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So I got a babe flying in from Bangkok in a week. Thing is, I can't take her to any "usual" nightspots, like Hotshot, Goodview, Riverside, Bubble, Spicey, etc. because there are too many other babes we might run into who I've been involved with, and there would be serious trouble, comprehende'? You know the routine.

Could someone throw me out some quality restaurants, maybe even something that sits on the top of some big building? Does Chaingmai have something that rotates, possibly? And what about a quality type joint like a Good View - a place with food, and live band? And is there another Hotshot type place (not that place that starts with an 'M' - they charge felongs like 300 baht just to walk in)? Maybe a good Kareoke joint? I really haven't liked the ones I've been to yet - they are too expensive combined with poor quality. Oh - gotta have private rooms too. What about a discoteque besides Bubble? Anything else you wanna suggest? Perhaps you guys could suggest some places out of the night bazaar area, and away from the beaten path?

Thanks.

You can not be for real!! Smells like a TROLL!! After seeing your 2 postings, either you are completely ignorant or having us on!!

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i talk to farangs almost every day with half baked ideas about buying a bar, or setting up some bungalows, or whatever. once they find out even the most basic facts, they wise up and find something else to fantasize about.

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Geez Louise!! This must not be the place to come with questions!! Didn't mean to be "completely ignorant," didn't mean to be a "troll," and didn't mean to "fantasize" (in fact, I could think of much better fantasy material than risking hard-earned money in a real estate project). Just wanted to do something with my money is all. I didn't think it was utterly preposterous to invest in real estate, but perhaps it is. Maybe I should pick up my old day trading habit again - something I was trying to get away from.

I'll go now. Thank you, and good day.

Whoa... suppose I came to the wrong place for advice :-(

Thanks anyway... I suppose.

So I'm playing "hide the salami" with this Thai chick I picked up the other night. After the "game" is over, I pull out, and much to my complete and utter horror, I find that the condom had broke and tore off. All I had was a small "ring" around the base. The rest was up inside her. In other words, my entire meat was pretty much entirely exposed to whatever diseases and crotch-rot this chick has.

So right away I start on doxycycline - as directed. I also had some of that antibiotic used for gastro-intestinal (norofloxacin) - and I started popping that as directed too. I took both for two days only, thinking that whatever I must have gotten from this chick had not had time to "get a foothold" yet, so to speak.

Anyway, I'm hoping this would at least protect me from the "common cold" venereal diseases (gonorreah, clymidia, syphillis, etc.) I could have gotten... and so far I don't seem to be suffering from any symptoms of anything yet. But I'm still worried, of course.

Question: Was this the correct course of action? Or should I have taken more, or different, antibiotics? Or for a longer period of time? Is there something else I should take to treat something else that those two antibiotics I listed will not touch?

Of course, I already know I'm screwed if this chick had AIDS, Hep-C, etc. And genital warts and herpes are incurable too. I'm only asking about stuff that we all know is treatable.

Any advice helpful. Thanks.

<<4,000,000 and you will be bust within 3 months. I was talking with a guy who's opinion I trust and he told me he had spent over 60,000,000 baht building half a dozen house which he rents out.>>

My plan was to simply build a "small" building of condos. What is "small?" Whatever I could afford. I was hoping it would be 4 - 8 units, maybe 2 stories. Some guy told me he built like 7 townhouses for around $75K-$80K USD, so I thought it might be feasible, at least, for me to do something along those lines. But what do I know? If this would cost anything approaching what you say above, which is over an order of magnitude greater than anything I can put my hands on, I need to forget about it. But crap - I thought stuff was supposed to be cheaper over here in Thailand than in America, not the same or more expensive!

<<A recipe for disaster. Forget it. They say a little knowledge is dangerous. No knowledge at all has to be far worse.>>

Why is this a recipe for disaster? I just want to build a building - that's all. They are everywhere in Thailand from what I see. Why must this be a recipe for disaster? And yes - I do have a little bit of knowledge. I admit that. And I agree it's a dangerous thing. But I'm willing to learn.

I mean, "nothing's easy" - that's been my motto for so many years I can't remember a time when it wasn't. But is this really such a totally monumental, herculean, impossible task that I really should just totally "forget it?" I mean, I have to do *something* if I'm going to live in Thailand. I can't live for the rest of my life on the interest that 4 million baht generates. And at least give me credit for not contemplating going down the road of "buying a bar" which seems like the first thought that pops into so many peoples' heads that move here (no insult intented to anyone who has done that).

Are you saying it is impossible to do with the funds that I have? That I can live with. Or are you saying that it's so much of a headache, and the revenue with the units I would build would be so little, that it just isn't worth it? Or are you saying something else?

If not this, then are there any other ideas on what to do with roughly 4 million baht?

By the way... just how much is a "rai" of land anyway? Is it roughly comparable to an acre?

Thanks.

Would like to start a small real estate project (build condominiums, townhouses, or apartments). I have about 4 million baht to spend total - that includes land, architecture plans, building and construction, the whole 9 yards. The problem is, I'm not sure exactly where to start.

I don't know how big of a building I can afford with the money that I have. Therefore, it seems I cannot go to an architect and ask him to draw up plans for a building when I have no idea how big I can go, how many units, etc. Similarly, I cannot go out and look for and/or purchase land because I don't know how big of a piece of property I should look for, because again I don't know how big of a project I can afford.

How does one go about "knowing" what one can afford so that one can then look at land, go to an architect, etc? Should I perhaps speak to a "builder" first, who would have rough ideas for what costs what, and then take that rough idea to an architect?

Thanks.