Nemises

Lol, I hope Bintabaht comes back (in some shape or form) better than ever. Great memories for many, great location.

Places like Soi Cowboy and Nana Plaza will be back ???? But Walking St in Pattaya?! OMG it’s gone to rack and ruin. It will need to be bulldozed first as too many dangerously unsafe roads, footpaths and abandoned buildings.

Soi Bintabaht - Hua Hin’s official nightlife street, is still a ghost town. As such the topic heading is misleading…Hua Hin is definitely not “all open”.

Counting the days until Soi Cowboy reopens…

Bought a 5G plan from AIS just on a year ago. Still pulling 800-900 Mbps (from around the Nana/Asoke areas). Couldn’t be happier.

I have a luxury condo in the middle of BKK for 15k a month (about $20 AU per night). The condo has a pool, a/c gym, sauna, 24/7 security and undercover parking. The condo is located next door to the fantastic Terminal 21 shopping mall, skytrain AND underground train stations. T21 has a good food-hall with meals costing about 50 baht ($2). Freshly cut fruit from the street stalls cost 15 baht (.60c) Foot massages cost 100 baht ($4) and it’s a quick and easy drive to coastal resorts at Hua Hin and Pattaya etc where nightly accommodation by the sea starts at around 400baht ($16). Cheap as chips. Furthermore, no rent in advance, no security deposit nor contract was required for the condo. Life is good and very affordable in BKK. The favourable survey result is justified.

Most Aussies will not come here for serious-gambling casino tourism holidays if the Thai casinos allow cigarette smoking in the gaming areas - like they allow in Cambodia and Laos casinos.

FYI: Kerry “Parker” (Packer) has been dead for 16 years.

The most visited city anywhere in the (pre-pandemic) world…without the visitors! The last 18 months here have been fantastic. Can understand the positive survey results.

Went to Terminal 21, Emperion and EmQuartier last night….all were packed. Your YouTube videos were obviously filmed during ‘lockdown’ when only the essential service outlets were open.

You have now. Mega Plaza. 6 floors of them.

No need to fly their “national flag carrier” to see the pretty crew smiles. Try ThaiSmile on your next TH domestic (or whatever INT flights they will do again), lots of pretties there!

Also, the rental income (should the property be let) could adversely affect your pension payment. So even more reason to ditch the property and invest elsewhere “well away” from the pension people. Pretty hard to hide a house from them.

Couldn't agree more. Best thing I ever did was selling my home-country property. No more worries about unpaid rent, property damage/maintenance payments, council water and rates payments, accountant's fees, property manager's fees, void periods when vacant, income tax, capital gains tax etc. Proceeds from the property sale were then invested elsewhere resulting in the funding of a carefree, Thai lifestyle of living a dream unimaginable of doing in my home country. If things ever go belly-up in Thailand simply fly home, re-assess, then try another country..... or in worst case scenario cash-in some investments and buy a homeland property and live there again (which is a thought too horrible and depressing to even think about). To say I've "burnt bridges" by selling my home-country property is incorrect.

10 years of living a dream otherwise impossible to do back in the cold, expensive homeland. Continuously travelling the warm, friendly Kingdom staying at nice hotels/condos with different, beautiful women (who have respectable jobs) at different, beautiful beachside and other scenic locations. Have never been inside an immigration office or filled in an immigration form as this service is done by others for a pittance - feel a bit sorry for those who have to deal with immigration. IMO Life is too short to be stuck in the one place with the one lady for a very long time - feel sorry for those who are and are bored and unhappy about it. Regrets? Only one: not coming here sooner!

✅ PM sent.

Yes he’s very reliable and yes, am happy to PM you his details - unless you are too far from him? Where are you?

Best Business: Qatar by a long way. Best First: Emirates (their First Class lounge in Dubai is excellent).

Mate, we are living in [deleted] paradise. As such, how can there possibly ever be a “this is the one” when at a smorgasbord?!

I pay 15k per year. Rather than leaving 800k sitting idle in a Thai bank account, I instead invested it into blue chip stocks in my home country’s stock exchange 10 years ago and have had an average of 10% return on my capital since. The 800k is now worth over 1.8 million (after paying agent fee each year) and currently returns 170k per year which easily covers the yearly agent fee - refer attached.

If BBD are talking about the checkpoint on the mainland near the ferry boarding, they are not checking for vaccination documents, well they weren’t last weekend when we drove past it. We were waved through by them without stopping. Our car has Khonkaen plates, possibly that’s why… We stayed at 2 hotels. Neither checked.

Last Saturday on Koh Chang. As you can see: No “private use” restrictions on beach. No rubbish on beach. No people on beach. IMG_2376.MOV

The deadly chemicals sprayed on them don’t come cheap.

As of last week (BKK/KC/BKK): 1/ No covid check-points. 2/ Turn up. Wait. Hope.

Nonsense. Modern non-smart TVs have multiple USB ports and HDMI and AV sockets.