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50% less than Vietnam. I do honestly wonder where all that growth is though, I only see a decline but higher prices that make up for it, which aren't sustainable. Same airlines, fewer flights but double the prices. The mystery of all fully booked hotels and planes remains the biggest as most bars and restaurants are ghosted. This is even weirder in the south, where you neither find them on the beaches in the amounts you would expect.

Well he is actually right, almost none of the foreign business owners, for example restaurants bars and so on, never paid a dime of tax or minimal fake taxes. Same for all profits on property rentals etc etc etc. Thailand has basically made zero effort so far, to even enforce things for what was always applicable already. Let alone the new change to transfers to Thailand while being classed a tax resident, or let alone the fantasy pipe dream of overseas income. The country would be half empty in no time, the south would suddenly have property available and hurt property developers. All this while they are under high pressure already in general. Do you really think it is a magic trick or accident that the news went silence for so long already? Most of the entire news was all and only due to the new appointed woman boss of the TRD. Now she is in place, she will shut up. This happens all the time with police stations and immigration bureaus as well. Until the dust settles. They might have a tiny chance of success if they allow us to first deduct the private education 100% before having to pay any taxes, if any taxes left. I'd accept a flat 10% not a .25% more + with a 3-5 yearly visa.

Just pay some junkie 1000 baht to cut them down with a machette lol, tell him its sugar cane.

They did the same pathetic thing in Chiang Mai during covid, making the entire old city one way over night and putting the exact same pillars on the road for cycling, it took a week and all is gone since. Idiots.

'Not automatically', yeah obviously you need to register and then the other comparison to bulgarians or romanians, do you even expect a response? And in fact, those can live anywhere too even with poor paid construction jobs. So anyway, what you say is incorrect entirely.

Not lazy you mean, they never busy.

Seems you are bored and post half baked replies everywhere tonight. I don't really recall a 7/11 too except when I got ice cream.

We should make a bet on polymarket.com with a end date before those orange things are removed again.

Cycle lane? They can't even drive on 1 car lane here, I guess most think that the white line in the middle is where you car should be aligned in the middle too. Same when there is space to the left for cycles, they will take the middle of both. Absolute nuts.

Turning of the main water might help right. If it is in Chiang Mai + this time on top, you would be winning the lottery if someone came that actually knows what they do. Last time I had a electrician needed it took 5 of them while all showed me their 'PEA certified papers'. They can't even deliver food in that town. Just wondering, someone broke your water pipe where the main connection is? As I heard a few people now of which that happened lately in CM.

CM used to be the easier but I noticed on my last arrival a lot people were being hassled and that the ''all ladies employment'' is also active there. Those catching the few queues with a guy were always processed without issues and much faster too. Have to say this is the first time ever I heard of someone being refused and send back there. Not surprised at all, CM is going down hill day by day more. Try to even fly from there except Bangkok, it's 4-5K up anywhere.

Good read. I'm looking myself into start living in Spain half the year at least, from next year too.

Ehh incorrect, you are free to settle down and live anywhere in the EU, where you even get the logic from that would not be allowed. This was even the case before there was free travel too. Explain to me where in EU I would not be allowed to settle down or live if being from the EU? I have formally lived in multiple European countries other than my own, never a single issue. Of course that does mean you would register at the local province, have a local health insurance as well as pay the local taxes and more but there is nothing that stops you from doing that at all. Even better, over time you can obtain the nationality on top.

Once got this crap in a bucket on phi phi islands, while I can drink a lot and that was my first few sips. Results were not pretty, I basically gave the entire bungalow a new floor layer of puke. Didn't even know what to say to the cleaners except by holding 500 baht, but they looked at me as if it was a every day thing. As if they know exactly what the limit is to not hospitalize you.

Just use a 49 inch ultrawide from samsung, 4 screens in 1, 60W electric average reasonable too. The 34'' uses 30W.

I don't mind visiting immigration or waiting 1-2 hours at all, I just mind to be always uncertain of the next visit and officer I need to deal with as of ever changing requirements, which then cause further delays and just a general unwelcome and uncertain feeling. I never did 90 day reportings, I did have to pay 1.5-2K for that twice. Anyway nowadays I just pay the agent to pre-sort and have it approved by the time I come to just take a photo and return my passport back. In and out in 10-15 minutes max usually. Worth the few K it costs big time.

Also the same with all the easy loans on properties and mainly condo's, the same milking machine, Thais all bought to then rent them out for double or to simply not pay back except for the interest and see the difference as additional income. Bubble: *POP*

Their solution is to use the car to start driving as a Grab driver. Not realizing at all, that the car this way will need a lot of maintenance in general aside from eventually being at it's end due to mileage, this while the loan then still lasts 15 years more. Same for houses, loans are 25-30 years while the builds last barely 20 years and the land was bought overvalued in the first place. It's a never ending debt trap. All their logic seems to do is: the car has no scratches and inside is like brand new, so the value is the same as when I bought it. Or another common logic applied is that they sell it second hand for the value + interest they paid so far. You can already see the market being flooded with very cheap cars as their mileage is on the moon. I remember when I moved here around 12 years ago, a second hand would cost a few hundred K at least, now 30-50k. But for all this is a solution already in place too; they go bankrupt and then they drive on their grandparents ID with grab, i always see these old people pictures while a young guy arrives lol. It's that normal nobody even mentions it. All this also explain why it often seems as if Thais have money trees. They don't and it ends bad. As far my calculations goes, it is only interesting if you can pay off within 5-7 years in Thailand. I stopped volunteering as all this is ignored while all volunteering is about giving the poor a fish. It's hypocrisy at the max.

Ever since smart phones became too much, it is humans going backwards. Funnily it is all around the same year 2014. The irony is that not only the real world 'died' since that time, but the real internet too from 2017. Over half of all Internet and social media traffic is bots already. The giants not speak up as of ad revenue. Yes you read that right, over half of all likes views and comments are not real humans, if on YouTube / social media. And now you can't see dislikes too, so let's say 60% disagrees, you would still see results as if they were a minority.

He, as a individual, caused disturbance with this electric thing, otherwise there is basically zero checks except in front of the police station itself. That's why everyone calls it police road. So if he was tapped on the fingers it was justified for sure. A lot of idiot drivers there, I stopped counting but it's at least a few per month that die on the roads. Just half a year ago some foreigner hit another minivan causing the driver of 2 kids to die. Month ago another young guy died on the spot, another one last week now needs 250K in bills for his legs etc. My best guess is that 90% of the things here not even make the news. People would be horrified.

That's what you get if nobody learns things properly. Main issue here is always people driving too slow or driving double lanes, I am pretty sure that that kind of behavior alone accounts for 30% of traffic jams. In Chiang Mai that is even 70% of the cause. I used to think it is because there are too many cars but if you really pay attention to it, and then count them, on the city sizes etc, it is actually very little. They just drive so bad, that the amount now is already causing issues.

Oh it's the foreigners again who are the reason things are not working out as predicted with revenues and tourism.... Did they ever consider that if foreigners all stopped too, there would be even less viable business, mainly in like tourism.

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Fake news again? I must have missed something if Bangkok has a nice airport. Oh you mean they are that desperate that they now allow 24 hours early check in in an attempt to boost sales? Pathetic.

At least you can say without doubt; I failed in life. When you are in need of a dining group in CM 55555 What is next? Opening cigar shop number 10 while nobody wants it?