Furioso

I agree, going to these other countries is very eye opening. They have a lot of pros with fewer cons.

I'm coming back to Thailand tomorrow as I'm just finishing up my 6 week stay in Vietnam. Vietnam has been great but I did have to try 5 different hotels before I found a good one-the pictures on booking are always so misleading. As for Thailand I'm going to see if I can do 4 straight months and stay in a good mood. Going to the gym will help out but yeah I'm thinking 4 months out of any year is enough for me. Being low season helps..I hope.

I would think for a surgery like rotator cuff most people would stay in India in a decent hotel near the hospital for about a month. Hopping on a plane after surgery is a no go. Of course people have different situations in my case I've got 75% coverage with a catastrophic cap. I'm lucky I don't have to worry too much about cost and I definitely prefer surgery out of country.

Congrats on your progress! I had a couple of sports injuries in my late 40's I almost agreed to a meniscus repair and a buddy of mine just said "don't let them cut you unless the pain is unbearable". Thankfully my knee healed up nicely on it's own. After that I kept on playing on hard courts for another 7 years, and suffered through several shoulder, foot, and knee injuries. The last knee injury hit me at age 55, I could barely walk for 2-3 months even and a cortisone shot only helped for about 2 weeks. I was deathly afraid I screwed up my knee so bad it was going to require knee replacement surgery. Once again I listened to my friend and waited it out and six months later I was a lot better. So much so that I went on to play one final hardcourt season. Thank god my friend told me to hold off on any surgery I probably would be way worse off today if I let them cut me. For anyone considering surgery I strongly suggest BLIND 2nd and 3rd opinions.

I'd go to India they've got fine surgeons for 1/10th the cost.

AI

I was in West London in Febuary and it was fantastic.

I've had a few iPhone Pro Max's in my hands they're a fantastic phone and probably the flagship Samsung Galaxy is even better. However, I always lose or break my phones I cannot stomach losing over 1,000 quid over a stupid phone. I dropped my current Samsung A24(great cheap phone by the way) a couple of months ago I've repaired the screen but it cracked too so I'm going to buy the best Android phone(A24 or Honor200?) I can find for under 12,000 baht later this month. But yeah I agree the expensive phones are definitely A+++ and they're worth it if you are able to keep it 4-5 years. I'm lucky to keep any phone unscathed for a year.

Going to be a long summer for Vladimir P.

THIS is why you shouldn't start a war against people that look like you and can speak your language as well as you can. Those airbases are thousands of miles from Ukraine, so clearly the Ukrainian operators drove at least one van or truck thousands of miles inside Russia without arousing any suspicion.

Awesome!

Well, if the New York Times says it it must be true.

These are not put downs they are just simple facts.

Didn't they used to be skinny? They are enormous now what the he_l happened?

Tump was wrong thinking he could make a deal with Putin. Fine, let Putin set Russia back 20, 30, 40 years while the west deal with their own problems.