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The hotel must not have got the memo that Pattaya is now operating at capacity?

Definitely not the Ping Pong show the tourists were expecting in Thailand.

I'm wondering if his lifestyle choices were in direct contradiction to his nickname, Longevity, hence some ridicule on this forum.

This one could end up in the international media if local police are going against national laws that allow the app and the drivers / riders to operate.

Cash advances still attract fees.

How will the state of the roads here effect your decisions during your 6-7 months here? We all know you just have to put up with it, leave, or just dome come here. Which one will you chose, and why are the roads so important to you? Do you have mobility issues?

Perhaps "hops" was not / is not authentic German beer.

Your personal; attack is wasted on me, and shows you have a very narrow view. I am not biased. I asked you a simple question, and it was a general question, not a personal question. Just look at the thousands of guys living in rural villages of Issan. What is the highlight of their day? Not much. How many of them even heard about Issan, let alone the village, before they met a girl from there? You can laugh all you like, but your deflection shows you are one of the thousands of guys I mentioned. I couldn't care less where you live, and wish you no malice, but don't BS and say you were not influenced by your Thai partner to relocate to some small village that you have never heard of before meeting her, and then say you had always wanted to retire to a small village in Issan because no one believes it.

It's not bait. You claimed Thai's put up with more than farang. I asked for an example from you and you now hide behind deflection. Give an example, or admit it was a false claim.

It's advertising, not reporting.

Taxi drivers or ride share drivers? Is this happening across Thailand? Are these apps legal, or illegal in Thailand? I note Pattaya has a new police chief.

Doesn't the BOLT company decide what vehicles their drivers must have, in order to be able to work off their platform?

Yes, the anti BS case, from those with financial interests here.

Those days have passed. You can live to old age now with HIV, with medication.

That's a nice story, but totally irrelevant. When you first came to Thailand, did you discover a small village in Issan, independently, and decide it it was so nice that it was where you aspired to retire to in the future? No. How many come here to the southern beach tourists areas for a holiday and make plans to retire in such places, only to meet a girl from Issan and end up in a rural village, for whatever reasons? Watching rice grow, what a way to see out the rest of your life.

You don't have an example, do you? Just another Thai apologist post from you.

It doesn't bother me. Why would it? The Avenue has lost another major tenant, but hey, Pattaya can sustain more malls.

Cancer or drugs. Which one would you bet on?

Tourism may be recovering, but that boat certainly hasn't evolved to cater for it.

This is a prime example of discussions in other threads. Some would argue the success of Central Festival in securing a new tenant, but they fail to recognize the demise of the property that this tenant vacated from. The "survival of the fittest" argument doesn't take into account the empty buildings here left derelict.

Or those lead by the nose by a Thai girl. I have asked this question before, who has ever aspired to retiring to rural Thailand before coming to Thailand and meeting a Thai lady? It really is laughable.

Many condo blocks here are now being used as hotels, but without hotel licenses, and without hotel safety standards, and I use he words "safety standards" loosely when discussing Thailand. You now have aging condo blocks, with cooking facilities inside, and lacking modern safety standards, being used by holidaying tourists. What could possibly go wrong?

Yoda.

Any structure that is ground floor only is on the chopping block here.

Yes, but who wants to live in "rural Kamphaeng Phet?"