mran66

More or less of the use-inhibiting screen blocking ads as a consequence?

It's actually amazing how few building fires you see knowing how the typical electric installations are.

That would definitely an ambiance ruiner in Thailand.

what's wrong with 711 ambiance?? I've got tens if not hundreds of coffees from 711 and never had issues with ambiance. You can take your coffee out, and hang outside the shop kicking off the soi dogs and beggars. You can possibly sit on the one and only (likely broken) blue or red plastic chair that someone has left there, and which possibly will collapse when you sit down on it. While sipping, you can top up your phone and check how much you have put on since last checked. And if you are off the tourist areas, odds are that the girls behind the counter start giggling 'where you from', and when you answer they have no clue what you said. Good chances to have a date after their workday, possibly leading to anything. Locals come to talk to you or at least show thumbs up. And you complain about ambiance of genuine cultural experience! BTW 711 coffee is pretty good, better than in many small coffee shops.

... So you are the riff raff? 😝

Regardless of he being not too smart to say this in public prior to completion of legal process, this is possibly the first time something he says makes sense IF what is told/shown by media is true.

Why are you listing they key recruitment criteria for not hiring a person there? People won't get fired because they don't hire people who would be doing things the way you described. It's like you would be asking why Arabians don't write from left to right. It's because Arabic is written from right to left. If they would wrote left to write, they would be told you can not write and consequently fired. Or think it as scooter that turns left when you turn the handle bar right and vice versa. You need to learnt to ride based on the mechanics of the system you are using to get where you are going.

How would the officials and their families survive, not to speak pay their premium cars and houses if they would stop initiating useless construction works? The only news is what they use as explanation for each of the new projects.

... And that goes on still. Couple of my neighbors got this backdated tax in last few months. I for mine already 4-5 years ago. But the new tax system is ok for now at least. Tax went from 7500 to 300, with 90% discount for first two years to 30 baht. But I bet soon they will separate company/foreigner owned property and tax those at 10x rate.

She maybe won't take the cash. But judges(s) will. Welcome to thai justice system.

You can change the water plan for company owned house to normal residential plan if you want. Just go pwa office with blue book and past water bill, they do the change on the spot. Pwa guy will come to check that the place is indeed a residence, that's it. I did abt 4 hrs ago (after paying the 350-400 baht for few years...) , and many neighbors followed after success.

That's a lot of water. I bet someone left a tap open for some time. Or leak. Follow your meter for few days to see how many cbm goes daily. My neighbor did not and had about 50k water bill couple years ago...

Better go drive your car on beach instead. That's only 1000 baht worth of fun at least in Phuket. Running naked 5x more expensive, not sure about whether the experience is 5x better too.

More interesting than the average number would be to see the distribution curves and how the differences between nations would be in top end of the spectrum. For sure Thailand has larger peak in top end than most other countries simply due to the large part of population who do it as business in some shape or another. Many who have hundreds and even thousands of partners.

if you have direct PWA water supply to your house (like I have), water is about 10 baht per cbm for the first 10 cbm, 16 for next 10, 19 next 10, 21 for next 30 fixed fee 30 baht per mo add vat on top if you stay in condo, at least some condos are in the big business water plan with single PWA subsciption/bill with marginal rate at about 32 per cbm. Thats why many places charge residents 30-40 per cbm for water (i.e 3-4 times what a house owner/renter pays) then depends on how much you use. I guess usually some 5 cbm/mo per person, but really depends on showering and toilet seat habits and also how much use for garden for me one person full time + a bit of garden watering + another person part time maybe half time usually 100-150 per mo i.e water is practically freebie see pricing https://www.pwa.co.th/contents/service/table-price