MichaelHunt

This does not bode well for real estate values going forward.

Unlike Thai, which, if you get the tone slightly wrong you end up with a totally different word.

I moved back to Thailand in December of 2021, after working in Vietnam for seven years, due to being unable to remain employed there without being vaccinated. (I am an anti-vaxxer.) While I was there, I got visas through my employer. I had heard of people being able to renew visas through local travel agents, but I think that was quite some time ago. Things change, and I think that's one thing that has changed. It would be great if Vietnam would see the light and offer retirement visas. I'd be back there in a minute if there were such a visa. And without such a visa, I wouldn't even consider going back. I need a certain amount of stability in my life.

Are you sure that it's possible to renew those 90-day visas indefinitely? I'm not saying that it's impossible. It just seems improbable to me. If I were to retire there, I'd live in the beach resort city of Nha Trang, and take trips to nearby Dalat every time I felt the need to experience cool weather.

The east coast of Zanzibar has the most beautiful beaches that I have ever seen in my life.

I lived in the south of Vietnam, and my friends there told me that even they don't find the northerners very friendly. Once I met a very friendly and helpful guy at the reception of my hotel in Sapa (his name was Mr. Thai, to my surprise), and it turns out that he was from the deep south of Vietnam. He told me that even he gets overcharged in Hanoi because they can hear that he has a southern accent. So maybe a strategy would be to live in the south and only visit the north for short periods.

Easy visa for a long stay? That's not the impression that I have. Please elaborate.

He can't. It's already gone.

So are you suggesting that a tax would be withheld on all inward remittances, and it would be up to the individual "taxpayer" to file a return to try to get it back if no taxes were actually due?

I wonder how this would work in practice. It could not be based on the number of days you spent in the country in the CURRENT year, right? Because if that were the case, one could transfer money into Thailand tax free during the first 179 days of the year because one can't spend more than 180 days in the country in less than 180 days. So it would have to be based on whether you spent 180 days in the country in the PREVIOUS year. Or am I missing something? How do other people see this?

I found mine on the ThaiFriendly website. She's a very pretty 20-year-old university student, from a somewhat poor family of food vendors in an outer Bangkok suburb. I'm 64 (but I l don't look a day over 63.) I'm not especially handsome, so to compensate, I pay her handsomely. (I pay her by the visit, by the way - which helps to keep her motivated. I think it would be crazy to pay for such a service once a month in advance. And we don't go out on "dates". All of our time together is spent in my apartment, where she is comfortable enough to stay all night every time.) I've been seeing her once a week for about a year now. SHE always calls ME to see if I'm available when she has a day off, and the sex is great - at least for me, and apparently for her as well - since, as I said, she's always calling me to see if I'm available for her to visit. Or maybe she just likes the good money for the not terribly unpleasant sex. Because she's new at this (I am her first sugar daddy/first farang), she still does it like she enjoys it. I keep expecting her to slack off, but she hasn't yet. Since I've been taking care of her, I have noticed that her lifestyle has improved considerably (new iPhone, nice new clothes, etc.), which is the whole point of the relationship for her. I am happy to see her life getting better, and she certainly makes my life better. She has another year left with her studies, and I get the feeling that she would like to continue our arrangement at least until she graduates. From my perspective, I'm satisfied enough with the arrangement that I'm in no hurry to end it.

He knows what he has to say to please his masters.

The money is coming from us. That's why they need to tax our transfers of money into Thailand from next year.

According to this website, which appears to be the official site for applying for the Vietnam e-visa, it says that it takes three days to process it. https://evisa.xuatnhapcanh.gov.vn/khai-thi-thuc-dien-tu/cap-thi-thuc-dien-tu

I just found this, which says that this recently approved e-visa is valid for citizens of all countries. I still don't know how to apply for it, though. https://www.vietnamimmigration.org/vietnam-officially-grants-90-day-e-visas-to-citizens-of-all-countries-and-territories/

Is this an e-visa? Who is eligible to apply, and can you provide a link to the website where it is possible to apply? I want to go there multiple times within a 90-day period. Thanks.

No there aren't. The world's population is at its highest level ever. And yet prosperity is also at its highest level ever. We are FAR from the earth's carrying capacity. Besides, it's a self-regulating mechanism. However, if you really think there are too many people in the world, you can immediately reduce the number by one.

How long was he planning on living in Korea on a million baht? For the rest of his life?

Veganism is not a diet. It's an ideology.

You know as well as I do that Trump beat Biden in a landslide in the last election, you "obvious evidence denier".

You are breaking the rules of this forum by quoting a pseudo-scientific, conspiracy theory source.

It is indeed a shame. But the proper comparison is not between those people who were killed while waiting for the government to become totalitarian and the few who might have been killed if guns were not available. The correct comparison is between the relatively few who have been killed while waiting for the government to become totalitarian, and the tens of millions who would be killed should the government become totalitarian. Just look at what happened to the unarmed Russians, and the Chinese, and the Cambodians, etc.

Yes, I have noticed this too. I suspect that there are a lot of paid reviews there. I would even go so far as to say that there are probably companies (probably in India) that contact restaurants on TripAdvisor and offer to praise them in exchange for a fee. One way to increase your odds of getting a fair review is to just ignore the review of any person who only has one or two reviews on TripAdvisor. TripAdivsor shows the total number of reviews that every reviewer has made (I myself have done something like 50 reviews, for example, thereby increasing my credibility, I think), and if it's only one - and that one is just for that one restaurant - then it is unlikely that it is genuine. I also ignore the reviews of all Indians - as they appear to be the ones being paid to do the reviews, as mentioned above. And finally, I also ignore the reviews of anyone who praises the staff of the restaurant (waiters, cooks, etc.) by name. How many of the cooks in the restaurants that you eat in are you on a first name basis with? Unless it's a pretty waitress, I don't bother asking their name.

So it turns out that they DON'T all look alike.

I have an early flight out of Suvarnabhumi next week, so I won't have time to have breakfast at home. Can anyone recommend a place to have a good American or English breakfast at the airport - for after I check in? Thanks.