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When we decided I would retire and we would move to Thailand, the first thing we did was spend several years traveling all over Thailand looking for the best place to live that had everything. We traveled from north to south: Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Nan, Pathum Thani, Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket, Hua Hin, Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, Koh Tao,... In the end, we came to the conclusion that the best place to live in Thailand is... Pattaya. It's a city that has it all: - By the sea - Close to Bangkok - Close to an international airport - Many restaurants of all kinds - Very good hospitals - Good public transportation at affordable prices - Shopping malls - Everyone speaks English - Quality housing at affordable prices - Safe - Lots of nightlife - Inexpensive - Top-notch activities every weekend (international fireworks competition, jet ski world championship, vegetarian festival, Songkran, Loi Kraton...) It's true that it has an internationally famous red-light district (which also has its charm, like Las Vegas), but it's not even 1% of Pattaya's area, and those who talk so much about it are precisely the hypocrites who never leave it the entire time they're in Pattaya.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/J4KEjYPHMFeDwNLr9 In front of Sun & Beach Hotel

In that case, they could only sell alcohol to foreigners, and they had to present their passport,

We're talking about a 13-year-old Thai girl, who certainly doesn't speak English or French. But the French man met her at the bar where her mother worked, convinced her to accompany him to a place to stay, and paid her via bank transfer. Obviously, someone else was involved who was prostituting the girl. And the police should investigate this and not limit themselves to arresting just the Frenchman.

It wasn't in Pattaya, it was in Nong Khai

It wasn't in Pattaya, it was in Nong Khai

We are filling our homes and garages with battery-powered vehicles that, once they catch fire, cannot be extinguished.

Better to Ukraine 😁 There they will know what to do with them. 😉

139 baht (2025)

The high number of Thai drivers carrying firearms, and the high rate of road rage cases, are also good reasons not to honk too much.

For expats living in Thailand, a lower interest rate would mean a cheaper baht, but also higher inflation.

Have Thailand's borders with Cambodia been closed now?

Indeed: when I opened my account at Bangkok Bank in 2021, I had no problems opening it with a tourist visa, but all branches required a one-year accident medical insurance policy of 3,000 baht. After that, it wasn't necessary to keep renewing the policy every year.

Of course, I'm not going to deposit 800,000 baht indefinitely in a Thai account, where it's devalued every year. It's much more interesting to apply for a retirement visa based on monthly income and invest the 800,000 baht. It's true that I'll need to accumulate a year's pension on my bank statement for that, but during that year I can travel around Southeast Asia every couple of months (which I was planning to do anyway).

Most of the foreigners who cause problems are not residents, but tourists.

There are. For obvious reasons, there are numerous flights from Spain to Latin America: Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, etc.

When I opened my account at Bangkok Bank (several years ago), I found that the branch that presented the least problems opening an account was the one in Pattaya on Beach Road.

You can use your baseball cap under motorcycle taxi's helmet.

British 'woman'? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Refugees? There's no war in Morocco.

All the countries in Western Europe: France, Germany, Spain, Holland, Belgium,... even give them accommodation, free healthcare, and an allowance. And they don't even need a passport.

In other words: they're losing customers because they're trying to exploit customers by raising prices and lowering quality, while landlords are abusively raising the rent. But the solution is to seek out tourists with greater purchasing power and raise prices even more, while also preventing any bargains and low prices. This is the typical Thai way of screwing up something that's driven by greed. It seems they invented the story of "the goose that lays the golden eggs."

The Stones' House, more than a restaurant with live music, is a bar with music that also serves food. The only time I've been there, there was a band playing Thai pop music at a deafening volume. I endured as long as I could, but eventually I left and haven't returned.

They're all nice places to visit for a few days, but I wouldn't live there. As for Pattaya, it's usually called a dump by those who've never been there, or by those who, when they do, never leave the red-light districts and think the whole city is like that. It's like saying Bangkok is a dump because you've never left Soi Cowboy.

Rock Factory, if you're looking for rock and heavy metal. It's more for the music than the food, but they have several food options. But it's not quiet like Hops and it's open-air, without air conditioning.