KhunLA

C2MU @ old Gourmet Meats location. Use to stay an NB (small rooms) occasionally, if sipping a few, as short stroll from Preecha Market & UDtown market.

Beat me by 2 years, came over at 46, 25 yrs ago. Got the same ... 'don't you get bored' Nope, have all the time in the world to do ... what you don't have enough time to do. And can do what and when ever I please.

Man Made Global Warming / Climate Change MMGW ... something I don't believe in ... at all. Every year, 2 months of "feels like HELL", till the rains arrive. Came early last year ... 🙏🙏🙏

$1M ... Don't think so. He may need $1M for his lifestyle. Brother retired a few years ago, and far from $1M in cash and or assets. Lives in NJ, on his pension and dead wife's Soc Soc, and both reduced since retiring early. New wife will work a couple more years, but as a part time school bus driver. At a guess, same monthly income as myself. Owns home ~$100k + new truck. A work buddy just retired, also about 2 - 3 years ago, and lives on about the same as me <$2800 a month @ Corpus Christi, TX. Owns home $100+k + new cars. Ex wife, getting ready to retire next year, and just paid off her house, maybe $300k value. She'll be living on about $3000 a month also. Just bought a new car, and holidaying in the Keys at the moment.

Damn you MMGW / CC ...

Rule #2 & #3 ... DON'T get 'stupid' drunk, & DON'T interact with anyone after the witching hour/midnight. Most in tourist areas (Suk), had to deal with Ahole all night, you might be the one that breaks the straw.

At our age & retired, but that's not what UBI is about. If you did things right, you wouldn't need UBI to begin with.

Yikes ... that's a depressing description of a place, best avoided, no matter how desperate for a bowl of noodles, coffee or AC. Not worthy the drive, hassle to park & walk in to that scene. Get a 'cup of noodles' and or coffee at 7-11, sit surfside, hopefully in the shade, or in your car, if driving one. Done that more than a few times, when too hot out. Don't forget, you got the 'World's Largest 7-11' with seating upstairs ☕

I find Thais & TH no different than any other place I've lived or visited. Simple common sense keeps people safe. Avoid areas you are not familiar with, and avoid strangers. Rule #1 ... never argue with strangers Only rule anyone needs to know & follow. Almost all physical confrontations, started with a verbal argument. Don't start one. If you do .... oh well

I used the same 3 Imm offices for multiple years, and all at the time, progressively, required the same, I provided the same, and no real issues. Imm have adjusted, tightened the rules, not changed, just enforced, with every new wave of scams exposed. Most related to marriage visas, and why the local offices aren't even allowed now to approve them. Rules are set by BKK, and why you need dupes, one stays local, one off to BKK, I believe. So blame the agents, expats & corrupt officials for the extra paperwork, and scrutiny.

I only use to use metered taxis, wife books hotels, negotiated building contracts, and I get Thai price, or I don't use. Not saying people haven't tried to overcharge me, I simply don't use them.

Excellent, as never smoked ganga or looked for freelancers at the beach 🏖️

You got scammed more in 3 weeks than I did in 25+ yrs.

On some overcast and or rainy days, we barely got back to 100% on the batteries before sunset. We only use about 6kWh overnight during rainy season, and minimal AC, if that overcast & rainy, during day time. Here's probably one of the worst production days, with minimal use. When it bounces up & down like this graph, you know the sun was barely making an appearance. Still charging batteries up to 1800 hrs. On sunny day, batteries usually topped up by 1000 hrs., bottom photo Only produced 12.4kWh, and almost 8 of those going to the batteries, using 4.5kWh for the house.

That's why I stated their definition of 'disability'. The Judge and myself decided I could work any job, problem was, I couldn't guarantee I'd be able to show up on a daily basis. My back would go out with no notice, simply bending over or reaching for something. Their / SS doc, wrote me off completely as unable to work, due to back & hip not playing nice. Even more bizarre, since I stopped working, my back hasn't gone out like it use to, as I'm really careful, and get to choose what, how & when I do things. Almost feel like I scammed SSDI, for a few years. Now off it for 6 years. I had actually retired in TH, a year, before even filing for SSDI, and only did so on my brother's insistence ... "you paid SS taxes, use it you idiot", on my visit to help him, while my mother passed on to the next dimension. Really glad he made me apply. So applied, got the almost mandatory denial 2X, then 2nd appeal in front of judge. Strange part is, I've generated as much salaried income that I earned, (sad in itself), over my working life, in retirement, via stock market & RE, the first few years in TH. With full SSDI, I didn't, don't really need to touch my savings. And 2024, I almost banked all of my Soc Sec, while living off my pittance of a company pension. Now due to inflation, and more comfy lifestyle, we only bank about half my Soc Sec. Sort of have too much than needed saved, and assets (land lots), so wife & kid are set, though neither needed my income anyway. A really good place to be. I still continue to save, as have a really hard time spending money frivolously. Think I need to upgrade our accommodations when O&A. Problem is, I hate paying for amenities, I know I won't use. Don't need fancy gym or pool, and like being in the middle of nowhere, where fancy resorts usually aren't, or don't take dogs.

I'll only register then. On good day, we have 15-25kWh extra. A read out before we got the digital meter ...

More lemons, papaya & bananas than we can eat, but everything else, we need Makro to survive .... for now. When asparagus is ready, it's about 2 servings a day, for couple months. Tomatoes & R/G/Y peppers are starting to produce. We try to grow some of the expensive stuff at the markets ...

I haven't officially registered at office, although when they came to replace the temp meter, with a permanent one, installer did ask if I had solar. Which I confirmed having. Guess he notice the minimal use since temp meter was installed. Didn't matter, as we were getting a new digital meter anyway, and all new meters are in our area. This was a new house build. They never came out to ask about or inspect the installation of. If he had not asked, I wouldn't have offered the info.

Everyday pickins now, and wife already ate a couple. Dark ones seem to be the sweetest.

That's what I always say now, want more, earn more. $500 a month isn't worth destroying the motivation of the better off to contribute to the tax base, and part of why I stopped producing taxable income, and retired early. Once I had enough for me ... BYE BYE USA. Sooner, a lot sooner, you'll run out of other people's money if they ever instituted that in the USA. As the lay abouts wouldn't be happy with $500 a month, soon they'd demand $2-3-5000 a month, and what ever party gave in, would get elected. Until all the elite, left the USA, then what ??? You're seeing that happen now, with the exodus of people & companies leaving silly taxed states.

What the hell would $500 USD provide for ??? Are you getting free housing, food & healthcare with your UBI. If not, you'll be homeless and barely able to feed yourself.

... govt takes half your income, to give to the people that have no desire to work, but think deserve half your income, or more, if they can get it. Since chances are, your tax burden at that income, may be 50% already. Welcome to UBI

I don't have any MAGA pals, I don't think, or know of any. Some AN members that I enjoy reading sometimes (not you), do seem to lean right, if that's a thing, aside from their genitals. Really don't know any AN member, or their genitals, which way they truly lean. I'm apparently a lightly right leaning libertarian, or so some survey filled out classifying thingy, put me in. After googling, seemed appropriate ... With that, Mamdami & NYC wouldn't work for me. https://www.politicalcompass.org/

Yea, I had to google that myself ... Universal Basic Income. Govt monthly income to people too lazy to earn incomes themselves. Actually I think, in Europe, some countries, are thinking about implementing, or I read.

Agree, but, if you can follow the rules. For me, first time extending non 0 for marriage, at present location, had 1 total stranger to my wife & myself witness for us. Friend of wife's brother that lived in the town, imm. office was, as we didn't know anyone here. Same with follow up extensions, sort of, as landlord didn't know us, or our relationship, nor one friend of my wife from hometown, that coincidently lives in the same Amphur, and played witness for us. Knew wife of course, but not me, or our relationship. Thankfully, they only required 1 witness. Changed to non 0 for retirement, as way too much hassle (for witness), marriage vs retirement ext.