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my condo's pool and facilities have been shut for most of the year. its an absolute joke

2 hours ago, scorecard said:

But you have quoted only half of the OP. The complete statement, from the original post is:

 

"Under the proposal, to be presented to government on Monday, those without vaccination proof would be isolated for 10 days if arriving by air, and 14 days if by land."

 

In other words:

 

- 7 days quarantine for those fully vaccinated.

- 10 days for those not vaccinated, arriving by air.

- 14 days for those not vaccinated, arriving by land.

Shows how useless the vaccines are and how little faith they have in them when you are still required to quarantine and take tests.

I'd like to see them allow limited land purchases if it is related to your domicile. Allow foreigners who move and live in Thailand to own their home. I'm fine with restrictions on people looking to buy investment properties or hold/flip real estate.

need more than a free massage to lure me back.

i'll fly back when the <deleted> restrictions are gone. till then, I'm a 20 year elite member who is staying outside of Thailand and spending my cash elsewhere.

On 7/7/2021 at 6:56 PM, connda said:

You'll all be closed down permanently soon which will pave the way for "essential" restaurants such as huge corporate franchises with their own delivery staff to take over.  They will become the recipients of all of your revenue when you "non-essential" restaurants are forced by your government to close down for every variant that will come along between now and dooms-day.  However, the same government will wave their hands over "essential" corporate restaurant chains and bless them as saviors.
Soon "Thai Cultural Food" will be 5-Star Chicken and MK.

Yep, this is a global economic reset. SME are goners.

forum is full of geriatrics and old people don't react well to change. not surprised by some of the replies from these fossils. 

the forum is still a complete mess, but its a smart direction to take. Still need to consolidate the sub forums a lot more and remove more of the adventorials.

would love to see the thb lose some ground to the usd.

35thb to 1usd would be lovely, or even 40.

16 hours ago, nkg said:

I'd also like to know this. It seems odd that "LoyaltyLobby.com" is the only website who can confirm this.

 

Richard Barrow seems to think not:

 

 

is this going to get fixed? seems like a big oversight

That would make Phuket a much more livable place. The lack of reasonable taxi prices has always been a stickler for me as I'm not much of a motorbike rider.

so if you do the sandbox, you have to pay for the PCR tests and they cost 3,000? So that is 12,000 thb in testing out of pocket?

this isn't covered by the mandatory covid insurance you are required to take out, or the increased cost of the SHA Plus+ hotels that you are required to stay at?

700 for a box of 50 kamagra jelly outside Nana bts. 

Bought and used them plenty of times, not a problem 

On 5/11/2021 at 3:01 PM, digibum said:

 

My guess is that most true digital nomads don't last more than 5 years.  They either go back home or become expats.  Even some of the biggest digital nomad blogers and YT channels that inspired many to become digital nomads have settled down and become Expats or moved back to their home country. 

 

It's definitely a difficult existence.  I'm guessing after a couple of years you weed out all of the places you like from all of the places that you didn't and you start making a smaller and smaller circle as you keep going back to the places you liked. 

 

And then eventually you find yourself going back to the same one or two places pretty frequently and . . . suddenly you're an expat ????

 

 

I never really fit into either mold. I don't want to travel all year in transitional accommodation, but I don't want to be tied down to 1 place either. I like to have a home base where I can relax and have my own stuff, but then travel frequently. Prior to covid this worked out great. I could stay in BKK 4-6 months a year and then spend the rest traveling in and out of BKK to other places. 

Most digital nomads that I know who have been living this sort of lifestyle more than 5 years have the same setup. Very few are jumping from 1 AirBnb to another without having a home base to head back to.

18 hours ago, digibum said:

 

As has been articulated by others, the Elite Visa is actually a pretty good deal for people who actually make enough money such that they can afford to pay money upfront in order to reap long-term financial rewards. 

 

Even the 5-year Elite Visa at 600,000 bath is only 120,000 baht per year ($3,870 USD).  If you're not saving at least $3,870 a year in taxes back home, you're not exactly highly desirable for Thailand.  

 

That's the part that always cracks me up with digital nomads.  They always like to discuss how their host countries should be falling all over themselves to attract them because of how much benefit they're bringing to the local economies, but at the same time, by admitting that something like the Elite visa is too expensive, they're also saying that they don't make that much money. 

Nah, you don't get it at all. Just because someone might spend 6 months in Thailand, it doesn't mean they want to spend $15k to do so. Thailand didn't become a digital Nomad Hotspot because a bunch of people wanted to settle down here and start families. They came here because it had low cost of loving, high quality of life, and extremely simply and cheap visa options. 

Without the visa simplicity for transient people, the masses will go elsewhere. CM is no longer "the spot" to be, nor is BKK. 

And I'm saying this as someone who has a 20 year elite Visa and runs several online businesses. 

Should say "was" not "is" 

Bangkok and Thailand is on the way out. Even before covid the tourist visas were getting far too difficult for online workers to stay here more than a couple months and far better options are arising elsewhere. Thailand used to have the best visa system there was. Unlimited back to back double (or triple) entry tourist visas. Very cheap and easy to get. The BKK and CM online work communities were built off this. Now the only people remaining are the ones who are set in their ways. New people are not coming to the "mecca" of Chiang Mai and BKK. 

Then you put the Covid mess on top of that and it's game over. 

At this point, I'm looking at flying to Mexico or Colombia, or anywhere that doesn't have so much <deleted> restrictions on personal freedom

7 hours ago, moe666 said:

A friend who  lives in Kanchanaburi had to go to Bangkok for some business. Thinking he would go back to BKK with the girlfriend he was in for a rude shock no way he was told. He could leave to go to BKK but there would be no return trip. Probably same for Hua Hin

 I know at least 10 people that went from Bangkok to Huahin and back over the weekend. None of them had an issue.

2 hours ago, Elkski said:

Some of you guys are so short sighted.  I hope I'm wrong but I don't think you have begun to see how covid will ravish Thailand.  No way can the goal of 70% vaccination happen in 2021.  

The irony of a covid sheep calling others short sighted. Stay home sheep.

On 4/15/2021 at 5:17 PM, bkk6060 said:

In Pattaya I love seeing these guys sitting alone hiding behind the "temporarily closed" signs sucking down a beer thinking they are getting away with something.  Service girls way in the back of the bar. Seems odd to me why is it so important?  I guess it is their routine and habitual cannot stop?

Why is it that much of a problem now to follow the rules and buy some booze and drink in your room for a few weeks?

 

Because not all of us are limp wristed cucks that submit to tyranny. 

Also if a virus was truly deadly enough to impose tyrannical rule about shutting down private businesses, most people would not want to visit the mall in the first place.

On 4/4/2021 at 2:58 PM, davemos said:

My mate whos a fire fighter in Sydney nsw visited a station in Soi 26.He was surprised tha a lot of their equipment was better /newer than  Sydney 

I was a fire fighter previously. A lot of rural and suburban areas have very old and limited equipment. Our trucks were so old that the water systems needed to be manually primed..

oh no, whatever shall we do? only 99.99% of us will survive.