MarkBR

Thailand needs to be protected from food dumping of low quality foods. Many banned in EU due to practices that result in lower quality - e.g Rat hairs in processed meat products, and allowable faecal contamination (cow<deleted>) in processed meat products, bovine somatotrophin hormone in milk, etc. There are good foods from USA - cheeses from Wisconsin, Massachusetts & New England in general. Grass-fed beef of free range cattle from many ranches is of very high quality, for example.

Linked issues due to more evaporation into atmosphere leading to larger, more intense storms/typhoons, monsoons leading to more floods. The increased warmth which allows for the atmosphere to hold more water vapour, also increases rate of melting of ice, whether in glaciers or ice caps at the poles.

Even in Bangkok you can buy cheap & eat well. As Chef McDang pointed out, the main difference between stallholder's food & high restaurants is the presentation. Obviously there will be few bad ones, but most sell good food. They would not survive otherwise.

Hideously expensive, have friends who want move abroad as it is far easier than UK (they lived abroad before so know all the pitfalls), mostly due to high cost of living. Alo the weather is far far better, except for those that cannot stand the heat. Food is a big draw, on ground of variety, deliciousness, and cost.

Latest has Starmer's Chancellor Rachel Reeves talking about trickle-down of wealth. OMG a Thatcherite convert. Nightmare.

Most Thais are terrified of snakes, not surprising since they have many venomous ones in Thailand. Had to remove/persuade a golden tree snake to leave the school cafeteria. All the Thai staff/teachers were convinced it needed to be beaten to death, fortunately it was not killed & was able to safely escape to go hunt rodents.

Indeed

Ultracet is very good. Had to use it for the pain of a bladderstone - on a par with attack of the cheesegrater on your insides. I hate pills, so welcomed Ultracet (paracetamol & tramadol - over the counter in Thailand) as it was only 2 pills a day as opposed to 6 prescribed full strength CoCodamol(paracetamol & codeine)

Huge, I would imagine. Shanghai will also face problems, which at 21million has an even bigger problem.

Houseboat.😆

Do they have F1 regattas?

Why go to a country in the middle of a civil war?

All ultra-processed food is bad to varying degrees depending on degree of processing. Cook decent food, or get decent food from other stalls or restaurants. Fermented food is very good for the physiology & general health - anything that provides food for the bacteria in the gut. So for noodles go for Khanom Jeen (the fermented - not so easy to find)

No, an individual who has done this for a colleague before

Cost me 3k for entry by land at Nong Khai.

A more recent study indicated that COVID vaccination is independent of the risk of myocarditis & is linked to viral consequences of infection not to the vaccination. Specific linkage seems to be to athletes engaging in high-intensity exercise. Myocarditis - A silent killer in athletes: Comparative analysis on the evidence before and after COVID-19 pandemic in pubmed.gov - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39234482/ a single paper is not much use except for those that cherry-pick to support weirdness. More papers & a subsequent meta-analyses is far more useful. Post-viral symptoms can be devastating, and need careful investigation to prevent where possible, and develop suitable treatment where they occur. If any are more knowledgeable, please supply reasoned argument for & against what I have provided here. Orthodoxy & heterodoxy often can provide value for clarification of medical realities. And sometimes heterodoxy can be correct, although it is not common (paradigm shifts) - for example - Stanley Pruisner & the develop of the theory of prions as cause of bovine spongiform encephalitis, scrapie in sheep, Creutzfeld-Jacob disease; Helicobacter pylori as causesative agent of stomach ulcers, etc...

After twice, you cannot enter thailand against via land, or air (the 6x is not in addition to 2x by land) I found out the hard way! However, if you use an agent, then things magically happen. Ask DrJack54 in the visa forum - most knowledgeable.

Use internet for communicating with like-minded people. Obviously, not some news/social media websites & people on them. Partly it will depend on age, at 63 beginning to encounter this problem to a small degree. Just a matter of socialising, in person or via suitable social media, with similarly intelligent individuals who can debate rationally, even if you do not agree with them.

Epstein obsessed; it is MAGA who are upset that Trump is hiding the Epstein files.

However you do need to look at the increase in intensity of storms with more energy within the climatic system, so what was useful in the past may not be useful in the future (this applies to Netherlands as well; although, I assume they have considered most of this already). Studies have to ascern the costs of moving vs the costs o staying in same place. It may not be viable for Bangkok to be the capital any long, this climatologists & quality engineers (not those paid to give politicians the answers they want), need to provide answers for. Many cities are endangered worldwide: Miami being one of the first that to go due to high above current sea-level, but by the time it is going under the timescale will be too short to start work on saving other cities.

My friend who just got his visa was offered help to get a bank account when he was awarded his DTV. So it may be flexible at their discretion. This was Chiang Mai Immmigration. When I have dealt with them they seem to be so much more functional than the chaos of Chaeng Wattana.

Sea levels are rising , loads of data on that. Bangkok is also sinking (on that you were correct). The combination means Bangkok will need to relocate to somewhere. Main question is where, with a subsidiary question as to the speed required.

Same here, the few times I tried weed (over 30 years ago), bad hallucinations. Very effective aversion therapy.

Trump will TACO

Do not panic we will return him ASAP