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I share your point of view. Just walking Sukhumvit these days plenty of unseemly falang types. Enough to make you shudder yourself and also wonder how Thais put up with dealing with them.

Ahhh click bait du jour. Yes, Yingluck is the last visible straw wronged in a coup and overthrow of democracy. But just the right moment for Whiners from hither and yon to grab a, shortlived, moment in the media. Another 'pass the popcorn' day in Land of Smiles.

Pass the popcorn...

Chinese proverb... “If you open a window for fresh air, you have to expect some flies to blow in.” Hardly a surprise, the mafia's here. Another sign of the, imho, irresponsible government selling off Thailand to hordes of tourists to rake in the money whilst corrupting the soul of a peoples, a heart of a nation with opportunistic and corrupt foreigners.

From the office of dumb and offensive ideas! What is their problem? Outrageously overpriced due to duties and taxes, taxes, taxes and now let's cover them up with preposterous tags and warnings.

My 2 cents... If the government was really interested in relieving the consumer the burden of the taxes and putting it into immediate effect, they should / could rebate the duties and taxes of the wines (my topic) to the wine companies that are holding, and able to prove, stock that entered Thailand under the 'old' system of taxies and duties. That would / should allow the drop in prices to show immediately versus wine merchants needing to sell off their current, taxed and levied, wines. Until the merchandise on hand sells through the new pricing won' / can't show up on the retail shelves and restaurant wine lists. To a couple of other points - 'fruit wine' - this is a category and device that allowed lower taxation. My contention is that no fruit was ever added to imported wines - it was just a device latched onto by savvy marketers and exporters by adding the words or suggesting fruit or fruit aroma / flavors on the label. Further I think the Thai government latched onto this idea, way back when wines started gaining a market here, by looking to China which was importing a lot of wine and also had domestic wines from Chinese vineyards that the Chinese like to "juice up" with fruit juices and aromatics. And last, wines from Chile or other origins that are cheaper, due to a tax agreement or entering as 'fruit wine' taxation scheme are not plonk wines. Very good, unadulterated, good value table wines. Praying they eliminate the no buying hours in stores and restaurants. Seems like I always want to buy wine during those hours and a bloody nuisance cannot.

An update to this topic after the dialogue petered out a month ago - for good reason. The noise problem was finally resolved and now living in the apartment next door to the pump room because: I never gave up pressing management, technicians and the landlord. And the landlord joined me in pushing the building's 'committee' and the daily manager - the landlord in Thai, as a Thai tipped the scales in our favor imho. The management never joined me directly in discussing my remedies (get a new quiet pump) - hubris or shame who knows, but I could tell they were taking action with the decline in noise and the end to crazy night hours running their pumps. As time has passed it has gotten better and better, and by now no longer an issue. Persistence paid off, staying in the fight worked, and well pleased no need to move out.

Maybe I've missed someone qualifying this, but under this government insurance scheme is there a defining difference between someone here on a simple tourist visa (in and out in 30 or 45 days) versus a foreigner here on say a one year renewable 'retirement' non O type visa?

Very much reminds me of the recent sliming of Joe Biden by that special prosecutor Hur. Ugly and unnecessary. Get off Thaksin's back, freed and pardoned, and let's get on with making life better Thailand.

Looking forward to things being put right again after the long tail of all the wretched corruption of the coup and it's makers. Thaksin free and Yingluck free, making their talents available once again for a better tomorrow in Thailand

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Good! keep the scum on the run and out of Thailand

Does noise annoy me ? Is the Pope Catholic? Noise in Bangkok is off the charts! Add to that long lines of traffic jams coming or leaving or just on Sukhumvit. And it's not just the audible noise. Everywhere are big walls, any walls screaming with glaring advertisements done in lurid colors and pictures to grab attention. Night joint bars and some restaurants with volume control of 1 to 10, turned up to 12! WTF is wrong with these creatures?! So thanks for asking, under my skin for some time now.

YES!!!!!!! Wrongs being righted. Good news indeed.

Yes of course and thank you the wise advice. There is good news just in today, the landlord/owner has come off the sidelines finally, after my continued comments and venting frustrations to him, as he has become actively involved in dialogue with the management over the practical details. He has also written letters to management and the board. I've decided to give him the floor then, as he is both Thai and is positioned to speak directly to the board and dialogue with the management. Not out of the woods yet. If there's a solution to be found, this is the way. Meanwhile I continue to dialogue and review other locations with Property Scout for other properties in the area. Appointment tomorrow.

Yep, the same and more than some others. I wasn't aware or made aware of the pump noise at contract. And for first 2.5 months of rental there was not a pump noise experienced in the room next to the pool pump room. Go figure. I think that a pump went off due to broken bearings. That was replaced, finally. And then one or another pump was in use in 24 hours - with noise issues but not at the piercing level of the pump with broken bearings. The whole thing could be sorted I believe with a purchase and use of one of the 'silent' pumps available, prices can be 8000+. The landlord and I have offered to share the cost with the building. So far it's been like talking to your hand. The mentality of the Thais involved is stupefying!

Would not waste a lead pipe on equipment. Something more direct and personal in mind when pump is turned on at 12:30 or 4:30 a.m. by the morons known as 'technicians'...if you get my drift.

Rent is standard for the building which is high and decidedly not low cost. Pack up your doughnuts and exit stage right.

A lead pipe enforcement plan is under consideration. It's hardly 'normal', it is resolvable with silent pump installation. The company that services the building on this is even worse than the 'technicians', bringing another pump, supposedly quiet running, to install that's even louder than the original pump. Morons getting paid for breathing, imho.

Thank you, all well said as you've covered all aspects well. My room is the only one adjoining the pump room and noise. Golden rule as much as possible, although now breached with my flipping the finger to the technicians who seems surprised I'm in their faces angry at 4:30 in the a.m., when the pump goes on. Next thinking of a loud ghetto blaster and I will visit their office for a 'sit in'. A presposterous situation, entirely solvable with installing a 'silent' pump. You have to laugh, at the outset someone, a Thai, from outside had to point out to them that the bearings in the pump were bad, causing a noise akin' to a dentist drill and a vacuum cleaner running. That was the guy who the apartment owner hired to install 2 layers of insulation to the wall on the pump room side, that tipped the not bright building 'technicians' off to the noise source. Thick as bricks they are.

Yes, I've gotten the landlord involved and he's sympathetic up to the point of demanding they fix it. He installed at his expense 2 layers of wall installation. We've googled silent pumps sold in Bangkok which would solve the problem and offered to share the costs. So far to no avail. Might as well be talking to the wall.

They do seem to be going with 'my way or the highway'. It's not as if solutions are not available. Simple purchase of a 'silent' pump and installation would resolve it. Leaves the tenant with enforcing it with a lead pipe and/or cranking up a large ghetto blaster in their offices and waiting to see what happens next. Thank you the advice.

Well said all. Thanks. The landlord is 'involved' but a bit of a wet mop about forcing a resolution, for someone who has an apartment that the building management and staff are making an investment which can't be lived in, can't be rented, who would buy? He is willing to surrender the deposits and close the contract. For now at your Option #3

The usual suspects with the usual worthless quips and pointless asides. Move to Thailand and discover empty suit foreigners, they are legion. Noise problems and lackluster business performance pales in comparison to useless falangs.

What are the solutions or avenues to solutions of condo building noise? Moved into a Bangkok condo apartment, as it turns out with one wall adjacent to the electric pumps that filter the swimming pool. No noise at all for two months, then the noise began, 24 hours a day, off and on. A hyper penetrating noise impossible to block from my side. Management, mechanics and technicians excuses and could care less. Landlord concerned, supportive but weak and easily defers to management excuses. Trying to source an attorney, so far without success.