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Just wondering what the next huge scam will be? Shouldn't take long now!

Number one criteria if a westerner is have a labotomy, If Chinese Russian, then Thailand is the perfect place to hang your hat.

China, Russia, Thailand. Good trio. Hopefully it will stop western investment in Thailand.

The Door is eaten up with old timers that censor the crap out of that site also. I got banned about 15 years ago for some petty little thing. One of the mods banned me for life for basically no reason. I had designed a solar panel with local products for hot water and was showing it. They got mad when I would not give the plans over to them.. Knuckle draggers.

hot and extreme air pollution is a deadly combo. Got to be miserable.

If I were him I would go on the run, come back, and be deathly ill. Go to the police hospital where he will be nursed back to health in one month then run for president.

I used to live there, from the US I have so many better unspoiled places it makes Thailand look like an over developed wasteland. Not to mention the government rules to stay there. Passsssssss Honestly even if they gave permanent retirement visas I would never go back to live or even visit for that matter. Only easy thing about living in Thailand are the women.

Looks like nothing has changed since I left a couple of years ago. During holidays in Thailand I would pull over, rent a hotel and wait it out , if I happened to be traveling during one.

It:s a proven fact mathematically . As the PM 2.5 goes up the tourist levels rive proportionally . Just a fact.

Getting interesting, going to be watching to see if I can predict Thaksins next big con.

Such a lovely place turned into a death camp basically. Bad thing is, majority of Thailand is not good. Issan is the pits also. It's just not a retirement destination anymore. What a shame, years ago it was so nice. ugggg.

A problem all over the world for sure. I live on SS here in the US , and alone. I have no problems what so ever. But, in the US we have a HUGE social network to support the single older folks like me. In Thailand it is only a problem because they have no pension unless you worked for the government. Kind of like China. Both Thailand and China are on the same trajectory. I tried working for the government here in the US and found it to be a joke, for me. But, the retirement was great and benefits were off the charts. Luckily here in the US if you work for a big company and do well the retirement will be in place in spades.

Joke of the day

And when I was getting a yearly extension of stay in KK. I questioned a young Thai immigration officer about what she was wanting . She proceeded to follow me out of the office screaming and threatening me. Said I was going to jail and would be deported. Friend of mine's wife passed away from a heart attack. The in-laws trashed his house and pickup and threatened him to get out of his house so they could take over. Wonder why that did not make the news...

They don't care, the air pollution in Thailand kills more people than anything in the country , and has for years. Last year 25,000 soles lost their lives directly related to air pollution.

47 year old with grandkids. Probably could have negotiated it down to they pay you 10,000 baht. For the luxury of having a farang in the family. And hence "stupid farang" is front and center in the LOS's

Expats see and get sucked in to the government and YouTube trolls that pump out 100% nonsense. Then get stuck there. A miserable way to spend your last days. It took me three years to finally break all my ties (hard). Best thing I ever did for my health.

Undoubtedly the most mineral place I have ever lived bar none.

They are following China to the tee. Although I liked it when I was there. Setting up a bank account is next to impossible. So, if a tourist it makes it extremely hard. I hear in China it is even worse. Just another nail in the tourist coffin.

Alright , happy ending on the dark side of the moon. Far side of the moon a go go.. where we have had 10,000 successful launches...

Makes perfect sense to me. Thai's have a gambling problem so legalize it for foreigners and build huge gambling dens.. hahaha. That should put a bad light on gambling for the Thai's..

Housing market was the number one investment for Chinese for 30 years. Now the market in China has collapsed. Bingo, Thailand has a surge in Chinese buying condos... hahaha. Then of course Thailand tourist authority has to get their two cents in with how the tourist market is expected to be back to normal. "Joke of the day"

I imagine he can retire at this point. If it gets serious he would probably forced to retire. Full benefits.

Common occurrence and will never end in Thailand.

The writing has been on the wall in Thailand for the last several years. Anyone that did not see this coming deserves to be taxed and thrown under the bus. Thailand is following the China model where westerners are concerned and it is only going to get worse. As China's economy deteriorates Thailand will go down with them and the anti western sentiment will go off the charts.