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No, they live 2 sois further down. OP can PM me for an introduction. Tell me your preferences: less then 5 kids, or more than 5 kids? BMI over 30, or a bit less than 30?

Rule of thumb: if they move slowly, they are venomous. If they move fast, not so. Exception: cobra.

That's not the python I told you who lives there. Nice to hear he got some company. A bit further up the soi is a pretty green one, it's often indoors.

I have heard this, too. Do you actually know this?

The school chose the bus company. A company with a 54y.o. bus, illegally fitted with 11 gas tanks.

This thread is about Thailand, not China

The cold never bothered me anyway

You may be right about US prices, I have heard quite a few horror stories. But it looks like you are quite mistaken about prices in most of Europe.

May be true...I remember how surprised I was in the US how they build there shackshouses. No wonder they fly away when the wind blows. It's not necessarily bad that way. The walls of my parents' house were 1m thick and would easily last for 500 years - what for?

I saw a pickup carrying a lot of people, 3 days ago, and I realized how rare this sight has become in Bangkok. Yes, every day. Works very well. Better than in my home-country. Big change since the doctor died. And it keeps getting better. These racist undertones are not really helpful.

Thailand is not good value. Some things are cheap, especially what a tourist needs (restaurants, hotels, local transport). Generally, you get what you pay for (unhealthy street food, unsafe taxis, lousy building materials). But you can live very cheaply here. Many things are neither cheap nor expensive (rents in Bangkok, electronics, prostitutes). Some things are expensive (education, health care - please don't compare with the predatory US system, chemists). Example: A generic antifungal I happen to know costs 63 times more in my home-country. Another generic antifungal I happen to know costs 7 times more here. In the end, it averages out.

Usually, at the end of the year the baht is at its highest (tourist season)

India and South Africa are supposedly even worse.

This is worldwide front-page news. The PM has given a statement. Shouldn't AN move it from local Bangkok News to Thailand News?

IIRC @ballpoint once posted that in his case they used LIFO

iirc there is a service to wrap your luggage with sheets plastic. Do they also wrap it using air bubble foil for fragile goods? How much do they charge?

The Gourmet Market closed several years ago. Not enough high-value customers in the neighborhood since you moved away. Yes, it was good. It's another boring Tops now.

I am wondering if I should file a null return every year, even if I am not a tax resident. My local tax office is 5 minutes away, filing a return only for the WHT from interest takes 5-10 minutes. They don't check how many days I was here. Advantage: an audit not more than 3 years back, that's easy. 10 years back - I wouldn't have any documents at all anymore. How frequent are these audits 10 years back?

Another article in the BP today reviews several of the latest killings by these dogs (trigger warning: not nice to read that stuff). They say these dogs are getting more and more popular here, and expect more killings. They then state that these are (quote) "family-friendly" dogs, who love to "play" and "exercise". The owners are to blame. They shouldn't keep the dogs in a cage or restrict them. It seems they suggest letting these dogs freely roam the neighborhood. Just carry your Uzi.

Stat is right. The problem is the wording "government pension" which doesn't fit the German pension system. See my post Saturday 11.36 pm. Most Germans call their pensions from compulsory old-age insurance "government pensions" because they are not private pensions. But they are not paid by the government. Oldcpu is talking about this kind of pension. What you mean are pensions for civil servants, paid by the government.

There is no official answer. But it's not that we just think they don't want null returns. Many people have posted that they were actively discouraged to file null returns. TRD in many cases said "you cannot" file a null return. This is my experience too. Nothing in writing, though. But a lot more than saying " you don't have to ".

Today's BP reports of a man bitten to death in his home by 2 stray dogs, a half-bred pitbull and a half-bred rottweiler. He was old, anyway (49 y.o.). The dogs were taken in by the livestock office. I would like to know what they feed them. Obviously, these cute and cuddly dogs became ferocious animals because they were half-breds. And, as many posters have said, there are no bad dogs, only bad owners. So, let's find the owners of the stray dogs.

German pensions: Most people get a pension from their compulsory old age insurance, which is a part of the compulsory social insurance system for most employees. These pensions are not taxed in Germany if you live in Thailand. And Thailand, until now, hasn't taxed them either. Many former employees also get an additional private pension from their former employer. These are mostly taxed in Germany (as @JimGantjust explained). Former civil servants get a pension from the (federal or state) government, taxed in Germany. Former professionals like lawyers and doctors get a pension from their professional associations (bodies governed by public law, where they paid compulsory old-age insurance). I don't know how these are taxed.

It's called W district. It's not a market, it's a farang-oriented collection of restaurants, bars and beer gardens. It hasn't changed much over the years.

It's not at all sure she has cancer already, it may just as well be a precursor to cancer, eg a pathological PAP smear. Most girls will not differentiate (and won't understand the difference anyway), but the difference in treatment and outcome is huge. She should go to Chonburi Cancer Hospital as suggested, at least for further diagnostics, and probably get the treatment there, too. It doesn't make sense at all to go to a private hospital at this stage, as Sheryl said.