NorthernRyland

Where I'm from in America it's always expected to yield to pedestrians in parking lots and it would be considered extremely rude to do what the car did here. The car however is doing the usual rude stuff you do in Thailand so can't be considered at fault. Obviously this isn't America thought so you can't expect cars to yield and especially shouldn't get all pissed off like that (the guy was probably American). What do other Europeans do? If you're in an area where people are likely walking (parking lot, or this mall entrance with foot traffic) do the people need to be extra careful to not get hit (like Thailand) or do you look out for them and yield when need be?

No video just dropped, same theme. They do this constantly but no one seems to be learning any lessons.

I started learning how to read within months of arriving in Thailand. I just thought it would be cool to be able to read a menu and order food, kind of like a magic trick. You can learn on your own at home easily and it's really rewarding. Maybe the only choice I made in Thailand which I'm 100% confident was the right one.

Is this a joke? that's basically all jobs in Thailand. Selling fried chicken under a metal roof in 38c? Thai people do that crap all day.

Those pesky Ukrainian-Portuguese again.

"she was talking back so I hit her. What else could I have done?"

You are retired in Thailand and you can't find the time to bake your own beans? Let that sink in for a while.

This is such a sad comment. I really enjoying speaking with the women who clean our house and do laundry. They work at my wife's company earning not even 10k month so they take part time jobs to earn extra cash. They are such nice people if you can make some banter with them and joke around.

it pains my soul to see American wigger culture has infected Australia. All countries should ban American mainstream music as a national security threat. Yes it really is that bad.

It would be sad to not be able to speak Thai. I suspect many of the people here who become lonely and depressed are this way because they can't communicate with the people around them. It's debated but my experience is Thai's are already repressed and don't speak enough in public so it's already kind of lonely in that regard, but if you can't speak when you have the chance it's even worse. Just today I did a massage with the wife and I appreciate being able to chat with the massage ladies a little and complain about the smoke, heat etc.. Afterwards I got a Roti and ask the girl what the shop was with the frosted glass all the teenagers walking in and out. It's a vape store apparently. It's a little thing but that little bit of interaction helps to not feel as isolated.

Official shirt of the Chiang Mai expat.

So be it. It'll be a cold day in hell before I don't get my annual filthy bucket of water dumped on my head.

that truck crossed right over the right side lane and stopped, totally blocking it, so it's amazing another car didn't crash in to it going full speed. This could have been so much worse.

My thoughts exactly. I was devastated to learn the driver in the black car survived.

This one is intense, maybe the best I've seen so far. Very well captured and it illustrates perfectly why Thailand is a horrible country to drive in. Amazingly only the driver of the offending car was injured. There's a lesson here too. We see these kinds of recklessness drivers everyday in Thailand and obviously the useless police will do nothing about them. Since the drivers are too stupid to understand risks and think two steps ahead it's only a matter of time until their magic amulet fails them and they make a move this like. A ticking time bomb waiting to explode. It's all so tiresome.

Look at this video. Some guy burned his field and totally destroyed this property next to him. Madness they allow this to go on without more supervision.

The breeze is nice I grant it that. I'm going to continue exploring the south but I've not seen anything appealing yet. Honestly though I'd rather spend more time in the US but that's difficult too. You can still get an ok house in a cheap rural state in the US for like 150k. Sure the 5 mil baht CM house is bigger but Thai houses feel like prisons to me and property developers have captured the market so all houses going forward and in cramped projects where the US house will have some space. For right now I'm going to build a house in the mountains and get the F out of that city and that will give me clean air for the rest of the months (CM is always polluted unless immediately following a rain storm). When the smoke hits, the mountains are much worse than the city though so I need to find an escape. That doesn't solve the smoke problem but it solves the big city pollution, which I argue is a concern as well.

how much, what size house? I really dislike my wife's house in Mae Jo as it's near the highway but I don't think I can stomach the horrible little housing projects which are filling up CM at rapid speed. Getting an ok house now seems to costs minimum 3.5 mil, something you could build for far less on more land in any other city. Sorry for the negativity but I'm bitter with CM at the moment. 🙂

I just visited Hua Hin for 3 days to check it out and I didn't like it all. Ugly and congested streets like CM, miserable hot sticky weather and more expensive. Tourism was out of control too. It was better more south but still really touristy (drunk weekend Thai tourists from BKK) and outside the beach resort areas it was pretty rundown and had Cambodia vibes (yuck). I'm totally sick of Chiang Mai though, I would move tomorrow if my wife could leave her job. The city is overpopulated, ugly and hard to get around to do basic things. It was better in the past but it gets worse every year and is even a rip off compared to any other smaller cities in the north. So why stay? Well CM sucks but the north of Thailand is so much nicer than the south. I love the mountains which I cycle in and I'm living in Samoeng as much as possible now for this reason. I think I'd rather just give up on Thailand if I had to live in the south but that's easier said than done. Isaan looks depressing too but I haven't explored there much.

The entire north is surrounded by mountains that extend deep into Myanmar and Laos and they're all on your fire. Smoke is the worst in the north. You sound dismissive and angered by the assertion there could be some connection. Makes no sense...

Here's video evidence of this by a random YouTuber. He says he needs to watch his property so it doesn't get burned by neighbors but they notify him first at least. He actually lives with the hill tribe there (outside of Mae Hong Son I think) and mentions they burn for hunting too. Everyone knows this and always have. I challenge anyone to find an area with hill tribe that doesn't have burning along the road sides that goes up into the mountains. You will find their motorbikes parked by the side of the road too when they're back there foraging. Any official in Chiang Mai running their mouth about the smoke problem can STFU because at this point they're probably just lying so they don't have to actually do anything about it.

I took this picture the other day to show to my wife as a good idea for her company to build. Thai people just don't care about public property. They made this nice place to put your trash and morons throw garbage outside it anyways. Every other bin around this reservoir is the same thing. Bins with trash strewn all over the place. These are university educated kids too. LOL.

The Chiang Mai YouTube videos are pure cringe. They found some cute little cafe's and present them as if the city is some nature lovers paradise or something.

oh that was just one day. That stupid woman sweeps up leaves on the street in front of her house (shack) and burns them as they fall. It's just a culture of burning with them. In her mind she's doing a good thing keeping the streets clean. These are hopelessly backwards people but no one dare stop them.

See my previous post. Hill tribe and Thai Yai/Burmese people hunt and forage by burning the mountains. They live on the outskirts of society and have little regard for people outside their tribe. They start the fires from the road often and then once a path is open they can access the deep forest where animals live.