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Yes, come immediately, if not sooner. Total no-brainer. As BigStar used to say, Next.

Hmm. Time to focus your attention on the lazy police and the corrupt officials. Don't always take the easy way out by blaming the ex-pats. You do that and you're no better than your lazy underlings. Set an example and do some work for a change, instead.

There were no positive stories available 'benefitting' Trump. He's a sex offender, draft-dodging, tax dodging, serial lying, grifter. How do you put a positive spin on that? Of course, even harder now to come up with something. His spray tan seems less ghastly orange? There you go.

Pattaya draws huge numbers from Bangkok, an easy drive on a 4-lane motorway.

Put him out to pasture already, along with all the other old goats.

Absolutely not needed if the other two are doing their jobs properly.

Nice to see Pattaya pop up at #15.

Agree. I love a pool--especially in Thailand with year-round warm weather. I wouldn't buy a condo in a complex without a big pool, or pools. The pools were definitely used in the condo projects I owned at and lived in at Pattaya condos.

For me, it's the 1980s, at least for American people, with these remarks from an American who went through his 30s in the 1980s. People, I think, were just more civil back then, in many ways. As others have mentioned, things did move slower. You leisurely read a newspaper in the morning and in the evening you watched a 30 minute news program on one of the networks to see what went on that day around the world. No instant news, real or fake, from multiple sources bombarding you all the time. Likely just one or two tvs in the household and there was more family viewing then of the much more limited choice of programs. The tv show Dynasty averaged 21 million viewers a week in 1985. These days, most network tv shows only attract 3 or 4 million viewers, and some less. Everybody individually off doing their own thing now, with less family time together. I think people behaved themselves more then. Politicians being more civil then to members of opposing parties, with a more willingness to compromise on legislation. Fewer people acting up and behaving badly on airplanes, in restaurants, schools, movie theaters, public places in general. People don't seem to care now about making an ass of themselves in public. More people now seem to want to be famous for their 15 minutes--even if it's more likely they end up infamous, instead. Were people more discreet in the 1980s? I think so, and possibly that was a good thing. In 1989, Laura Bush was not yet First Lady--that would come in 2001--but her father-in-law was President of the US and she was in the public eye. Can anyone imagine her going on national tv in 1989 and announcing that she was not wearing any underwear? Not in a million years, I suspect. Yet, her daughter, Jenna Bush, did just that not too long ago. Is that something she needed to share with the public? No. Is it information I needed to know? No. Is it the first thing I think of when I hear her name? Yes--and maybe that's something you might not want to be your claim to fame. Pop quiz: When did the phrase 'too much information' become widely popular? Hint: It wasn't the 1980s. In the 1980s, the year with the most mass shootings in the US was 1984, with 5. The other years there were 1 to 4. In 2022, there were 30 mass shootings. 30! This year already 23, with the year far from over. Why are people now doing these mass shootings so much more? From 5 to 30 is a huge difference. Also, I think there was less law-breaking then with things like shoplifting--now such a problem in the US that it is having a big impact on the bottom line of stores like Home Depot, Target, and Wal-Mart. The CEO of Home Depot spoke out on it recently. Retailers have started to pull out of some communities altogether, throwing in the towel on trying to make a profit when so much merchandise is being stolen, including by organized shoplifting gangs that swarm into a store and ransack it, overwhelming the security. Walgreen's is redesigning some stores with most of the merchandise locked up. My brother-in-law manages a CVS drug store and the police have told him not to even think of calling for any stealing that is less than $150--they cannot be bothered to respond. Sad that is now the state of affairs--and his store is in one of the wealthiest counties in America. Did any losing presidential candidates--let alone a sitting president--plot to overthrow the government in the 1980s? No. Two losing candidates in other decades actually had legitimate claims, Nixon in 1960 and Gore much more so in 2000, when the Supreme Court ordered the Florida vote recount halted and awarded George W. Bush the presidency in a very close 5-4 vote. Neither of those two acted like spoiled, crybaby, serial lying, criminal Trump, the poster boy for people behaving very badly, with zero regard for others. To end on a brighter note, of course some things changed for the better. In the 1980s, the majority of people in America, and many other places, were against gay marriage. In 1988, only 11% of Americans were in favor of it. Living in conservative Virginia, I never thought that gay marriage would one day become legal in my life time. From 11%, people's attitudes have changed and support for gay marriage now stands at 71%, according to Gallup data.

2000 baht. OUCH! That's gonna hurt and hurt BAD! Not.

Is this #20 or #21? Either one, I am, of course shocked, I tell you. Shocked that he is not coming. Who'd have thunk it? And I was all ready to greet him at the airport like those other poor souls coming from the boonies!

Hundreds of Thai legal scholars knew right from the get-go that the decision to block a candidate having a second vote for PM was unconstitutional. Absolutely no reason that the Constitution Court, for heaven's sake, should also not know this immediately. Their needing two more weeks--to do lord knows what, twiddle their thumbs counter-clockwise instead of clockwise?--on top of all the time they have already had, is just nuts. In the weeks before the very first vote for PM, there were stories about how many times Pita's name would be submitted to be voted on. First it was thought to be two, then three times was mentioned, and I think there was talk about not setting a specific number. Why didn't anyone, especially all those Constitution legal scholars, step up then and say, hey, he can only be voted for once? Nobody stepped up because it's clear that is not the case. Delay, delay, delay for no reason.

Sweet!

We always try to buy in foreign quota and, normally, we would not break the rule. But, sometimes you can get away with it and not end up with the 'booby prize'. A desirable project is a desirable project. The last Pattaya condo my partner and I owned was at Northshore. Foreign quota at Northshore is long gone but the project remains desirable and in demand. Location, location, location, with very little in the way of competition from other seaview condo projects at that prime area. We wanted to live there so we bought in Thai name. When we decided to switch gears a couple years later and buy a house on the Darkside, we were able to find a buyer and make a profit on the condo. Foreign quota condos do generally sell for higher prices at Northshore, and other projects where FQ is full, but we got a lower price when we initially bought because our condo was not in foreign quota and needed some work, so we were still able to make a profit.

Absolutely. Document everything and have the landlord sign the documents before signing any rental contract. If he won't, move on. You are in the driver's seat before a contract is signed. After you sign, you lose all your power. Get everything you want in the contract while you are still in the driver's seat.

PT instruction manual. Get into bed and have a one-night-stand with whomever you need to in order to win the PM. Get elected PM by your one-night-stand. Kick your one-night-stand out of bed and get back together with your main squeeze, MF. Hope MF will have you back or you may find yourself impotent in the next election.

I think that depends on whether foreign quota is still available or not.

There is no such thing as 'Thai quota'. Thais can own 100% of a project. The condo mentioned is likely in Thai name, meaning registered at the Land Office to a Thai owner. Foreign quota could or could not still be available, one cannot tell this from a particular condo being in Thai name.

You hit it. My partner and I like it for most of the same reasons.

One ray of hope to keep in mind. Those 70 million Trump supporters you mention (actually 74 million and change) who voted for Trump in Nov. 2020, were voting for a sitting president who, at that point, had not done any of the criminal things he is now being charged with, including these latest charges and also the criminal mishandling of highly classified documents. Plus, Georgia indictments still to come. Being an optimistic, glass half-full guy, I can only hope that there are still some Republicans with a functioning brain who now have enough overwhelming evidence to finally, finally turn away from Trump. I certainly hope he does not still have 74 million Americans who would, at this point, have to be brain-dead, who would vote for him again.

Or, grow a pair and select another nominee in the first place, one that hasn't plotted to commit treason and overthrow the government, among other things. Maybe select someone who won't tell his or her vice president that they are 'too honest'. No chance of that with serial liar Trump.

Deport them and ban them.

The MF party should publicly announce, as loudly as possible, that they will be voting for Settha as PM, since he has stated that he, too, is in favor of reforming Article 112. Throw the ball into the Senator's court and force them, along with the junta House members, to make the painful choice to be seen as voting in agreement with the MF party, or to be seen as voting, once again, against both the will of the voters and the forming of a government.

Partner and I noticed all the earthmoving the other day and also wondered what is going to be built there.

They should. But countries, not just Thailand, seem to have their own way of doing things. I was given a 10-year visa for China, my Thai partner was given just a year. Go figure.