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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.

I'm surprised he wasn't fined 50 quid and released, after which any citizens who criticizes the government would be throw in prison for 5 to 10 years. The UK has seriously lost the plot.

That's not quite "being released to the public."

Good. Now let's see if the term, "Conspiracy Theorist," holds up under the scrutiny of published facts?

This seems to be the new look at the bottom of the AN website.

Things are going to change, and I believe that the status-quo needed a swift kick right to the seat of the pants, and Trump 2.0 has brought that. I consider that a good thing. Now, whether that will usher in good change or bad change? I guess we'll see. I consider good change to be swinging the social pendulum toward conservatism. For example - this BS about throwing people in prison or firing them for not using "proper pronoun" had to end. That change is now being implemented in the US as you had a tiny fraction of a minority of people demanding huge changes in the social fabric of societies to accommodate them, as well as discovering that Western world leader who were jumping onboard to use these moronic new laws - like forcing the entire public to use "proper pronouns" for the gender confused by threatening members of the public with prison and fines - all in order to push an autocratic agenda and then label it "democracy." That's now drawing to an end. My guess is the Trump Administration will pull federal funds from universities and federal contractors who insist on maintaining the woke agenda, but, money hunger universities WILL capitulate out of greed alone. And then pressure will be applied through threat of "tariffs" if other Western leaders don't fall into line. And voters are about to oust these woke autocrats from their leadership positions in the UK, Commonwealth countries, and the UK. I consider that all to be good. However, I'm sure Jingthing and the rest of the progressive members in my Ignore List will disagree. Sorry guys, but the social pendulum is swinging back to the right. Those of us in the middle of the political road or who are conservatives are not "Far-Right-Wing Fascist Nazis" no matter how many times you insist we are. And by keeping up that rhetoric you only highlight how polarized and radicalized to the Far-Left that you people are yourselves. It's a new dawn. "Woke" is going to have a different meaning as in awoken to a new conservative social paradigm. Join us as brothers and sisters - we don't hate you.