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Good to see Phil survived covid. Unfortunately, I'm not so sure his bar will survive covid, and that is no criticism of him personally. Walking Street was falling out of favour with tourists well before covid struck. Most likely due to pricing, and the rising popularity of the LK Metro / Soi Baukhao area, which has further increased with Tree Town. He has a good number of subscribers, many of whom I gather will call in for a beer with him, but will ultimately, I suspect, have their big nights out on LK Metro and surrounds. There would have been a critical point where he could have cashed in on his new found youtube celebrity by moving to a cheaper premises in or around the Soi Baukhao area, which due to cheaper rent, would have been more sustainable in the long term, and profitable, but he decided to stay in the Walking Street area. I wish him all the best, but without a market correction in the rents on Walking Street, I can't see his business, and many others in that area, being able to continue in the longer term.

I like what India done a few years ago. They swapped out their biggest notes. If you had a lot of them, and wanted to exchange them, it's a please explain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetisation New laws that turn law abiding citizens into criminals, over night, will fail. In any case, as you say, you can't ban crypto, unless you take the country off the internet grid. As manufactures, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers start to get onboard with crypto, banks, and central banks, including visa and mastercard, the middlemen, will be cut out of transactions. Governments around the world will try to sell to their citizens that their war on crypto is about stopping the financing of terrorism and drug trafficking, but the generation coming through, who are crypto savvy, will not accept this as a reason to ban crypto, and it will continue to flourish.

Banning cash would just push more people onto crypto currency. How do you ban crypto currency?

Interesting post. So, in your opinion, just how many millions, or billions, would have to die, before you decide the preservation of life is more important than money? No conspiracies. No media hype. Just post a number or percentage.

Will they be refunded the cost of their restaurant license? ????

I find that statistic hard to believe. Could it be, all ventilated ICU patients are unvaccinated?

Do you think if those businesses in Sydney offered 50 baht beers it might help people get over their fears? ????

Covid has changed the game. Girls from apps to your door. Alcohol from 7/11. Your balcony. With the music you like. It's bound to effect the revenue on the traditional business models here in the future, and means 11pm in places like CM is no longer relevant.

Has he tailored his bars to what customers want? I'm not so sure he has.

Thieving staff. Management had to go cashless.

Remember the Thai gamblers and Thai prostitutes that brought in covid when returning illegally across the border from casinos in Myanmar which kicked off a big nationwide wave? It's Thainess to blame farang.

More information needed, OP.

I would think, a lot more than some. Delta didn't just go away.

This will no doubt be reflected in hospital admissions in the near future, and given most of the staff are younger than their customers, that means it will be expats / tourists that will be making up most of the hospital numbers, if in fact there is actually a bed in the hospitals available for them.

I see your point, a license legitimizes the business, but with due respect, a licence is a piece of paper, allowing the type of business to be carried out on the premises. I'm talking about the building itself. The bricks and mortar. To date, at any time in recent history, has any "owner" produced a land title document for their property on the righthand side of Walking Street?

I don't claim to know the facts. Happy to discuss it. Aren't all the beaches in Thailand technically owned by the Thai monarchy? The righthand side is built on the sand. Isn't this why they wanted to dump tons of sand there to extend the beach, to then be able to claim the righthand side is not actually built on the beach?

What's Pattaya got that would attract "chic" tourists?

It's my understanding the righthand side of Walking Street is all illegal encroachment.

Pattaya already has many of the brands you mention. If rents remain ridiculously high on Walking Street, why would those brands open on a new Walking Street, especially when they have another shop only a few hundred meters away? Sex sells better than hamburgers, coffee, kebabs, T-shirts and souvenirs. It was the high rents that killed Walking Street, and saw the rise of the LK Metro / Soi Baukaew area. Without a correction in market rent, whoever and whatever is on Walking Street, new or old, will struggle.

I was responding to a member who stated Walking Street will be bulldozed, and "decent businesses" built there in the future. I asked for clarification on what is a "decent business." . The businesses you mention are already there.

Your son sounds a lot like your girlfriend. ????

The beaches in Thailand's attract a lot of tourists. It's a shame they do not look after them better.

Can you give some examples of what you call, "decent businesses?"

Interesting you say the times of big beer complexes are over, but don't view Walking Street in the same light. Example: A dead soi with cheap rent becomes popular. Then, rents go up on that popular soi, which makes it dead again, which makes another dead soi popular, and so it goes on, and on. Walking Street rents outpriced Walking Street way before covid. Will Walking Street be bulldozed, no. Will it be profitable to have a business there in the future, without a rental correction, no.

Exactly my point. You want to live near a beach in Thailand, you can expect jet ski and speed boat noise.