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1 minute ago, jackdd said:

Would be very easy to solve for Thailand, but it looks like they don't want to.

Allow foreigners to register a personal business, with the limitation that all income has to come from abroad. Introduce an extension for people which run such a business, required income 65k per month.

i would love this to happen.

about 90% of the nomads here are gonna need a LOT more clicks to meet that hurdle though

1 minute ago, Leaver said:

Not paying into the system. How so?

 

Rent, food, drink, electric, transport, leisure activities, visa fees, VAT. communications.  Just to name a few.  They convert their foreign currency into local currency and create employment.

 

Wouldn't you accept this, from a guy that does nothing else for work but sits in his condo, on a computer, for a few hours a day / night? 

yeah yeah so does every other expat here including myself and in a multitude of other ways - the difference is the ones working legally also pay these little things called TAXES and err last i check governments worldwide kind of find them important.

3 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

Out of the reason that the problem is far to big to handle. That would include a lot of work that nobody wants to do, loss of protection money and more administrative costs.

Much better to announce this program in the hope that we all can forget what is going on for another decade or two.

i look forward to the coming parades around pattaya by 200 officials who cannot find a single illegal hotel and insuring tourist safety, about 2 years from now!

32 minutes ago, Traubert said:

Yeah. We roast our own with chili salt and turmeric.

 

You want everything for nowt? You must be white.

so do half the bars in thailand, they don't charge for them though 

clicked for pics

disappointed booooo

1 hour ago, marcusarelus said:

Expenditures by day Chinese tourists, $192.84

                               Europe $125.47

http://www.thaiwebsites.com/tourism-income-Thailand.asp

 

Maybe they know and it's you that have zero clue.  Anecdotal evidence is not accurate if you have better information please feel free to link it.  

 

these are per day figures?

just asking because westerners stay longer due to the flight times and dont come on tours like a portion of asians do so naturally they spread their budget around as they dont need to cram it all in, can take rest/chill days, stay in condos rather than hotels, cook own food etc..

do you have data on total spend per tourist per visit that would be a better barometer?

bit like the old "2 week millionaires" that used to hit pattaya. spend money like water but still far less than the average snowbird per entry.

3 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

Again, tell me of any 4-5 star hotels you know for 1200. Thanks. We would all love to know. As Bangkok is not the only city in Thailand I'll let you pick any city you like. I guess you must have some experience of them to quote such a figure. The late booking thing is largely a myth, as the Late Rooms dot com website proves. Rarely any bargains there, just normal prices. Again, tell us of any 4-5 star hotel you've booked into that quotes 1200 on the day of check in.

When you re-visit reality, yes, 3500-5000 is a good price for such properties. But you claimed there are such rooms for 1200, not 3500-5000.

here's 111 choices for you in Bangkok 4 star for 1200 or less:

https://www.agoda.com/pages/agoda/default/DestinationSearchResult.aspx?asq=JpBqzKfyp1VO859FXXPr7UAXliAn3pVicobeM5oOB5Lpu%2FkHTZ8bidJkAafXyw%2BeGqKI1BOaN53Vz0if59rn3aGG7El8owN8ccDLQqubOjxu5iynIB1hOAChfwP2Y3iqY72HwZahr%2Fz%2F2J35oVOD75%2FxCKAHNCciTQbqzt%2BSj0IwZcyy51AlH%2BNHt2gz3a2xbS3dzzacn%2Bn7QZeTArmFD8PSDzITsjmxLRNaEuNpzeA%3D&city=9395&cid=1587502&tick=636971777648&languageId=1&userId=7ad119b6-677c-4e88-9173-560d048b3aa6&sessionId=a2wz1st4mo5r5pia5xymrcou&pageTypeId=103&origin=TH&locale=en-US&tag=hid%2CpidXRNwpgokMDMAAepKtyIAAAFy&aid=85174&currencyCode=THB&htmlLanguage=en-us&cultureInfoName=en-US&ckuid=7ad119b6-677c-4e88-9173-560d048b3aa6&prid=0&checkIn=2019-06-29&checkOut=2019-06-30&rooms=1&adults=2&children=0&priceCur=THB&los=1&textToSearch=Bangkok&travellerType=1&familyMode=off&productType=-1&hotelStarRating=4&PriceFrom=0&PriceTo=1200&sort=agodaRecommended

3 minutes ago, sandyf said:

I am quite happy to be corrected where valid, more made here than I was aware of.

It does not detract from the fact that increased cost in the UK may reduce sales of German cars but it is certainly not going to wipe them out. They have a big enough domestic market to recover the loss.

ah, so the answer to losing their biggest automotive trade partner is to sell more cars to germans. begs the question, why wait? why not sell more cars to them now? 

7 minutes ago, sandyf said:

Typical brexit mentality.

I suppose that you think with a 200% import tax there isn't any German cars in Thailand.

err let me google that for ya..

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The BMW Group Manufacturing Thailand plant was built in 2000 with a total investment of more than 2.6 billion baht, occupying a space of approximately 75,000 square meters. BMW reported that its Rayong plant exported 9,449 completely built-up units in 2016, mainly to China. It was the first year of shipments from its Thailand facility.^[17]

In 2016 BMW Group Thailand sold 7,923 BMW (7,010) and Mini (913) automobiles in-country, a decrease of 9.6 percent from 2015 and its first dip in nine years. BMW Motorrad Thailand's sales rose by 42.1 percent to 1,819 deliveries in 2016. 

and errr..

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Mercedes-Benz first gained a toehold in Thailand in 1960, when they established a plant for the manufacture of utility vehicles (operational in 1961). Passenger car production commenced in 1979, soon after the government's ban on CBU imports. Mercedes are built by the Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant Company. In more recent years, much of the Mercedes-Benz line has been built here, from the A-class to the C, E, and S-classes.^[20]

In September 2015 GLA and CLA models are being assembled as semi knocked-down (SKD) vehicles at Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant Co in Samut Prakan Province.^[26]

and actually aside from these two and the odd 12m baht porsche NO there are not many German cars in thailand

15 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

Same old nonsense. It doesn't address the central question: why would the EU want to make leaving it as painless as possible? That would just give an incentive for other members to do the same. The EU has never denied that it will be economically painful to lose the UK. It's the Brexiters who are unrealistic on the score of economic pain.

why?

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Well, the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world and the EU’s largest single market – bigger than the USA, China and India. The EU has a £96 billion goods deficit with us (we have a £13bn services surplus). Over a million German jobs alone rely on British consumers buying German goods like BMWs. Without a basic GATT 24 deal, the EU would have £13bn tariffs slapped on its goods – 10% on VWs; 12% on wine, 40% on cheese. They would suffer far more than the UK simply because they sell more to us than we do to them

clear enough?

1 minute ago, candide said:

You're not at ease with numbers, are you?

100,000 jobs at risk, 15,000 in the car industry.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6688409/100-000-jobs-risk-Germany-UK-leaves-EU-no-deal-Brexit-study-warns.html

sorry i got my 'numbers' from ian duncan smith and a 10 year serving MEP not the daily mail 

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Well, the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world and the EU’s largest single market – bigger than the USA, China and India. The EU has a £96 billion goods deficit with us (we have a £13bn services surplus). Over a million German jobs alone rely on British consumers buying German goods like BMWs. Without a basic GATT 24 deal, the EU would have £13bn tariffs slapped on its goods – 10% on VWs; 12% on wine, 40% on cheese. They would suffer far more than the UK simply because they sell more to us than we do to them

1 minute ago, BestB said:

Well, no, then they will have big meetings, brainstorming sessions on why it happened,what went wrong and how they could fix it

gonna be a peach on social media if it ever happens 

6 hours ago, BestB said:

Not only Pattaya , nationwide. And not just increase but go insane if they follow through with shutting down more than half 

and what do they do with for instance Patong on New Years Eve its virtually impossible to get a room legal or otherwise at that time. if they shut down half the available rooms, where is everyone going to go? sleep on the beach lol?!