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36 minutes ago, rott said:

I have not heard of many going elsewhere in search of a better promenade. 

There was a news piece a while ago just before the covidiocy struck about Thai visitors   not being too impressed with Pattaya beach/promenade one of the things quoted was lack of seating and shade trees.  those interviewed also said Bangsean and Barng Saray where better.

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Cabbies can also now borrow cash from the cooperative development fund at 1% interest, so they can do other jobs to generate income during the ongoing crisis.

Yeah great idea to borrow even more money !

I understand that a lot of cabs are not owned by the drivers but rented from the cab company...

what other jobs ?

31 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

Two days later he snapped his iconic Pulitzer-winning photograph, which cannot be posted here.

The guy hanging from a tree and others beating the body with sticks ?

1 hour ago, EVENKEEL said:

If you don't have a proper education, you know the consequences. "Desperate need" as in wanting to provide for family.

Doesn't matter how "proper" the education is if there are only low paying jobs available.    

Desperate need as in wanting to provide for family..yes exactly.

4 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

What are they going to do?

How about this   Agenda 2030

"Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-how-differently-well-live-in-2030

On 8/10/2021 at 6:30 AM, olfu said:

So...end of the world as we know it?

Yes repent !!!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/10/doom-gloom-end-time-apocalypse-always-hand/

"Whatever happened to those wide-eyed zealots who used to walk up and down the High Street with a sandwich board bearing the words The End of the World is Nigh? I haven’t seen one in ages; but then again they are no longer needed when apocalyptic doom-mongering is now a mainstream activity."

2 hours ago, rott said:

if somebody gets through their allotted tasks correctly in the specified time

And if they get through the task before the allotted time  they can take a break right ?  or maybe they need less time to do the task or need more task to fill the time ?

3 hours ago, redwood1 said:

.Until manufacturing moves the world needs China...

So Trump was right about something then ?  

bring the manufacturing home..in my opinion the "west" was foolish to hand one country so much control over almost every aspect of manufacturing 

lost jobs and lost intellectual properties, its probably too late now anyway.

Friendship and Foodmart have bread  they both most likely have potatoes too but I never buy them there.

19 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Sure, Pattaya really needs more malls.

No I don't agree...Jomtien could do with a couple though 

13 minutes ago, tjo o tjim said:

I’ll describe my home system if you are interested.

Thanks...you use a lot more electricity than me !

I only have this one one "dumb" Vango V9811A energy meter 

which might be hackable to obtain electronic results  and incorporate into web stats and graphs  if I ever find the motivation to try.

26 minutes ago, tjo o tjim said:

IoTaWatt energy meters

https://iotawatt.com/

and  https://github.com/boblemaire/IoTaWatt

That looks very interesting    "Open System Private Data"   

excellent  I don't need or want to send my data to/though some Chinese server  and have the device rendered useless when/if their server fails.

5 minutes ago, champers said:

I think the area is ripe for casino construction;

This has been speculated upon for years..the law has to change before casinos can be built.

2 minutes ago, champers said:

Once Covid dies down watch the cranes and piling rigs come rolling in.

Yes interesting to see  what appears..more shopping malls maybe ?

they could all be linked together by a skywalk/train/monorail  à la Bangkok   then the Bangkokiakns will feel right at home   when they visit on the weekends and holidays.

1 hour ago, redwood1 said:

Why not take the family and the kids to Walking Street?

Absolutely no point going to Walking Street at the moment as it is 100% closed plus they are still digging up the road.

45 minutes ago, Henryford said:

They are asking 140,000 baht a sqm for pre orders !

Wow  that's expensive  4.2 million for a 30 square meter shoe box !!

before the Covidiocy hit  there where reports of Pattaya having something like 20,000  unsold condo units..and yet they keep building relentlessly.

Don't know if this has been posted in this thread yet apologies if it has been.

Seems this very rich group is having a bet on Pattaya to the tune of

8.1 billion baht !!

This group bought the Sigma Resort at the far south end of Jomtien beach.

"In February, she also acquired the 287-room Sigma Jomtien Pattaya Hotel for 550 million baht."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rgluckman/2021/07/08/thai-real-estate-giant-bets-big-on-tourism-rebound-with-32-billion-growth-plan/?sh=30d9cfdc3ecd

"Transforming Pattaya—a former recreational playground for U.S. servicemen during the Vietnam War with a sleazy reputation as a sex tourism destination—seems like a high-stakes gamble. But Wallappa doesn’t think so, saying she believes that a new international airport proposed to be built by 2023 and planned rail links connecting Pattaya to Bangkok’s two airports, plus a monorail that will run right by the AWC Center, could turn it into a global getaway like Phuket.

“Pattaya has a lot of image problems,” says Jeremy O’Sullivan, head of research at real estate consultancy Savills in Thailand. “But they are one of the only companies that could pull something like this off.” Nikhom from Horwath HTL agrees, noting that while AWC has the money and could pull in the right partners to revamp Pattaya, success will largely depend on how quickly public infrastructure develops. Thailand, after all, is known for delays."

Just now, Kwasaki said:

accidentally

"accidentally"  ????

5 minutes ago, up2you2 said:

In accessing the Play Store app, it finds it

How old is the phone  and what version of android is it running ?

2 minutes ago, jazzdog32095 said:

That wasn't the question troll

What the heck   !!!!!!   I pointed out your mistake  thanks and all that 

Just use your existing line account on the phone.