NorthernRyland

I don't understand why they aren't subject to the same annual renewal as anyone else. It's a one time application process even on the grounds of "soft power" like Thai language courses. Even if you applied with a job you could lose it after 1 month and in theory not be checked again in 5 years! Meanwhile if I get divorced I have 7 days to leave the country. Ditto for retired people, money drops 1 baht below the mark one year and you're gone. Makes no sense to me.

If you're planing on overstaying after 30 or 60 days you're now you're trapped and can't leave the country without being detained and black listed. With a valid visa you could in theory not get caught for some period of time and be able to travel freely in and out at any time.

The Asian airlines must be retire them after a certain age because I never once saw a flight attendant on an Asian airline who looked much over 35. The US is doing the opposite I guess and making the oldest do the hardest flights. I don't mind at all the older cashiers but some jobs are not suited for people of any age. The real problem the US has is these laws that make it possible to get sued if they don't hire you. If you get some mean fat black women apply and you turn her down even though she qualifies you could easily get sued for racial or gender discrimination. This is what I mean by state enforced low standards.

won't matter they'll just leave, get a DTV and come back for 5 years. They still need to police people on the ground. I'm sure Thai people are quick to report suspicious business to the police.

But it's easier than ever to say long term with the DTV so what impact will this have? You can stay for 5 years if you can get together 500k baht ONE time and apply for a cooking class or something and then open your illegal elephant pants themed yoga cafe on Ko Pha Ngan.

Half of British Pakistanis are inbred due to their culture of marrying first cousins. Yes they're Muslims but Indonesian Muslims don't have that problem. Some cultures are just beyond fixing and there's no reason to make this your problem by letting them immigrate. It's all the same problem of people choosing equality over standards. Having an ugly flight attendants is not the worst thing in the world but importing cultures which are violent or inbred is devastating.

That's exactly what Thailands policy is! If you're told old, fat or ugly you're not entitled to to work some jobs and the employer has the final say. "some people are born without empathy and humanity" I guess would describe Thai people then too. The problem is they were brought there in the first place. While Thailand is trying to get quality tourists the US is trying to get bottom of the barrel citizens. Do you not see the problem here? In no scenario does this end well.

"Equal Opportunity Employment" is state mandated low standards. Look at how disgusting that country looks now. Flying in from Korea to LAX always hits like a slap in the face. "Equal Opportunity Immigration" is also the official policy. Name the most backwards POS country you can think of and US will be trying to get them to immigrate (Haiti comes to mind).

Ask the Average American which country they would never want to retire and probably they're getting tons of Immigrants from that country. India tops the list but lots of high crime nasty S. American countries are in the list and even failed states like Haiti (average IQ of 67, yeah this is gonna work out well for America) . Mainland Africa would be higher but it's difficult to get them over in any numbers and thus Europe is getting them. What about countries Americans WOULD like to retire too? Well those immigrants never come anymore because their come countries are preferable for most people.

I disagree. All Thai's can understand the central dialect because that's what's used on TV. They may not speak it comfortably but they can understand it. I wish I could find the video but I saw on YouTube an Isaan women who moved to America and was making a channel for Thai people. She even had to preface by saying sorry I'm still practicing my Thai and see she was speaking slowly and clearly not a native speaker. This was an older women though and I bet the younger ones are more up to speed.

I have enormous respect for those people. Look how well kept they were given their circumstances. Raised huge families too even though they were under such pressures to survive.

This is actually pretty interesting intel we got out of this. Saying "ni hao" to Thais may be the new n-word in Thailand. Ni hao Som Chai! Use it wisely.

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She's going through the same cycle as every backpacker before her.😂 Once she figures out Thailand is a 3rd world country she'll be gone. I'll give her 12 months.

This is a road I'm very interested in. Starts at 200m up to 1400 and some wide 1200m regions on top which is very rare, maybe the largest 1200+ area in Thailand. Problem is it's hard to get to for most people. Between Phitsanulok and Phetchabun. Long drive from Chiang Mai and you'd need to stay a couple nights. That 40k stretch is top of list of places to bike. Looks like you gain some good elevation and stay up there for quite a while. Looks epic.

This is hard one, I agree with both of you. If a person is drunk enough it's probably reasonable to get them off the streets as soon as possible before they get hurt or hurt someone else, no? Same for drunk driving too but the bar is much lower if they're on foot.

I see signs all over Thailand saying to use low gear going downhill. Maybe that's just for cars? Doesn't need to the lowest gear but a lower gear helps.

I almost don't believe them at this point it's break failure but probably reckless driving as usual. They must know about using low gears going downhill and I see signs all the time saying so much. Maybe that would be slower and they have no patience or they were trying to pass so they kept high speeds they couldn't recover from.

it's fixed pavilion though so I must match that size. Looks like that now with some crappy filter board that put down some years ago but it's dissolving now under the sun and leaking.

I have a 2.5m x 2.5m pavilion on a rental house that I want to put a little roof over if it's cheap enough. This is the cheapest I found. For this size of 0.5m x 1.20m (which is common) I need 14 pieces according to them to account for overlap so that's 1,890 baht. Is there anything cheaper/better which is good enough to cover it from the rain? Prefer something translucent to some degree if possible. They have fully transparent material too but it's much more expensive. I don't want to spend even 5000 on this women's pavilion since I don't own it and I've made enough improvements to this thing already.

White Americans (especially Boomers) will do anything to avoid being called racist. It's not livable because the people there suck. Just admit it. All the CA refugees I know moved to whiter states with less diversity but refuse to admit it. Even if it was only about crowding that's their own fault for promoting immigration for decades.

Hmm...this is for Chiang Mai only but I think this one is in Bangkok.

Good point, 230 is too low for a buffet. That must be a single menu item I'm guessing.

Looks nice on the pictures, thanks. Looks similar in presentation as Manifreshto. https://www.facebook.com/Lardercafecnx/

Today I went to Manifreshto this monring to check it out and got those two items. The menu was quite limited and I wouldn't give it a great review. It felt like a place owned by a Thai person who was trying to cash in on the expats in the area instead of being something more authentic. You could do worse but there are better options. That's maybe the first time I've been to Nimman during the daylight hours in 10 year because I only ever go to visit the excellent Indian restaurant which is literally right next to Manifreshto. I'm going to say now Nimman is a totally fake and gay tourist ghetto. Together with the farangs it was packed full of Chinese too. My last one I tried Route 66 appeared to be owned by an American and was much better with a more complete breakfast menu and bigger portions for the same amount of money. The clientele was almost exclusively retired guys with their Thai wife. Ozarks and Food4Thought are owned by an American too and really stand out. I went to the new Food4Thought East over Songkran and it was pretty nice but nothing like the lovely garden and forest setting of Ozarks. They seemed to be having a problem with digital nomad squatters though and had to dedicated an entire page of the menu asking them to not sit around all day and waste table space. Go figure. I only had the breakfast at Sausage King once and it's quite good too and a more complete menu also, thanks to being owned by an actual Brit. Those mentioned are my favorite I've tried so far.