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Good news!

Thank you!

Had no idea they were still in business in the US. We had a rather tired outlet years ago where I lived.

Spouse and I are building a new house and we have installed an EV charger. We are waiting to see the new BYD Seal U suv and hope there will be a plug-in hybrid version. We think our next car will either be a plug-in hybrid as our only car or we keep the CR-V we have and buy a small all-electric for mostly around town use. Plug-in hybrids seem to be limited in choice at the moment here in Thailand. Hopefully, there will be some models from Honda and Toyota soon.

Good for her campaign. It's not an insignificant number to gain the support of. Gallup puts the USA LGBTQ+ population at 7.6%. That's more than Asians, at 7%. With Trump/Vance as a big threat to their rights, hopefully this group will be actively volunteering to assist the Harris campaign and enthuastically voting for her.

So true. And, more parking does not actually faciliate vehicles, it's just more parking, which hinders the flow of vehicles, whether it's a main road like North Pattaya or all the numerous narrow sois that are difficult to navigate with parking allowed on both sides.

Wake up, America.

Deport him immediately, if not sooner, and ban him for a long period.

How does ensuring that Supreme Court justices--hello, Clarence!--aren't being bought off threaten democracy?

Unfortunately, it will likely get worse. The north Pattaya/Naklua/Wongamat area is the most booming area of Pattaya these days, spurred by the opening of T21. Centre Point Space and the new Akara Hotel both opened, to join a number of other new hotels, both large and smaller, in the area. A massive third Centre Point resort is going up on a large piece of land by Cape Dara. And, just down the street, a very large condo project is planned, to join the other big new one, Arom Wongamat. Many old businesses by Dolphin Circle have been torn down to make a very large land plot for something new called Again Pattaya. Sansiri has a low-rise condo project going up of mostly studio units tucked away on one of the side streets. Older developments, such as Centara Grand and Holiday Inn, are renovating. To get to all of this, North Pattaya and Naklua Roads are often way too traffic-clogged. Both are at the point where they need to eliminate parking. North Pattaya Road, especially. Large sections of it already have no parking, so only a hundred cars or so can park on it, anyway. Madness to allow a relatively few cars to park while leaving thousands of other cars in gridlock trying to get to their destinations. Making it all no parking instantly adds a third lane in each direction with no construction needed.

Only lots and lots of very bad publicity will have any chance of changing things.

Could be it's you. Judging from your posts, they probably view you as a drunk-all-the-time layabout not worth bothering with. My Thai in-laws go out of their way to thank me anytime I do something for them. Course, I'm sober and wearing clothing . . .

Well, good to know since he lost by over 7 million votes in 2020. I guess he is doubling down on his 2020 strategy--the larger the number he loses by, the louder he will claim, once again, the Big Lie of voter fraud.

I'm curious what year before 2019 saw 4 million Russian travelers to Thailand. 2019 was 1.5M, 2018 was 1.7M. 2017 and 2016 were around 1.4M. Stopped checking after that as none of the years I checked were coming close to 4 million Russian tourists.

It's a tossup as to what was worse in Trump's presidency, his non-existent domestic achievements or his terrible foreign policy. I would opt for the latter, which Biden has had to clean up. In any case, his failures, both domestically and internationally, combined to drop him right to the very bottom, the worst president in history.

Interesting, thanks!

Pretty good numbers for the year so far. For those who claim that western tourists to Thailand have steeply fallen, the numbers seem to indictate more of a maintaining pattern. UK had 994,000 visitors to Thailand in 2019's banner year. They are at 540,000 so far, with 5 months left and high season yet to come. Ditto for Germany, 857,000/482,000 and France, 740,000/420,000. They may not reach 2019's numbers but shouldn't be too far off. USA had 1,168,000 in 2019 and is at 575,000 so far this year. Also might get fairly close to 2019's numbers.

Thanks!

An addition. Just remembered that years ago someone told me that VT5A and 5B were to be built on the land next to 5C and 5D. Have no idea if this is true or not. A hotel was built there, instead, by the VT company.

I got 80/100. Missed the question on suburbanization. Thought the interstate transportation system promoted it more than Levittown.

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Excellent proposals and long overdue.

That is a mystery--maybe someone on the Forum knows. My only guess is they already had VT3A and VT3B, and a 5 and a 3 can sometimes be confused in handwriting. And, memory--"Did he say to meet at 3A or 5A?" So, possibly they chose 5C and 5D as a better way to distinguish the 4 large buildings. They would skip 4 as an unlucky number.

VT6 and VT7 empty shells were more expensive than the other View Talays from the get-go. I think they were more expensive due to their direct beachfront locations, a slightly more upscale design, better doors, more elevators, underground parking, etc. I don't know that much about View Talay Residences, as we always wanted highrise seaview. I do know that the projects have fewer units and they offer more than just small studios. They are scattered all over Pattaya, from Jomtien to Wong Amat.

Absolutely agree. Cliche or not, you do only go around once in life so why spend your priceless time in someone else's space. Cheers to you for getting exactly what you want. My spouse and I always do the same thing as you; even if we think we might be selling at some point, we always design for ourselves. It sounds like you put a lot of thought into your design and have created something special, with quality materials. You might be surprised that there will be buyers who will gravitate to that, who also want something special, and not the same as everything else.