Stocky

That's the problem Bob

No it doesn't it says BRITISH PASSPORT United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Two thirds of a Magnum ice cream

She'll skin him alive - hopefully

That's not living, it's simply existing - IMO. As to the OP's question, I spend what I need to live a comfortable life whilst living within my means. I follow simple Micawbian economic principles ~ “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” Return on investments covers the basics, the amount of days consultancy work annually is something of an unknown variable, so I adjust my discretionary expenditure accordingly.

How can you miss a target that big?

Routine? I get up, I do stuff, I go to bed. Some folk here really like to over complicate things.

Not quite, as of the last Census (2021) some 1.6 million people described themselves as of Pakistani descent or Pakistani-born.

The French are revolting, nothing new there

Unless I'm connecting somewhere for something specific then Singapore

HSBC Singapore to SCB today - took an eternity - 5 seconds!

Maxim here in Hat Yai

But that's monsoon season here, most Europeans come during the winter months

Isn't it supposed to be low season May through October?

Transfer this evening HSBC Singapore - Wise - Kasikorn instantaneous, the SMS from Kasikorn acknowledging receipt arrived the same time the one from HSBC SMS said the money had left my account. Most times there are topics about Wise problems it involved money from the USA.

As I said SE Asia, Malaysia would be first choice.

I do, and there are plenty of places we could go as a family, I have little intention of leaving SE Asia, though I see little that might make me leave Thailand.

Coincidentally, we had a second visit from immigration just the last week, not from the main Hat Yai immigration office but from the office in Sadao. This I was told had nothing to do with my extension, which I'd collected a couple weeks before, rather they said their task was to check on the validity of marriages; checking for fake marriages. All very polite, a few photographs, some questions, sign a document saying we're married witnessed by someone not a family member. So this may become a regular thing? I still don't think the extension and 90 day reporting procedures are particularly arduous, I've lived and worked in a lot of countries and I don't find Thailand's rules to be especially difficult. Certainly it's no prison, I have a passport and I can leave whenever I wish.

I have no liking for either.

Mid sixties, full head of hair and a full beard, short back and sides and a beard trim every 5 weeks seems to work for me.

In Jakarta I found myself staying in a condo block with no 14th floor but with two 8th floors an 8a and 8b.

Any floor with a 4 in it is usually missing/misnumbered in SE Asia, the number 4 in Chinese sounds similar to the word for death. .

But if you've worked hard to earn money are you not entitled to spend it? Whilst I admire your frugality it's not how I, or many others, wish to live their lives. I don't consider my lifestyle especially extravagant but it does consume about Bht100,000 per month.

So in the same week that the United States commemorates its independence from the British monarch, its Supreme Court in effect crowns its President - a decision it will regret one day.

We had a second visit from immigration, this time from the office in Sadao. This I was told had nothing to do with my extension, which I collected a couple weeks before, rather their task is to check on the validity of marriages - checking for fake marriages. All very polite, a few photographs, some questions, sign a document saying we're married witnessed by someone not from the same household or family. No idea if this is to be a regular thing or not. .