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  1. Andrew65
    I was 20 when I made 3 visits to Thailand in 1985/86, and I had to work lots of overtime to fund those trips. When I started working in the oil industry in 1997 I was able to subsequently spend 20 year living there.
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    I live in Thailand for 20 years. After mum died I spent 5 years never setting foot in the UK, 2011-2016.
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    I remember that during my first visit to BKK in 85/86 traffic wasn't really an issue there, 24/7/365 (and you haggled before getting into a taxi, no meters).
  4. Andrew65
    ...lucky that you got your leg over in Dubai then?!☺️ Bahrain is a similar kinda place, many Saudis wipe themselves out in car accidents on the way to/from Bahrain.
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    A very different thing for someone who is there on holiday for a few weeks compared to a long term expat.
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    I used to talk to an old Thai taxi driver at the hotel where I lived. He said that when he was a kid (probably the 1950's), Songkhran lasted for 1 day, and it was just sprinkling water on people, not buckets and water cannon. I expect that mass tourism has made it what it is today.
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    A few times over the years I would be drinking around the corner from Soi Cowboy on Songkhran day and one of the girls would walk in and say "falang boxing" (fighting). When drunk people start throwing stuff at each other there's a high chance that things will go wrong. It's not just water, it now has to be a bucket of ice-cold water.
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    The Thais are perfectly cool with you having 2 passports. I had 2 British 48 pagers for 10 years, and over that time had used both entering Thailand.
  9. Andrew65
    What starts on those dates?
  10. Andrew65
    May 1,2,3, why those dates? Many years ago it took me 2 hours to get through immigration at Swampy. Fastest ever was at D M, earlier 2,000's, plane to taxi in 11 minutes!
  11. Andrew65
    Apparently a German guy tried stealing a motorbike recently?
  12. Andrew65
    In later years I started getting the e-visa for Cambodia, preferable to the scrum to get a visa at PP Airport.
  13. Andrew65
    Just wait until there are protests as we are seeing in Spain and other places. I saw recently that the ratio of vistors to residents in Phuket is 118:1.
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    I suspect that in years to come totally visa free entry could become a thing of the past. Reducing overtourism and denying entry to undesirables being an upshot of it.
  15. Andrew65
    It's possible with zero Baht.
  16. Andrew65
    Patong has long been pretty much the same thing as Pattaya, Soi Cowboy-on-the-beach, such places attract the dregs from all over the world (some good people there too).
  17. Andrew65
    He is Mossad!😁
  18. Andrew65
    An old friend whose lived in Goa for 15 years said that they have the illicit drugs scene sewn-up there.
  19. Andrew65
    In years to come, and when and if tourist numbers become excessive, I could see Thailand starting to require an e-visa before travel for most countries. In the UK we have the DBS system to help filter out crims/undesirables. A recent figure suggests that the ratio of tourists to residents in Phuket is 118:1.
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    Looking back I would've probably chosen to live in Jomtien rather that Pattaya. In my 20 years in Bangkok I lived within a 20 minute walk of Soi Cowboy and Nana Plaza, but in the last 5 years I hardly ever visited, no longer interested in that stuff.
  21. Andrew65
    The last time I was there J B wasn't quite as downmarket as P B?
  22. Andrew65
    Another Pro Tip: Smashing a bottle over someone's head could kill them!
  23. Andrew65
    Rather like Pattaya, such places attract trashy people from all over the world. How do I know, I have been there often, but in my later years in Thailand I didn't.
  24. Andrew65
    It's very hard to embrace plus size, unless you have arms like a gibbon!😆
  25. Andrew65
    My old Thai friend would be in his 80's now, he said when he was a kid, 1950's, it was one day, and just sprinkling drops of water.

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