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Now for the wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Yep!

Does air conditioning reduce PM2.5 ? An average AC or inverter without filters? Nope.

I think you can bet on it.

Btw - I'm sure that some member's definition of "comfortable" is a budget of $10K USD per month. Maybe more. I doubt the Marc Fabers of the world live like most of us here. I'm not knocking it. But defining "comfort" is a subjective, personal thing to do.

Nice! You got a Pizza Oven?

$1000 USD. But - you have to meet the Thai financials to stay so the amount you need to "comfortably live" is subjective, but it has to be at least 65k THB. The Thai government will insist you have an income stream of 65K / month which you can live on comfortably imho. Now, from your own point of view, define "comfortable." When I first got here I lived in the Thai community in an apartment which cost 1200 THB / mo and I was perfectly comfortable. 4th floor, view of Doi Suthep, sandwiched between Thapae and Loi Kroh in Chiang Mai. Walking distance to where I wanted to go. Life was grand. Now I live in a rural Thai village. With all the money I saved we now have 1 rai of land, two houses, and a good life. Comfortable!

Sounds more like he was mixing his cannabis with methamphetamine and alcohol.

In another 30 to 40 days you probably won't be able to see those building in front no less Doi Suthep.

Wait for another month and Chiang Mai AQI will have the entire world beat hands down.

That's funny.

I'm still waiting to watch the dog and pony show this will become when the first farang claims he is "the wife" in a civil union and demands "Equal Application of Immigration Laws" that allow the foreign wife of a Thai man to skate on any financial requirement and leads to Thai citizenship after three years of marriage. 🐕 🐴

Agree. He was on the verge of falling as it was.

I'm sorry, but stupid is as stupid does. Take a Grab if you're that handicapped.

I still have a picture of an idiot farang on his mobility scooter blowing through an intersection and getting T-boned by a car. That was a Darwin Award for sure.

I would say that is unusual as virtually all of the time you get out and walk around to the driver to pay the fare. If you have mobility issues a songtaew probably isn't the best choice of transport, especially in the day and age of Grab.

If you really interact within a Thai community like I do, one thing you'll know - adoption is a pretty loose term. A whole lot, maybe even a majority, of Thai kids are raised by someone other than their biological parents. Out in rural Thailand many kids of the truly impoverished simple fall outside the government's purview and end up being raised by whomever will take them in. Unlike the nanny-state West, there is no Social Services networks out here which gets involved in "child welfare," so the villagers take care of it themselves as they have been doing forever. In the West under the guise of "child welfare" the state end up screwing up the lives of kids; in near third-world countries like Thailand, "the village" takes care of their own. I personally prefer the latter model. It's humane. The West's "child welfare" model is a sterile abomination. Fyi - I would have adopted my Thai son but the freaking Thai government put up too many roadblocks, "ai farang," if you catch my drift. Outside of a legal context it doesn't matter, he's still my now grown son, and I'm his father. We just don't have a piece of paper from the government stating that, but not having a piece of paper doesn't negate the fact. Probably most non-biological parents who raised Thai kids don't have a piece of paper stating they are "parents." Like I said, with the the context of "the village" it just doesn't matter - the village knows.

Actually I'd tend to say, perhaps you should keep your explicitly overt hatred of homosexuals private. 'Eh?

I know of cases within my own extended family where the picture perfect couple harbored a pedophile rapist. One of those mfs preyed on two of my nieces. So it happens within picture perfect hetro-couples as well. But one thing I'll state as obvious - men are promiscuous. Homosexual men are men. Draw your own conclusions when there is not female counterbalance in the union. But men can rein in that promiscuous nature. Most of us do when it comes to children. Some like the homosexual couple in the NYPost article can't . Those who can't deserve prison, like forever. 100 years is a good start if they make it that long within a pedophile-adverse prison population. But homosexual (men) in a civil union can be upright and as moral as their heterosexual counterparts and make good parents. Luck of the draw for adopted kids I guess.

Not everyone will be onboard. The critics of those who don't accept it should accept that fact. At the end of the day it doesn't matter, it passed parliament and is now law.

2020 We'll fix it next year. 2021 We'll fix it next year. 2022 We'll fix it next year. 2023 We'll fix it next year. 2024 We'll fix it next year. 2025 We'll fix it next year. 2026 We'll fix it next year. 20nn We'll fix it next year.

We'll be there by mid-century and then they can stop this nonsensical "renewables" which are anything but. I expect commercial fusion to be online by 2050.

Enforcement is 0%

Someone was burning plastic tonight. They just wait for the evening.

I expect he'll exit prison feet first unless placed in protective custody.