NorthernRyland

More are coming though. Usually those types found Chiang Mai too boring and backwards so they stayed in Bangkok, Phuket etc... but now that the city is growing they're find a place for themselves. They're still out numbered by the unusually large amount of female travelers and backpacker types but I've seen a noticeable increase around the major tourist spots.

This just popped up on YouTube. Textbook example. Thailand attracts these people in droves. It's strange because they don't reflect anything about Thai society yet the country calls to them. I guess if you were driven so strongly by ego you could stand out in Thailand even more and get more of that gratification you were after.

Tattoos are mainly a function of urbanization, wealth and atomization of families. When people become detached from community they lose their group identity and seek to define and project themselves through other means. It's not only body art, it's piercing, clothing, trinkets like watches and luxury goods like cars. There's even luxury believes now which are most prominent in urban areas, basically "woke" and all those high-minded liberal ideals. I would even say that the various sexual identities like trans and general homosexuality fall into this category too. Notice when you leave cities how the people change. Suddenly they become more uniform and project less of themselves and their egos on to the outside world. This is because they're more rooted in their families and tending to their basic needs in life. No time for all these other things which occupy the minds of people who are more wealthy and have more provided for them.

Try this out. Chiang Dao. That road is bananas to drive up if you had a motorbike but would suck on car cause it's so narrow. I saw some women bungalows you could rent.

I hope you're applying that same 10x pricing to any rent or housing. 30k/month rent should be 300,000 for you. It's only fair right?

Because people are greedy and short sided and the quickest way to make money is more bodies, and that's where India has, bodies.

Thai people are chronic litterers and they should be ashamed of themselves. Went down to the river after Songrkan and the people left trash everywhere. Any place where you could sit and hang out had trash there. People just eat whatever and throw it on the ground because they're too lazy and disrespectful to keep their own river clean.

12 implants would probably be more in the 600-700,000 baht range so. Crazy Turkey is so much cheaper than Thailand now. My neighbor got a root canal for 5000 baht but it was through a public hospital which waiting lists which can be months long. There's got to be cheaper options because the average Thai people can't afford 40,000 root canals.

I think that clinic said 60k or an implant. I need to start shopping around more. I must have found one of the most expensive clinics in Chiang Mai.

This clinic has preset prices and on display and I've been using them for a while. My wife in fact made the appointment even and in there with me. She didn't question the prices but she doesn't know either what the prices are on average. Sounds to me like this clinic is on the upper end of what you would pay. The cheapest they could have done is 30k if I got the metal crown which would be visible on that particular tooth. Thanks for sharing to you and everyone else.

This is a very nice clinic but nothing above the ordinary (link below). The price for the root canal part was 20k and the crown 20k. It's hard to compare prices because they had 3 grades of crown I could have chosen. https://www.facebook.com/MaysaDental/

That Facebook page was the direct opposite of this forum. Too much positivity and female energy. Yuck.

How about this picture?

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It was a question, what's the policy going forward. I hear he's the liberal candidate and those are the major ideas floating around are they not?

Well yes actually. Many Thai people just turn off when they're around non-Thais. The only way to break through is make sure they know you can speak Thai well enough so they feel comfortable talking. That's not always an option though like in public shop so I'd say you just got unlucky this time. 🤷 It's annoying but I'd try to not let it get you down too much.

What's on the agenda now? 100 million Canadians by 2050, 100% green energy, tax the rich?

That would make sense because how is insurance paying the full price otherwise. Still $1500 sounds cheap in the US. As I said the last time I asked about a crown paid in cash they told me $4000 so I was guessing a root canal would be more like $8000+. Mine is going to take 5 visits I think so it's a big time commitment too and we all know how expensive labor is in the US.

Mine was an upper tooth but in the middle section. Still 7k is so much cheaper than what I paid. I'm really wondering now if that clinic is way overpriced but I always found dental work in Thailand to be transparent and they even have menus of pricing. I did choose the most expensive crown material which was 20k right there and I could have gone as low or 9-10k if I recall.

I don't know what goes on in your life and where you're located but I don't have that experience at all with Thai people. They can be shy and repressed is the worst I can say about them. I think they really oppress their kids with ideas of respecting adults and it makes them keep their heads down more than they need to.

Yeah Thailand really falls behind compared to the US. So easy to buy high quality products on Amazon while Lazada is mostly the lowest quality Chinese products.

Don't hold your breath! (pun intended)

Central festival is probably handling the demands for most of the suburban housing project people because it's tied into the ring roads. If you're anywhere in the north or east that's probably where you're going so unless that gets so overwhelmed I don't see a new mall coming. In 20 years what are the population projections though? Thailand went from like 30% household debt to GDP to 90+% in 20 years and population is declining now for the foreseeable future because birth rates are so low (1.30 which is wild) so unless CM takes people from Bangkok and other regions it's going to stagnate where it is. I think Thailand hit its post industrial peak already and is going to start shrinking but if they do things right GDP per capital can increase along the way.

The problem in CM is urban sprawl and housing projects. They have the north, central and south covered with a mall and the east HAD Promenada which failed but that's the most logical place to put one now. There's endless housing projects now in all directions but you need to fight traffics inwards towards the city and infrastructure is not there.

There's the Maya mall intersection in 2011 (the earliest photo on google). There's been an explosion of malls since that time and one of them already died. People that want malls are probably already in Bangkok I would guess.