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1 minute ago, azaazo9 said:

True, but also 40 something man can not compare with 20 something man. 

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.

4 minutes ago, Hanuman2547 said:

Except the street food if on a busy street get a lot of air particulate matter floating around it.  

Alcohol is excessively overpriced.  

Driving is terrible in Bangkok.  The cost of the car or truck in Thailand is very expensive.

Rainy season is bad with all the flooding and particularly bad this year.

Running in Bangkok is very difficult.  It's hot and humid and running on the streets is not a good idea.  I lived over in the Dusit area.  Not that good of a place for running.  Then there is the air pollution.

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.  

On 10/4/2022 at 3:33 AM, parafareno said:

just thinking about options....seems houses are way cheaper than in pattaya

i stayed in pattaya total 6 months, but never been in CM...i know there is more polution in CM, which is a big problem

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. 

7 hours ago, redwood1 said:

So do you see the Thais wearing the masks indefinitely ? It seem like they would tire of the masks eventually... 

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

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. 

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

7 minutes ago, todlad said:

Thank you. Please note, I said (I was speaking from memory) that surface transmission was possible. You gave your response, thank you.

 

Your conclusions are not right. Yes, they say that transmission from some surfaces is low but they go on to say that, even so, they cannot rule out that in some cases, given their context, were not from a surface rather than the air.

 

They also talk about the volume of a surface deposit since a large deposit is more dangerous, I am sure you agree, than a small one.

 

I am not negating everything you say and I accept that some studies have concluded that surface contamination in some cases are essentially inert.

 

Contamination rates very low but not proven to be zero. Nevertheless, throughout the pandemic I have kept my hands sanitised at all times and kept them away from as many public surfaces as possible.

 

 

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.

55 minutes ago, Snig27 said:

The mass masking thing seems to be mostly Bangkok and even here it's selective. I was at the flower markets two days back and there were few masks. Got the MRT afterwards and there were some triple masked people. Got a taxi from the BTS and he was unmasked. 

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

37 minutes ago, Peterphuket said:

They did the same at Phuket, they destroy everything, just only for the money.

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. 

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. 

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

I want to continue to wear masks (I'm high risk healthwise) but I went out the other night and NOBODY was wearing them and I even got yelled out by a drunken f-rang.

I can only see that getting worse and worse. 

So I guess I will cave and strip it off. 

In fact I started to today.

How many people like me who aren't really ready but don't want to stick out so much?

When will you be ready? 

11 minutes ago, wombat said:

I'd be asking what my heating and electric bills would be in Scotland as my first question 

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

On 7/22/2022 at 7:51 AM, scubascuba3 said:

Just go to a dentist, will be cheap unless it's a wisdom

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

1 hour ago, Bday Prang said:

 Not sure about America  , but  there is no shortage of fertility on the average council estate in the UK however the offspring from these people do not come from the best of "stock" and are unlikely to make any positive contribution to society

Who the future belongs to has little to do with abortions, and more to do with uncontrolled breeding on behalf of the "religions of peace"  please note the use of the plural before accusing me of being nothing but islamophobic,  I actually hate all religions equally

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'. 

2 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

Lesson for liberals: societies that kill their children will be replaced by people that don't. It may take 100 years but America will be repopulated with religious traditional peoples since they're the only group with actual replacement levels of fertility.

 

Cult or not the future belongs to those that show up for it and that's not the Liberal West.

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? 

2 minutes ago, PoorSucker said:

Are insects allowed to eat? 

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.