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I'm all for bad guys out, but leave the good guys in peace, we're sick and tired of being treated like semi-tolerated suspects instead of legit family men and retirees.

A Thai academic recently said that the elites biggest problem is that they don't realise that they are the problem.

Hakparn really is a bit of a local LEO legend. And I'm not talking about his ability to toast his own impressive success. He's the Jack Regan of Thailand.

Probably because no military application to fund the fast track.

Probably an elaborate plot to force everyone to use the "fun" red bus route on that road. A civil engineer from abroad would probably be as stumped as the rest of us, maybe the theory is to finish it twice as fast, so 2043 then. Can't you find an alternative on the back Sois on the other side of the Ram? Less pollution for one thing, sidewalk or not.

In all cases where money is part of the visa or extension process, it's best to err on the side of caution. Have enough to live on without going below the principal they require. What's the interest rate anywhere that justifies an urgent need to move this little amount of money? Inflation is probably seeing you go backwards in any retail bank.

Plug the security gap if you can, and yes of course, stay. Moving is a major hassle why let the criminals beat you twice?

I don't know, isn't it's major appeal to the world based on it being a "shagging city"? I can walk around plenty cities overseas, nothing unique about that these days.

Most of us still have options beyond going "home" there is The Philippines. Thailand IMO is far more developed, but it's not impossible to be happy there. The biggest problem for me here is Immigration. Yes brother, you said it's easy for you. But WHY do we need to deal with it at all? We are retired, most of us cause no problems, we are not a significant source of national income at all, but we still contribute significantly in our small hometown economy. We maybe spend at least 4x the average Thai working family minimum. I would be happy to still pay 2K a year for my extension, but just make it online! Scrap all this BS of signed copies in blue ink! Photographs, stupid stamps wasting space, this is immigration procedure from my childhood in the west in the middle of LAST CENTURY let it all be in the SYSTEM! And just let us live in peace. The best solution would be to get a one time retirement visa and done! But if they must hassle us then make it all digital. Rant over.

Yes there's absolutely nothing for free, consider Panama, where they throw in the usual pensioner kindnesses like subsidised public transport etc. I'm not asking for unwarranted freebies, it just compared to anywhere else we're breathing ATMs to them and they crow about this in their PR like it's a BENEFIT?

Portugal was great, except the female situation was dire. Few available, and for some reason, the men seem to inherit the looks! Jeez there were some horsey looking gals there. Winter's can suck too. Language is much harder than Spanish. But safe, laid back, and inexpensive. Shame about Brexit. They've tightened up big time on Retirement too. Golden Visa scheme has ended. You never had to see an immigration officer at all, it was online. I paid just €15 for Residency before Brexit, but it expired while I was here.

You can also opt out if you're no longer domiciled. I never liked being forced to vote anyway.

Thanks for the laughs OP. In news just in: You're being played like Jimi Hendrix Stratocaster.

The only ones I'm aware of are Thai residency, or Visit Thai Family Multi entry. Both are not freely available to all comers. The latter obviobviously requires the commitment to a family. The former, an income that's not a pension, and I think that requires a marriage to a Thai as well, from memory. If there were another avenue widely available to everyone, it would be no secret.

I've never had a problem with ice in Thailand. For sure, contamination happens, to all consumables, and in every setting. Cruise ships, with hygiene standards light years beyond local stalls and markets are notorious for these outbreaks. Ice phobia among many of us here I think is wildly disproportionate to the risks. It's no fun to be unwell in this way, I've been there too, but to drastically alter ones enjoyment of life after recovery is similar to this unhealthy unending local obsession with masks

The politburo of China would LOVE you. It's truly chilling to grasp you're genuinely ok with this level of entitlement and dystopia. Give us a single example where putting any human above the law, especially a moral vacuum like Johnson, ended well for humanity.

Tourists don't have the first clue about Thailands political uncertainty, nor would they care if they did. Understandably, it's all about them, and the value they are exchanging for their hard earned. The various clueless think tanks need to understand that primarily, if the world is worse off than in 2019, the cash to be extracted from those who can afford to come in 2023 and beyond, will not be greater than the cash cow of mass tourism pre Covid. There's an existential war about to escalate, and likely another around the corner, literally around the corner, in the case of South East Asia, but they're making grand plans in their bubble of ignorance regardless. What was, is over, and not coming back.

The absolute brass of this lying entitled freeloader grub and his gang of worthless peerage prostitutes should turn average voters stomachs. Instead, people will actually pay good money to hear him crap on at sumptuous lunches and buy his next overpriced book. This is the true definition of a world gone mad.

And with perfect beaureaucratic logic, you can expect the cost of your annual extension "living expenses fund" of which they already sequester half in perpetuity, to skyrocket, along with a few more layers of paper tyranny at the local IO. I doubt this is going to be anything to cheer about!

I doubt Thawee 27, is long for this world. Years ago, a colleague of mine fell a short distance getting off a ski lift, got his noggin, and his brain apparently released fluids into the skull as a protective response, doctors drilled in to try and alleviate the pressure, but it was fruitless. In many cases, if you suffer brain trauma, you're better off dying than living out your days like that.

How many dead and long gone back home "overstayers" did they find? Clearly the 90 day report is a work of unparalleled genius.

Who wastes their life watching this crap? Posting here regularly is quite sufficient in that regard.

Be like Ukraine, just get out there and take it back!

That's another industry filled with "entrepreneurs" who must have come up with the idea while high on their own supply. Coals to Newcastle much? We and plenty neighbours were all home growing years before Anutin was even a qualified idiot.

Ate BBQ seafood from a Pattaya Beach vendor, lounging on a beach and random food vendors are not my usual thing, but a pal on the whole "two week millionaire experience" had arranged it. Three days of fluids from both ends followed, we even missed the flight home. Luckily he had a two week millionaire girlfriend who ended up being very kind and ran errands for us both, we literally couldn't leave the hotel room without the risk of filling our shorts. I don't otherwise stress too much here, dodging everything with ice, and worrying about salads, it takes too much joy out of living. I don't go and eat those giant pork knuckle stews, and other curries at food courts, that's a dish too far.