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And she can get away with it

You jest, its almost everywhere in Pattaya.

I make my own yogurt these days, if you think marketing takes a new turn in Thailand how about these examples, one very well known major appliance and flooring, well home centre is currently having promos, we call them specials back home, in the market for some goods as building a house, they had a sink one of the "known" brands on sale/promo for around 8000, reduced from something like 26,000, now I been in and out of enough shops including that one to know that sink has not been reduced but the so called pre promo price inflated X3 at least, I called the sales assistant out on this, she just gave me a sheepish smile, somethings have been reduced for sure but hardly enough to make me want to jump cause I will save a bucket of money, but again enough items had inflated pre promo tickets attached, about the only thing that was genuine that I saw was a island bar range hood reduced to 16,000, which I had seen 3 months back for somewhere in the high 20's with the pre promo price saying 55,000, I do recall when I originally seen this hood in the 20s as they have a limited range here and what they have is pricey which is 50 plus thousand most of the time, and I need one... A well known Taiwanese fan maker and sales has several shops in BKK went to one to check out some fans at Mega Bagna, there a bit on the pricey side but I clearly want two fans that will turn slowly for the living area, priced a model im interested in comes in at around 11600 each, jumped online last week thinking to order on line, met with a welcome sign saying promo time is here, the fan I was interested in was on sale for 13600 or something like that... It pays to shop often and not buy just observe, it gives you a clear idea which stores to stay out of as well.. And one very Big Supermarket here I have a grip with, same item found in 3 or 4 places in there large stores so if out of stock in one section you gotta go crawling all over the god dam place to see if its elsewhere there, then not taking out of date stock of the shelves, sometimes reduce pricing sometimes not, a few times pick some think like a bag of shredded cheese only to find its off when I open it back home, this week some sealed veggies..in the process of going off.. Marketing in this country. I shake my head, one time wanted to buy an item they tried to entice me to buy the package that was on promo, said I dont need or want the other items, "ho you can sell", really, sometimes I think Thais get sucked in to easy.

In my case I dont have that luxury, they sit you down and fill it out had a Thai speaker with me that went through it all, but I did bring moneys in that where pre 1st jan 24 savings, they just wanted proof of where it was spent, as far as I could see nothing was noted on there tax form over that particular amount, they did not ask for proof that it actually was in an Australian bank pre jan 24.

And again depends on your tax office location, get it in writing...

In my case, Australian and Age pension income only coming in, plus an amount of savings brought in for a major purchase, im not covered by a DTA, so not relevant for me to ask, in Pattaya first stop was a guy who checks your papers and speaks some English then you are shuffled off to a second person who fills in the form for you who had no English, bring your Thai partner and be well prepared.

Maybe in your circles but I can assure you plenty do..

I have a Hugo Boss black round neck t-shirt that cost me a small fortune a few years ago, feel naked wearing it it feels so good, though very casual is that ok to wear and considered to be well dressed?

Market forces and market dictates, I assume you are talking around the more affluent and heavy Japanese area of Thonglor and surrounding, there was a Japanese food crazy 10 or more years ago which just was fusion, needed to be so Thais could eat something Japanese that was mostly Thai tasting, we have moved on now to Korean. No the cheap eats wont be back it's covered well enough in the rest of the city, plenty of Thais will go out a couple of times a month and spend a lot more than 60b on a plate, why do people think there any different to you and me?

Ive done it twice for an extended period, the side affects where being more alert, more energy, hardly hungry, naturally eating less.

Other, and why? When the Soviet Union was considering breaking up and looked for guarantees from the US and others that the possible future independent republics would not be offered Nato membership, it was given. One by one the former republics where offered Nato membership, you can read about it here, https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early Call Putin a dictator, insecure what ever, he has very good reason to not trust the west, have we forgotten the Cuban missile crisis? that started first when the US placed long range nuclear missiles able to reach Moscow in Turkey, Russia then did the same thing in Cuba, what we didnt hear about for years from the press or from the US government was the deal to pull out of Turkey if the Russians would pull theres out of Cuba. Unfortunately Ukraine has been a pawn of the bigger player in this who for what ever reasons they had wanted to keep a bit of the Cold War going, no doubt Ukraine has there own issues and desires but by allowing themselves to jump into bed with a Nation that has shown countless times when the time comes they will just up and leave. The deal was always going to be what ever the Russians took land wise they would keep with puppet governments in place, The idea that Ukraine was going to win, winning what ever was pure press and Nato propaganda, Love or Loath at least Trump may end the war, as the outcome would have always been the same no matter who was in charge.

That might be the case depending on your local revenue department, certainly its not correct at Chon Buri/Pattaya, popped in This morning to pick up my TIN number after registering and lodging last Friday, took a moment to ask the head did I who is not liable to pay any tax did I still needed to lodge, he said any funds that are remitted into the country you must lodge a tax form, which was me, so it doesn't matter what or where the remitted funds come from, they work it out with you at lodgement so keep good records.

Over crowded worse traffic in a smaller area, ugly women, food is crap, macdonalds over charge here in the tourist areas so thats a killer for him and even less to do and way more boring people to meet.

You pay first at most coffee shops and yes I got the wrong size or the wrong coffee enough times...lets face it you wake up the poor darlings when you walk up to the counter to order then they pull there face out of tic Tok with there mind still there, In AU you holding your phone during work hours and its not work related means a warning and eventually the sack.

No chance.