jaywalker2

There are no more cheap places in the U.S. I have a friend who was looking for a tenant for a prefab house in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, population 6000. She was asing $775 for 80 sq meters, which she claimed made it a bargain because the going market rate was $1000. And this was a couple of years ago. The median rent for all of the US surpassed $2000 this year. So, yeah, more and more people are living in RV's, vans, their cars, etc. There was a book called Nomadland (also a movie) that chronicled the lives of some of these people.

And you only get it if you've paid enough into the system. If you've lived most of your life abroad, you don't qualify.

At 60. you'd have to take an early retirement and wait five years for social security to kick in. And it's still going to be difficult. If you've lived your whole life in your home country, trying to adapt to a foreign culture at that age is very stressful, particularly if you don't have much money. Loneliness is a killer too.

Pretty decent? Yes, if at 70 or 80 you want to live in a 30 sq meter studio with roads that flood during the rainy season, bake during the hot season, cut off from all your former friends and relatives, and out of touch with the society around you. That's not for most people. There are expat enclaves in places like Mexico but, still, I think it's very hard for elderly people to pick up and move to a completely foreign culture. If you've been living abroad since you were young, it's a different matter. But most people want to die in their home country.

But it's not a question of just wanting to live longer. There's the important issue of remaining healthy as you age. When you're young your body can take a lot of abuse but as you get older you have to work a lot harder to remain healthy. Look at these old geezers like the Rolling Stones. Now they all have strict diets, personal trainers, constant medical supervision. If you want to be old and a broken-down wreck then go for it.

Yes, I'm sure Koreans and Japanese are willing to pay more without complaint and of course they have smaller genitalia.

I second the motion. I would appreciate a forum where civil conversations about investments could take place. For example, is it time to invest in bonds? What about the Hong Kong Stock market? Are Alibaba and Baidu dead money or dirt cheap stocks ready to break out? Things of that sort.

Lower sukhimvit is back to normal. All the vendors were booted out when the army took charge, but they're back selling knock-offs, sex toys, and a lot of overpriced weed. It's mainly an Arab enclave now, though, at least up to around soi 11. Even Foodland offers a greeting in Arabic when you enter. Most of the old shops selling luggage and cheap bags are gone, replaced by crummy open-air seafood places, pizza shops, and arab restaurants. There are literally dozens of weed shops, though most don't seem to have many customers, which, given the prices, is no surprise. On the plus side, Arabs don't drink alcohol for the most part. so in the bars on soi 7 I'm sure you'll receive a lot of attention.

If it's still sore, it's probably infected. The dentist should have given you antibiotics -- amoxicillin is most commonly used.

We have a dentist on this forum who refuted the need for bone grafts most of the time. He claimed they don't integrated properly. I went to a dentist who also wanted to do a major bone graft. It would have cost 50,000. I went to another dentist who assured me a bone graft wasn't needed. I went with him and the implant has been fine so far (over 2 years) but it was a difficult decision.

I think destroying the environment, creating a feudalistic oligarchic state, and refusing to cede power no matter how old they get has something to do with it. And it's not just rap. Taylor Swift, BTS, Blackpink Lisa. Does anybody really consider this music?

A baby boomer obviously. Boy, do they feel threatened.

Another dumb policy. They just can't help themselves. They learned nothing from the rice scheme and the other populist policies that wrecked the national budget and had no long-term benefits because Puea Thai thinks a 10,000 baht handout is going to make the people forget how badly they've been betrayed.

I think irrelevant posts are a complete waste of time

I'm sure they'll help you get to the bottom

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Bill Burr's take on things

It shouldn't be an option either. We should never have come to this point. But we still have people like Elon Musk spouting nonsense about population collapse. 8 billion people and the world population continuing to expand by almost 1 percent annually and he's worried about whether there will be enough customers for his Teslas. It's such attitudes that will eventually wipe out the human race.

Evolutionary forces. We human beings like to think we are in control of our own destiny. But we're not. We're driven by unconscious systemic impulses and forces. If we were a rational species, we would never have let the population expand to 8 billion or destroyed the environment and wiped out other species to the extent that we have. We wouldn't be arguing about climate change or continue to focus on building bigger and more destructive weapons. But we are victims of our success. Eventually, this will lead to some major disaster, most of the human race will be wiped out, and a new species will arise to take our place. The fact that we can't envision this shows how blind we are since it has already happened multiple times in the past. Species become too successful and that's what kills them.

slow day in Pattaya apparently

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George W. Bush proved that you don't need a high IQ to become president of the United States. I have always thought that IQ is less important in life than social skills and emotional attributes such as drive and ambition except, perhaps, in very specialized occupations.

But if you try to deposit the money, the bank will probably give you a hard time and want to know the sources of the funds.

yes. I wonder how Wise transfers would categorized, since they are registered as domestic transfers.

In fact, the article is wrong. This is not the usual way that taxes are admininstered. I'm not an expert on international tax law but typically tax payers are obliged to declare their worldwide income on their annual tax returns and are taxed accordingly. But remittances aren't taxed because that's not income. Also, if you're an expat there aren't many countries that I know of that tax you on your worldwide income. Rather, you're taxed on the income of the country you're living in not what you might have earned in other countries. This provides a perfect tax dodge for the rich, though, who have myriad ways to launder their money.