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I'm not commenting on the visa aspect, but you'll be hard pushed to find any insurance company willing to write a policy for your Mom at that age at any price. You have to realize Thai private medical insurance is a true insurance market based on risk. Even in the crazy US we basically exit that at 65 and enter Medicare, not so in Thailand.. So good luck but even 'if' you find a company there will be so many exclusions it'll be money down the drain. Hate to sound a doomsayer, but thats the reality of medical insurance for older expats in Thailand

I work for an airline, and I've had countless 'interactions' with passengers over why they can't have Lithium batteries in checked bags. One thing if they decide to catch fire in the passenger cabin and the crew can deal with it, quite another scenario if they decide to explode in the cargo bin, and basically set fire to the whole cargo load, hence you crash in a fire ball

Maybe I'm just being dumb, always a possibility, but I'm struggling to understand how you fall into a sewer. Thailand I know is awash with sewerage, but generally you see it pushed out to sea and those 'quality' beaches. So was a manhole cover left off, or did he crawl into a sewerage outlet? One of those car wreak stories you hate yourself for actually being interested in!

Well thats all true But none of us can escape the reality that we will die, sooner or later Lifestyle may well be a factor, but our genetics play a huge part of how long we live. Live life the best you can every day since none of us know, fit, healthy, fat none of us know when it's gonna end. Last week me and Mrs G were in San Diego with our Grandson, thats how the circle of life works. I could die tomorrow, but I'll live on in some part in my daughters, son and grandson

They don't Hilariously many years, elections and coups ago one Democrat candidate made a complaint to the Electoral Commission claiming that he had paid for more votes than he received! Sometimes even after all these years Thailand always has the ability to make me shake my head with disbelief.

I to had wondered about Colin

I think as time rolls on, you start to realize you are going to an increasing number of funerals. Two weeks ago Guy a friend of mine, only 62, pretty healthy, went to bed and never woke up. Massive heart attack totally out of the blue. No rational person wants die, but I think most of us also recognize that the days ahead of us are sadly diminishing, and no amount of going to the gym and sucking down wheatgrass is going to make you immortal. So you live your life the best you can, but knowing that like UJ and my friend Guy, nobody really knows when the lights will finally go out

Now I'm an American, but I love your country. But that said I think that with the death of the Queen many of the overseas realms will be moving towards a Republic, it's just time to break the colonial link. Maybe Canada might buck that trend, just because it's a defining feature that sets them apart from the behemoth southern neighbor, which apart from that, Canadians look and sound much like Americans. I could be wrong and long after I have departed this mortal coil, the monarchy may still rule over many people. Time will tell

Very true, but Thailand is awash with senior men trying to relive their youth, strutting their stuff at the disco, equally disturbing lol I'm just editing this, since I realized it's not disturbing, more more rather sad and embarrassing.

I kinda chuckled a little just at the language. Yes back in the day it was a 'one night stand', for the kids today it's just 'hooking up' We are but products of our youth, but time marches on and all we can do is watch!

I've been married twice, both pretty successful. The first one failed pretty much that i was traveling for work so much i was never at home and we just drifted apart, but 20 years wasn't bad, and we're still best friends, talk many times a week. My Thai wife, we've been together another 20 years, although the only reason we got married a fews back was to get her a green card. But overall I think I've been pretty lucky in love as the saying goes, no complaints

Her sister would need to be a US citizen, permanent residents can't petition for siblings. Even 'if' her sister is a citizen, this would be a second preference application which would take years

Very sad loss to the community, UJ knew more about rules and regs than anyone on here. I don't know how old he was, but I'd venture most of us are in the same ballpark, and it brings home how quickly the lights can go out for any of us. RIP UJ, hope someone of the nextgen will take over the mantle of being the oracle of all immigration knowledge.

There is no point to it. Even if you were going to at some point move back to the US and get her a green card, your Thai marriage certificate is acceptable. My wife is a green card holder, never had to do anything regarding registering our marriage in the US. In point of fact I wouldn't even have a clue how you do that. As for Bakersfield, I'm a Hispanic child of the Central Valley, and you'd be pulling my fingernails out before I'd go back there

Curiously when they go overseas they work hard. Every summer we get an influx for hotels and supermarkets. My wife and the other resident Thai ladies try to take them under their wing while they are here. I see them in my local Safeway, and unlike their counterparts in Thailand they work their ass**s off

Many rent, others take a lease lol

Problem for the OP, regardless of whether or not some legal settlement can arranged, whats life going to be like living there alone? It's hardly going to be retirement bliss, even if living in a nice home. If it were me, I'd take whatever the best deal that could be made and high tail it out as fast as I could

I think the term WW2 was coined in 1939. It was at the same time the Great War was renamed WW1, after the start of hostilities

Slightly off topic, but this made me chuckle a little. I first moved to Asia over 20 years ago and as an American I had ideas of what meals you ate at what time of the day or week. You soon realize that it doesn't matter what time of day they eat the same meals morning noon and night

You only need to watch the nightly news on TV to understand why most Thai's know little about the outside world. World War 3 could be breaking out but dashcam footage of a traffic accident, or some random guys beating each other up on CCTV would be the headline

After three pages of this, it's left even more confused about the point of any of it.

I think many of us struggle with the concept of Capital Punishment. I'll fess up I'm a bleeding heart liberal, but if it comes down to open and shut cases of murder I waiver. This one as awful as it seems, and we are yet to have a trial seems worthy of the ultimate punishment. It's so sad for that yet unborn child to have to live with this

Well this is quite the case isn't it. We've been watching the TV news and it's wall to wall coverage, and I'm sure as with Tang Mo it'll play for days, if not weeks. The woman must be a psychopath to cold bloodily kill so many many people but it is quite rare especially for a woman, and a pregnant woman at that But innocent until proven guilty but it does look pretty grim

Totally agree But at 76 he'll be lucky to get an insurance company willing to write a policy at any price. Many a poster will say 'I self insure' which translated means I'll pay it all out of pocket. I wonder how may of those when the sh$$#t hits the fan and lying in hospital start typing 'Go fund me'

I wasn't talking about moving there, I agree both of those are horribly expensive to live. But if you are going on vacation at least you know everything will work, all the time, there won't be feces floating in the water, you can drink the water, no pile of random garbage on the side of the road, I could go on. Essentially you get what you pay for, and for the Chinese it's a cheap airfare and , they get what they pay for. For Europeans, and especially North Americans, not a cheap airfare so maybe more expensive when you get there but for the reasons I mentioned before maybe an overall better deal to stay closer to home