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22 hours ago, madmen said:

Pattaya is the wild west, anything goes , anyone can open a bar with zero paperwork without a liqueur licence until they are caught and then they move to the next empty shop and set up a bar again. If you buy in Pattaya you got to EXPECT noise

 

Im on lower sukhumvit BKK and there are no less Than 5 bars in my condo complex, a 2  story sports bar, The old German beer house and 3 beer bars with BG'S and they all play music at NORMAL levels low enough to have a normal conversion ..can hear a pin drop in my bedroom

 

Dont Buy in Pattaya. The rent there is stupid cheap and if a karaoke pops up overnight you can get the hell out

Not only Pattaya.  There's no zoning in the entire country.  I live near some homes worth easily B25 million, but there are still some old time villagers left as well.  One set up a karaoke bar, just a machine and benches.  Popular place.  Police will do nothing.  Fortunately I was far enough away from this disaster, but I did get the zip line.  Fortunately, again, they close at night.  But noise all day long.  YOU CAN'T WIN.  Don't buy.  

11 hours ago, Tomahawk21 said:

not if you buy in a village where the prices start at 10 million baht up. you eliminate all the crap, there are no rock bands where i live, you could hear a pin drop.????

A company can come in and create an adventure park.  Or anything they want.  Come see me in Mae Rim, when I'm there.  Only a few weeks, however.  The rest of my time I'm living in peace and quiet in the American south.

On 4/27/2019 at 10:11 PM, AlexCanada said:

Tread carefully.  You've likely lived here long enough to know people have been killed complaining about noisy neighbors.

 

One reason I will never buy a place in Pattaya.  If I ever get a noisy neighbor/bar near me I can always move.

Never buy a place in THAILAND, period.  I built on a nice remote area in Mae Rim and they built an "adventure park" zip line right next door.  We built on 4 rai, but that was not nearly enough.  No zoning, anyone can build anything they want anywhere.  You can't win.

15 hours ago, bristolboy said:

Ya think it's wealthy Poles coming to the USA to work? 

For the most part, probably not.  But at least they're literate and have an education.

Poland is possibly America's best ally.  Yet despite requests, America continues to require Poles to have visas.  I understand it's due, supposedly, to the percentage of overstays from persons of a particular country.  Regardless, we're letting thousands of indigent latinos a day into the country, surely Poland is much less of a threat.  I'll take a thousand Poles over ten indigents.  I say put the harshest visa requirements on people like me, an American, until America gets reasonable.

I lived in HD around '06-'08 and the traffic was horrible.  Kad Falang area.  Can't imagine now.  If you want to get in and out of the city, unless it's late at night, good luck.

I don't know how it works with the UK embassy, but the American embassy will issue a replacement passport in a day or less, as I recall.  Other than an inconvenience, I can't imagine this would have been a big deal.  But congrats on finding it.

People complain every year about early spring in Chiang Mai, and no one ever does anything. And probably no one will in our lifetimes.  Just the way it is in Thailand.  

After I got a really bad case of bronchitis one year in CM, I decided I'd leave every spring.  And so I have.  That case of bronchitis lasted from March until June.  Of course no one can say for sure the CM air was why I got it, but I'd never had it before, and never since.

Thais kill everything.  

(sigh)

Small bit of it translated by my wife, below.  Hopefully it's legible.

33 minutes ago, Toosetinmyways said:

Perhaps the Thai immigration have this system installed at point of entry.

 

The UK government is considering installing this company's system at all points of entry to the UK after Brexit.

The system is by a company called iborderctrl.

Summary from company. "Compiles a full facial profile using video and photographs. Scrapes and scours all of your social media accounts. Document and signature analysis. Creates and stores your digital voice print. Provides risk assessment based on aggregate data"

An opposition group has already been formed  https://iborderctrl.no/

555, there you go, we were typing at the same time.  That's a machine that does profiling, or I guess you could say assists with profiling.  Without looking at the link for the opposition group, I already know it's a liberal group that believes love, peace, and understanding will cure all ills.  And I'm sure they're all for open borders.  But to keep these same people safe and free to protest, we must profile.  Profiling works.

"Panita Kochprapa or "Nat" said on his Facebook page the matter was now resolved and justice had been served."

Clueless journalists.  Should have said "her FB page".  Unbelievable.  

Radio paradise is the only one I’ve listened to for over 15 years. Never get tired of the variety. 

Just made a trip from Sukothai to Chiang Mai, lots of dead areas on the route, I have True.  Wife has AIS but unfortunately didn't do a comparison, but think she had better coverage.

I'd gamble with AIS if I were the OP.

Thanks for the responses.  If I can follow up - since this snake was so small, I would think it hasn't traveled far.  I was under the impression snakes usually have a good number of offspring.  Might I, or shouldn't I see more of these around that part of the garden if this is true?