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1 hour ago, berybert said:

In Thailand you can walk faster than the train

Busted! clearly you have never been to Thailand. Why do people spend their days posting from the west is beyond me, its pretty sad

From CNN this morning, Thailand didn't even make the top 10 !

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-busiest-transit-lines/index.html

"Using this data, they also compiled a list of the world's most-crowded transit lines"

When last in vietnam Saigon I was warned on separate occasions not to take my man bag due to motor bike snatch thieves. Never warned even once in Bangkok in 12 years. 

Both Cambodia and vietnam far more dangerous than thailand

At a CW a few weeks back the IO's were in a group having a chat wearing...furry slippers lol

I was annoyed they were not being respectful  to farang !!

12 minutes ago, lkv said:

 

12 minutes ago, lkv said:

I'll disagree. I was barely using banknotes in Bangkok, apart from 7-11 and some cheaper coffee shops or at food courts.

 

Debit card from Kbank for everything else: supermarkets (Tesco, BigC, Villa, Tops).

 

Gourmet Market : QR code payment (because it's cool).

 

Markets like Chatuchak or food courts still take cash, although if they follow China's example, you might pay QR code there as well.

 

7-11 accepts AliPay and WeChat pay, but I'm not Chinese, and wasn't bothered to buy the 7-11 card to put money on it. Tue Money app was too complicated to set up and in Thai if I am not mistaken. They take credit cards over 300 or 500 baht, not sure about debit.

 

Every other place that is priced in the range of 200-300 baht took my debit card. I think there was 1 restaurant out of 100 that said to me they only take credit cards.

yes of course supermarkets and 7/11s but that's not necessarily what tourists use cards for. A 2 week millionaire isn't going to stock up at tesco ..Russians excluded lol

The point was Vietnam and philippines were so far out they didn't even make the the top twenty where thailand had 3 cities mentioned. You need to go back a few posts with my discussion with britmanto to see the relevance

wow talk has turned into reality here on TV. I just walked to the window checking for tanks after reading this thread 

1 hour ago, Hogs said:

What is trendy house google search says a condo building

 

Its split in 2 towers , residential and business where the visa passport section is

Why did you go back?

1st world train system a totall mess. Who remembers the red rattler and then the tangara that was an always broken down. Constant cancelation and 45 minutes between trains.
Thailand was light years ahead

1 minute ago, Lord Lucan said:

My thoughts also, would be a result for us 38baht to the £1 Brits.

Dream on. Which way did the baht go in the last 5 years? 

5 hours ago, z42 said:

the country simply couldn't survive a repeat 

A repeat of what? 

15 minutes ago, eezergood said:

OK - you do need to count calories on KETO if the end goal is weight reduction. That said, I would think this is not the time to start, given that she is pregnant and would not need the keto flu, nor the initial lack of energy/motivation that she will have to go through in order to achieve ketosis. 

 

To the op - look at your caloric intake, reduce it slightly & go for a walk/increase your activity. I would think exercise of any form will aid in your weight management & mood. 

Wrong!!  I have been hard core Keto (atkins) less than 20 grams of carbs per day and never ever counted calories and dropped 20kg to my target weight which I maintain. Ketosis itself will take care of overeating because the cravings just go away.

I never had keto flu or lack of energy, quite the opposite and keto flu never killed anyone. Walking will do not much for serious weight control, you need to get your heart rate way up to gain any benefits and walking doesn't cut it, you can see fat people walking every day..yep still fat!

I strongly suggest you do some research on ketosis

2 minutes ago, FredGallaher said:

I'm not a fan of "go fund me"

No worries there nobody is going to fund a dirty 70 year old pervert sexpat. 

Well that's how the west see expats in thailand and cant blame them really because its partially true 

Go fund me works for 20 year tourists wanting to go home and not for expats that will stay on

70 men women children die each day on the roads but kill one turtle and its front page..what's up with that?

3 hours ago, SoSoCNX said:

Easy to Buy

Very Hard to Sell

 

 

"Very Hard to Sell"

Doesn't make sense. If it was easy to buy then for the seller it was easy to sell

55 minutes ago, FruitPudding said:

Of course, it is a higher risk/reward relationship, but I think even the market average tends to beat property prices.

Unless of course you were holding 10 years ago during the global financial crisis that wiped out millions of stockholders. market dropped so damn quickly that stop losses were unable to be triggered . That's liquidity for you

7 hours ago, nev said:

Not another gloom and doom topic on Thaivisa, We all know the exchange rates are not in our favour and we don't need reminding everyday that it isn't.

There is nothing we can do about the strength of the BAHT let's  move on to other more interesting topics.

Not gloom and doom for those of us who transfered wealth to thai banks many years ago. Of course the Tv financial gurus saying " never put even $1 into a thai 3rd world bank"  did not do to well. 

many more years of the baht destroying most foreign currency still to come..bring it on ????

tourists 20 baht . Good deal so I guess they will offer it to expats as well