thailandsgreat

Nah, you're exaggerating the problems http://e-rabbit.org/global/other_material/2022_06/tesla_ai_day_satire_h264.mp4

Chonburi

Pipelines will be used when EU takes control over Europe and sell hydrogen split from water in France's 56+14 Fukushima style reactors. End user power plants easily modified from Putin-gas to Macron-gas. Just move dependency from one dictator to another. Other countries are forbidden to produce anything but useless propeller power. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lstwaiawszfmp5upllrfu/XRecorder_13062023_093611.mp4?rlkey=e3mcoeelj68gidq51dnobxkon&dl=0 Are they still laughing? Since Elon called them fool cells, they probably work fine.

There are heaps of guys who know this better than me. But my agency told me I hade to come "one, two or three months before expiry" so maybe you can do it before leaving?

Some good suggestions here. Will have to check out Nan. In Google, Ampoe Phrao looks like all ricepaddies (or coconut). I have not been in the Nimman area for years. In Google, Nimman now seems to be a café area. Maybe extremely foreigner dense? Chiang Rai doesn't seem to make it on to this list?

Could it be that the strange smiling beings that the honorable members here do not understand, have found peace in life, temporarily or for longer time. Maybe you should ask the Buddha? Or are they just smiling to irritate Pita since neolibs build on adversity and anger ???? Except for phoney smiles maybe every smiling person has his/her own reason to smile? Maybe they are just on a good roll in life, for the time being. Smiling at a girl in crazy town Pattaya can hardly be misinterpreted, at least not by much.

I enjoy the smiles since most people are friendly here. I fear the great leap forward that some want LOS to take will make people grumpy. Political forces will bring in the Middle East people. Farmers, women's libbers. Trying to subdue LOS through splitting up. https://www.pattayamail.com/news/noisy-middle-eastern-bikers-enrage-residents-in-south-pattaya-436268

Many Philippine girls played around with foreigners, but finally often got pregnant with Pinoy, sometimes lived together with them and sometimes not. It seems to be the same way in Thai. The girls move in with Thai. Maybe just because it is safer and an average Thai will probably be less likely to dump her for someone younger? Maybe socially more acceptable to be a single mother with a child that does NOT look like it had a foreign father. In Japan it was the reverse. The girls got pregnant with foreigner and then kicked him out. (Some generalization here, naturally.)

Maybe I didn't write well. It wasn't costly to see the old lady, but it was a fun diversion travelling through. Worth the time.

A very short stay during international travel sometimes doesn't give you more than YouTube and internet. You can brag you were there and show the same pictures as on the internet, not more. Angkor looks like on the Internet. I have visited Ecuador several times but not Galapagos. I could have paid for it but money better spent during year long trips in S America. Just not worth it in my book. I've been close to orangutan reserves on Borneo and gorillas in Uganda. But sometimes just not worth it, for a few pictures. But I spent a lot of time and money on other trips that other people wouldn't. E.g. took some time to locate and say hello to Obama's grandmother in Kenya/Uganda border area.

What guesthouse?

The guys in this forum seem to be long stayers. Getting to know your "second home country" is helpful to integrate and understand the shades of culture. You get more chances to practice the language outside the cities. When you meet Thai from other regions they appreciate if you have visited etc I guess the forum members still travel to other countries (like me). Domestic and international travel have different purposes.

But OP will probably make his second entry from this region which slightly increases chances of getting on the plane. The airports in this region usually know the rules better than in our countries. But has become harder with time also here.

And yomjinda road in Rayong. Chinese influenced, wooden houses in many places near the sea. And French traces in Chantaburi. The cathedral. Trat people friendly. Once two ladies on a tricycle stopped and offerered a ride. I said I was going to Robinson. But they took me to the bus station ????

Trat and the coast nice. Chantaburi was a natural stop on the coastal route from Cambodia. But the last couple of times it wasn't as inviting. I believe the gems were running out and Africans were smuggling in gems.

Yes. In Saigon the Vietnamese toured Pam Ngu Lao st. in buses for hippie-watch-tours.

Maybe Lao-philes love Pai and Vang Vieng ???? My best memory from Pai is two girls in bikinis, on skateboards in the middle of the road, having stopped for a red light. (sorry for bold font, it has got stuck)

Go to Baan Hin Taek, drug lord Khun Sa:s former base. He smuggled opium. Chinese nationalists also involved. In 1967 one caravan went wrong and was bombed by Lao air force that finally claimed the opium. Khun Sa had refused to pay the nationalists for free passage and had also 800 muleteers fighting KMT. CIA Air America flew opium for the minorities. When Pathet Lao took over they had to flee. Olympic gymnastic winner 2020 Suni Lee is Hmong. Her family probably escaped to US then. Now they have renamed it Baan toed Thai to erase memories ???? There is a museum in Khun Sa house I met a group of Burmese monks there. They invited me to pansang/burma which I failed to reach on several trips. So far I have met them in Tachilek and Kentung. I always wanted to take pictures of the poppies in bloom, but never made it. Any suggestions welcome. But respect for Thailand. All has been cleared up now and where Khun Sa had his base there is now paved road and 7/11. No drugs to be seen today.

I still somehow wouldn't really appreciate if my gf told me "Nobody does it half as good as you." While we are being picky. This famous model pictured in the thread looks a little trans in this image, in my opinion. But she is not. https://i.insider.com/5be5e6e748eb1257955951a9?width=1000&format=jpeg&auto=webp

What are yours?

I guess many girls you see there are working in shops, happy to be relieved of their 9 to 5 work to marry. Bangkok girls maybe high maintenance?

True. You probably have to buy/rent some condo in a reasonably civilized place but away from BKK, Pattaya. But I don't rule out finding non-bar girls in e.g. Pattaya. There is life outside the bar areas too. Building on wife's land is a real killer in Philippines too.

Topic well covered. But maybe better to head out of BKK, Pattaya etc and to the slightly smaller places where farlang are less common. But you must also be prepared to live that life. Where she lives is maybe more important than her age.

The reason Hollywood does not promote lookers is clearly stated to be that women are nowadays not to be appreciated for beauty but for merit. Victoria's Secret had the best looking models. Now they sign models of all shapes and also that footballer Rapinoe. It is all part of the woke agenda. Women looking like men, competing for the same roles in society. Reducing attraction between men and women. Breaking up families. Creating conflict in society. Americans may not believe this from what I know about US. They have housewives and voting system based on merit, not mixing in affirmative action. Instead, this is what the US is bombarding the rest of us with, via CNN etc. This is coming in Thailand. If you don't believe me, Pita will show you.

Macron is 24 years younger than his wife. Probably a cover up for that sex with children of any age was allowed in France until just a couple of years ago. I personally believe younger is better. Someone will have to take care of you as you get older. Their family general attitudes also matter.