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Sure there's that. There's also the "safety" canard especially for Latin America. Living in the U.S. for example as a poor person even if you do have a roof is usually incredibly unsafe. Poverty kills. If the same money can lift you out of poverty somewhere else, what a blessing that can be.

But they could get one and it's a pretty good passport as well.

That may be so but still beats living in a car and <deleted>ting in a bucket! I'm above that level here but for quite modest levels of wealth and income I have a set up that I couldn't replicate in the U.S. for under at least a million dollars, more like two. There are retirement destination countries where you can qualify for 600 dollars a month income and perhaps I'm wrong but I don't think Cambodia even checks income for retirement status. Or there is the Philippines option of only needing to do a visa run every three years.

I've had this thought for years now. You hear about oldsters living in cars in the U.S. for example but they do have a social security income but can't afford rent. Obviously each person has their own specific personal and financial situation and there are good reasons for poor retired people to stay home, but in many cases I see not moving abroad to live a much better quality of life on a low income as basically stupid. Not only to Thailand of course. For Thailand, a person with low income would need to be able to do the 800K baht thing but many poorer retirees do have that level of a very modest life savings. So why do so many that could greatly benefit by moving abroad fail to do so? Other than good reasons (such as strong family support, too physically ill to do it, etc.). I can only speculate. I assume many just don't know about and/or have failed to do the research on the options open to them at their finance level. I know that many people assume that living abroad is a "glamourous" option only for rich people. Some are probably ultra nationalist xenophobe types that think as bad as things are for them personally their home country still offers them the best of all possible worlds. Some may be afraid of foreign languages. Some that might know of some options may simply be afraid of such a big change. In my view, living in a car and <deleted>ting in a bucket is something to fear much more than living abroad! So back to the question: Do you think (most) financially struggling western retirees are stupid for not retiring abroad?

It's not really Russia hating. It's about specific things that Russia is doing under their genocidal war criminal dictator Putin.

He can thank an incompetent terrorist for his good fortune. Great news that he survived.

Or he really liked it there.

Disgusted by this of course though I do understand the business motive. I do wonder considering that Pita should have been PM (but we all know why he isn't) whether he would have behaved differently towards genocidal war criminal Putin, or not?

Good riddance for bad Magadonian rubbish! What a sleaze ball that guy is. No legislation by him in a long career. Clearly guilty of not reporting sex abuse on a wrestling team. Pushing all kinds of Trumpist big lies.

So what if she's a Jew? Does her ethnicity make her opinion any more or less true? I think not. It's like some people think Jews are a monolith and all think the same so if some don't it proves something. So stupid.

I noticed that you don't capitalize Israel or Zionist but that you do capitalize Palestinian. Can you explain your disrespect for the world's one Jewish state (when there are so many Islamic ones) and the world's only liberation / political movement of self determination for the Jewish people? Do you not recognize Israel's right to exist? I've already gleaned that you're no fan of Israel defending itself from terrorists.

You're tripping. The majority of Palestinians especially the young ones do not want to make peace with Israel.

So you can't disavow your UK citizenship? Thanks for the Thai perspective translation to dog. So very irrelevant and so very obnoxious, khrap. Israel doesn't want to kill all so called Palestinians. Have you noticed the ratio of global Jews to global Arabs and global Muslims? Look at all the rage from a hit Gaza hospital that probably wasn't even from Isreal. I think its a cynical troll move to suggest that. Also Israel does not want to occupy Gaza.

One buffet dies. Another is born. A Taste of Norway on Teppraya Road accross from Jomtien Complex is now doing a Norweigan (with a wee bit of Thai) dinner buffet every Friday night starting at 6:30 PM. The buffet just started tonight yet the joint was already packed at 6:30 and the staff was scrambling to keep the clean plates coming. Forget about arriving much later than that as it's basically over by 8:00. Drinks are not included. The dessert was some kind of flan like thingie served with whipped cream cans that you squirt yourself. 450 count 'em baht-a-ronis. The food was prettaaay, prettaaay good. Tonight was the first night. It was surprising to see such a crowd for the first night. Good publicity I guess. It seems they may need to start requiring bookings.

Definitely, If the Arabs and Iran care so much (they actually don't) let them take responsibility instead of always having the Israeli scapegoat. Also of course the Gazans themselves. Build their own infrastructure instead of terrorism tunnels.

Oh my, you have a fertile imagination. I think Israel might create a large no man's land buffer zone on the Gaza border. I think they might be justified if they do.

Pablum in the sense that she clearly wants peace but painfully unrealistic suggesting she's still a child.

Vile conspiracy theory garbage.

Exactly and that is what poisons her generally positive pablum message.

Greta is OK but that kind of rhetoric is suggesting that Israel doesn't have the right to go after Hamas which is dedicated to murdering all Jews and erasing Israel, and I seriously doubt her own or any other country would be held to the same kind of absurd standard of passive suicide. Israel won't either, Israel should ignore the Gretas of the world and carry on to try to weaken Hamas.

What? Do y'all think I wouldn't do an update? Well, here it is. I went in person to Jomtien. I wrote down my two joined condo numbers with a hyphen. My documents actually noted the same format on the front pages. So I just gave them everything including the separate chanotes for both condos. I was questioned somewhat sharply. Two condos? Then I made it clear they were joined, that it was one place to live with one front door. They had seen that before. It would be possible for someone to own adjoining condos and live in one and rent the other, so it's important to make that distinction. Given what was on the front documents showing two condo numbers I think I've been reporting my address and also this TM30 correctly. Got the TM30 receipt showing both numbers but interestingly without the hyphen. That's all good news, but here's some better news. No fine! I was told if there is a hotel tm30 done in Thailand, no need to report again. (Expected that.) But I was also told if I leave Thailand and come back with a later reentry stamp from my now current TM3, because I am owner occupant, there is no need to report! I assume that I would need to report a foreign guest in my condo though. Thanks for all the feedback. Did I even need the Tm30 I finally got? I really don't know, but I'm happy I did it, as no need to worry about needing it for extensions etc. now.

Be more specific.

You know what I meant. Stop the dumb play acting.

I don’t believe you.

But they almost always chant From the River to the Sea. That chant is about committing genocide on Israeli Jews. So basically terrorist cheerleading.