JimTripper

If your fighting the environment to that extent for that long Thailand may not be for you. It will wear on you over time if you can't adjust. It's much cooler here in Chiang Mai. No problems with the sweaty heat. Zero need for A/C. Do need a fan though. Pattaya was a mess. I could not even walk around much without getting all sweaty. I usually waited until after sunset to leave the condo most days.

Yep, except I hated Pattaya people and attitudes (which were not avoidable), not the location per se. So I moved to Chiang Mai and will relocate to Hua Hin for the burning season. Same old story you have heard a hundred times before... The problem with Thailand is there ate not that many convenient places to settle in as a foreigner. So we have this big loop people go around on.

Especially if someone does not want to drive, which I don't. All those outlying areas seem to require private transportation to get around, driving to markets every day, etc. Where I am I just step out the door and it's all within walking distance.

White Haute Couture

Don't they know how to do controlled releases here?

Manning up on those dental issues... The main thing you want to look for at the consultation is any type of impatience or rushing by the implantologist. That's a lot of what skill is, other then technique, knowledge and training. Taking the time to do the job correctly. Listen to how long they take to explain the procedure. If it's too brief or rushed, that's what they will be doing to your jawbone as well. It's hard to evaluate doctors because they usually have a good deal of social skill, being at least in school for a good time. You need to look at personality factors under that, like rushing/impatience, etc. Also, watch how they use their hands. Do they drop anything talking to you? Fumble with notes or papers? There's your drill, you get the idea...Most people can't fake body language cues.

It's playing a corrupt game, however. Is that who you are or want to become? It may seem like nothing but baby steps do effect you over time. 🤔

Personally, I would skip CM (and everywhere else in Thailand) for an implant and have it done at a top facility in Bkk (can't name it). I am quite familiar with both locations as well having lived in each. More expensive places seem to attract better doctors.

Lake living has been a part of white culture. A second summer home by the lake. Typically there are strong values placed on generational ties, including generational wealth and passing down property.

A lot of the agent positive is dealing with as few Thai system people as possible. If the agent is passable pleasant you are only dealing with that one person (hopefully quickly and briefly).

Clean it yourself.

I can't. They could have just used dummies. Nobody would know if they were real bodies or not.

I think in Vietnam they would just take the dog tags if it was unreasonable to retrieve bodies. Makes sense to not put others at risk.

That's something it took me years to realize. Under expatriation usually lies a money issue, or it's something weird like needing prostitutes and what have you. It's rarely admitted, however, the usual reason given to friends & family being exotic locations and caviar dreams (Robin Leach). Success is retiring well in your country of origin.

You can relax on a decent beach between scams.

I think the no man left behind strategy was due to the possibility of being subjected to torture interrogation if captured alive. They make it sound like a moral compass decision in the movie, but I don't think that was the true motivation. You don't know if personnel are alive or not if you don't do a retrieval.

I think you can be superior and still lose a fight. How about morals, intellect, compassion, etc. Combat is just one area that a superior race would likely not be involved in as they could manage to avoid it.

I have a friend from college who has lived there half the year in Colima for many years. He says the violence concerns are BS, less then many metro areas in the USA these days. He lives locally around other Mexicans, not in a gringo ghetto. He also wanders a good bit around the country, etc, wandering around, but he is always with locals who know the area, not just out on his own so it's hard to judge how dangerous it really is as a solo traveler. He also speaks fluent spanish if any problems arise.

That's true in any cheap country. You are not being invited in just to be nice or for magazine photo's and giving the country what it wants is not optional. Get real.

Use your brain. I'm sure you will think of something.

I don't want to die on foreign soil. I want a proper Catholic funeral. I don't want a Buddhist ceremony or a foreign language ceremony (although any religious ceremony is better then nothing).

The question is what happens if he does not like you. Do you prefer a gentleman's duel or a pack of strangers (or a gang) coming in for a beat down. White culture is much more individualistic. They would tend to respect a gentleman's duel.

People of color are disproportionally lower income. The more people of color move into a neighborhood the more likely it is to have lower income people there. An area becomes less affulent when lower income people live there, even if well off people don't move away. It turns into a vicious cycle. Businesses start expecting theft, put up deterents like cameras and sketchy security guards, well off people stop shopping there because they don't like being perceived as poor, etc. etc... Some would take it a step further and believe that when you live around the less well off (disproportionally the colored), you actually become less well off yourself. People are like a sponge, slowly becoming what their environment is and who they live around. There is also the well known modeling issue with children. Kids take after role models and who they see. You can try to educate them, or isolate them, but if you have the money it's easier to just move. Then there is the issue of inter-racial marriage and extended families...