bkk_mike

GM pulled out of Thailand a few years ago. They sold their factory to GWM (Great Wall Motors). They pulled out of all right-hand drive markets globally. I think the only US brands for sale are Tesla and Ford. People do like the look of the Ford pickups... Unsure about Jeep. Not seen someone I know driving one in Thailand in years. Tesla were doing OK. But I don't know if they're going to get the same anti-Musk backlash that they're getting in Europe and Canada.

Chinese hybrids will be restricted to the companies that have factories in Thailand (GWM's Haval, BYD, Geely, etc.) This is because only full EVs avoid the import duty if built in China. Personally, I think hybrids are a stopgap if you drive a lot in cities, but drive long range often enough in a country with a bad charging network, that you can't go fully electric. Because you get increased complexity and higher servicing costs than regular diesel, but only better mileage in stop-start driving in cities. If you drive in the city all the time, and can charge at home, fully electric is a no-brainer. If you never drive in cities you might as well just get a regular diesel.

I take it you didn't follow the cladding issue in the UK after the Grenfell Tower fire. If lenders won't lend on the property to a new buyer, the price drops pretty badly. Add in the issues in England and Wales with leaseholds and...

1. If he's got family in the UK, he probably wants to live near them most of the time. 2. The UK will freeze (as in stop increasing in line with inflation) the state pension of UK pensioners who live in Thailand. If you only go there for holidays, you keep getting the increases. 3. If he's still working at 72, that's either through choice (because he genuinely likes his job) or because of financial necessity, which would tie in with option 2 4. To you he looked healthy, but maybe he has a medical condition such as diabetes where he's getting free treatment in the UK, but if he moved to Thailand, he'd have to pay for treatment. But the real answer is. He doesn't want to live in Thailand full time.

Not at the moment it's not. Have you seen what the US has been doing the last 2 months...

Does this mean all those places with NIMBYs that blocked wind farms can be given a fast-tracked nuclear reactor instead?

That's BA - they want to fill their planes at Heathrow with people flying business. And couldn't give a toss about anyone else. And as much as Thailand may wish it, they're currently a tourist destination far more than a business destination. It's fine, BA has a pretty terrible economy class. (At least for anyone over 6ft tall). I try to avoid flying with them if there's any better choices available. And if they're only flying from Gatwick, every choice will be a better choice (House in London is 1 tube stop from the Elizabeth line, so Heathrow is the obvious choice if I can't fly from London City... - but I've only ever done one return flight to Bangkok starting at London City - KLM - change at Schipol...)

Locked safe in a hotel room (or Airbnb) can be reset and opened by the owners. It protects your belongings from "guests" or the cleaning staff. It wouldn't protect them from the people that have the user manual and know how to reset the safe when a guest forgets the combination they used.

It's the Daily Mail. A "newspaper" that prints lies so often it's banned from being used as a reference on Wikipedia. And the same pictures appear to have been used on another article about an overstayer. So either this story, or the original one, also in the Daily Mail (no surprise), are complete bull<deleted>. Or given it's the Daily Mail, quite possibly both stories are complete bull<deleted>.

Some of them will be Hong Kong and Taiwan.

I thought that was dependent on the double taxation agreement. So US social security and all Hong Kong pensions are exempt. UK state pensions aren't unless it's a government pension (i.e. civil service pension). Admittedly a UK state pension not being classed as a "government pension" for the double taxation agreement does feel a bit weird... So for Oz, check the double taxation agreement.

The issue for pitbulls is they were literally bred for fighting. That means significantly stronger jaw muscles, so if they bite... Like most dogs, it's down to the owner more than the dog... But those jaw muscles mean it's a lot more serious with a pit bull. I once had a dog who we rescued. And very occasionally, around other dogs, it would suddenly just have an immediate change of character and attack. Which is why we kept it on a lead if we saw other dogs around when walking it. If you didn't witness it, you wouldn't believe it if you saw the dog the rest of the time. (It was a Shih Tzu, so even the other people walking their, usually significantly larger, dogs, would mostly just laugh... They wouldn't laugh if it was a Pit Bull. They'd call the police on you...)

Given those countries allow Thais to travel visa-free, not going to happen. If anything it might be the countries where Thais need to get a visa to visit that might get more restrictive...

If available, connect with a wired connection to your router, if that's bad, then call True. If a wired connection is good, then it's WiFi solely, which will either mean you've got an aerial problem (i.e. damaged aerial on the device you're using or the router), or possibly someone else has set up a nearby WiFi on the same channel and changing channels to a less congested one might fix it (usually possible via a setting on your router). If there's no uncongested channels it may be time to upgrade to a new router with a newer WiFi version as 6 and later tend to handle congestion better. There are free apps for phones to do WiFi analysis, and you can use one of those to check if there's less congested channels available.

He's the person that pushed Brexit for decades, saying it would solve migration... Only for immigrants station to shoot up after Brexit. Brexit is a disaster. It's costing the country £2 billion a week and nobody is talking about it. Why do you think he changed the name of the party from the Brexit party. So the idiots that were sold the idea that Brexit would solve everything are now being told to "blame the immigrants". And that the solution is to withdraw from the ECHR so we can treat them worse than laws set up to literally prevent another Hitler say we're allowed to treat people. (And if you think removing their human rights won't as a side-effect take away our human rights - then you're an idiot of the highest order). By the time you're posting here, you'll be living in Thailand. Think how you'd be feeling if Thai people were proclaiming their support for a political party that blamed immigrants for all their problems... P.S. Before Brexit, I seem to remember Farage saying we can "be like Norway" quite a lot. Given leaving the Single Market, and the loss of passporting is causing more than half the tax losses from Brexit, the fact we chose to be like Albania in terms of our deal with the EU, rather than "being like Norway", is the biggest problem of Brexit.