as this man showed. Re read all of this topic, then my posts, and maybe you'll get my point. If not, oh well. And I don't see a we here, especially as far as my main point about anger doesn't need steroids.You're spending a lot of time trying to make me see that my reply is somehow disconnected from this topic, but it's actually very viable.

No, most activity here is teenagers who aren't drunk but were never taught respect for life, and that you don't attack another person 5, or more, against 1. It isn't disconnected because all of this involves anger. I just made an example of anger not involving drugs, which a lot of it is. Some, again, said this was about a man on steroids, which no one knows. Anger doesn't need steroids and that's my point. People get angry everywhere, all day, every day, since time began, for many reasons, most of which are not justified but related to jealousy, greed or unrealistic expectations. Many get angrier because of steroid, drug or alcohol use. "Certainly people can get angry without drugs of any type but that isn't the typical angry reaction of someone that's just mad." I'm guessing what you mean by this is that his action wasn't because he's just mad. Of course it could be. I've seen people go haywire not under any influence but because of past experiences that fueled that anger. Most people have reason to have anger in their lives from their past history. Most people have been treated bad in their lives by someone. How they react when someone pushes them to their limits is what matters. Some can turn the other cheek most every time someone hurts them. Fact is, anyone can be pushed to a limit where they use violence to stop another. This man? We don't know the story. He might have had his girlfriend tell him they're through. He might have had a family member die or get real sick. Someone might have poisoned his dog the day before. He might be using steroids and this might have been the edge that made him lose control. Or, he might be a loose cannon that is also a narcissist, who has a short fuse and loves to hurt others because he was hurt as a child, and likes to vent that anger on anyone who would dare cross him, for any reason. In any event, what he did was wrong, assault, and he should be arrested.

Only one God, the rest are graven images and false gods people thought about because they were also missing something in their lives. Buddha was a man, and people praying to him are breaking commandment's one and two. Buddha himself didn't discredit there might be a God, he just didn't have any use for him, although he created everything, including the lineage that led to his parents. Buddha also has followers, who also don't believe in God because Buddha, a man ,said there wasn't a need for one. Just as Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Putin, Kim Jong and others have followers that listen and believe every word, we as Christians follow our God. Some are making grave mistakes, and all will find out when they die.

Or could be exactly what I think he is. But you are right .

How do you know about Jesus teachings if you think there isn't a God? Grew up being taught and lost faith along the way because? By the way, God is real and you will meet him,as we all will someday.

Yes, but God doesn't want us to be victims and knows we have to defend ourselves, just like the Jews did against the Amalekites, with his blessing. I would never hurt an innocent person, especially intentionally, but would not hesitate if it was my family. Millions of people think exactly like i do, but keep it to themselves or haven't been caught. I know what Jesus taught, and it's all right, but evil must be eliminated. If it wasn't, again, we would be under Nazi or Japanese, or Taliban reign. Free will, narcissism, bad or absent parenting, and mental illness make this an unsafe world. People don't like an unsafe world.

Okay, to settle this. No man hits a woman for any reason besides defending a life. If anyone is in the act of hurting a child, you use any force necessary to stop them, including deadly if it comes to that. Anyone who intentionally kills a child, meaning planned murder, and is proven guilty, deserves to lose their freedom, permanently. Anyone who traffics children, hooks them on drugs and or fear, for sex slavery with human animals, deserves to die, if proven guilty. All those employed by him, the same, as it's for profit and people aren't slaves to anyone. Simple enough? Some people should not be on earth, just like the perp who recently shot a 10 year old girl here. Find them, public hanging. Public intimidation and execution will stop a lot of crime.. Yes, as Christians we are not supposed to judge, but this world is far from normal and safe, and only be eliminating the evil will the innocent prosper.

And like the previous poster said, "Intimidate by shooting at a group of young children??? If intimidation was the intention, he could have shot into the air. He knew what he was doing. String the POS up". Very easy to understand this. If you are trying to scare people, you shoot into the ground or air, the ground being the only safe method because bullets into the air have to come down somewhere, and people die every year from revelers doing this. And again, you stick up for locals, no matter what they do.

Earlier someone had said he must be on steroids. I sad, you don't have to be on steroids to have rage, and gave the example, look at the people here that are ganging up 5 against 1, armed with sticks, and they aren't on steroids. Of course I meant that it doesn't take using steroids to have anger, and all humans are capable of violence if pushed too far, or just by their nature will be violent against others. I wasn't deflecting but giving an example of anger without drugs.

You cannot tell if a person of his size is doing steroids. I was about his size, and more muscular, meaning ripped, and I never took any. You cannot really understand what weight lifting does if you aren't into it, because a lot of people assume people who have big muscles are on something. Yes, we do have pictures from the past, when I was just starting training, people like Arnold, Frank Zane, Franco Columbo, who all took performance enhancing drugs. If you're referring to Steve Reeves time, yes, they were smaller and didn't use steroids.I had 6% body fat from age 20 to around 55. Now it's a little higher because I don't, for now, work out like I did before, and eat too much rice here. I could get back to that body fat percentage easily but I couldn't have the muscle size I had before because I'm 67 and it isn't possible without using at least HGH. I personally know many people that never used and who are as big as him, and more ripped.

You said, "what if you couldn't stop her without hurting her". I said earlier violence isn't necessary against a woman. I'm guessing you don't have any children because to protect them, and any other innocent people in the world, sometimes, as wars have proven, violence is necessary. I guess you didn't understand, like the other fellow, that I meant in any other situation besides saving a child, a woman does not have to be hurt but deflected in a self defense way if she's coming at you. She still doesn't have to be hurt if she doesn't keep coming at that child . To save a child, if a woman is bent on hurting them, and you can't deflect her away, you can call it violence if she has to be shoved to the ground so you can walk away with that child. I would call it necessary to do whatever you have to because a child's safety is more important than someone bent on hurting them.

That isn't overweight by anything besides a height and weight scale, which like all the others besides one that takes into account body fat percentage, isn't accurate.

No, you figure that out, unless of course you don't have any children, because people who don't , don't get it.