NorthernRyland

When's the best time of year to Samui? Looking for a smoke escape this year. Is March/April any good?

Is it good anywhere in Thailand right? By the ocean or on the islands it's pretty clean right? Already my throat is hurting today in Chiang Mai (aka Smog City Siam).

Thailand continues it backwards slide into the glorious future of progress.

This sums it all up. Thai's simply don't have it in their character to enforce or follow laws. I have literally zero confidence this will even get 1% better in my lifetime. Best thing to do is move to area with few Thai drivers and avoid driving with Thai's you don't trust.

Everything you say is correct. Check out this channel with hours of footage from Thailand for proof.

Thai's are reckless lunatics behind the wheel. I watch them everyday make impatient decisions on the road that given slightly different circumstances beyond their control would result in a fatal crash (like overtaking on the wrong side of a road around a blind turn). Thai's are either oblivious (cognitive problems) or too reckless and selfish to have any regard for the potential loss of life. No amount of education can fix what's broken here.

Thailand would be vastly better if they allowed some tiny percent of restaurants to be foreign owned and operated in a simple and efficient manor. Thai's don't know how or willing to make most kinds of foods and millions of tourists that visit Thailand every year (and expats) would greatly appreciate this.

Imagine marrying a women and moving to her country where you support her and having the government arrest you because you helped her sell fried hotdogs on a stick. Welcome to Thailand.

No that's called American culture. Many states are larger than countries and so we naturally identify with the state over the country. This just scratches the surface of regional cultures, accents and ethnicities. It's like when a British person says they're from London (or a Londoner) as they're not ethnically English and thus don't identify with the country at large. Totally normal and not cringe at all.

Everything you own in the country will get divided 50/50?

I'm not rich and probably never will be but isn't 500k USD a lot to invest for a measly 10 year visa into a country like Thailand that flip flops at break neck speeds as we saw recently with the COVID requirements? If this whole thing blows up how do you get your 500k out of the country now and is it even liquid or will you get stuck with bad investments? Seems mighty risky to me.

yeah I can get the chanote number but even if I get the name it's not a complete contact. I don't know if the land office keeps contacts even but the village head may know the people if they still live in the area. What I found looking for land in Thailand is that if you talk to any given person they will know of land for sale in their immediate area but not far outside of that.

Yeah it's annoying because he works for the land office himself so I would need to go around him somehow now. Head of the village is a good idea. Not sure how to approach them though. orbator? never heard of this.

The first plot of land I found had no sign, as well as many others which I found through locals in the area. I don't understand the Thai's at all here but there are tons of land sitting around for sale and they don't even bother to advertise.

I found one plot by talking to a neighbor but said neighbor has a habit of playing loud music outside in the evening so I'd like to get some distance between him. I can see on https://landsmaps.dol.go.th there are 3 plots nearby that may work but I don't know how to locate the owner. My ideas were to post a sign on their property basically asking to find the owner in exchange for finder fees or doing something similar on a property Facebook group where people sell land. Does anyone have any better ideas? They have this great land deed app which I posted but sadly they don't included any contact information so all you know is the deed exists and is vacant but no way to contact the owner. In fact the plot I did find who had an owner worked for the local land office but he claims he doesn't know about those other ones so the land office may not be helpful either. Thanks.

I've heard all that before and it's just more corporate propaganda to sell their products. The test is the passing the of time and raw number of people exposed. That's always how testing works in all domains despite any BS stories some company will weave to get you to accept their dodgy products.

I guess back to carrying a stick on your way to school to fend off the dogs. ????‍♂️ ???? > ????????

No it didn't. It was missing literal years of trial data which would have captured the risks we know about now if it was run longer. Some countries (Canada off the top of my head) retracted use of the vaccine for certain age groups AFTER learning of negative side effects.

It's almost like it's a bad idea to let wild dogs roam the streets but what do I know...

Thanks. Going to Samui by train sounds like a pretty big chore but maybe the only way possible if traveling with a bike.

I was thinking of escaping the smoke season in Chiang Mai and going some Island, probably Samui since I've never been. Ah the soft bag has some warning attached with it. Maybe that's a bad idea then but I heard good reviews from other airlines. In fact many said the opposite, a hard case got treated worse since the staff perceived it to be safe to throw around. If they toss a bike they do a normal bag and store other bags on it they could easily break it.

I've never traveled with a bike before but I'd like to try. I read BKK airways allows you take bikes on but has anyone had any good experiences? Obviously I'm worried about them destroying a carbon frame by crushing the case (I read good reviews on people traveling with soft cases in the US). Reading this it almost sounds like they let you take it on board but I doubt that. https://www.bangkokair.com/press-release/view/Bangkok Airways Launches “Bike On Board” Service Any thoughts appreciated.

They reduced it from lifetime then to 30 and now only 20 for the 1 million baht one?

You're still effectively a tourist, albeit a little longer term. 90 day reports are included also so you interact with immigration the same amount as a tourist would on a METV. No other special privileges, double pricing the same as tourists etc... IMO all foreigners in Thailand are tourists and I refer to myself as a tourist if anyone asks.

I don't smoke weed don't like it and don't really like the culture surrounding it. Having said that, Thailand has such a grotesque problem with alcohol and general driving conditions I find it hilarious they're pretending like weed is such a problem. Talk about getting your priorities wrong.