jak2002003

Depends. A 40 year old fit, healthy and attractive man is better then an overweight, unhealthy and ugly 20 year old man. Also at 40 the guy should be financially better off too.

And for the average expat it is impossible to get a work permit...unless you want to do teaching...and then the pay and pensions are far less than teaching in their own country. Don't get me wrong, it's a great place, but it's definitely not the best place for working age expats to live.

I don't believe OPs partner is telling the truth.

It is not a big problem. We have had really no air pollution the last few years. Last year only a couple of weeks were bad. The rest of the year it's clean air. But now there is flooding! Please visit somewhere before you buy, to get your information right.

I hope they will get bored of them eventually....but really, who can guess? There may be another disease come along in the future.

OK, so, I am very happy here thank you. I have lived here full time for nearly 25 years. I speak, read and write Thai to a good standard and my social circle and friends are 99 percent Thai people. In fact , I have only 1 farang friend, and do not socialise with any other farangs or get involved with any expat clubs for many years. I have a long tern, and very happy relationship for 24 years here. I think I have a good understand of the Thai culture and way of life for the 'average' Thai person. I believe 100 percent that most Thai people DO NOT wear masks out of 'consideration for the health of others', as you state. . If you believe that is the main reason they are wearing them, then you are very misguided. The reasons is because they believe they themselves are in danger from catching dangerous COVID, and also they don't want people to gossip or think bad of them for not wearing one.

I am in Glasgow 'the now'. Weather nice and cool, sunny. People friendly, food delicious, lots of entertainment and nightlife, no one wearing masks or scared about COVID. Great selection of local beers, gins and whiskeys too. Back at my home in CM there is flooding, weather is heavy rain, hot and sticky temperatures, mosquitoes, and some Buddhist alcohol ban day. At this moment in time I say Scotland is much better.

Are you living in the same Thailand as me? Most Thai people have zero consideration for others! They are some of the most selfish people I have met. They want to act 'properly' in public to show off and make themselves look good. They are self absorbed, and even at the temples they just go to make merit for THEMSELVES for personal gain or to win the lottery No consideration about their neighbours, noise, rubbish and pollution, no care for wildlife, the environment or animals. They are not wearing masks to protect others...they wear them to conform, as they don't want to be gossiped about or be seen in a bad light.

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/flooding-expanding-in-central-chiang-mai/ar-AA12wzD1

That would be the same logic as saying it was not rules out it's possible to contract COVID from touching a cat, eating a pizza, combing your hair or from Alien abduction. Everything is 'possible', and the people who write these studies are scared or legal action if they don't add that extra part.

Not just Bangkok. I am living in Chiang Mai and it's the same here

I have been going to Phuket for over 20 years. Over the years I have seen beautiful natural forests destroy to make room for hotels shops or tourist things, even just farming. I also seen the coral reefs damaged or gone in some areas now. Humans are bad for the environment for sure.

This is the result of deforestation on the mountains. Replant the forest and problem solved in a few years.

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One time we pulled up and parked our car outside a small private shop that we were going into to buy an expensive beautiful wooded carved spirit house. As we were getting out of the car the women owner came rushing out, waving her arms about and yelling at is that we were not allowed to park there. She was really mad and rude and did not give us a chance to explain we were customers! We just got back in the car and drove off. She lost a good sale! Another time we had another irate little old lady scouting at us to not park outside her shop (we wanted to buy take home food at a restaurant 2 doors down). She made us keep moving half way between her and the next door shop to park. That was ok with us. After no more the. 20 minutes we came back to get in the car and found either her or the other shop owner had make a deep scratch all the way down the side of our car...from the front to the back.

Nothing will change. They are still doing. temperature checks and making people wear masks at our local shops and markets. People are still made to wear plastic gloves at the buffet and salad bars. They seem to enjoy this stuff.

I would say it is pathetic if your wife is so incompetent and a snowflake that she is so dependent on a grab food delivery to stop your son going hungry. If she can't manage to cook some food for herself and your son if you are not there then there is something seriously wrong.

When will you be ready?

Low, if you can go off grid with renewable energy.

I had one wisdom tooth extracted at private dentist and it was less the. £1500 Baht. Even got some pills to take.

Same with the Bible belt or inbred rural Christians in America ...many children. You can even see the missionary families over here in Thailand, anemic looking couples with a broods of half a dozen blond white kids born one after the other They always remind me of the kids from the horror film, 'children of the corn'.

Yes...it's scary that the intelligent and hard working humans have fewer children then the lower IQ and often poor / criminal or mentally ill people.

It's got a little sleeping bag...perhaps it's going camping?

No. This is a vegan festival. No animals products, so no eggs, fish sauce or insects.

Well, 1 out of six U.S. citizens live with mental illness which equates to 44.7 million people....over 30 percent of the American population....so the president may well have mental problems too.