Ben Zioner

You don't have a friend who could come one night and poison the dogs while you go on a holiday overseas?

I thought I had mentioned that I had a family. So 2000 by 4 is 8000, at least. Rent taking away 3000 of that. And who wants a "basic lifestyle"?

So our situations differ. I am 72 with a loving family and only half a dozen of years to go (hopefully).So I can bite the bullet, read, watch TV etc.. At 55 I had dreams.. Reckon you should go, you are way to young to waste here.

I know how you feel, and if we moved back home with our families the risk they would hate living there is significant. Imagine the cost failure. Anyhow, without an income of less than 10000 Euros a month it would be impossible to establish a family in any of the EU countries. I don't even mention Australia which is even more expensive now.

Ok, wait and "see".

Totally, hence the new visa for twice 180 days over a period of 5 years. I think is all well planned, and IMHO been WIP over the past 5 years.

Some convicts made it back? It is true that many British tourists seem to have a heavy colonial heritage, especially those in Pattaya.

Right, why would one give up a nationality he values for a citizenship of convenience. I don't see how any Westerner could become Thai, out of love and respect for this "place".

Is this a joke or ITT?

OP this is no time to retire in Thailand. Book a trek to the Cordillera Blanca. 53 is a great age to start a healthy life, Peru is way and Latin America are way more fascinating than Thailand.

It would not, no visa exempt, E-visa for everyone, very achievable. Accredited agency provides a tour reference, and you get your visa issued for the duration plus 48 hours for contingency.

Would be easy to fix via the visa process: you get a visa only if you buy a tour from an accredited agency. Easy it could fix most of Thailand's "cheap tourists" issues. Could be a temporary measure while the industry moves into the upmarket sector.

Well since you have preempted it, have your chuckle.

What are you doing when you have a snake in your living room? Does it give you a sense of power to kill it? When I read a read a post I hope I'll learn something or see a different perspective, When I write a post I share my view on something, sometimes facts or knowledge, When someone is funny I laugh, When someone is consistently obnoxious (anti semitic) or looking for a fight I block. Happens rarely though. And nobody is perfect, but where is the sense of power? And how many times did you read me saying I was using the block list? One? or Two?

And you are just looking for a fight. Off to the block list.

I find it interesting that one wants to prove his innocence by collecting signatures. Even Trump..

So the never look at Japan. Deliberately I don't mention Western European democracies, which are far too advanced to be mentioned here.

Thailand is has now a "mild authoritarian regime". The word "democracy" is not more applicable.

I got the LTR as I could show the 80K just with one of my pensions. On that basis it was a total no brainer. On the other hand, investing 250K in this country? I couldn't as I don't have the cash and live from hand to mouth, and if I could I doubt I'd trust this place enough.

He paid her well.

If you like fat ones..

I hope they condemned Putin and Russia. I admit that I didn't follow these "talks" as we are way beyond meetings. WU needs an across the board 3% VAT hike to finance the war.

I guess it is because locals tend to have small "milk". I do enjoy the scarcity.

Ok, young guys may have more fights and accidents. But how about Cancer, Strokes, Diabetes, Heart disease, Joint replacements, Cataract, and.. death ?

"able" or "unable" ?