ChaiyaTH

You are the one who seems to defend them while you clearly not travel much, if you saw how they were treating people you would not state this. They were quite stupid too accusing people of did having applied for a Laos visa, not knowing you get those on arrival same as Cambodia. They also act contradictory to the actual immigration laws by implementing these own made rules at immigration entry points, as well as embassies and consulates. For example a non-o now requires 400k baht already to get the single entry visa, while this is only in reality needed for a yearly extension. It also goes against the UN convention child rights that Thailand committed too.

They have razzia's on arrival in CM since a few days it seems, when I arrived this was happening full speed too. This while it is like the lowest and most quiet season in CM itself, it's not exactly smart. Even those that were not hassled clearly saw how others were treated and not risking that for a second trip.

75% of americans were already dead broke before Trump so i doubt it has much to do with him. If Biden would have won the economic outlook would have been the same regardless of tarrifs, only war would been another option.

If you setup recurring monthly payments to for example a partner, it would just continue until the account runs dry.. Easy solution. I have the same for my Thai sim cards, to be topped up and stay active automatically. Is kind of a lot easier solution in case there is not much other than that to have to deal with (real estate etc). In theory it could even be a friend receiving the funds to return them each month, as long you are still alive.

Stop asking stupid questions, you know very well what would be an acceptable wage according to standards in the given country you hire.

This is fake nonsense. Many of the most long living people eat it daily for breakfast but suddenly it is a problem today? Right. Meanwhile nobody is actually focusing at unhealthy processed foods etc etc. They can't even tell what really caused it. Live long and healthy, most energy, no over weight: a lot of eggs, bacon, meat and milk.

Tipping today is a failed economic design from the USA from owners to take away their responsibility to pay proper wages. It's been proven as well by countless studies. Tipping was intended to be a optional bonus, for exceptional service.

Right so you rather would see nobody caring at all about them, as is the case without those christians doing at least something?

Yeah it's so much better to keep a fake picture of 'beauty is all that matters' alive with half competent staff that can't even speak clear announcements. Nice eye candy for a unsustainable future. The irony is that they are booted out themselves by the time they hit 33 except very few becoming managers. But nobody ever wonders or mentions that part right, where do all those girls end up working at.

Lmao that is like the <deleted>tiest you could get, on a beautiful seed market available today.

Obviously they are not, hence he is saying 'should i take them inside'. There would be zero purpose of the post to begin with in that case.

You clearly never fly lol.

I doubt they even change the mattress.. They will just put another tourist in it next week and then observe if that person becomes crazy lol.

You are aware that these busses are not manual right. Same for almost all normal cars.

Vietnam and Laos are still super chill anyway, get beers and cigs as much you want too.

There is no proven reaction time that makes possible what you say unless it was from far away, simply due the average 2 second reaction time. Hence they suggest that as a distance between cars on high ways too. Anyway the answer is not really debatable: you stay straight. Anyone is taught this normally for their license in western countries. I drove ambulances.

Well it does not matter how sad it is, you simply stay straight in that case and hit the animal. You not risk your own and other their lives for it. It's like triage.

Yeah like you expect more quality tourists in a prostitute street like Patong Phuket, and fighting to magically stop, when it is not 60 days.... Besides the fact I used to see a lot more fights in the old days (10-12 years ago) it is just that everyone posts it online nowadays, as of brainless journalism. It's kind of to be expected every busy night in bar plaza's, to have at least one little fight or issue. That's a police and law enforcement issue, not a immigration issue. The word immigration is funny to begin with as virtually nobody ever even really gets residence.

A lot of people were being taken to new setup interview desks at CM airport when I arrived today. They gave a lot of people that were entirely valid problems, so the razzia's started again. It starts to be very very tiring, I wonder if they realize that the last time they did this, they lost almost all digital nomads they try to get today. The arrival stamps are still 60 days for now, also no arrival cards or anything yet. They really are aiming for the last nail in the coffin... So in 9 months we will read again how desperate they are and how they will want to make it easier.

I learned enough and more Thai to get by but as many others written already it turned out quite pointless. Same with the education visa I started on over a decade ago, they teach you entire illogical things that are never really used in real life. And if you finally manage to say those things with tones perfect, outside BKK, nobody gets it. You have to imagine being in this country pub in your home country where some immigrant suddenly tries to socialize to then speak as if he is reading a court verdict. Way too formal, missing local dialect, missing slang, missing perspective. It's just akward. Even they might appreciate the fact that your Bangkok Thai would be great, you now have a issue within the face and social structure, you likely become someone they not want to even approach as of thinking you are too spoiled, hi-so or maybe cause issues when there is drama. I figured that just sticking to the English works perfectly fine outside the chit chat, taxi instructions, hello goodbye thank you etc. It is not exactly as if they talk about much more than Food and Drama anyway. Last but not least, the more you understand, the more you realize my sentence above. It is actually nicer to not understand what they say, then the thai sound really romantic or like a song, unless it is this chain smoker voice from isaan on max volume with blasted speakers... Mamasan style. I do not even know how much I know is bangkok thai, southern thai, isaan or lanna language but somehow in the north they get me most. It is like Bangkok thai use the letter 'R' really nicely in words used a lot while the R is for most Thais a issue to pronounce too.

Top notch ignorance level here. Of course because in that case you are bothering them and offer the solution by at least speaking in Thai. However as soon it would be about things were you actually give your opinion, or just listen to their no longer secret gossip, and so fort, they will actually dislike it big time in many situations and prefer your to be in your farang only bubble language. Specially girls.

You can have gold being up 26% today while if it goes back to just 3k it is - 10% already and 16%. If the USD THB then falls further from 35 to 31 that is another 10% ish taken away, 6% left. Then we take off 3% Thai inflation, we have 3% net gains only. Assuming zero fees, zero tax too. Even with the additional 10% increase on the gold price expected for 3700, a even larger increase on FX is expected, up to 3x as much. Even the gold price would still be up 16% if you lived entirely in dollars. This can also go into negative figures. Its a forex trade. Maybe this example is easier for ya. You will see all this play out in the chart you used trough out this year anyway. Gold is always a 50% forex trade unless you earn and spend in dollars only. Moving to cambodia could work. This is exactly how so many retirees got stuck in the past decade too, as they not seem to understand or consider the ranges that exist. Even an American that spends his money here in baht is doing the forex trade, even it is not that likely for the baht to get as strong as a euro, gbp, aud etc, same facts. Just assuming this price to stabilize at 3500 and 32 from the 37 heights for USD THB, it's not that special this year at all. Same as tourists in a way, depending what time of the year they come, they pay as much as 20% more or less due to FX alone, without being aware that much, specially mainstream ones. I get 20K+ baht more per month from the EURTHB change alone.

Because that is what it comes down to if you look at the 3300 price and the past 60 days average. Check the tradingview charts yourself + monthly history. Anyway copy paste my original explanations in any AI and you will get to hear i am right too. Ask any broker same too. Guess it hurt people their holdings or ego's, because it is nothing but facts and zero personal. To then start being a yippy about the exact 2% in this second, you will see the results later this year yourself. Or just look back in history, 2008 for example.

Wow so now you are gaslighting something that is factual, to then project on a sentence you not even abuse properly? I said based on the past 60 days with that calculation, aside from that my second calculation is just as accurate. To even make it worse for you, the EUR USD is likely easily going to 1.25-1.50 in that case. Any EURO buyer would effectively be at a net loss.

We are speaking about the predicted outcome result if gold now would have a retrace to around 3K, or if it further increased to the price target of 3.7K while the EURUSD also will continue to get stronger, it can even easily get as strong as 1.20 again, which would then beat gold. Maybe read again from the start what was explained, it is not an opinion. The difference in gain left just barely justifies the 8% average and assumes low inflation of 3% to still be profitable.