NorthernRyland

that pretty much sums it up. Endless other countries with a better workforce to chose from. Thailand is about tropical climate, retiring and girls.

no it's their fault for not doing their job. You can't do businesses in a country if accountants makes mistakes that result in bribes from immigration and you need to repeat this process annually. You must be the only person who thinks Thai's do good work and are competent. It's so clearly not the case.

Good point. Let's start a list of "things Thailand can't even enforce at home" and it will include things like going 100k/hour in a school zone while belching out black smoke. If they get involved in collecting taxes on a mass scale their minds will melt.

Thailand immigration is mainly a make-work program for government bureaucrats. Very little of it actually makes sense if their goal was merely to manage immigration in a safe, fair and efficient way.

Does anyone know what % of the population pays taxes here? I know government employees do but I've even heard them say taxes are negligible. So much of the population is earning cash running tiny shops that I can't imagine they're paying any sizable income tax.

so who is this targeted at? People who are working in Thailand are already paying taxes and everyone else who brings their foreign earned money here was already taxed in their home country so who does that leave? maybe people living on investing portfolios but I think even those are taxed in many countries.

I'll correct you "tax cattle"

oh don't get me started on that. I've seen diversity hires blow up too once. Don't get me wrong Thailand is generally a difficult place to do business but America is going down fast and hard in real time.

my brother is trying to quit his business in Thailand because of the hassles with immigration and multiple times now incompetent accountants have screwed up his taxes and this resulted in paying bribes to immigration to fix the mistakes. Every year they make you do this so you're never at peace. It's a joke Thailand is an easy country to work in unless you're one man with a wok on a street corner, try that in America and see how far you get.

this is a whole other issue that will make it very difficult to work with Thai's on a higher level. There is a certain degree of corruption with Thai's which makes them see the law as more of suggestion and that spills over into work. So many times if you try to get a Thai person to do some job for you, they'll do it up to 90% and then hack the final 10% because it was easier for them, and in their eyes 90% is good enough. 100% of the time they'll fire your ass in America for doing this so good luck to Americans moving to Thailand and trying to work with the Thai's. Just come here to relax and play with the girls but leave the work back home.

Fair enough I'm thinking of hiring staff for restaurants or builders, handy men etc... and I've seen those people fail so badly so often. You just can't hold them to American standards of working so don't think you can just come to Thailand and start barking orders and expecting people to show up at exactly 8 AM and do everything exactly like you told them too.

No it's always the same law foreigners can not own land.

Well if you're an American you can own a business but then you're required to employ Thai's who can be extremely difficult to work with, can't follow orders, don't show up on time etc... Once you have your business you can't even buy a house in your name so there's a hard ceiling making you a renter forever. Finally you need to re-apply for your visa every year and go through that massive headache. How is this good compared to getting a green card in the USA?

Firsyl I have twice been with people who were bitten by dogs in Chiang Mai. Many publics places you can't even go because people lets their dogs roam the streets and may bite. Yeah this is a people problem first and foremost. The people here want and condone stray dogs running around their streets and refuse to euthanatize under any circumstance. I've given up trying to reason with them because it's clear they want this so outcome. I wouldn't even bother to fund shelters because for every dog they "rescue" some idiots will be feeding strays and you'll get 5 more. Bottom line is Thai's have not learned to be civilized with dogs yet and there's nothing we can do about it.

looks like nice bread but do you do breakfast (I assume this your place)?

I found that on Google. Tiny little soi with tiny sigh. They seem to not want to be found! That's

damn hope you're doing well despite the injury.

yeah I looked on google street view and all I could find is the parking lot. Maybe it's in too deep and they didn't reach it.

Is this you writing or the brain damage?

Think I found it https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063638427242. Not too far from me at all, I never knew it was there. Thanks!

location?

Can anyone recommend some good Western style breakfast places in Chiang Mai? The only one I go to right now is Ozarks (around Hang Dong) and I didn't even know about that until someone told me! I live in Mae Jo but I'll go anywhere.

yeah that's totally an investor scam an eyesore. What I see being built are low cost housing little developments and townhouses in the 1.5-3 million range and those seem to be occupied and they can never build enough. Chiang Mai is blighted with those also IMO but that's how Thailand is development sadly.

the city is growing every year and it's from migration within the country. Constantly new houses are being built everywhere you go. I don't think this is about tourism at all.

how long have you been following me?