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6 hours ago, tinca tinca said:

and how long is a new phone suppose to live for.....mine is 5 yrs old and still going strong......

You are not the only one on this planet. Maybe other people need their service ?

You got your vaccine and YOU are save from this virus - let's believe it ...
So you go travelling and touch something where the virus was just placed by an infected person a few minutes ago.
Then you touch the next thing and you LEAVE THE VIRUS ON IT. Next unvaccined person picks it up and gets infected.
Vaccinated or not, you can spread infections. Yes? No?

Mae Ai, Mae Sai, Kamtieng Market ...
Can you please get your orientation updated ?
Mae Sai to Mae Ai is a distance of appx. 100 kilometers.
Mae Sai to Kamtieng Market in CNX appx. 280 kilometers.

Where did she work? Mae Sai or Mae Ai?

14 hours ago, Oldie said:

I regret so much that I wasted a lot of money for my condo in Pattaya. After a while it was surrounded by noisy bars and neither the police nor the City Hall helps. A total loss of several million Baht for me. Better rent and take a more flexible visa. And think what could happen if this visa expires one day. You have no right to stay here. 

 

My 800.000 Baht for the retirement extension can be easily transferred to a different country. But selling especially an expensive condo might not be so easy. Or a condo that is surrounded by extremely noisy bars. I will never again buy property here in Thailand. I had my expensive lesson. 

Pattaya's next step in evolution from Sex Capital to Family Resort now the biggest "Yuan and Rubel Laundry"? Followed by Bkk...

7 hours ago, Jeffr2 said:

Right, they planned everything.  Jeez....stunning some think this.

 

Samui, like a lot of Thailand, priced itself out of the tourist market for many.  Crazy to see rooms going for $150 and up, that are right next to empty lots with trash, down roads that are falling apart, on beaches with encroachment, etc. 

 

What do you expect?

Or the taxi drivers at Big Buddha pier who asked for a fair of 500b for 10 kilometers to a resort...

... within seven years, the Thai government will have built its own spacecraft.
Time to start learn welding and connecting wires.
PM will write the software ?
Who will resque and bring them back from the moon again? ????

Could some native English speaker please enlighten me what "splash out" means ?

On 12/12/2020 at 10:45 AM, Surelynot said:

Pavements you can't walk along.....atrocious air quality,....choked with traffic (when busy)....scams left, right and centre....over priced drinks......aggressive ladyboys.....drugs and the 'p' word.........all fixed with the prefix NEO.

 

Amazing Thailand.

 

It is the last place on Earth high end tourists would want to go.

All bargirls and ladyboys will become government-employees.
They will clean up beaches, guide elderly across the "neo beach avenue" and throw flowers on the high spending local tourists.
In the evenings they will be nannies for the rich's kids, so mommy and daddy can enjoy cultural shows. WAIT !

On 11/29/2020 at 9:05 AM, Jeffr2 said:

I've stayed near the border checkpoint before.  On the left as you are looking at Myanmar. People crossed the river there illegally all night.  Some just waded across, others got into huge bins and were taken across.  I've seen this also happen in many places around Thailand.  It's a very porous border.

Did you stay at that cozy guesthouse too ? ????
Before Covid it was much cheaper for people to cross the river at night, that's the only difference...

30 minutes ago, sandyf said:

You have to show me where the government has ever said that travelling from other countries is covid free.

Illegal border crossing = travelling ?

When will they stop to call these people tourists ?

In which bubble is she living ?

8 hours ago, tonray said:

...don't forget a good soapy massage too

...don't forget an afternoon at an intersection with ignored traffic lights too

BTW, does anybody here (really) know how many people arrived on the STV in October ?

BUBBLES their favourite word in 2020 ...

On 11/11/2020 at 3:54 PM, from the home of CC said:

wherever the platform is used it has caused problems (except for those who have profited turning residential locales into hotels), Thailand was right to ban them except for home rental, trouble is this illegal rental plague has decimated the hotel industry ( well prior to covid). If and when life returns to normality the government would be well served in a strict enforcement policy to eradicate these vultures. Hotels with license pay taxes while those profiting from this illegal business evade taxes.. 

AirBnB is the worst platform to work with.
They seem not to care anything about local laws, instead they support illegal deals.
The only thing AirBNB cares about are discounts for renters and their commission.

7 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

That dirty farangs for you infect and leg it ????

... or these dirty girls from the cheap Cambodian escort service. One shouldn't try to save taxpayers money, it only makes sick. ????

Did somebody count all the bubbles they proposed already ?
Just curious ...

5 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Where i live near MaeJo University (12Km from Chiang Mai moat), everywhere is open as normal.

In the evenings all the restaurants are packed with students and young people. 

The shops and high street are busy, lots of traffic on the roads.

The old folk still meet for a drink and a chat on the village green at sunset.

 

If I didn't have to wear a mask to enter the bank/7-11/Tesco I'd not know anything was different.

 

As for Phuket, yeah I'd be up for a holiday there every 2-3 months from Chiang Mai, but the flight prices are prohibitive. AirAsia keeps sending me 990bht special offer internal flights emails, but whenever I look the cheap flights are non-existent.

How clever to compare Mae Jo (where 90% of people on the streets in evenings are students of the MJU) with tourist places ...

Reading only the first page of comments shows the poor mental condition of most TV posters ...

14 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I'd already paid for my holiday in March and nobody was offering me a refund if I didn't go.

Not to mention my permission to stay would have expired if I hadn't left.

I was in Siem Reap when I got a message from Air Asia at 5pm, Thai border closing at mid-night, your return flight next week is cancelled.

Got back in the country with 30 minutes to spare before the airport closed to international arrivals.

 

What would I have done if I hadn't managed to return?

Probably would have dumped my Thai family and mortgage, and set up a new home and family in Cambodia.

I'm not really one for sending money to people in foreign countries, for services I can no longer use.

So is a family only good as service staff for you because you have the wallet?
I hope i did misunderstand your comment...

Who were the +/- 700 NO-sayers representing 57% of a population of 65 million ?
The united farmers of Kuchinarai ?