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EU Polish Far-Right Politician Under Fire for Denying Auschwitz Gas Chambers
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Broke Up With The Bubble Tea Girl… But How Bad Is This Move?
Back again with an update I didn’t exactly expect to be making when I first posted about my situation on here, but things can change quickly and sometimes life takes turns you don’t see coming. Long story short, I ended up breaking things off with the bubble tea girl. No big blowout, no drama. The truth is I started feeling like I was forcing it. The fun was there at the start, everything felt fresh and exciting, but then I could feel myself losing interest. Hard to explain, it just felt like the spark wasn’t there anymore. I figured it was better to be honest rather than drag it out and waste both our time. We had a pretty calm conversation, bit of emotion but nothing messy. I tried to be decent about it, gave her a bit of money, and that was that. Fast forward a few weeks, and here’s where things get a bit messier. I’ve been seeing someone new… who just so happens to be one of her friends. Yeah, I know how that sounds. Believe me, I didn’t plan it. We’d met a couple of times before in passing, I always thought she was cute but obviously never acted on it. After the breakup we bumped into each other a couple of times in the BTS station, started chatting on LINE, met for dinner, and well… here we are. It’s been casual, low-key, but honestly I’m enjoying it. She’s a bit older than the first girl, a bit more English, bit more laughs, and a lot less of that wide-eyed innocent routine. It just feels easier, more relaxed, less pressure. No talks about family obligations or sending money anywhere… at least not yet. I know some of you are going to say this is a disaster waiting to happen. Part of me agrees. But part of me also thinks Bangkok is Bangkok and these things just happen sometimes. I’m not really sure what kind of fallout I’m heading for. I do not know if I’m setting myself up for headaches, some revenge drama, or maybe nothing at all. I’ve kept things under the radar for now, but it is only a matter of time before word gets back to the ex and I doubt she will be thrilled. So, how bad of an idea is this really? Am I just overthinking or am I basically poking a sleeping snake here? I felt like I got out of the first situation clean, no major bridges burned, but now I’m half expecting a drama bomb to go off when this all comes out. Anyone else been through something like this? Not sure if I should bother keeping it quiet or just accept this is Thailand, circles are small, and things could get messy no matter what. Hopefully I’m not walking straight into a minefield. -
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Pattaya Condos: History and Future
We did about seven View Talay condo shells at VT 3, the 5s, and VT7 that didn't even come with a floor. This was around 2011 to 2013. We had to add the floor, kitchen cabinets, desk, wardrobe, loose furniture, A/C, appliances, tv, art, blinds, and so on. We did a good design with the studio units that turned the studios into sort of junior one bedrooms, with a partitioned off bedroom area by the balcony. You see the partitioning thing all the time now with studios but not that much back then. We always lived in most of the condos that we bought and designed, at least for a time, and I wanted a separate bedroom area, even in a studio. We always designed for ourselves with every project, even the rentals. Luckily, we always found a buyer that liked our taste--and it only took finding one buyer for each project. We did custom cabinetry, which we designed, so we had our own look and everything fit together well and we utilized the limited space as well as we could. We like a unified look, especially if the space is not large. Even with the small VT spaces, we liked to have designated areas with a sleeping zone, a living room/dining room area, and kitchen/foyer area. Renovation budgets varied depending on the project but, before we started anything, we worked out approximately how much we thought we would be able to sell a condo for and we planned our budget accordingly to, hopefully, make a profit. This was years ago but at that time VT 48 sqm shell studios at VT3, 5C and 5D were selling from the developer starting from around 2MB depending on floor--the price went up for each floor. I do think our design for the VT studios might have stood out a bit and perhaps made our sales go quicker than some others but, going in, you need to know that, even with the best design, there is usually a pricing limit to how much you can achieve when there is pretty much an established price range for similar size units. At that time, the VT finished studios in VT 3 and 5 were going for around 3 MB to 3.5MB and we sold in the higher part of that range, as well. These projects did not make big profits but we were learning, and having fun. We did two major renovations around 2018 to 2020, a very rundown, but charming, pool villa on the Darkside in a nice development and a not quite so bad large 3 bedroom condo right on the ocean. Both were financially iffy because we were risking what was, for us, a fairly large chunk of money each time and we weren't sure going in what horrors might await us. The 'Money Pit' movie stuck in our minds. Both were a lot of work and gave us some headaches, especially the house, but they were two of our more profitable projects. I should mention that we do all the designing, planning, product and materials selecting, buying, supervising, etc., but we hire workers to do the actual painting, tiling, and so on. We did buy at various times 4 condos to rent out. These were all 1 bedrooms at projects like Centric Sea, Unixx, and The Base. We always had long-term renters. When illegal daily renters starting to be a problem at the projects, we decided we no longer wanted to be landlords and we sold all of them. I think we also liked the quick profits of selling rather than waiting a number of years to make the same amount with rents. We bought a number of condos off-plan and got them for a good initial price. Although they were new and, in some cases came with furniture, we always put our mark on them. One buy was a high floor 2 bedroom seaview at Centric Sea. Even though it came with a brand new kitchen, we gutted it. The cabinets, which we didn't like, were the same as what came with the cheapest unit in the project and the kitchen layout wasn't that good. We did a better layout and put in much nicer custom cabinets, high-grade granite counters, better fridge and induction cooktop, snazzier backsplash, undercounter lighting, etc. We also had a custom storage cabinet hutch made for the foyer that matched the adjacent kitchen cabinets and visually expanded the kitchen. We thought all the furniture was rather juvenile and, again, the sofa was the same small 2-seater as the tiniest unit in the project. We kept the second bedroom furniture but changed all the other furniture, including adding custom master bedroom furniture, a custom sofa, art, and some nice Asian antiques. That condo broke the pricing rule I mentioned earlier and sold for a much higher price than the norm for a 2-bedroom CS condo at the time, probably because it had such a different look when we were done with it. It also didn't hurt that it was one of only a handful of CS condos that had a spectacular bathtub in the master bath that cantilevered from the building with windows on 3 sides. -
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Trump Town
Want to play Law with me? Cool beans, you know what a FRCivPro 12b6 is? Tell us, in your own words, what that means. Tell us by who and how that Rule is raised. By the Court sua sponte or by Motion After the action is commenced? How the are allegations of the complaint treated in determining such a motion? If the motion is a failure, what are the consequences and subsequent actions? Tell us all about Federal Court practice. Do you know what Pro Se is? -
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Report Fed-Up Nottingham Dad Moves Family to Thailand for New Life
What a selfish man. He has no idea. First Thailand is not cheap unless you buy food in markets covered in flies etc, go to malls and shop or big C and prices are similar or more expensive in Thailand. As for his selfish action, education is way below the uk and it costs especially English program schools, then medical, hospital and the costs. I did the comparisons back in 2019 before we left Thailand and it was the best move ever for my family. Education - both my children in high-school now and looking at a real university education, they have social and my daughter found her love "horses". Their lives are way better here in the UK compared to Thailand. I miss Thailand but more to my family than just my wishes.. -
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LTR Visa is Now available for Long Term Residency
And so much better than the Elite visa : no 90 days reporting, tax exemption on oversea income, and of course...no 1,5 Million bahts like for the 10 years Elite!
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