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Happens, can't understand these situations too, at least there would be screaming one would think.

Super boring and quiet there, hard to get lucky. How you manage to get such expensive tickets, you could fly maldives round trip for that.. Not sure what you are on about too, I just checked myself and the average one way direct flight for entire months available is 2K baht. This routes one needs to pre-book too same as any southern destinations, still plenty of options for 3K baht. One can choose to pay 10K to fly to Samui as well. Meanwhile one can fly for 250-300 euro one way to Europe nowadays...

I always joke that owning most businesses here is like buying a job at best, you essentially work for the landlord and officials.

Leftish people are such terrible losers.. and it's full of them here, Americans specifically. When they won, the entire world news was quiet at once. Now they are near losing again and the full fight and hate it is on, and if they lose, they will continue as well until the next election to try and burn anyone. Just watch now how they already try to hate on Musk again for having contact with Putin. Pathetic.

What is the point of contacting them as the kid is 21 already, he is no longer a child after 20. So it is too late. Likely even at 18 already. Kind of a huge miss obviously, that person could have had a western passport.... There is quite a few half thai kids even to which this happens, when the dad dies unexpected and they were not married. Get it done if you can get it done, don't delay stuff like this. Same for adopting. It's like throwing away a 250-500K USD passport / second life option.

Sigh....

Has zero to do with my personal preferences, it simply is dead in Chiang Mai, anyone knows that. People stating opposite are merely defending their poor positions or full of crap, like so many on this forum living under their rocks. Some lived decades in TH and are still clueless on most ends, just the other day someone tried telling us here that there are no corrupt checkpoints in Bangkok too >< Pathetic really. It's cliche too, it's the same with anything in life. If Chiang Mai in this subject actually would be just a tiny bit attractive or fun, you would have read or heard as much about it as in the good old years, and you do not. In fact, I only hear tourists being disapointed, even it's a nice city to have visited. It's a bit like they went to the best (Vietnam) to then arrive at some overpriced scam place with old muppets. Never seen such a dead expat community too, there is a few leaving every 2 weeks.

I agree entirely, having basically been in between Bangkok and Chiang Mai for the past decade aside of everywhere else in TH. There was a short momentum with hope when digital nomads was a new thing and it was super vibrant and cool ('14 - '15). Ever since it has been down, ever since covid trash. It's starts to be like Chiang Rai or Vientiene in terms of nightlife too. Boring. There is actually barely any people to be found inside any areas of places, yet there is always traffic jams due to people driving like absolute idiots stopping in the middle of the road, double lane driving, driving 20-30 where 50-80 is allowed. Then burning season. But I guess it can be good for a 'old' person who is mainly at home with AC and air purifiers, on a budget. Then again, in that scenario one could live anywhere else too on the same budget.

True that, most who smoke the garbage also need much much more in a J than I just need a few sprinkles to get high from.

Typical american answer i guess, what do you not understand about it? You think they build this huge building for the visa appointments? Obviously it's a S load of americans who need to work in there. And who will be living there, all the time.

If it was written in 2016 it would be true, those days are long gone.

Yet the biggest embassy ever was build right in Chiang Mai 😄

Never did 90 day reports in a decade, never had issues except a fine once for 1400 baht or something.

Seems nobody mentions the bomb of CM since many years: Auf der Au Garten, western buffets for peanuts... Well for those who live under rocks: https://g.co/kgs/PK1jQzw

Seems you know and do better than all these locals who pay on the spot then, or you just like to pay more than is needed? Lol. Yes under a rock for sure, you lived here almost as long as I am alive and seem to be completely unaware or ignorant about it.

You must live under a rock then, they are everywhere daily doing that, mainly to milk locals for 100-200 baht. Daily areas are between Asoke and Rama 3 as well as the road between Chong Nonsi and Rama 3, just to give one example, are like 4-5 spots there alone.

Technically speaking a bike always need to stay on the left lane, with bridge especially, it is a common trap in Bangkok for checkpoints. In fact that is how I got my first fine 12 years ago. They do this on purpose though as you have no option but to arrive at the middle or right lanes when you come down from the bridge, which is faster than going straight with a traffic light, and that's where they will be waiting for the bikers.

Happy you are not our financial advisor. The usd baht rate will stabilize around 33-35 over next months.

What is the point, and no there is no easy way for that but also not a single reason. Or is your goal to have even more monitors?

Where there is poverty there is crime.

OF course they are free, healthcare is a human right lol. Thailand just ignores those too when wanting to. It's funny how people seem to lose their sense for common western sense and reality when living here too long, forgetting these things.

Has nothing to do with cheap, it is simply expensive for inferior service and quality on top. I earn 3x median wages and I still would rather spend it elsewhere at this point. I would not have gotten to this stage and income in life, if I would think naive like yourself. Thailand is everything except cheap at this stage for the average westerner. It is just cheaper than capital cities i in the west, that are insane expensive, even for people that earn 10K USD a month, that still isn't that much there. Otherwise it is cheaper in even Spain. I mean even a decent average hotel in Bangkok costs the same nowadays lol. My breakfast, lunch, coffees too. Perhaps only for dinner I could decide to eat MSG street food cheaper instead of cooking a decent meal in europe at home. But for 6-7$ i could eat out there too. Today so far: 2 coffees 140 baht, 1 breakfast 160 baht, 1 moto taxi ride one way 55 baht, fruit juice soon 60 baht. I didn't even turn my ass yet or I already lost 415 baht today. The same used to cost me 200-250 baht all incl. here. Then go in another taxi, do some tourist activity, 1500 baht gone again. Then lunch, snack, drink 300 baht gone again. Then before it is evening even a super boring simple tourist, without any alcohol or partying, would be down by 2000 baht already. No wonder you don't see a single soul in nightlife nowdays, if you did that on top, we are now down 6000 baht by sleeping time.

If you only knew the difference between quantity and quality aside of having some taste and interest in different stones and highs... Anything under 150 baht is super reasonable for quality indoor. You pay over 250 baht for the same in Amsterdam.

Also a full bowling alley with smoking balcony that would have snacks and beers etc. Plenty of use for the building, if they had reasonable rent plenty of SME owners would go in again but the problem in Thailand is that they think you work for the landlords.

Its for auction already and should be re-opend within 1-2 years.