StayinThailand2much

That is rubbish. I've been there, and I found it absolutely boring. But if you like to live, like the OP wrote, on a farm there or in the sticks, go for it!

Some people love to live on a farm in Thailand's Northeast, others want to move to North Korea, or the desert. Good for you if this is your thing...

Maybe. Not that I cared...

Must be very lonely and boring, a bit like living like a monk in a far-away area, unless you can make friends with local people. Living on a farm or house (who owns it?) far from big supermarkets, and restaurants serving Western food, you would possibly need to get used to mostly eating local food, only watching Thai TV, and having slow internet. Can't imagine why one would do this.

I remember a TV series a couple years ago about life and independence struggle in 13th-century rural Wales, with lots of characters played by black actors. How such a larger number of Africans (or by the looks African-Americans) got to Wales in the 13th century, living and acting like any other Welsh peasants, who knows... Maybe just a reflection what Hollywood filmmakers know about the rest of the world.

Considering that everyone, incl. Netflix, is vying to please Chinese viewers, he is lucky that they didn't give the role to an ethnic Chinese actress...

Yeah, feels hotter than Dutch love in harvest.

OMG! Don't even wanna imagine the traffic situation then. Hope, it will be held in Chiang Mai...

I always leave my apartment like "new", but if they refuse to return the deposit, I leave on the aircon full power to minimise their profit.

ChatGPT seems to "think" that married people cannot stay at a hotel... ????

Yes, what a waste of water! First splashing all that water, then city cleaning trucks had to drive around town, cleaning up the mess, using plenty more of the little water available.

I think, technically, you can get another 7 days, which is, basically, an extension denial. If someone just needs another 7 days, maybe worth it. But for most it's not.

There seem to be more marijuana shops now in Bangkok and Pattaya than 7-Eleven outlets. Different to 7-Eleven, though, I've never even seen one customer entering these shops...

Never heard of a limitation for visa-free entry extensions. Theoretically, you can get 2 visa exemptions per year if entering by land (more if you're Malaysian or from an ASEAN country), and an unlimited number if entering by air. (Practically, however, IOs at airports may refuse you entry if they think that you are "coming to often and/or staying too long" in Thailand... But once you're in country, no problem to get one 30-day extension.

Almond milk is for baby almonds then? Also, it's no milk, or since when do soy ànd almonds give milk?

Yes, seems to be common. I had once an argument with a Win guy. Shortly after I was warned that his whole gang was plotting to kill me.

I think, when they said 'yachts and other floats welcome' they meant something else...

Maybe he was Thailand's "first" asylum seeker. ????

You are not allowed to walk over this bridge. Thai Immigration won't let you in without a Laos exit stamp. To get the exit stamp you will need to get both, the visa sticker (unless you have an eVisa) and the entry stamp. As far as I know, Thailand allows 2 visa-free entrys per year. Unlimited (at the discretion of the airport's IOs) are only arrivals by air.

Thailand always wanted the wealthy tourists. Who can afford such a trip now falls right into this category...

Thailand shooting itself into the foot again... With so many bullet holes in the foot now, what, if any, is left of it?

I guess, arrivals minus Thai citizens.

Ouch! Has this announcement been coordinated with the TAT? Someone losing a ton of 'face'... Also, is the post-Covid-pandemic pent-up travel demand perhaps coming to an end, and being replaced by recession-fear travel postponements?

They call it "Land of Smiles", but forget that those 'smiles', unlike the genuine smiles in the West are often not a sign of happiness or friendliness, but rather of social harmony, to do both, appease 'people higher up', and hide how serious the smiling person really feels. (I could quote from a standard 'culture shock' guide-book for Asia, where the author, basically, writes the same.)

Agreed. Absolutely no justification, and the thugs should go to jail. My theory is that this has long been brewing, with words exchanged over time. Still no justification to, cowardly, beat someone up.