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@James ****
I honestly think for my research that Bangkok is going to have more opportunity for organic food options I may be wrong though. I'm also trying to get a clear handle on if an individual expat can grow cannabis for personal cultivation for medical reasons I'm not talking about in a commercial sense it seems that information on this as far as I even tried to ask on a page that's devoted to cannabis and not a single person gave me an answer which was really upsetting a bunch of expats that couldn't even write a simple yes or no
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@Danny ******
the recent change in cannabis laws and due to the sheer size of Bangkok I have better odds at finding import grocery stores that will cater to the organic diet that I'm trying to follow sadly many people are under the illusion that all the food in South and Central America is organically grown and naturally grown in this absolutely is not the case the only stores that have stuff like that that is legit organic or almost always imported it and that means a very large city. The one other place that I thought about maybe was in Columbia,. Medellin.. I thought Thailand might be a bit safer than some of these places Malaysia might be opening up their medical cannabis Market here in the near future however that's yet to be determined.
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@John *****
Seriously like actual property or condos is this something that's extremely recent?
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@Don ********
Probably Bangkok because of how much options they have for organic food I'm just hoping that I don't have serious breathing problems because of air pollution I will say that I've been able to handle being in LA even as long as I wasn't close to the oil refineries. I'll put it to you like this I don't know if you've ever been around Pittsburgh but that's also a place that I absolutely could not wait to get out of town I lost there for like an hour or so and had to leave immediately and I made a special trip like I was trying to go there to get some help with some medical treatment but the air quality was way too difficult for me to handle.
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@Craig *******
Can you name drop please or D.M. can you give me an idea what the cost would be please?. Thanks
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@Steve ********
Okay thanks and I appreciate your advice and best wishes for luck... lol. I've researched online and listened to people talking about living there and whatnot and I got the impression that if you do Visa runs too much they start to get upset over that is that not correct?
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@John *****
Thanks less than a handful of people here have been this courteous. Quite a few offered some decent helpful advice a few thank my for my service and quite a few other ones were outright confrontational and nasty God only knows why. If it isn't too personal can I ask how you've managed to stay there long-term or anything that you care to share about that.
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@Kool ******
to be clear you're saying 160 hours per year that's a little less than 4 hours per week I could certainly handle that..I was a full-time university student in the past. Are there other things you can do other than study the language I'm not opposed to that but I've heard people mentioning dojos as well.. I think you or someone else was saying most of those are in Bangkok which is probably where I need to be considering I'm trying to be close to stores that have organic food.
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@Kool ******
usually countries require a four-year degree to teach English don't they or TECL certification? I guess I'll look more into the study option. Thanks.. Honestly that option doesn't sound too bad and someone told me the price was around $1,200 a year. I wouldn't particularly mind doing that I'm fortunate enough that I don't have to be working or whatever it's kind of God it's pros and cons I don't want quite say a gift and a curse cuz I don't want to curse myself but I have some medical issues going on but at least I have good compensation but yeah I could take the time to do language studies while I'm at home doing medical treatments for myself.