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I’m sure a lot of people do care. Just not those who can/should do something about this atrocious behavior.

Yes, that is certainly a difficult choice. On the one hand you have Russia, a fascist dictatorial state ruled by a ruthless kleptocracy, the economy is going down the toilet, no freedom of speech (unless you toe the official Kremlin line), any criticism can either land you in jail or the gulag for 10-20 years, or dead as a result of falling out of windows, poisoning, or you just disappear. And if you’re a poor male between 18 and 55, you stand the chance of being draughted into the army and sent to the front as cannon fodder. On the other hand you have the EU. That is certainly not an ideal society, far from it, but I’m quite sure that most people in Europe (those with more than two functioning brain cells, that is) would much rather live in the EU than in Russia. So actually not a very difficult choice at all.

Just more temper tantrum throwing and feet stomping by the thin skinned crybaby. How can someone that childish and petulant be so popular?

Calling the Democrats far-left and Trump/MAGA ‘center’ clearly shows how much (or rather, how little) the OP knows about politics and life in general. Trump is not center, Tulsi Gabbard is not center, Scott Bessent is not center, Pete Hegseth is not center, Pam Bondi is not center, Kristi Noem is not center. The list goes on. Trump wanted Matt Gaetz for AG, for crying out loud. How is that ‘center’? Hopefully Trump will make a huge mess of things, and he’s probably going to wreck the American economy anyway, with his tariffs and deporting 10-20 million ‘illegal aliens’. And then in 2026 (if there are still free and fair elections) we will see what the voters have to say. Until then, we’re just going to have to ride out this sh!tstorm.

Get back to me in 6-12 months and then we’ll see….

Not just psychologists: any sane person, I would say.

There have been many reports from previous Trump staff members who all told the same story: that Trump had no interest in any briefings, intelligence or otherwise, if it was longer than 2 pages and not filled to the brim with pictures, graphs and things like that. Keep dreaming….

Trump and intelligence briefings, now there’s an oxymoron if ever I saw one. Hope they make the briefings short and sweet, and with lots of pictures in them, otherwise the Donald’s very short attention span is going to throw a spanner in the works.

Of course tariffs are going to hurt the consumer, it doesn’t take a mastermind to figure that out. Who do you think is ultimately going to pay for that 10-20-50% price hike?

One does not exclude the other.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/26/elon-musk-political-donations-132-million-donald-trump-republican-races/

Not telling, don’t want this place to become overrun with expats and tourists like so many other places in Thailand.

Would be very interested to hear what company that’s with.

X-ray, CT scan and exercise test with heart monitor and breathing gas analysis. There’s plenty of evidence now that long covid is real. In my country (The Netherlands) alone there are some 100,000 people with serious complaints. Some can do little else than just lie in bed. It has been discovered this year (or last year?) that long covid has to do with the disruption in different ways of energy production on the cellular level, in the mitochondria. Exercising too hard or too much is actually counter productive, it can damage you for weeks or even months. But there are many different levels of complaints. Like I said, some can do little else than just lie in bed. I could still function on a very basic level, although I had to stop working completely for a few months.

I was suffering from extreme fatigue last year, and have had everything checked out: heart, lungs, intestinal tract, blood, the whole nine yards. They couldn’t find anything, so in the end the conclusion was that I have long covid. There is no way to definitely diagnose long covid, though, so it’s kind of a last resort diagnosis. I’m doing a lot better now, mainly thanks to a low/mid intensity training program especially for long covid patients. I’m not nearly back to normal, before the fatigue started, but a lot better than I was one year ago. It’s all relative….

I’m not overly concerned (famous last words) about having to be medivacced from Koh Chang in case of an emergency. But I can understand someone with health problems would think otherwise. Like I said, I am fortunate not to have any serious health problems (yet).

The question about the 6 months a year in Cambodia was for several reasons. Maybe it’s easier to get a visa to live in Thailand for just 6 months, then go live somewhere else for 6 months and then come back again. My plan is to live on Koh Chang, and Cambodia is very close. Second reason is that Thailand is going to tax expat income, but I believe only if you stay there for more than 180 days.

Trump has made many promises, for instance to lower the price of groceries, to lower the price of energy, and I believe also to lower the price of health insurance. With his proposed tariffs, though, the prices of imported goods for consumers will go up and inflation will soar. But Trump will find someone/something to blame it on, it’s his M.O., and his faithful cult members will believe whatever cockamamie BS he will come up with to explain why things have gone sideways. Hopefully the less gullible Trump voters will finally wake up and realize the mistake they made by voting for this dums@ss.

I have very good health insurance here in The Netherlands, but unfortunately I can not keep that when I move to Thailand.

Thanks for the info, this is very helpful. The 70k per month is actually two pensions.

PS: I don’t have any medical/health issues, not yet anyway. So maybe go without insurance and use government hospital when something does happen?

I will not be working in Thailand, going to move there next year when I retire. The plan is to live on Koh Chang.

First off, thanks for taking the time to write this lengthy reply, I really appreciate that. I am Dutch. I pay about €200 (about 7,300 baht) a month here for health insurance, and quite a comprehensive one at that. I wish I could keep that insurance, but unfortunately that is not possible when I move to Thailand.

Do you know how/where I can find out if I qualify?

I am Dutch. Not sure what the ‘income letter’ you mention means. I don’t have a Thai bank account in my name only.