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Forum: Australia
Apr 12th 2025, 2:19 pm
Replies: 32
Views: 9,315
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Husband wants to go to Australia

Your relationship seems, well, in a fragile place. Moving to a place halfway around the globeat this time in your life could make it even more so.

All your concerns are valid, but your partner has...
Forum: Thailand
Sep 24th 2024, 2:05 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 3,669
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Thailand retirement.

Many thanks, HLJ. I will pass this on to my expat friends for comment. If they respond with anything worth noting, I will then post here.

Indonesia and Malaysia are (so far, touch wood!!) still...
Forum: Thailand
Sep 17th 2024, 10:45 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 3,669
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Thailand retirement.

The (about a dozen) expats I know in Thailand all complain about the ATM withdrawal fee. One of the highest in SE Asia, they tell me.

Does this fee apply only to ATM withdrawals from tourists, or...
Forum: The Barbie
Sep 4th 2024, 12:42 am
Replies: 110
Views: 34,464
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Hello, 20 years in Aus!

They are known as Economic Migrants. And tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, are arriving in Australia now.

Country towns here are hotbeds of racism. I don't like this, but it happens,...
Forum: Canada
Aug 25th 2024, 10:40 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 2,096
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Same Air Canada flight considerably cheaper on another airline's website?

Yes, Asia is very different to Canada. As for Australia, we down here suffer from the same lack of competition, also control by the monopoly of this country's biggest airlines, as you Canadians seem...
Forum: Malaysia
Aug 25th 2024, 10:18 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 1,027
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: What content is relevant

Not enough information. Tell us more, please. Otherwise your post is too much like "Hi, how can I make some quick money?" In short, a fishing expedition.

Also, to me your heading is somewhat...
Forum: Canada
Aug 20th 2024, 9:38 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 2,096
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Same Air Canada flight considerably cheaper on another airline's website?

Oops, yes. I forgot this one. I've known (and practiced) this for a long time.

Traveloka seems the worst site for this, tho' other third party sites likely come close. Of late I've noted they are...
Forum: Canada
Aug 19th 2024, 12:42 am
Replies: 7
Views: 2,096
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Same Air Canada flight considerably cheaper on another airline's website?

What is "usual" in today's crazy-insane-mad-loony-whacko air travel industry??

As a regular traveler around Southeast Asia, I fairly haunt the web sites in search of the best airfares. Like you,...
Forum: Thailand
Aug 16th 2024, 2:35 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 1,629
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: What is LOVE or is it the MONEY

You appear to cling naively to the illusion that because you haven't signed anything, you will be off the hook.

You write, "ive found out..." but give no other details. Where did you find this...
Forum: Thailand
Aug 8th 2024, 11:49 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 1,629
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: What is LOVE or is it the MONEY

Oh dear...

This may well be our next big hornets' nest. I truly hope not, but well...

Where is Philosophical when we need him??

I have no direct experience of ladies in Thailand, but I have...
Forum: Indonesia
Jun 29th 2024, 2:14 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 7,756
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Bali finding a place in bali

A five-year visa to live in Bali? The imagination boggles...

When I was looking for us in East Java, the conditions for most long-term visas were (this pre-Covid) you had to rent a property for...
Forum: Australia
Mar 14th 2024, 3:28 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 4,024
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Psychology Degree

Australia already has an oversupply of psychologists. It is also a small continent far from everywhere and everything in the global scheme and the isolation can be keenly felt at times.

Our...
Forum: USA
Mar 6th 2024, 12:45 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 13,331
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Beef Oxo cubes. Yay, or nay?

Nay. If only you really knew what else goes into those cubes the than a minute quantity of beef, you would sign the pledge and give them up on the spot.

As 90% vegetarians, we use Maggi vegetable...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 6th 2024, 12:39 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 12,722
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: What happened to this place?

Oui. And maple syrup. Good stuff, that. Even mixed with vodka. In fact it makes vodka all the more palatable.

Also poutine râpée. Or did you miss my post about that?

I have long wondered...
Forum: Singapore
Feb 27th 2024, 10:38 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 2,500
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: staying 6mths or more in Singapore

Is Malaysia not on your travel radar? Not sure about employment there, in your area of expertise it maybe would have to be either Kuala Lumpur or Penang which are not really the cheapest places to...
Forum: Canada
Feb 27th 2024, 10:13 pm
Replies: 51
Views: 11,465
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Cost of Living

BristokUK, I'm not sure how this will fit into a cost of living thread, but here goes - do people in Moncton still eat poutine râpée?

More to the point, have you ever eaten it?

As a culinary...
Forum: Indonesia
Feb 11th 2024, 11:49 am
Replies: 0
Views: 765
Posted By DownUnder69

National Election Day 14th

Indonesians will go to the polls nationally on Wednesday, February 14, to elect a new President and a new cabal of politicians.

My friends in Jakarta who follow national politics, say it's a...
Forum: Indonesia
Feb 11th 2024, 11:28 am
Replies: 1
Views: 853
Posted By DownUnder69

The new Bali tourist cash grab tax

Tourists to Bali will be overjoyed at this news...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-12/bali-has-new-tourist-tax-for-travellers-how-to-pay/103389600

Effective from this Wednesday, February...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 10th 2024, 2:16 pm
Replies: 27
Views: 4,787
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Canadian slang

Aussie, I reckon, from the 1960s-1970s. Now no longer in popular use, sadly, along with so many older original dinky-di expressions that have vanished along with their users.

Language evolves and...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 3rd 2024, 1:50 pm
Replies: 27
Views: 4,787
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Canadian slang

It really depends on who is saying it...

As an example of this, alas not Canadian but Aussie, an American gal I briefly dated in Sydney in the '70s once stopped all conversation dead at a posh...
Forum: Indonesia
Feb 3rd 2024, 1:58 am
Replies: 2
Views: 1,816
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Moving to Bali post Covid

Thank you, Fenella. I am greatly encouraged by someone finally posting a response to my post.

Are you by any chance in Bali now? It will be good to know if you are, at least one long-term BE expat...
Forum: Philippines
Jan 29th 2024, 12:32 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 6,365
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Moving to the Philippines for UK pension reason – Is this possible .

This makes good sense, thank you. It's a wonder I didn't think of it... :omg_smile:

Moving to the Philippines at age 84 may well be a major undertaking for this OP. At his age he may need his...
Forum: Philippines
Jan 28th 2024, 2:55 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 6,365
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Moving to the Philippines for UK pension reason – Is this possible .

Dropped in again to check responses, and just noticed this in the OP's first post (cut and pasted) -

"I’m a 74 year old UK citizen living in Thailand and like a fool when I left the UK to move...
Forum: Italy
Jan 27th 2024, 1:46 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 541
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Lost cat in Spoleto

So you have been to Naples... :flypig:
Forum: Australia
Jan 26th 2024, 3:59 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 1,485
Posted By DownUnder69

Re: Working options in Sydney

A quick phone call to friends in Sydney with a son in similar employment, brought the suggestions that follow.

Bartending jobs are not in great demand nowadays. Every year gazillions of HS leavers...
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