FarangGirlinKorat

So, even a good guesthouse can do for a few weeks IF there is an internet connection. I will ask tomorrow. Did you try to find the website of mutmee guesthouse ? I will try now.

yes, guesthouse with internet would be fine. i just found the website for mutmee. thanks this may work.

What would you like to pay for a furnished appartment ? The so called CONDO condominium close to the river and the Chayaphum market has several furnished rooms to let. The hotel next to it has cheap rooms for a month or two. A few guesthouses offer a cheap monthly rate. I guess in a commercial building you pay about 4 tot 5 k baht per month. Cheaper will be hard to find. Internetcafe's are in town.

thanks so much for your help. i would really like to keep it under about 3,000 baht a month if possible. we rent a large house with a decent sized yard here in korat for just 4,500 baht a month, so 4-5,000 seems pretty expensive for an apartment or room. maybe the cost of living is different there in nong khai?

unfortunately i can't use an internet cafe as i need to run programs directly from my laptop... and i need to run some programs 24/7... so going to an internet cafe would be far too expensive. that's the main necessity.. internet.. i don't care if the room we rent doesn't have a bed. i need decent internet.

thanks again for the info. maybe i'll send my husband up by himself for the majority of the time and i'll stay here and just visit him for a week or two. he can probably just stay at the temple (for free) while he's working on the sculpture.

Cambodia is looking better all the time. Better exchange rate on the U.S. Dollar, I can start and own 100% my own business, and much better technology in regards to internet and phone service, not to mention much less restrictions on visas, i.e. no 90 day reporting, etc. And whether you like Hun Sin or not, at least they have a more stable government than Thailand.

agreed. now i just need to talk my (thai) husband into moving to cambodia (which will never happen). darnit. laos? malay? oh screw it, i'll just stay.

hi there. i'm an american woman living in korat with my thai husband...

my husband is potentially going to nong khai for 1-2 months to do some sculpture for a temple there (he's an artist) and i will likely go with him at least part of the time.

anyone have a room to rent? or know of clean but cheap apartments for rent? we would only need it for 1-2 months (looks like oct-nov) while he does the sculpture. we are VERY quiet and respectful of other people's space and privacy.

i would really LOVE to find a place with internet available.. because i certainly can't be away from thaivisa / facebook for a month, right? and aircards just aren't very fast in my experience..

any help / leads would be appreciated. thanks so much.

melyianna

i love S. Tsow. nice work. kudos.

The Reds had a point: Thailand is a very unequal society, with a handful of key families controlling so much of its commercial life - & pocketing the proceeds.

Of course they were used by the odious Thaksin - who must never be allowed to influence Thai polity again.

And they contained their fair share of violent nutters.

But their key point remains valid: Thailand is precipitously unequal.

Unless that is rectified, the Reds will rise again.

That might be the end of the present elite, even the end of civil peace.

Better to make a deal now, to bring about fairness.

But hopefully the next "revolution" will be a real one and not the greed of an exiled billionare disguised as a revolution for the working poor. Like you've said... he used them. And it's really too bad. Because, as misguided as they are at the moment, they DO deserve a change and better opportunities. But this was obviously a very bad way to go about it.

this was great. thanks!

i would add (i'm not sure if anyone has already mentioned it or not) that we CAN leave our homes during the curfew if we have an emergency (and need to go to the hospital, for example). just be certain to carry your passport with you and any travel documents you may have (if you are here on holiday and are leaving next week for example, bring a copy of your airline tickets or flight confirmation).

I planned to visit a friend in Lat Phrao (ลาดพร้าว) this weekend, thing is my plane lands at 9pm in Bangkok. Anyone knows if there will be taxis?

Is the curfew strictly applied in Bangkok? Here in Chiang Mai I went out yesterday like any other night, they just stopped serving drinks after 9pm, but we could stay in the bar until 10.30

my understanding is that last night, there WERE taxis at the airport to pick up passengers after the curfew BUT then would NOT go into the zones effected by violence and arson (which, lad prao HAS been, but I'm not sure what it's like today). They were taking people to chonburi and bang na last night, but not much further into bangkok than bang na from what I've heard.

Since there has been a flash point in lar prao, I think you'll have trouble getting there at night. I would also suggest (as someone has already said) that you stay in a hotel near the airport (or in the bang na area) and then go to lat prao in the morning.

i just read that link you posted. that's crazy. i had no idea it was so easy to get a year in hull.

i got a non-imm-o but i have a Thai husband. and even then, it was kind of a hassle.

good luck.

The swastika common in Thai culture (as graffiti and as a symbol on clothing and in homes and public spaces) is usually that of buddhism, not nazi Germany. (as people have already posted)

With that said, I was at the Mall in Korat last week and noticed little figures of Hitler and other SS/Nazi people in a shop window in the "city walk" area (downstairs). I asked my (Thai) husband about it and he said he had no idea why they had them / were selling them and that it was really weird. He's 35 and said he learned about the Holocaust in school and realizes that Hitler was a horrible person. But as far as details about the Holocaust, he doesn't really know much. We recently watched "The inglorious bastards" and he kept asking me stuff like, "did that really happen?" and "is that what it was like?"

But... as with people everywhere, SOME Thai people SOMETIMES say or wear or do culturally insensitive things. I've been here about 3 years and I've noticed several pro bin laden, anti-American t-shirts. But, as an American, I would hate to say how much racist, hateful crap I've heard and seen and experienced in the US. so...

ce la vie.

I m in Roi-et, no troops, police, trouble. Where does upur post come from please? Regards John

it was just on the news...

about the curfew extension.

We should know more in the next few days.

But I have lived in Thailand for a few years and haven't had any problem because of the protests.

chok dee na

(good luck)