NorthernRyland

Neo-colonialism, the new white mans burden etc..

My wife has 18 years experience at a company in Chiang Mai (quasi-public but technically private) and she makes 50k/month + free housing (not great). Laborers at the same company earn minimum wage which is 7500/month and do side hustles to make extra cash (we hire 2 women to do laundry and cleaning).

Stupid comment. Even motorbike riders need to change lanes at times do they not? Maybe they were going to turn also and they were in the correct lane for that.

I don't understand what the problem is. In Thailand you can drive 50k over the speed limit, drunk, and in a school zone and the police won't even bother to notice. ????????????

Well that's an obviously a mistake and cruel even.. Young Aussie man born in 2000, have fun competing with the rest of the world for limited housing and jobs. You're country doesn't favor you over anyone else in the world so don't complain if you lose out and struggle.

The weed is the garden is the PERSON not the weapon. What about all the law abiding Thai's who lawfully own guns? Taking away their guns doesn't stop a lunatic with a knife.

how much of the Thai police force is like this I wonder? These guys won't even enforce simple things like speed limits so what are they even doing or what their motivations are.

Ok take away all guns and then have fun trying to defend yourself when someone comes and kills 20 sleeping kids with a knife. The police can't even get the scene of these incidents fast enough so what are you going to do?

I dindu nuffin!

More than long enough to get wasted on Lao Kao and go on a rampage. Speaks to the quality of Thai beverages.

Thai media often shows gruesome videos of accidents and carnage on the road. It's kind of normal here actually but this one is crossing the line I think.

Exactly. He's 77. Does he want us all to empty our savings for him so he can maybe survive another few years? Rest In Peace sir.

I'm not a Christian but I'm not a Liberal either. Get preprared to be replaced by the cult Boomer. Maybe if you spent less time promoting abortion and more time promoting families and children this could have been avoided.

Long enough to know they're deeply buddhist (see my reply before this). Fair enough but that doesn't mean they're not buddhists. I'm not saying Thai's are moral or good people even, just that they're deeply buddhist and abortion flies in the face of their beliefs. If people are getting abortions it's going to be very secret and avoided at all cost.

That's how I perceive it. Can't drive 5 minutes without seeing a temple. Find me a Thai persons house that doesn't have pictures of monks and shrines also. It's a deeply Buddhist country we're living in here.

Interesting, so once you've legalized even 3 weeks without 3rd party consent you've basically legalized abortion as birth control. I know it's somewhere in the 90% range of abortions in the US are in cases where the fetus isn't threatening the lives of the mother. Anyways, the level of abortion is up to the Thai's I guess and how much they value family and children.

Lesson for liberals: societies that kill their children will be replaced by people that don't. It may take 100 years but America will be repopulated with religious traditional peoples since they're the only group with actual replacement levels of fertility. Cult or not the future belongs to those that show up for it and that's not the Liberal West.

That's an important point. If you're in the camp of wanting to protect kids from making dumb choices that ruin their lives they don't need 20 weeks. As mentioned I think the doctors approval may stamp out any abuse but that's yet to be seen I suppose.

I think that's the key point. I would be very surprised if they allow women to use abortion as birth control like they do in the US.

Thailand is a deeply buddhist country that doesn't tolerate all kinds of immoralities. I fail to see how this buddhist country could get behind 20 week abortions. To answer my own question I think this is a matter of bread and circuses. The government fears loosing control so they're tossing the peasants red meat. Smoke weed and bang sluts without consequence, just don't turn your anger towards us.

Perfect description of Thai rednecks. I don't know these types of Thais too well so I'll take your word for it.

17 years for 10 months a year actually but I'm 40 now and I don't really know what the 20 year olds today think. From the people I know they actually really cherish children and the thought of abortion just don't factor in. Sounds like a repeat of what happened in America. Parents let the kids run around and have sex as teenagers and then the obvious happens. I didn't think this happened so much in Thailand but maybe it's the same these days.

Why are the doing this now? The few Thai's I've spoken to about abortion are horrified by the idea and see it as a deranged thing to do. They won't even put their dogs down who have terminal cancer so why this push to abort fetus which are 5 months developed? I haven't seen polls but I seriously doubt this is popular.

I'm looking around at land prices in Chiang Mai (outside the city in the NE parts) and there are plots up for sale everywhere but the prices are surprisingly high, at least 1 million per Rai. Not talking about in the city off big roads, just random plots around where I live. Do people who know the land market know if these prices are normal or is there something happening right now? For comparison here is 1.6 Rai in Columbia SC for $11,00 USD. A fraction of what you would pay in Chiang Mai. Not sure if these are comparable but still, the US land is much cheaper so it makes me wonder what's going on here. Is it really possible you can buy land in the US cheaper than in Chiang Mai?