Boomer6969

Well, I'll let my wife make all hotel bookings from now on.

That's about 15000 USD a head. ????????????. While the country has been stolen from the Thai people.

They are not. They are only for solid middle income/wealth. The problem will their enforcement. Thai xenophobic Immigration bureaucracy will take over and deter most candidates. Why do they have currently 3 or 4 long term retirement visas? It is simply history repeating itself, and they don't even see the problem, too dumb, they just come up with yet another visa.

Not sure I get you, are you at term and you want 7-11 to rid you of your beer gut?

I cannot be optimistic, as health insurance is only one spanner IOs will throw into TBI's wheel. Remember what they did to Brits, and others, who wanted extensions based on monthly income. The came up with a totally anal requirement where you had to show 12 monthly identical payments into a Thai bank account. Even if it sounds easy many ended up having all sorts of problems. Most of those were scraping by on small pensions that would never be liable to any significant income tax, but I let you imagine the consequences this could have on pensions of more than 200000 THB a month. Under the current tax law we just cannot transfer larger pensions the year we earn them if we want to stay safe from the Tax office.

Good we won't miss you. Not only you want to spread disease but you have a strong potential to be one of those agitated passengers.

No thanks. One day of bureaucracy to see a doctor, who is overworked and has only 5 minutes to spare for you. And, only for patients who can speak Thai. No the problem with the LTR will be that once more they will refuse your current cover from overseas.

And how many times during construction did someone say "Maï phen raï"?

Thailand attraction is mostly sex with exoticism. Make the sex bit expensive, which is more a more the case, and you'll see what happens. Because what's will be left will be worth one or two weeks of a not too exciting holiday.

Tis in gross Thigh land?

Seriously? Thailand IS cheap, so even if they overcharge even more it will still look cheap. But now we got an explanation on why their National parks' entrance fees are up to ten times that of Thais: they want to make us believe their little waterfalls are "uncheap".

In my In my worst nightmares I'd live in a place like that.

I know your science is vastly superior to that of the Lancet, but this looks well written... "Impact of the first year of COVID-19 vaccination. "

You should get a booster every time a new strain emerges and your immunity is likely to be too low to prevent acute COVID.

Deadly thread.. The dinosaurs got extinct because the refused antibiotics and the COVID vaccines.

Fine, my intervals were a bit shortened, more like 3 months. Mostly because I chose to get the shots whenever there was an opportunity.

This is correct, but not an issue as boosters remain effective. Best is to get one every 4 months. I'll have my 5th shot end on this month.

Is this for one eye, or both? And what is monofocal? Is it like correcting astigmatism only while you'd still need reading glasses? Interestingly my doctor at Rutnin mentions cataract for both eyes on her reports but has never suggested I should have an operation.

I agree that what is happening in temples and churches is sickening. But we mustn't confuse religion and clergy. My layman's observation is that clergy, whatever the religion, tends to attract, people who fail to meat the requirements of "normal" life.

No, it will be decided in EU and US. The B....d has go too far and declared war on us. The free world must accept to reduce travel and spend the winter in dwellings where the temperature won't exceed 18 Celsius. Not so tough after all, and we must prevail.

I am skeptical, to say the least. I'll stay on my "Thai wife" extensions until I get feed back on the procedures they'll invent to check our credentials. My understanding is that there will be yearly visits to immigration, where they might require idiotic paperwork, especially from those who have they own health plans from their former employers.

Not so bad, I have seen the queue going over the hill to white sands. I never use this ferry when I leave the Island, there is an alternative that somehow remains unknown from the Bangkok hordes.

Increasing the price of alcohol is always a good thing. Spend the same amount and drink less.

I understand your predicament, even though my reply was a bit "dry". Pandemic somehow goes with brutality, and we haven't seen the end of it yet.

Might be the reason they charge you now, they found out you are neither a resident nor a taxpayer. But what they charge you isn't exorbitant, very similar to what the Thais charged. If you don't pay it won't be a problem until you come back again, but it is highly likely that catch you right at the border, AU immigration is very effective, their computerisation effort started in the early eighties. (My ex worked on that project ????)