NorthernRyland

Yeah we may go back one more time and offer him the original asking price in cash just so he gets the idea but that may prompt the guy to raise the price on us now. It's already expensive and requires and investment to grade and a well which will cost at least 150k. That's why we wanted the discount.

First off he didn't know who I was as my wife was talking to him via phone and never saw either of us. The price I would say was fair but a little too high as the land will require a good bit of work to get level plus a retaining wall as it's on a slope. That's what we wanted a little discount for, which I think is fair given the extra investment in plot. Either way were merely asked. I didn't know this could ever upset people but I learned a lesson I guess.

Thai's appear to be willing to wait for years to sell land in hopes the price will go up. So much unproductive land sitting around in the country.

sure but I would expect him to simply say no, the price is the price and not refuse to sell entirely.

This is a new one. We find some land we want to buy, get in contact with the owner through a proxy and he tells us it's 1 mil per rai. Very well, we think it's a little steep so we ask if he can reduce the price. They now contact us back and tell us he doesn't want to sell anymore because we haggled the price and he doesn't like hagglers. Seriously, no negotiating prices in Thailand? It sounds like this guy is pouting because we dared challenge him or something. The original price would have been ok also but now the deal has fallen through. What does anyone make of this? very confused by his behavior. Wife thinks now he thinks we're desperate and if we pester him he'll sell at any inflated price. This is all over asking one time if he can reduce the price.

Thai's are lazy and like to eat. If they get high caloric food they're screwed!

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You sound suicidally depressed. Please seek help.

Looks like the tourists got off their bike and punched someone. I have no idea what happened.

I had it hard time making it out. The taxi driver hit the tourists? I'll watch it again.

Please gentlemen show some respect.

I read this as the tourists hit the parked taxi driver and then proceeded to assault the man. As in the taxi driver was just sitting there and not only got his car hit but then he was assaulted after demanding compensation. How are the tourists not 100% at fault?

What you said was silly and didn't merit a response. It's not _literally_ money for nothing. It's the thinking you can get rich by spending 80 baht on a lotto ticket. That's why playing lotto is bad because it makes people think they can get rich by proving nothing of value. You slipped in buying stocks into a list of equally bad gambling and muddied the waters so I didn't reply to that either.

You sound like a Thai. Not sure where you're from but gambling is frowned down upon from where I'm from in America. Only poor and stupid people gamble from what I can tell. The fact so many Thai's gamble makes sense given how many poor people are in the country. Next time you see a person doing well in life ask them where their money comes from and be amazed it wasn't from playing lotto or cards.

You've been living in Thailand too long. Nothing good in life comes easy. Gambling is for losers. etc.. etc...

This is actually a serious problem. I tell any Thai person I can about this (they don't care of course, stupid farang doesn't understand how free money works). The reason playing the lottery is bad is because it teaches a mindset that you can have something for nothing. People here are literally sitting around talking about winning the lottery when they could be doing something productive.

I thought Americans had problems with debt and responsible spending but Thailand is worse. All these proposals from the government are going to make things worse and teach the Thais to be even more irresponsible.

It's called job security. The longer it takes the more money you get. Corruption 101.

This is like setting a goal to hike up Doi Suthep and then when you failed at that you proceeded to make a new goal to climb Everest. Makes no sense and shows a real detachment from reality.

This is NCAR, a famous brutalist structure from the town I grew up in, in Colorado. It looks like a prison also but it's actually pretty cool and has nice mountain views. ????

Ok at 9:44 she says so quickly that the door goes outside to the front of the house and then something about a storage room, which I guess is the entire first floor. It's so hard to believe this would be their design with windows even.

That's high enough that they clearly have the money to raise the ceiling a little.

You'd be wrong though. Most Thai houses have prison vibes though. Cement boxes with tiles on everything. Elementary schools in the US also feel like prisons for the same reason.

Dig down? Just make the posts higher and bring the floor up right? That's my question, why didn't they make the first floor just a little higher to gain a livable area or just leave it open and save the money of finishing the space. It's clear they intend to live down there as there is a window and door from the interior. I.e. here is their hobbit hole door. So silly.

The echo also, everything is tiled, even the rug and mural of horses is a tile! Looks like a prison or something. I'd 100% rather live in a POS wooden house on stilts than that thing.