Ron jeremy

14 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Well when the date gets to Dec 31 2021, and maybe a few thousand people have

bravely travelled to Thailand to escape their cold Winter, and stay in country

for a year because of the next lock down, TAT will just be a small shadow of itself

as the mass of people will not be needed.  Same same for Immigration, and some

other tourist related Government agencies.  I think that 2022 may be a start of recovery

but, I still will not be excited to leave Canada if it looks like I may be stuck in Thailand

for more than a few months.

Geezer

Canada now enforcing more travel restrictions 

maybe hotel quarantine at travellers expense 

perhaps NO non essential travel

well wait and see

i back these restrictions 

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20 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

The government has closed massage shops a few times and will happily do so again.

However, the massage ladies/men receive no financial support from said government.

Perhaps if the government looked after its all of its citizens in these troubled times, then they would not have to go abroad for work.

Just a thought?

The Thai government has done nothing about the sex trade in Thailand? Only encouraged it, it’s a known fact anywhere in the world what goes on here.even if the government looked after these woman they would still do it.

Easy money .

perhaps if they were better educated, the vast majority of young teenagers wouldn’t get pregnant, and sell themselves to feed their children.

but again it is a government issue.

Canadian rates have fallen over 30 percent in the last few weeks 

toronto hotbed area went from 3500 to 1900 ish per day

perhaps due to lockdown after Christmas 

new year’s get togethers

long term care homes have been vaccinated 

45 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

It is getting to the stage where it is uninhabitable here.

 

 

Well beyond that!

2 hours ago, adammike said:

There's packs of marauding dogs there now, according to what I read.

There’s been packs of maurauding dogs there all the time

come to think of it, there everywhere 

I ate zebra while on safari in Africa 

Delicious ???? 

2 hours ago, Oldie said:

Here in Pattaya I enjoy that I got rid of this cracy noise of the bars - at least for a while. 

Why did u move there?

10 hours ago, MaiDong said:

Do what? Protect them? Seems fairly reasonable to me. 

Why would a man want to build a house where the air is clean when he can raise his family in a toxic environment?

with the flaming I’m getting it looks like I’m wrong?

after the Chernobyl disaster people moved away

i guess they were also wrong?

6 hours ago, Tagged said:

Ironic I guess he ment you should take your kids and rise them somewhere else where there is less pollution. 

 

 

No that would be too sensible, must be great raising a family in this environment 

4 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

Yep as all have said, same message every year and nothing done.

 

I used to get angry when I would open up my curtains here in the country to allow the sunlight in at around 6.00am to get the kids ready for school, and all I would see is thick smoke filled in between all the trees, my wife would try to humour me and say it's mist.

 

Took me a while to be able to actually accept and realise nothing was going to change as I was getting worked up over it and only upsetting myself, so how could I change things to benefit my mind set.

 

1) I stopped opening up the curtains until I returned from dropping the kids off at school later in the morning when it was almost gone.

 

2) Allowed the kids to sleep in for half an hour a day and wake them at 6.30am, taking our time to get them ready

 

3) Delayed taking the kids to school by half an hour to 45 minutes, however wouldn't allow them to exit the car to go and sit at assembly if the smoke was bad, after all, what is the point of them sitting in assembly to listen to someone waffle on about nothing while they fill their lungs with smoke.

 

The principal pulled the wife aside one day and mentioned her concerns about the kids coming to school late, my wife's reply was well, my husband and I see don't want our kids sitting on the floor and breathing in the heavy smoke, furthermore especially in winter when the ground is cold, it serves no purposes, it's almost the same as making the kids walk around the school grounds with no shoes on, socks only, it just makes them sick, and the principal looked at her with a confused look, with my wife adding, if you can't accept what my reasoning is, perhaps you would like me to take the kids out of this school and walked off.

 

Haven't heard a thing, no doubt the principal accepted her reasoning because it's a school that you have to pay every quarter, cha ching, and just smiles at her when she sees her, although I reckon she must be cursing her every time she sees her.  

Sad to hear you continue to do this to your children!????????????‍♂️

2 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Because it's where their home/family/work is.  Ridiculous question.

Why would anyone subject their family - kids to this?

certainly they know they are killing them

time to move and a career change?

what a ridiculous answer brewman ????

20 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I also was never interested in those men next to me. To be fair, I don't really see them.

 

Without question first time in a gogo 

hate to see the bar tab!????????

8 hours ago, Elkski said:

Very sad the learn villages wont even  pay 20 baht for trash removal.  

I was sarcastic when I said I bought a 10 million BKK condo.     Who would want to live with this bad air?  The only people who will buy in Thailand need to come from a country with equal or worse air quality.      If people really knew the real health costs of this.   

So sad. 

And to read daily the people stating how they love living in Chang mai and bkk!

unbeleivable!

2 minutes ago, foreverlomsak said:

How can you say this the Thais are going out of there way to employ migrant workers in lieu of Thai, too save money.

Yes true enough, as I stated, I agreed about the business owners being greedy, and excuse me for saying all thais are lazy, I was not implying this, only the vast majority.

5 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

I bought an older condo and it's maintained well, of course if condo management isn't good enough try and change it. I looked at a couple older condos, looked around the building and wrote them off straight away, poorly maintained, all different balconies, you can't polish a turd so you have to choose carefully

Sounds like 9 carat

russian gulag

cant give away a place there

half the place is empty 

16 minutes ago, jonwilly said:

I like Thailand and Chiang Mai.

Yes it's not nice in the burning season and normally I have a month or so down on the seaside.

Don't know if Ill be allowed to escape this year just have to wait and see.

Thai gov did well banning flights in and out and the internal crackdown was strict but very few deaths, unlike UK not to mention USA.

Neither I or any of my aquatencies knows anyone who is in Hospital with Covid let alone died of of it.

 

john

A month or so?

like Chang mai????

it’s like someone saying they like Chernobyl, but not the radiation ☢️ 

Well said, and sorry to the people that choose to live there.

8 hours ago, Timwin said:

Chiang Mai digital nomads and other expats must be really enjoying their quality of life now! ????

Oh no! The foreigners keep trying to convince us that they love living in the smog and made the correct decision living there????????????????????????????????????????

On 1/19/2021 at 10:37 PM, spidermike007 said:

I am sure that is possible, but from what friends tell me, who have lived there, or are living there now, and from everything else I have heard, it is very difficult to find a decent spot, for the kind of money a guy pays in Pattaya or Hua Hin, for instance. There are an abundance of studios here, that are newer, clean, and in nice buildings for 6000 or so. That is very hard to find in the PI, and alot of places are like something you would find in Tijuana 30 years ago. In fact, the entire nation feels like one huge Tijuana to me. And I am talking the old Tijuana! I see alot of these kinds of videos online, and alot of them are quite suspect.

For $6k a month you are living like a local in a room, not a condo, not an apartment.

this is a monthly wage in some countries and there are many rooms for this price in these countries. Not just Thailand, quite easy to find and in some places of better value.

Chrisandsu; no, sex is not Thailand’s number 1 tourist attraction 

38 million tourists don’t come for this, speak for yourself! 

5 minutes ago, SiSePuede419 said:

It's bad for 2-3+ months a year. 

 

Wear masks, close all doors and windows, indoor air filters in bedroom and living room.

 

If you got the scratch, head for the islands and homeschool your kids on the beach, 555

Sounds great, self quarantine for several months a year locked up during retirement 

with a mask on!  Who could ask for more? Living the dream????????‍♂️????????????