NorthernRyland

The closest thing Israel has to being western are European Jews who moved there post WWII and even those are mainly from Eastern Europe.

Of course it was the neo nazi white supremacists of Pai trying to incite violence.

Israel is Western now???

I didn't like Hanoi at least. They were more like Chinese than Thai people are. Such a shame because the weather was so nice compared to Thailand.

Yeah of course everyone wants the best visa but it's not easy to attain. If I recall I didn't qualify for LTR and wouldn't be willing to spend the now absurdly high cost for the elite visa.

Having nice staff that isn't stressed out would be amazing. There's just no way though with the volume of people they need to churn through daily. I still remember the guy who does the intercom from all the way back then and got to talk to him before when it was more casual. I can't believe he's still there for 19 frickin' years dealing with that madness everyday and hasn't gone postal.

how's the service over there?

if only you could trust the drivers to stop when the lights are red. Still have to be careful and rush across before the hordes get restless.

Sounds like from all these stories the problems in the past were ineffective staff so it didn't matter how busy it was. Sounds like the staff is more efficient now even though there's orders of magnitudes more people. I never had this problems because of my visa category so I missed the old one simply because it was smaller and had so many fewer people.

yeah that's the legal way to do it but that guy was suggesting he broke the law (somewhere just assumed CM because this is a CM topic).

100% chance 0% of people here would know who he is or especially watch his channel.

well then immigration in CM is corrupt and taking bribes to file false documents.

If they check your 90 day report during the extension they see it's expired, you pay 2000 baht and do that every year. In theory this works but maybe you piss them off is my guess.

They don't know any better. Imagine taking your average Thai and placing them into America and on the roads. They would have a collision or get into a fight within an hour. So your average American comes to Thailand and has the opposite reaction. I think we all went through that phase but a tourist is still going to be in their old mindset. My wife drove a couple times in the US and it literally took no less than 10 minutes to get honked at because she slowed down and blocked traffic because she saw some person on the side of the road and assumed they were going to come out. This is normal defensive driving in Thailand because you can't trust other people to follow the rules.