ChaiyaTH

People are lazy in the north, this is the issue most times if it comes to quality/service/standards etc.

So many hours yet they learned absolute nothing by age of 18. Home schooling takes like 2-3 hours a day and most people outperform even International school standards with test scores etc.

HomePro was selling nice portable ones for around 170 baht at the cashiers last time I was there a few weeks ago. Pretty sure that Makro or Decathlon otherwise have something decent that doesn't break or leak after a few times. The similar ones I bought still work now after 4-5 years.

There is plenty of budget rooms to not having to take that risk but it happens enough in the backpacker places trust me. Same where they let 1 person take a dorm in low season, to then come back at night with 3 people etc etc. If one wakes up early enough, nobody ever notices. Just hangout with backpackers and return with them for a doobie in their guesthouse + usually free sleeping / shower is possible.

I've had so many times in the south, where people pay for example 5-7 days, but leave in between to full moon party for 1 day, where then some staff thinks that means they checked out. This sounds exactly like something like that potentially + both not speaking English on top. Same when people visit some smaller islands, they leave the big suitcases in that place, and travel light for 1-2 nights. I've even had situations where friends came home with someone else in their bed, because the room was double booked and given out / no proper key management. This while my friends bag was in the room lol.

Yeah it is indeed true if you think about it, they always start doing this stuff in such situations.

I dont even believe what the news says, except that that crazy girl maybe wanted that. There is zero follow ups, there is zero charges reported by police etc etc etc.

That means guilty without a trial or verdict in this case, the police never charged him with anything and he clearly behaves calm. All we know, is some crazy screaming nutjob claiming otherwise so far, the police would really not have ignored it if it was proven / true.

All I could hear was an animal screaming that smoked for decades, oh sorry, i mean person with a isaan accent. No wonder the guy ignores her, she sounds like she went entirely mental. Sure the guy might be wrong as much but just saying, what a typical Thai news video was this again. Would not be surprised if it turns out to even a a FK up from the hotel, that he paid already and still had a key for his remaining days. No logic in the story, the guy behaves normal and calm, hangs his towel to dry even, who would do that in a case like this, with a nut job screaming at you on top. Maybe he was army.

And ukraine's.

Best chance would simply be by going out a lot in Bangkok at the expat bars or other places where you get to talk. Then you usually will meet people who know already 1-2 people, and then from there you easily get to know people. There is usually always work awaiting to be done, due to the shortage in being able to find programmers.

Seems you have no clue what you are talking about, he could easily make 4-5K USD a month just doing small gigs with Python, PHP and SQL, his main skills. I do the exact same thing and not even work fulltime.

One wonders when they finally update anything about this, I mean people would suddenly all need accountants or tax numbers etc etc etc. Let alone the global taxes potentially, to keep us in the dark now since june 5th?

Small or big fish is not relevant, they do not have to chase us, we will come to them for our visa's and when we arrive or depart regardless. And then it's a criminal thing to not have filed and paid the taxes too, resulting in still paying + a fine + potential jailtime + blacklist. It's very naive to think that way.

That's the only thing that bothers me right now, and I have to enroll him end of this year too. We could live 6 months on and off but then how to do that with school. Only option reasonable so far seems to be doing homeschooling, but that will take even more time from me for sure, as I am pretty sure she will not do it properly. I think for myself and most people it eventually leads to just coming here for holidays if at all. One part in me says they will never do it anyway but at the same time they have done so many things nobody expected, this would not be that surprising anymore. I mean, they even stop giving people non-o single entry visa's if not having 400K in a Thai bank, which defeats the entire purpose of that visa for those who live abroad and visit 1-2 times a year for 2-3 months. They clearly been motivating us to leave since nearly a decade.

You are aware that you are speaking about like nearly a year minimum wage, like western terms: 15-20K USD, if you say it is reasonable for Thailand? The court here assumes minimum wages, that is why many fines are considered a joke to us aka very low. Like child support by judge is only 3K a month at most. To have received 50,000 baht is actually a lot already I think.

That's the main thing that Thailand offers yes, the rest is just classical things that are not extraordinary such as: beaches, mountains, temples, some basic water parks and general activities you have basically anywhere already, and they cost a lot most times. That is the entire reason they have been trying since 5 years to diversify the offerings here from TAT and Gov side. It is also clearly visible in guesthouses etc, there is way less offerings and flyers than there once were, or they simply not run at all during low season. To not start about that half is not maintained and old (zoo's, waterparks etc etc).

I remember many years ago I was casually stopped in sukhumvit by 2 on a bike, I was drunk, they knew. So we basically ended up in a hot pot place, where I had to pay for, aside from a bottle of red label, which we all shared... I mean that was a great deal, it costed me like 2-3K only for DUI.

You must have been living under a rock if you didn't see how everything in nightlife, activities and more has been in a heavy downtrend ever since 2019. No matter where you go, even nana or soi 6 in pattaya, it's not close to how it once was. And that is just one thing, I was talking other events. Everything here is just simple, same shopping streets, there is barely variety.

That's not even that much more unusual, if you then take a Business man from that same Shanghai city, he could likely buy 6-10 floors, a small building. Now let alone if they form groups, which they do. It's peanuts for them to do.

It's called survival if you live in a 20-40sqm shoebox with 2 people fulltime.

1) Money 2) White skin 3) Muscles

Sounds to me the real issue here was that you started a court case for something insignificant, hence you were only rewarded with 50,000 out of 300,000 baht maximum compensation. So if it was a more proper reason, you likely would have been break-even on the costs, or even have made a small profit? Normally, as lawyers can vary in how much they cost, there is simply standard compensation fees. The lawyer is likely afraid that the judge will laugh at him for billing you so much, and he for that reason cant order the other person to pay for that.

Yes it is like a sand clock: the bottom is smoking and the top is not smoking. Currently the top fills the bottom, but when the bottom is full, smoking is now dull, turning it around by not being a smoker would be fulfilling again. I seem to have some version where it takes less time when filling it up to the other side of it again though hehehe.

It's more likely the other way around to be honest. Most people get an increased desire for actual sex with a partner, when not smoking after smoking a lot.