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Umm. And farangland is better??

Sorry, but I left that place and really would rather not go back even considering all the negatives.

Bad time to look for an apartment. Wait for a few months.

I drink on average once a week. "First drink of the day"!?!?!

If you're drinking every single day don't you feel you have a problem?

I personally can't drink more than once a week or I start to feel unhealthy. I can't imagine how run down your body must be adding alcohol to it every single day and not allowing it any time to recover

Depends how much they drink. 1-2 drinks a day is no big deal. For people like me who like to binge drink on Changs it can be a problem. I like to keep my drinking down to no more than once a week. I stay productive and feel healthy.

True was fast about a month ago. Now the pages load slowly. Maybe it's a DNS issue.

I'm afraid this protest group is "barking" up the wrong tree. If the dog attacked him he had every right to defend himself. These people are the ones that need to go home.

1,000 entry fee? That'd scare off about 90% of the tourists there. Cheapos the lot of them(nationalities will not be named).

Those benefits are quite modest. In the US there is virtually no welfare state left. And as you can imagine there is a huge amount of poverty and inequality there. Be careful what you wish for.

Why does everybody need a high end education anyways? Society only needs so many engineers and scientists and most of the jobs out there don't require any math or science knowledge at all.

10k no way. That is probably more than the size of the entire expat community. And I define an expat as somebody who lives here at least ten months out of the year. Two months doesn't cut it.

This place is anti-pedestrian. It's like they look down on you for wanting to go out and take a walk. But then again walking around is pretty dangerous as there is trash everywhere, powerlines, and stray dogs about.

Seems his gf left him. No mafia involved. Pretty sad. You gotta wonder if these guys ever leave their rooms or browse the internet. I mean, we're not exactly running out of women here in Pattaya.

Well me got no brain then cos I don t like Russians, I m a total dunce, but was back in the 80 s an airline jockey so I guess half a brain LOLs. Aside this fact lets look at the following, like Russians or no like Russians how in the name have they suddenly got rich enough almost overnight to come to Thailand,? can somebody enlighten me please, and in the thousands. A few years is overnight in my book and dispite whats said, I know for a fact Russians are very very poor as I know a guy who s a jet engineer who spends 8 months of the year in Moscow and your average Russian army colonel earns less than a cleaner in a UK supermarket, well upwards of a few dollars a month. If any of you type into your search engine Russian standard of living, you l see my point, so how do they get to Pattaya in their thousands.? There s a rat here somewhere, just dunno what yet. Is the Thai tourist authority subsidising seats from Moscow to BKK, cos i m sure the commie government isn t, and even to below cost air travel I am still totaly bemused as to how they get here. Remember Churchill who said socialism is the equal sharing of misery, in short comrads all earn similar wages and by all the thousands of Russians coming there must be a lot of high party officials around in Moscow to afford such a luxury. My point is, and a total shot in the dark, is Thailand one of the safer places to be in such turbulant times, what with a vast build up of Russian troops in and around Siria and Iran etc, do they know something we don t. Russia is in no way post communist, it still is communist, and Mr Putin is old school, HE DON T LIKE US, it remains as much of a threat as ever if not more so than the cold war days. As for Russian women been sexy, well yes stunning is a more appropiate term, however not any more than in my home town of Nottingham UK, where you see lovely young ladies in mini skirts off for a knees up, however its a bit usless really as you won t get anywhere with them cos they have those big strong mustle Russian men to look after them, and if you do find a willing commie, it won t half cost you and God help you if you don t pay lols.

Commodities bubble. That's how. All these high oil and gas prices are making them filthy rich. I'm kindof praying for the day when this bubble bursts. Getting kind of sick of it all.

Mixx. Lots of East Europeans around and my favorite.

Be advised that many are with their boyfriends/husbands or are prostitutes. I'm sure if you have the money they'll be interested. 5k for a shorty is a bit high if you ask me.

Doesn't make any sense to me. Perhaps he wants a free plane flight back to Germany?

I go to Central Pattaya Beach Rd. often and these days it's like being in Moscow. Oh well, thankfully I now live in the East part of Pattaya and don't have to see many of them any longer.

Yeah, it's seen better days. I'm sure in 20 years this place will NOT be the place to be and will be rather expensive. BUT I hear Africa is up and coming as a destination for the single man. I'm sure I'll be there enjoying my golden years of retirement(I'm 32 now).

Had to pay some extra baht to get my stuff delivered properly. Does that make sense? Guess the wheels need greasing sometimes..

I do love this place but as I guess I hated living in the united states even more. Glad I left.

Fact is, 15 is the age of consent here. Not 18 or 20.

Never mind.

I'm sure the death rate is higher here but it also feels even higher because the news reports all the suicides. I don't think many suicides are reported by the news in farangland.

Hmmm. Don't think a lady would leave you here unless you ran out of funds...

WU -- a large corporation -- makes a LOT of money off of transfers to Thailand. I'd be surprised if a stop would be put to that.

I'm not sure they are a "banking institution". And what security they do focus on is not limited to terrorism or money laundering but internet fraud and "romance scammers" (I've heard there may be a few of those here in Thailand).

I sent money through the day before and it got sent but the same day I put in another transfer for a larger amount and it got blocked. Maybe they detected "fraud" on my account due to too many transfers in a short amount of time or some other silly reason and blocked it. I asked them but they refuse to tell me why. It's a big pile of nonsense if you ask me.

I sent an western union online order from the US to my wife here and it says, " This money transfer was not approved. If you were charged for this money transfer, you will be automatically refunded.". What the hell? I have never seen such a message before.

I'm getting sick of this crap with american banking institutions. They're so "secure" they won't even me to withdraw my OWN money! Probably some terrorist bullslt. Annoy 100,000 customers to grab 1 terrorist or moneylaunder. What a joke that country has become.

It's a free world last time I checked. If you're 80 and you want an 18 year old wife then go for it(I would). I'm surprised I don't see more of these unions here. Are they afraid of being thought of as pedophiles?