bananafish

Slinging drugs in Thailand at age 64. Deary, deary me.

Thailand have done that forever. And Thailand evict people who are in the country illegally every day. Thai peopel don't protest against their officials evicting people in Thailand illegally.

Thailand already don't offer USA citizens this type of visa. Thailand only really offer foreigners various types of tourist visa, essentially. The USA still offer Thai people tourist visas.

They'll be bickering over the cleanliness of a piece of fruit next! "I told you that pear was washed!"

This would definitely work and be easy to police.

Staying in Blighty.

Going through Vietnam immigration is a formality. A stress-free, even welcoming experience. Going through Thai immigration is like waiting in line for a rectal examination. A cold, hostile experience. But Thai culture is relaxing, polite and considerate. Very easy to live in. Vietnamese culture I find hard to put up with for long periods. Vietnamese people seem to exist in a world where only their experience matters. If it isn't negatively affecting them, it isn't happening at all. This seems to be changing among the younger Vietnamese, but it's still in the general culture. They aren't deliberately rude, it just seems like the concept of being considerate of others doesn't exist. Bunking queues, littering, being noisy at 2am or 5am, any time whatsoever. The experience of the people trying to sleep on the same floor isn't a concept, they will shout down hallways at 5am, bang doors, make all the noise they like. I stayed in a hotel once and woke up at 6am with staff scraping paint off the skirting board in the hallway, there's no way anyone on the floor could have slept through it. On a number of occasions, different hotels, different cities, different years. I've been woken up by staff seeming to have a jovial staff meeting, at 6am. Full of laughs and conversation. Not a thought given to the fact people are trying to sleep. There's a lot to like about Vietnam, but I could never call it home, after a while, I need to get out of the place. And when I arrive back in Thailand, I breathe a sigh of relief, but not until I'm finished having my ass examined by the b!tch at immigration.

The dumbest immigration policy of any country I've heard in quite a while.

She was muling it from Malaysia, not Thailand.

Lights on 24/7, too.

Great idea, send rent through the roof, then have a crisis where ordinary working people can't afford rent. But who cares, the economy will be bigger.

I haven't tried it, but when I saw the 'Pay like a local' QR payment feature in the Wise app, I looked into it. You can use it in some other SEA countries, but not yet Thailand. I'm sure Wise are asking to be allowed access to that feature of PromptPay, but not yet granted.

The Wise app already has QR payment functionality - https://wise.com/us/blog/qr-code-payment

Now all we need is for Thailand to allow Wise QR payments to use PromptPay, they already accept instant PromptPay bank transfers from Wise.

100kg stuffed up your ass might get a bit tight.