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Thanks, Spider, for the breakdown. I'm in NYC where housing prices are somewhat higher. Median rental is more like $5,000. But there are rent regulated places that can be quite reasonable (half that) and comfortable. Also Medicare covers cost of most procedures you mentioned. That supplemented by state pension plan means I pay virtually nothing for most medical care. Not everything: I did get almost all my teeth replaced in Thailand for a fifth to a tenth of the cost in NY. In general labor is 1/10 the US price in Thailand (basic massage $6/hr vs $60/hr.) Local food maybe 1/3 (though I have on occasion paid less for mangos here in NY).

Thank you for this. I wanted to get a second bivalent booster shot before my trip to Thailand the end of this month. (I had my first bivalent (5th Moderna) last Sept, before my last trip.) The pharmacist wouldn't give it me. She said the CDC (I'm in NYC) didn't recommend it. I called the CDC for clarification but so far they haven't gotten back to me.

In case you really mean this as positive, I should say that I have been with my wife for over 40 years so there is no way I would leave her or put her in a home. The GF is just very different. I love them both, in different ways. The GF was born after I met my wife.

I returned to my wife in New York. Put the 10 days in a locked box and threw away the key. Six months later my wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. I then let myself return to Thailand and search for the charmer. I found her and began the ten years of visits three or four times a year while I care for wife.

I had to go home to my wife.

That's exactly what I did. I didn't actually look for her in the bar. She called me to join her as she entered the bar. I couldn't take my eyes off her for the next ten days. She didn't want to return to the bar. She would have worked elsewhere if I didn't support her. It's been almost ten years. We make each other very happy.

I know that and have never disputed it.

Please cite "the medical reports," explain what you mean by "the opposite," and what you are referring to as "1 in 800." My question about the meaning of "1 in 800" was in the context of BritScot's challenge that medical reports and that figure showed the opposite of what I said on a previous post to the effect that the shots were meant to reduce serious illness and death, not minor infections. (I guess the "opposite" would be to reduce infections but not deaths?}

OK. But what does that have to do with the effectiveness of vaccine?

I don't see 1 in 820 anywhere on that post. In any case, what does that mean? What is the claim?

Please cite "the medical reports," explain what you mean by "the opposite," and what you are referring to as "1 in 800."

The shots and boosters are not supposed to give you immunity. They are supposed to prevent serious and lethal illness. You need to keep getting them because they wane in effectiveness after a while.

I don't understand why so many posters are trying to get by with the least protection. I had my 5th Moderna in September before my Oct visit and am planning on getting a 6th before my next visit at end of this month. Shots are said to be full strenth effective for 2-5 months. Why not take advantage of what is available? I'm 81, but I would do it if I were 20 years younger.

1. good friends: 4 for 60+ years; 3 for 40+ years; 3 for 10 years. 2. relationship, intimate: TGF 40 yrs younger for 8 yrs. 3. structure in your day: Care for ailing wife, gym, reading & writing, no alarm clock in 50 yrs. 4. job you like: Retired in August from almost 60 yrs college teaching. 5. passion for anything: GF, periodic writing projects, music, life.

Looks like Air Force One in the photo.

What dating profile did you copy that from? Certainly some 80s are in better condition than some 50s. That's indisputable. More important is the capacity we have of improving ourselves to that degree.

40 years. Actually 40 1/2 at 81 and 40. We met at 73 and 32.

Does "ordinary people" include falang, hi so, and w/$$ ?

Is Paxlovid available? If so, where?

So your argument is that the oldermale/youngerfemale combo is built into the biology while the opposite is not?

No. When he was 38, life expectancy for women was 63 I can answer for myself. No, I was never attracted to older women. When I was 38 I was still in love with the girl I fell for when I was 28 and she was 16. It had nothing to do with life expectancy and everything to do with patriarchal double standard. I'm not sure how that makes Mac's point, if it is any different from mine.

How about places that have: -An air quality index average below 50; -Access to clean sea water and beaches (like the Andaman vs. the Gulf); -Access to restaurants, good hospitals, and markets?

I can't base my choice of a home on the price of taxi rides.

Not sure where in Thailand I want to be when I'm 91 but I don't think it's Pattaya. Maybe Phuket.

Thanks for the Nadsat primer. I loved the film but I missed the lingo.