quandow

Thais have a nickname for cyclists - "Target."

1 minute ago, overherebc said:

Not only me but a couple of friends would really like to know how the figure are decided.

What factors are used to determine a tourist arrival.

Total count of non Thai passports going through airports and border posts?

Total number of hotel registrations of non Thai passports or just all passports.?

Total of passports in airports plus total of hotel registrations?

They pull the numbers out their butts.

Ferchrissake, there are already SO many vacant condos yet they're building more like there's no tomorrow. I guess the Chinese "ghost towns" have run their course so now they're going to try the same here. There are literally HUNDREDS of units going up within a 1 kilometer radius of my place.

The first thing to do is get rid of the ridiculous TM30 altogether. I've recently written a friend of mine is a fortune 100 hiring agent, and the extra mountain of <deleted> he needs to go through for the TM30 has him seeking life elsewhere. It's difficult enough hiring in Thailand without this senseless, useless paperwork kerfuffle.

This is merely a muse, I'm not suggesting anything illegal.

I just finished with my 90 day reporting of my 800k baht having been in my bank account after renewing my extension of stay. The girl at the desk took a look at the paperwork, had me sign all of it, then threw it in a pile of others' similar documents. I'd bet my bottom dollar all these documents will land up in a pile, never to be looked at again.

NO receipt stapled in my passport, no stamp, no computer entry. It's as if it had never happened.

The question: If a person can go to an agent for ~12k baht and get the extension of stay done, thereby releasing 800k baht, why continue with the "money in the bank" method?

Those who don't learn from the past . . .

Can't have it both ways, buddy:

The laws recently changed where, before you could go to a clinic and get a 150 baht "wink wink nudge nudge" medical. They now require you attend a hospital from an approved list, and they're also checking for insanity. That counts me and most of you out.

????????????

The BALLZ on this guy!!! No shame, no connection to reality.

I just finished watching Netflix' "Chasing Coral." I we don't take drastic measures to reduce global carbon emissions real soon, our kids and their kids will be eating soylent green.

24 minutes ago, VincentRJ said:

He won't give them up 'easily'.

Kim won't give them up 'period." The way the U.S. has jerked them around and gone back on their promises around the world, there will NEVER be trust as long as the orange chosen one (and HE has called HIMSELF that) is in office.

It's like this around the world. During the Roaring Twenties, leading up to The Great Depression, income inequality was almost as bad as it could get. The U.S. wealth disparity today is even worse than back then. Funny coincidence, political division gets rabid and mean spirited in such times. It's almost as if the rich don't want us working together to call them on their "stuff" (since we can't use the "s" word any more).

How many times have we heard this before?