KhunLA

Can't imaging being better. City had everything one would need back in 2016, so nothing really to improve on. More people & pollution since would keep me from living there. Even in the province, it would be hard to put up with the air pollution 4-6 months a year. Lovely May-November ... if can split 2 living accommodations, maybe below Chumphon during December - May

Makro, or local fresh market. Meats at Makro. 99% or our shopping is at Makro. Lotus's here sucks, no Big C, though I'd never use anyway. Or even Lotus's if it was better. No Villa Market, Gourmet Market or FoodLand here. Didn't even settle on building house here till Makro arrived ???? Timing worked out good, as had the land about 5 yrs prior, and kid finished HS, then Makro arrived here at PKK. Pop into Gourmet Market @ BluPort when @ Hua Hin since there at least once a month. Along with Makro/Pranburi/HH as ours is limited sometimes. Not much we can't source here or online. Have Global House & HomePro now, and all in the last 5 ish years. Lotus's has been here a while, good for KFC (wings zap) and Swensen's, and that's about it.

What is your budget, and will this be a short visit, or are you attending ? Long weekend/week, or daily commute for weeks/months. Describe 'close' ... <1 km, <5kms ? There's public bus stops on both side of the road, so you don't really need to be close, just along the bus route. I take the public buses quite often, and actually prefer it most times, if convenient. Gmap shows what's close, <3kms (10), unless you want walking distance, <1 km (2).

The obvious, we put ours in PVC pipe, and ran from meter, to a cut off on inside of perimeter wall, then underground to house wall. New construction, so wired up & over the ceiling to breaker box. Don't think there is any standard, since most don't do here. Just using the proper wire and place in conduit is enough. Don't know the specs used, as wife and contractor/electrician oversaw it. meter.mp4

Shows how little we buy processed foods, as not noticing the transition. 100gr sounds like a really small serving of most things. Anything to mask the truth. Goes right in line with the slight increase in prices, for smaller packaging ... ... people are so stupid, it's mind boggling. "oh honey, it only went up 10% in price" ... didn't notice the package is 10% smaller ????

Timeless: ""Russians" is a song by Sting, from his debut solo album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles, released in June 1985" I have a different reason why we won't see WW3 anytime soon, as the elitist would gladly sacrifice the children, but NOT THEIR PROFITS. RU, CH, USA, UK, EU, IN are all so intertwined economically, a war simply wouldn't be as profitable, as the imaginary threat of war is now. Defense contractors, are/will be raking in the billions, restocking. Same as big oil with records profits now. Same as big pharm during covid. Doom & gloom sells better than sex.

Simply contact the local vehicle brand distributor and ask who they contract their installations with. Surely they/contractor won't mind an extra side job. Have it done by experienced pro, knowing that unit.

@Larry songthaew tuk tuk (samlor)

Make sure you read the 3-2-1 star reviews, and return policy. Being a 'LAZmall' vendor helps also with returns. 5* reviews can be; ... looks great, now need to test ... terrible, returned 1* also can be misrepresented as some don't know how to rate: ... tested and great product. I like the ones ,,, 3* stating, tested, as described, but found cheaper elsewhere. Definitely compare photos of received with promo.

Impressive, though really shouldn't be a surprise. Along with other respiratory ailments if studied. I know my unscientific study of me clearing my throat & coughing increases during smog season, and or if I sit surfside next to the beach road/seawall when busy, so actually avoid doing that on weekends. As much as I enjoy Krung Thep, one of the reasons I don't visit more often.

As are most posters with their Anti RU, CH, USA, TH, IN bigotry and EV ignorance. now up to 7 pages of ignored members ????

Hopefully that will lighten up the load at HH Imm, with tourist extending there, instead of in province.

Graduated HS in '73' and thought, that was a waste of time. So much so. last year of, I was rarely there. Now realize that was an excellent education compared to what's being taught now, and quite grateful now. Teachers did it, because they loved teaching, as the pay sucked, before they were unionized. Now it's one of the better paying jobs, and many teach, just putting in their time, and could care less. Hard to blame their moral or lack of drive entirely on them, as the discipline of the students has gone downhill also. The job seems to have changed from teaching to day care in many districts.

Bored, ran out of torrents, so playing with the #s. Since getting the digital meter and basically 'off' grid, these are the daily average for the months we've had solar: Feb (2) 23.17 kWh per day so far. Jan (5) 19.48 2023 Dec (6) 19.21 Nov (6) 18.73 Oct (4) 15.65 Sept (1) 11.96 Aug (5) 12.91 2022 We were conservative, until 2nd ESS was added, having 20kWh overnight instead of 10kWh. Since having few krappy days in a row, and produced as low as 6 or 7 kW a day, to high of 49+ when sunny. The single digit # after the month, is # of days we were out of the house, all day, and or overnight somewhere, 29 days in 6 months.

And here I thought most of the F35s were grounded ... ????

Are you wearing your hood ? How about the best actor to fill the role, who might be available, for a 10 year run or the next 3 ish installments. I've seen a few lists of suggestions, and as stated earlier Idris Elba would be perfect, IMHO, but would take a lot of money for him to commit, as enjoys his other interests & projects. I don't think the rest of the suggestions would work very well. They do have blacks/Africa decent folks working in British intelligence, in case you didn't know. So far from 'woke-ism'. If next JB was black & had to be gay with an handicapped lover, I might agree ????

HINT: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa)

I think you just described most expats on long visa, and those using agents to skirt the financials here, Along with most of the tourist ... ????

People aren't and never have been the problem ... ... Govts are and always will be ... WAKE UP PEOPLE

Sanctions did nothing but hurt the western countries that benefitted from Russian tourist. If they can't fly there, they'll simply fly to where they can, and that seems to be via China. Along with routing their rubles through China's Union Pay Intern'l. Win win all around, except for the west ... LOSERS ???? Couple years of covid and sanctions, and them Ruskies got a few rubles saved up to spend somewhere. Everybody wants to, but it certainly isn't USA, UK or EU ...

With all Yanks being loud & obnoxious and with all Ruskies being loud & obnoxious ... ... expect WW3 ???? Can't wait for the first news-blip of a disturbance, and could turn into one of the longest threads on AN, with the repetitive expert analysis. Hope it's 2 gay guys, having a cat fight at a gay club

Not that it's needed here ... yet, except maybe weekends, if you don't reserve. Wonder if he will here, would be nice, though if a Tesla owner, I'd probably prefer not. Tesla opening up their supercharging network to all in the USA. $$$ motivated: "Under new White House standards issued last year, the company is required to make its chargers accessible to the “broadest number of people” in order to qualify for billions in federal funding." https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/15/23600859/tesla-supercharger-non-tesla-ev-number-biden

Went to one of our favorite restaurants for a munch, and sadly, every table had a damn farang at it. Actually rare, and if that wasn't bad enough. I think the 1 was all Ruskies ... then I ruled it out, as they seemed like a very nice family simply enjoying their holiday meal.

A simple ultrasound would have given the proper, better diagnosis in matter of minutes. Reads more like a money grab or extreme incompetence.