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Forum: Indonesia
Apr 29th 2023, 3:08 pm
Replies: 0
Views: 691
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Good grief, not another tax!

Here we go again.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/14/indonesia-considers-tourist-tax-to-curb-bad-behaviour-in-bali

The majority paying for the sins of a few.

Or as often happens...
Forum: Spain
Apr 29th 2023, 2:49 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 1,403
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Can you avoid taxes by linvg in three or more countries?

Quite. This is the best advice anybody will ever give you.

As time passes you will surely want to give up your roving ways and settle down, most likely in the country of your birth. Not everyone...
Forum: Australia
Apr 28th 2023, 1:05 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 4,919
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: I want to emigrate but partner is really on the fence. Any advice?

Good thinking here on your part, Moon River. Blunt in parts, but very much to the point. Which is needed in such situations.

The 'elephant' in the room, so to say, here is, are there other...
Forum: Far East and Asia
Apr 28th 2023, 1:45 am
Replies: 3
Views: 1,283
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Expat life in Asia on a modest income

Many thanks for your suggestion, Jack.

However, I am one of those (there are many of us) 'odd ducks' who isn't on Facebook. I was for a brief time before I retired, but the flood of unintelligent...
Forum: Far East and Asia
Apr 27th 2023, 6:14 am
Replies: 3
Views: 1,283
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Expat life in Asia on a modest income

I've looked high and low thru BE for a similar thread, but haven't found even one - if I've missed out on something, please will someone out there guide me to it...

There was an English gentleman...
Forum: Australia
Apr 27th 2023, 4:40 am
Replies: 39
Views: 4,919
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: I want to emigrate but partner is really on the fence. Any advice?

Two more comments from me - this time I will try (even force myself) to be brief...

the troubadour wrote - "As for Malaysia, does your partner maintain Malaysian citizenship? If not you will...
Forum: Australia
Apr 26th 2023, 11:09 am
Replies: 39
Views: 4,919
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: I want to emigrate but partner is really on the fence. Any advice?

Sad to read this. New Zealand is obviously a basket case now, economically, and for me it was never culturally anywhere I would have wanted to live. The people are fine but the social culture is...
Forum: Rest of the World
Apr 26th 2023, 5:26 am
Replies: 310
Views: 32,069
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Back in the Day

Having just read through most of this thread, I now need a second G&T. The ideal boat (or jamu?) for a tired brain!

Lots to read, to enjoy, to comment on here. It's a lively thread.

Now for...
Forum: Australia
Apr 26th 2023, 3:59 am
Replies: 39
Views: 4,919
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: I want to emigrate but partner is really on the fence. Any advice?

As a personal viewpoint, I entirely agree with Rainydaze and quoll. Both have written well on this very real dilemma.

You may have reached a point in your relationship where you've decided it's...
Forum: Canada
Apr 19th 2023, 1:54 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,226
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Best city for surviving zombie apocalypse

All normal everyday stuff in Australia. Nothing new, nothing to see here.

If you go by the local weekly newspaper known as The Weekly Cat Litter Tray Liner), the most exiting thing to happen...
Forum: New Zealand
Apr 18th 2023, 5:35 am
Replies: 52
Views: 5,782
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Flights Nz to UK $$ ?

Have you booked yes, ducks? So yeh, you may want to get in while you can, while the getting in is good.

If not, this should really, really make your day -
...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 17th 2023, 10:32 am
Replies: 3
Views: 772
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Born in Canada, living elsewhere...

I posted the following in another thread, but I'm now using it to start a new thread at the kind suggestion of another BE member. Thanks, Shard!

Many of us were born in one place but have moved to...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 16th 2023, 1:23 pm
Replies: 337
Views: 33,819
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Life's Turning-Points

Ah, Rhodes. The one and only time in my life, that I've ever been in jail. This in 1971, when the country was in the grip of a military government, and very much a police state in all ways.

It...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 14th 2023, 2:49 pm
Replies: 337
Views: 33,819
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Life's Turning-Points

Cars are such an easy topic. They were, at the time when I "came of age" in the 1960s - an era that now with the passing of almost six decades seems to me to harken back to the Early Iron Age - a...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 12th 2023, 8:29 am
Replies: 337
Views: 33,819
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Life's Turning-Points

New cars, ha ha ha. In my teen years they were such a big thing, in the North American way we all wanted a Chevy Super Impala, a Ford Mustang, a Pontiac Grand Prix or Le Mans, or that gift from the...
Forum: New Zealand
Apr 11th 2023, 12:24 am
Replies: 52
Views: 5,782
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Flights Nz to UK $$ ?

A few (very brief) hints from a lifetime of travel.

this sounds like a "once in a lifetime" journey for you. try a little forward planning (and some lateral thinking) as you browse, and you may be...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 9th 2023, 2:31 am
Replies: 337
Views: 33,819
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Life's Turning-Points

Oh, yes, cars. Off we go on yet another tangent, Gordon. Which may well keep this thread going for the next 20 years...

An aunt had a Hillman Minx. Another had a Fiat,I think the 1400 model, very...
Forum: Canniversary
Apr 8th 2023, 2:03 am
Replies: 3
Views: 931
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: 20 years

Where were you/are you in Canada?. This can make an important difference to one's happiness and well-being, as it surely did to mine when I lived there.

During the brief summer, few places in that...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 7th 2023, 1:17 am
Replies: 337
Views: 33,819
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Life's Turning-Points

My 2CV had an interesting history. It had been a friend's mother's second car, they were farmers and occasionally she would drive baskets of produce or a few geese (also I suspect, piglets) to the...
Forum: Indonesia
Apr 7th 2023, 12:21 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,496
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Bali impressions 2023: it's time to give up

Returning now to my time in Bali. My ongoing narrative dates to February and March 2023.

I did the long stay in Sanur from 2016 until Covid struck in 2020 and we had to leave. Now travel has...
Forum: Indonesia
Apr 6th 2023, 10:26 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,496
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Bali impressions 2023: it's time to give up

Fenella, many thanks. I've had a look at that Bali agency web site. It's one of several I've checked out in the past.

Australians get the VOA (visa on arrival), and from what I've read (and sort...
Forum: Indonesia
Apr 5th 2023, 1:58 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,496
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Bali impressions 2023: it's time to give up

Greetings to Fenella and the several other BE members who've contacted about this thread. Also an apology for the delay in my posting the promised new information.

I've been working on the...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 5th 2023, 1:27 am
Replies: 337
Views: 33,819
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Life's Turning-Points

Ah yes, driving in Europe in the 1960s. Compared to today, to me it was like paradise on earth then.

I had a Citroen 2CV, acquired from a work colleague in Marseille for CDN $500 (equivalent),...
Forum: France
Apr 3rd 2023, 1:34 am
Replies: 5
Views: 660
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Getting rid of all my English books

My books are like my cameras and our cats. Valued possessions.

In my life I try to avoid the trap of knowing the price of everything but the value of nothing. With books, it isn't so much what...
Forum: France
Apr 2nd 2023, 12:09 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 660
Posted By scrubbedexpat143

Re: Getting rid of all my English books

Alas, secondhand books are a drug on the market these days, virtually anywhere. Even here in Indonesia, where not so long ago the locals would grab them like hotcakes, and pay for them too. In...
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