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I've been to this German dentist several times, but they've never taken my blood pressure: German Dental https://maps.app.goo.gl/Lnr3x8YwLpe6JFdr7

A well-known budget restaurant in Jomtien raised its menu prices by 50% in 2024 and now by another 10% in 2025. It's normal for prices to rise every year, but if they skyrocket, it's also normal for customers to stop coming.

Yes, I'm Spanish and I live in Pattaya. I've been to a massage parlor from that chain, as I mentioned above.

So you don't live in Pattaya and don't go to massage parlors, but you come to the Pattaya forum to comment on a well-known massage parlor chain that you've never seen or even knew existed.

The massages are like any other cheap place. The prices are higher. Despite the luxurious facade that suggests a luxurious place with quality facilities and massages, when you go upstairs for an oil massage, you find the same curtained-off tables you'd find at any other cheap place. I tried once, but I won't go back.

Concerns? We're just happy. I wish the Indians would disappear too and Thailand would be a nice place again, especially Pattaya.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Y9UPFoDkmf77x2s47 ล้างรถ carcare carwash @shell najomtien

Klean Square บิ๊กซีเอ๊กตร้า พัทยากลาง https://maps.app.goo.gl/AQrX4kPH41pnwCLb6

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.