ChaiyaTH

Paying a few thousand for private clearly is worth it...

The fact posts like this are needed actually proves it all. It happens seldom and it clearly was a big highlight. Nuff said.

LMAO what a garbage comment and opinion. Many western countries are simply hell and super expensive, the fact that Thailand on these ends is a lot better, and for that reason is very livable is ZERO excuses for all the things that happen here that are really bad and really not good. Neither does that make them acceptable. To be some wannabe idiot who sticks his head in the sand, to then pretend it is all daisies, and that such negativity can't possible exist, well that is absolute stupidity at it's core. At the same time you entirely forget that we are not in the same times anymore as we were decades ago, there is zero guarantees for Thailand keeping the position it once had, in fact there has only been a decrease of expats + retirees here. With other words: the point has already been proven on every end, the only thing that keeps your illusion alive it the mass group tourism that props things up to keep it alive, and avoids a collapse. Also even one hates all this, that is no different than many people still in their home countries, coping with that to then still decide and live there as XYZ is good enough in XYZ country for them. This applies as much to Thailand. At least that is honesty, not ass licker work with a snotty nose.

Another loser replying, who wished he had just the ant intelligence to make money in the same way (at that age in life). Meanwhile people do this already since years and it is not a issue with 'full of foreigners'. You know why? Because most people are lazy, they are not smart and they are losers. They never achieve this.

What are you suggesting, that you are superior if having a yearly visa? Idiot. You can just smell the loser factor in your reply.

She has DTV visa.

Clearly you just have no clue, and you like to project being more the issue. Clearly she is doing it to a certain level of success already as of being here and now also gotten some media attention from it. Secondly even small influencers and channels easily can make 3-5K usd a month, if she saves and invest a decent part, she can take her life to whatever is next after that. You can even sell energy contracts to consumers remote nowadays. People seem to be a bit stuck in time, the earnings for digital nomad work has gone up quite a bit in the most recent 5 years. It also became much more normal. We are not talking the early days of failure attempts with. travel blog type of people anymore, those are rare already. If she has sponsorship deals for products and gets 10,000 views on average, even with a 0.01% conversion rate, she get's like 50 dollars per day if having this 1 tiktok real of whatever daily. Like a VPN signup with yearly payment can get you up to 200 dollars a lead.

News flash working as a digital nomad is allowed ever since the start it existed... Secondly the 5 year DTV visa is almost existing a year already too... Most of the people working online nowadays all are down south, ever since covid i guess. North etc are deserted.

cutting pillars lol

Well my hand was non functioning as i initially found out about the incident after paying 1K more electric for a few months, when on holiday a few weeks noticing it, and using my shower. I still have PTSD lol specially after the 4th guaranteed me it was now safe. Not. Imagine how this works out with all those building inspections....

Lmao so because you had good luck with a washing machine guy at one occassion, you thank the nation entirely? Meanwhile I needed 5 electricians before finding out a rat bite my main electric cable, while our wooden house was at risk of fire as well us for being electrocuted, all having certified papers... It's like saying taxi drivers here are great because you have this 1 in so many times that you do have a nice one. Which is super rare lol. But if it comes to motorbike mechanics, you win on that, they are always doing good on that. But it is kind of hard to mess those tasks up as well.

Please cut the cliche BS already, the fact they make more from real estate has zero to do with the fact that mc donald restaurants as restaurants are very profitable. How would you otherwise expect the franchise owners to be still paying the rent all those decades.

That's exactly the real and only issue + pricing as a consequence, everything else is horse crap from owners their mouths. There is no issue with increased costs that much on food at all, neither on rent or utilities, let alone with wages. Owners use this now as an excuse, as indeed, that now became the last margin to be able and tweak AFTER starting way too many of the same businesses everywhere. This is a undeniable fact all over Thailand. Just look at Chiang Mai for example, all used to be 80% focused around the old city quarter and up to the river. Now you have over 5-6 main areas far from each other. Then look at tourist figures, there is dozens of millions tourists more than in the old days. So even people went out less often, this should never be the issue. The real issue is that prices are way too high, and restaurants say that they can't lower the prices is only due to the fact that there is too many restaurants. I mean explain to me why I can get for the same price a tenderloin in Australia with way higher rent, way higher taxes, wages and everything. If you want to tell me that is only because of the higher tenderloin cost, just clueless. I know what they cost wholesale. It is the volume of sales that is the issue, and that is a result of being over priced. Restaurants used to have constantly 5-10 people from opening to kitche close, if not a full house around the busiest hour(s), by default. That is what restaurants are supposed to do. In Thailand it like became the normalized standard that you run a business where you get a handful of customers, and that that is needing to make your money. Yeah indeed, then you can only keep increasing prices and if you then look at statistics, the tweaking and margins would be tight. It's the exact same with freelance girls and alcohol in bars too. So how did the freelance girl get higher costs then? And last but not least, why are restaurants that do sell cheap + always full, make money, are able do to it the right way? Meanwhile somewhere on an island: I still get my beers for 60 baht, I still get large Thai portion meals for 50 baht and so on and on. If you sell Thai food for 150 per meal and then they get only 10 customers, they make 1200 baht. The cheap place gets customers all day making just 30 baht per meal, still will walk home with 2000-3000 baht. So with other words; anyone can sell cheaper if they had more customers. If I tell a restaurant i can get a group of 10-20 people and want 5-10% discount it is also possible.

Why are people who not vote for Trump so obsessed with writing garbage + their useless opinion, disliking Trump so much, while ignoring 100% all the exact weighted items on their own political choices during their presidential years. I mean you know if this applies to you and basically you are just a moron if doing that. It is no different with the big mouths here during covid. So great job, now you can surround yourself with other morons while your opinion is as valuable as the life of an ant.