NorthernRyland

The love of money has corrupted Thai morality if you ask me. Is buying new cars and taking fancy vacations going to help them feel better about their daughter's death? that makes me cringe to think about. Worst of all nothing will be done to prevent this from happening again and the person responsible won't face serious justice as he could never repay this debt.

Meanwhile in Phuket they have their panties in a twist over foreigners spray painting while crazy kids speed with immunity on deadly bikes everyday and no one even notices. If they didn't have wrong priorities they'd have no priorities at all.

No, I just want them to actually care about the laws instead of focusing on high profile things that have little impact on anyones lives. The problem is Thai people have no respect for laws and rules.

This really stings because one of my biggest problems in Thailand is that Thai people don't follow simple rules and break the law constantly.

Sorry Chinese tourists are a menace. I've seen it too many times and so do the Thai's. They're largely not welcome from what I can tell.

do they have one of those x-ray machine you step through? I bet that can see it.

you're comparing the average Chinese of today with the historical population in Thailand? Spend some more time around Chinese and tell me how similar they are to Thai people.

probably on the motor bike through Doi Inthanon and there's a road from Samoeng also but those all requires proper motorbikes. Haven't done it myself.

I have a house in Samoeng deep back in the mountains around Chiang Mai. Nary a flat road to be found. Goes from 500 meters to 1200 meters in a hurry and every ride is at least 1000 meters of elevation gain. I love it but it gets mentally exhausting after a while.

how did you get around the middle of the country? I've only driven past it and it seems miserable to be honest. I know it's nicer if you get near the western border so maybe that's the fix. Cycling is the north is lovely because we have varied terrain but those flat baron plains, no thanks. A better idea is just to do a loop through the north where you could cover the same amount of distance. Why bother going to BKK and skipping all the other good stuff? You would need to like mountains if you do that though.

I saw that guy before. I cringed so hard I had to turn it off. I think it may even be meant for a Thai audience which doesn't know how ridiculous it sounds.

He didn't have to give up if we would choose a (much) longer route which took you off the highway. He made it sound like you must use that highway but in reality there are plenty of other roads available. Anyways, it was a bad idea given his fitness levels. Taking 10 hours to cover less than 100k is crazy and guarantees you'll be riding in the midday heat. He should just be focusing on getting up some reasonable level of fitness and he can easily tackle this next winter.

I've biked over 100k in Thailand over the years. It's bad but not as bad as people think.

Free money from the government, aka the people who have no money unless they take it from you first. I wonder where they're getting the money from for their free money scheme?

Nothing a few years in the gulag won't fix.

Fair enough, I'm just saying maybe now is not the time to reveal you're working remotely and disclose income to immigration. CM does ask this for marriage extensions so best to keep it hidden as best as possible.

You don't understand simple things about the topic. Those immigrants and their children are more criminal than other Americans. If you're living in a white town you don't care they're less criminal than blacks in cities, you care they're more criminal than the people you currently live with. Do you understand this simple fact now? And please spare us all of this nonsense that Mexicans are taking back their stolen land. They have more land than they can use in Mexico and they didn't care about the US until just a few decades ago when they found out they would be let in to live with Americans and use their infrastructure and have access to services. What do you think these people are coming to be farmers in Texas and Arizona? it's so stupid if think about it for just a moment.

You could be a high earner or have investment income and even if you bring in 10k baht you'll be charged for the difference in tax rates, up to ~35% in Thailand. That's entire point, they want your money and if they know you're earning a lot they'll take as much as they can. It's just a crass money grab in the end.

Myself primarily or anyone else in my position. If you're employed overseas and working remotely while living in Thailand full time you're technically "working" in Thailand. So if they want to tax you you need to volunteer your illegal working status I guess. Not sure how this is going to work out yet.

And I was just told off by multiple people that these attacks wouldn't lead to anti-foreigner sentiment and it's all in our heads. Obviously this was going to happen and we haven't seen the end of it yet.

They asked me this also last year for a marriage extension (the first one) before I knew about the new tax laws and I told them everything. I kind of regret this now but I wouldn't be comfortable lying like that on the spot without a good answer. Technically you're now "working" illegally in the country so I don't know why they would ask this knowing what the labor laws are and that you're applying for a 12 month extension.

Do people know basic crime stats anymore? More whites in nominal numbers are shot every year. They will absolutely shoot anyone if you take their gun.

Crime shouldn't be the sole reason to oppose them but that's all that's accepted in mainstream American society at the moment. Any sane country would simply say we don't want to import the underclass from 3rd world countries and leave it at that. That's why Thailand has the 800k in the bank etc... Is that not a wise policy or should Thailand allow all the poorest people in the world move here and change the fabric of their society? Who would that serve except the immigrants themselves?

We have multiple fires going on for multiple weeks now in Samoeng. These just keep going until the rains start next month. Once they go past the roads we can't seem them but they're always burning away in the distance.

People are just voting their demographics and social class. White men looking really lonely in those Democrat stats. 😂