Lorry

Blueberries, blackberries (what's that anyway), strawberries ... all so very healthy. Unfortunately, not tropical fruit. น้อยหน่า, mango, banana ... so delicious, but better don't look up the glycemic index. Any substitute for berries in Thailand? Rambutan, Mangosteen?

And the employment contract cannot be in Vietnamese. Amazing.

Sec4 (1) 2. refers to pensions you got because you used to be employed. Some countries have old-age pensions, that everybody gets, whether you formerly worked or not. I don't know whether Sec4 (1) 2. also includes pensions from European social security schemes, financed by people who are working right now. You are not eligible to get these pensions if you didn't work. But the pension you get has not been funded by your former contributions. It certainly applies to pensions paid by your former employer, or funded by yourself by forced or voluntary contributions

Only for farang. The portions for Thais are HUGE

BP today: Srettha sees nothing to worry about. So there is nothing to worry about. Remember, BP Jul 30: Temu will compete with "local e-retailers" shopee (founded by Singaporean Chinese, biggest shareholder used to be Tencent from China), lazada (owned by Alibaba from China) and Tiktok (Chinese).

Quite a few widows of foreigners receive Western pensions. A lady I know, whose husband died yesterday, will get about 2000 USD monthly. I have no idea whether these Thais pay taxes.

Papa was killed.

A strong case can be made that this is attempted genocide: systematically starving farang to death by serving them too small chicken nuggets. (I remember from another of your threads that your waistline is already down from 50 inches to a mere 48)

Vasu is between Soi 7 and Soi 11, near BTS Nana

My comment implied that @BigStar's answer is correct.

Correct. But some people use the income method for their retirement visa and remit 65k every month. Of course, they should have started (from Jan 1, 2024) to remit 65k from old savings (as long as they still have savings abroad) and put the pensions into another account. First use up all savings from before 2024, before you remit any income.

Same. Branches (of the orange Superrich) everywhere. Best rate in main branches (of the green and the orange Superrich) opposite central world The green one sometimes has slightly better rates, but not many branches. For, let's say 3000 or 5000 USD it's maybe worth it to go the main branch. For exotic currencies even for less.

@BigStaranswered your question 5 hours ago. So?

Reminds me of my visit to a breakfast place in London the other day. Not a word of Thai on the menu, neither Lao! Of course, I left, this kind of stupid place probably wouldn't even have namtok. I went to a nearby cafe to get chayen, but the waiter didn't speak a word of Thai, I tried Khmer and Suai, useless. So I tried to grab a taxi to the airport to fly home - but even the taxi driver wouldn't speak Thai. What a godforsaken place

That's a good approximation to reality. But... quoting "dreamholidayasia" for a legal opinion, that's quite something

These numbers are a lot more realistic. You noticed it's gross pensions, i.e. before taxes and health insurance? These vary a lot between countries. The picture says average gross is 1300 (in the text they write 1200), so net is not that much more than 1000 €/months, probably 1100-1200. I said "many" have less than 1000, I didn't say "most". And don't forget, many people don't get a pension at all.. There are many places in Europe where you can hardly subsist on 1200€. And that's where you really need old-age discounts. (Most important factor: do you own your place? Home ownership e.g. in southern Europe is traditionally quite high, in Germany, for example, quite low.)

Did you notice that this site is talking about maximum pensions? Nothing to do with reality.

Lots of good suggestions in this thread. The most obvious one is missing: spend less time on the computer, especially if your neck's discs are not ok.

Daily If over 95 y.o. (need certicate from embassy confirming age), weekly.

What a cr@p No idea at all, but posting as if you knew There are extensive resources: many threads about this subject, several Wikipedia entries. Try reading before posting Same goes for the poster who posted "In any case, sex for money or any type of compensation is illegal at this age." Thailand actually does have laws, which are published in the Royal Gazette and can be read if you are not illiterate. Read them, and then post.

If you would have been able to read my whole post... But I guess by line 3 alcohol levels were too high to continue reading. I am now busy with my new musical bum gun from Temu. Do you know why it keeps playing "Shake it off"?

You mean Thanaya in Hyderabad or the one in Abu Dhabi? But I better don't ask too many questions to someone who thinks Thaniya is a place to go for a dentist. Best in town is in Onnut, btw.

You have always struck me as a very smart and observant poster. Yes, Onnut is full of low-life. Hookers at every street corner, drug addicts, the smell of fenta in the 7/11, thieves and robbers everywhere, dirt and smut wherever you look. Unkempt farang, mafia bars for pimps and their smuggled lambos, sex slaves from Burma screaming for help from their dungeons. Avoid!!!

You are not allowed to say this, I could rat on you ...

Thx for the warning, I will try to remember this. I ordered it because it can work as a ghetto blaster (GB) and a BG simultaneously! All my life I have been looking for something like that.