Brits and Aussies have always been on that list....... more recent additions seem to be less of an issue. Are we suggesting we introduce Visa requirements for them and just have the Indians, Chinese etc as Exempt? Recently read that Phuket is complaining of too many low spend tourists now!
So have the majority of the WS venues got emergency exits, or a back way out? It has been a while but my last recollection was the only way in and out of many, was the frontage past a crowd of hello girls and some security.
In the UK I was more familiar with the term 'Sterilized'....that was the stuff for those folks too lazy to put the milk back into the fridge. (Or didn't have one maybe).
The Wat in my village went the tourist attraction route for a while and it was a PITA.... there was a stream of coaches full of Chinese coming and going and blocking the only 2 ways in and out of the village. I am sure a few stall holders and the 7-11 there was happy but it really was too much.
Yes, I am sure the people who live in the village love all the tourist coaches blocking the roads. I expect the place is filling up with vendors as we speak and will not remain 'relaxing' for long.
Which of them... or maybe both of them? Thais seem to have no concept of dangerous situations when heavily involved in some moronic game on their phone. Watched some idiot Thai women play on her phone in a restaurant recently as her toddler climbed up and stood on her seat.
It won't last... every Thai business lays claim to the street in front as far as they can. There are a few on Sukhumvit repair vehicles out there when it isn't raining!
Spend money like a drunken sailor (or Japanese factory manager) and one gets 'attention' in a Go-Go Bar..... but when you stop, it's like you caught the plague.
If a person lives in Pattaya, I don't see why their focus should be on the USA in the slightest! And considering this is a Thailand forum, again the USA is irrelevant!
Or London, or LA or las Vegas, or Tokyo etc etc. The only true statement may be it is not as cheap as it used to be.. and if the baht keeps climbing, it will be less so.