NorthernRyland

Drop everything and go find the cheaper places to live then adjust your expectations. Most of the country is poor and lively cheaply so you need to study what they're doing and take their lead.

Thai people simply seem to care about their country and want to keep it in their bests interests. Not even just women but people in general in the west seem to be happy to completely replace the entire populations of the countries and don't seem to see anything wrong with this. Thai women to be fair have a really nasty sense of entitlement and it even goes so far as to have a dowry paid for the privilege of marrying them.

That's exactly right. Women on average have this idea of cosmic fairness and they're willing to use government to redistribute wealth to make the world more fair in their eyes. Not much thought given to how the wealth was created in the first place and what happens when you mess with the natural order of things. These are the exact same issues men complain about in their relationships. The women wants to me spend my money she didn't earn but now it's on a national level and the tax base is implicated. Again somehow this is lost on those exact same men when considering if women should be voting or running for office. I don't know what we do about this but it's clear people are not being honest about the real issues.

that's a major policy of women too. Import the 3rd world and give them free <deleted> from the native tax payer. How much of this is just feminist liberal women though? Thai women can vote and hold office but I don't see them having this suicidal tendency to destroy their countries like in the West.

What I don't understand is men will complain all day about their woman being irrational and speaking nonsense, then when you ask them if women should be allowed to be hold office or vote they get all upset and how dare you even ask the question. Woman can hold office now but now we need to accept the consequences. Women are polled in many countries and their basic policy is always free <deleted> for me, more rules, more regulations, less freedom and more safety. Sound familiar to anyone?

No this is Samoeng.

they noted this fact. Very strange. Indians must be the antithesis of Thais. Aggressive and right up in your face at first sight. Thai's must be really be struggling with the massive influx of these people.

Ditto. cycling 1000%. No amount of money you can spend to have so much enjoyment. Got up into some fog in the mountains the other week when the rains were raging. WhatsApp Video 2024-09-24 at 21.21.53.mp4

8 mil baht for 130sqm pool villa. Concrete shell with lots of glass. Developer is making a killing.

tragic people. what a pity.

you mean like general trash, plastics food waste etc...? I live in a pretty backwards area still I never see a person burning garbage except on the most rare circumstances. Yard waste though? oh yeah. It looks like a WWII bombing campaign in the valley some evenings.

you don't have to tell me. It's a total disaster and no I don't see them fixing this in any of our lifetimes. My only point is Chiang Mai is worse than the entire region because of normal city pollution. Other places like Chiang Dao and Phrao have worse smoke in the burning season but when that clears it's clean, unless a person is burning near you (which they probably area lol).

seriously? where, which village? very unusual.

Isn't the entirety of tourism a protected occupation? I know of foreigners who operate public real estate businesses also. Very surprised that's legal even.

India is a global embarrassment. This is where these people are coming from. Not surprised at all some of them have problems behaving.

why would they do this? It would hurt sales for sure and hopefully the companies would fight back. I like COD options and do not wish to lose them.

What are you trying to say? Can't tell if you're mocking me or not.

Stereotypical nonsense? If it was true then the average Thai woman would be the same as the average American woman or another other woman. Clearly this isn't true right? There's a culture which these women grew up in and it's not the same culture as America. You can agree on that right? Therefore it's reasonable to ask if something is typical or not for Thai women.

Chiang Mai is always polluted except directly after a rain. probably a million cars and motorbikes spewing pollution. However even in Samoeng with very few cars it's 80 now with clear skies and just had a little rain even. Not sure the numbers are so high. If you love and die by those numbers I would leave all of Asia and never return. pm2.5 is always. Even in rural areas the people burn daily and in huge quantities in the evening.

LOL and we were just talking about "Deadly Bus Fire Tragedy Highlights Safety Failures on Thai Roads". See? they never learn. That concrete truck was probably driving like a maniac for weeks or years before this happened and no one saw any problems then and will continue to not see any problems now.

Often times when people say they could afford housing it's because they insist on living in the most expensive parts of the country in the most desirable areas. They may have even moved to a city they can't afford and then get all up in arms when they realize how hard it's going to be.

People are portraying Thailand on YouTube like it's a fully functional country with all the things you'd expect back home but newer, nicer and cheaper. This is true if you live in a tiny bubble but eventually you must go outside and face the reality of how things are in 99% of the country

I don't think Thai people fundamentally even understand the value of road safety. They've been driving for decades and still can't figure out what a safe speed limit is and even how to enforce it. In my area we have cars doing 90km/hour in front of a university where girls are riding without helmets and trying to dodge speeding cars while doing U-turns. This is a totally reasonable situation in their minds. If they haven't learned these ABC's of driving in decades I see no reason that they will ever change their attitude.

Someone doesn't trust the media and this what you jump to? You sound like exactly the kind of brainwashed person the media has been trying to create. Is there anything they write you don't believe?