Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
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Girls.....Girls.....My wife doesn't allow me to talk with strange
women so I can't comment on today's costs but memories from years ago
indicate that they can be a fairly expensive addition to one's life
style.
Cheers,



Thanks for the information. Girls in the USA are also high-dollar, high
maintenance items.....like owning an Italian 250' motor yacht and
running the engines a lot.....

In short, I could live quite well on 32K baht/month. My retirement goes
straight to my bank account, which is available anywhere. The more life
costs, here, the more I think it would be better to live elsewhere. I
suppose there's also some socialized medicine available if they found me
unconcious, about the only way to get me into a doctor's office. I am
the child of medical establishment hypocondriacs. Both my parents lived
for their next doctor visit. It's all they talked about since they were
45.

I've lived in a few Middle East countries, the Shah's dictatorship in
Iran, briefly in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia (There's a sign we put up on
the Red Sea that says, "TRACOR BEACH NEXT 5000 KM", to the great
amusement of the Saudi Army guys at the comm center we were working on
at the time. Noone ever walks over your blanket on Tracor Beach, but
the sea snakes make going in the water a little too exciting for my
tastes.

Too bad Iran thinks Americans support what the Zionist American
Government does. I had a great time in Iran, a vast, beautiful land
almost totally unexplored. If they were to cast off the religious
chains currently killing them, I'd go back to Iran in a heartbeat.

I can understand your wife's position.....Thai girls are beautiful!