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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;thaivic, post: 1182262, member: 23991&quot;]Here&#039;s the view of a Johnny foreigner.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Having read the posts of your experiences/views I&#039;m just glad that I don&#039;t live in the US.</p><p>I&#039;d be a gibbering, paranoid wreck in weeks.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are banks here on the island where I live but safety deposit boxes? Forget it. It would be an eight hour round trip by road and ferry to find the nearest one to me.</p><p>Having said that I don&#039;t take safety/security lightly but this is a far safer place to live.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My coin collection is stored in two 15-drawer document filing cabinets. Easy enough to get into but they would need a week to sort through the approx 3% that is of any worth. And they wouldn&#039;t be able to carry it all away without a) a fork-lift truck (and there is no access for one to my home) or b) they would probably give themselves a hernia if they wanted to remove it piecemeal.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My notes are stored somewhat similarly but in a different area of our bungalow which is fitted with padlocked windows and three seperate locks on the two outer doors.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Besides all of which only a few select people know of my collection and few of them know where I actually live.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If the worst ever did come to the worst there&#039;s less than 30% of my note&nbsp; collection that they could exchange at a bank and (unless they were really professional) the rest would be easily picked up on if they tried to sell them locally.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now there are some criminals on the island but they tend to be very unprofessional and petty and I&#039;d say 97-98% of crime is Thai on Thai.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So to all you citizens of the US all I can say is keep your muskets primed and your powder dry.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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