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UK Flat – Sell or Keep Renting? Expats Who’ve Been There – What Did You Do?
When you say “use the NHS,” do you mean just being able to visit a GP or actually being admitted to hospital for non-emergency treatment? I thought NHS emergency care is legally open to everyone, kind of like how it works in Thai hospitals? Also, if I already have an NHS number, doesn’t that mean I’m entitled to treatment without needing to pass a residency test? If I do have to pay for NHS treatment, I wonder if it might actually be cheaper to just go private in Thailand or elsewhere in Southeast Asia. I assume you’re talking about the UK state pension? I don’t know much about that, but I imagine my private pensions wouldn’t be affected by my UK residency status when the time comes. And when you say you’re a retired property landlord, do you mean you used to be a landlord but have now retired completely? Or you’re retired from other work and still doing the landlord thing? I can’t imagine wanting to deal with tenants or property management after retirement age, maybe around 55 or so. It just feels like too much hassle for too little return, especially when you factor in inflation, tax, slow capital appreciation, ongoing expenses, and everything else that eats into the profits. -
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Thai - Cambodia Conflict Temple, Territory, Tensions: The Roots of the Thailand-Cambodia Border Fight
Close, but no coconut. When Thaksin was PM, he signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Hun Sen to explore ways of resolving the disputed offshore waters, the overlapping claims area, or OCA, with a view to joint exploration and mutual benefit. Then he lost the job, ran away, self-imposed exile, return, etc.. About 6 or 8 months ago, Pheu Thai raised the prospect of progressing the languishing MoU into reality. I recall this happened after Thaksin visited his old chum, or vice versa. The oil and gas industry pricked up its ears, such was the interest in a chunk of prospective subsurface finally being opened up in the OCA. However, the opposition, nationalists and the navy all got on the "surrendering sovereignty" bandwagon and sunk the whole idea. That's where the notion of giving up Koh Koot first gained traction although the maps that popped up on Thai media to support this were not based on any agreed cartography. They also ignored the Cambodians when they said that they had no claim, and no plans to claim Koh Koot. The opponents also argued that Cambodia could get more oil or gas than Thailand, ignoring the fact that what lies below the sea bed isn't determined by any straight line on the surface, be it agreed or otherwise. Fundamentally, they don't want to share anything. Since it's believed that Cambodian military build-up started last February, it's not too much of a stretch to consider that Hun Sen, pissed off by his buddy's inability to deliver on their agreement, and also needing to get an increasingly disillusioned population firmly behind his son, who only became PM in the summer of 2023, came up with this border folly. -
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UK 220 MPs Demand Keir Starmer Recognise Palestinian Statehood
After WW2, most Europeans wouldn’t let the Jews in, they had nowhere to go why was that? Also Canada said , ‘none is too many’. Even Australia and NZ, who accepted many immigrants would take them. Australia took only about 6,000 during and pre WW2 Many tried going to Palestine but were stopped by the British, who blocked them. -
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Israel leveling Gaza
I am not a native speaker, so maybe I am wrong but I thought that "you" can be used as a second person pronoun (referring to the person being addressed), but also as a general pronoun referring to any unspecified person same as "one". I did not accuse you of stealing land. However when you ask me to address that to Israel, you basically admit, that you too see Israel`s actions as land theft. So why do you keep supporting them? -
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UK Flat – Sell or Keep Renting? Expats Who’ve Been There – What Did You Do?
Whatever I've invested in my partner over the past 12 years hasn’t brought any returns—just more requests for funding “opportunities”—so that’s off the table. I also don’t know much about investing in land, in Thailand or anywhere else to be honest. My background is in property, but even there, I didn’t see the full picture. Between modest capital gains, rental income, maintenance, inflation, and all the extra fees, the net returns weren’t great. How difficult is it to invest in land in Thailand anyway? And how risky are the markets these days? I’m guessing you're talking about passive stuff like ETFs? I’ve been reading how overfunded and saturated the passive side is getting—it seems like a shift back to active investing might be on the horizon?
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