Captain Monday

Never MET a American right-winger in Chiang Mai, maybe not much attraction There was an American guy at a yoga school on Nimman once, to pick up his GF. He was running his mouth on a staff member about the evils of Obama-care, "tax cuts create jobs", discredited tropes Thai people of any persuation would have no idea about. The Thai Yoga dude was just smiling faintly and nodding his head probably thinking the reactionary was out of his mind. He was

Who is the “they” this time? The various organs of Thai govt often work at cross proposes

Leave sell or leave everything in home country. For example don't bring your lifetime collection of power tools, musical instruments LP records or furniture. Everything you really need is easily available here. Except good socks and underwear 😆There is always AMAZON. Rent! Never pay in advance for anything such as a gym membership/ Maybe a condo or vehicles but remember to not invest anything more you cannot afford to lose This includes relationships. And every expat needs to have have a backup plan whether it is returning to your home country or plan B Do not open a business Never purchase a home in a Thai woman's name

About 90 percent of the posts I make get the "confused" emoji. There are plenty of dullards on AN but most of it is trolling behavior.

Before I would have said all crossings should be removed as a danger to pedestrians but.. Awareness of zebra crossings ion Chiang Mai has definitely improved over past few years.

Just make it 300 baht per day, to include accident insurance. Solves one “problem” Now, how to keep out the criminal dross？🤔🤔🤔

This one used call me frequently from a Tonga area code “Hello this is the customer service department” in a heavy Indian accent. “You have a virus on your computer” My question to them was what is the name of my internet service provider? They could never even answer that.

Who looks nothing like his elder brother

Promises, Promises You knew you'd never keep

Jes. I can’t just stop thinking about what ever insects sediment and dead vermin are inside the pipes. I can afford bottled water

I would not even make hot drinks with tap water.

Isn’t positive urine test in Thailand considered possession? Maybe he was made to submit a sample and resulted in the purple stain.

Vasquez and Gorman were out of ammo and about to be captured by a xenomorph. Took it out and avoided capture with a thermal detonator

I think it is because no competition and Immigration doesn’t really buy into it Look at online retailers. If their sites are hard to use they lose custom The more painless and efficient online immigration services become the less justification for the huge cadres of officers and that will end up with less headcount and slower promotions.

Regarding the summary of findings of the postmortem. one of those kids years ago who attempted suicide because of Heavy Metal did the chin shot. Blew his whole jaw off and grievous injury but he survived Would it not be better to suck the barrel?

So is he on a spouse visa? and why renounce residency Tax reasons?

If he was found to be on overstay thinking the Cops would have made that clear

I vowed to never go to Phuket again more than 20 years ago based on taxi mafia alone ago but did 2 weeks in July 2021. “Sandbox”

Same as US. My latest, a replacement for my second US passport starts with a letter! I hold two valid US passports concurrently Passports are never renewed. They are replaced.

If a US passport is to be “thrown in the wash by me mum” Be sure to scan all the pages for your future reference. It will be confiscated by the US State department.

Similar then, but participation in US social security is mandatory. Mandatory in that the payments, which people call social security taxes but are actually *premiums are automatically deducted from paychecks and employer contributions. *I went to a retirement and investment forum sponsored by our Union years ago. There the RI subject matter expert there claimed that social security is not a government pension by definition but a type of insurance policy.

Sorry no I just read that in somewhere on another thread yesterday. I will never have any pension. State public or private. only US Ssc. Everything I expect otherwise is currently invested 401k plan and private assets. All are taxable when distribution realized. At least partly, as 70 percent of Ssc and railroad annuity payments are not taxable Interesting, but why in the UK context is a State pension not a government pension?

“Pensions are considered income”, There needs to be much more elaboration. Of course pension payments are taxable income in most countries. The DTAs specifically state Thailand cannot assume authority to tax a state pension of another country. Private pensions are another subject.

How long should a bank wire sent from US on monday afternoon take to land in Thai bank account?