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This morning, outside was colder then inside, so a/c switched itself off (my experience with many brands). Air in the room got very stuffy and humid. Opening the window, not possible, too noisy. Fan, too windy, cannot sleep. I have seen the word "dry" on many remotes, does it have a meaning? I have very poor experiences with a/c remotes and their buttons. Never seen understandable instructions, never seen anybody who understood them (including Mitsu staff). Any ideas? Daikin, 12y.o.

Good post. Bacolod was the place in Negros I meant. Of course, keep in mind: Someone I know in Europe suffered a heart attack in the countryside and got a stent within 45 minutes. That's the standard in his country. There is nowhere in the PI or in Thailand that comes close. Someone else I know moved to Thailand and suffered a heart attack upcountry. He died. A stent would have taken days. If I were to live in Bacolod, I would know whom to call and how to pay for an air ambulance to Manila. But most things, they can handle there very well, at very decent prices.

Thailand has a shortage of doctors (and nurses), and the medical association works very hard to keep it that way. The ratio of doctors to inhabitants is low. Furthermore, the private sector you mentioned (including medical tourism) is draining resources from the care of most Thais. Even middle class Thais cannot compete with the prices foreign insurance are willing to pay (like many foreigners without foreign insurance, who can't afford these prices either).

A Thai doctor (who is always from a well-off or at least middle class family BTW) is at the top of the pecking order here. Even the money isn't much better in the UK. The money is much, much better in the US - but you can easily find Thai doctors who came back to Thailand from the US.

Anybody can look up the "reputed company" who owns the busses. Quite interesting. BTW during the last 24 hours, they didn't get many good reviews.

Then you have not read this tax carefully. It was mentioned

These threads are always full of racist posts. Blaming Thai culture, Thai greed, Thai corruption, Thai stupidity, Thai carelessness, Thai unwillingness or inability to learn. Many state how superior "the West" and its safety is. Someone in the bus threads reminded us of Santika - but 8 years after Santika 5 more people than at Santika died in a residential fire, in a very Western country. And I haven't seen Thais exulting in racist bigotry about it. They were rightly shocked, like we are about this bus fire.

Many posters seem to differ, especially those with kids using busses the school provides. Good. The outside of the bus says nothing about the quality, as explained by several posters. Don't be so ridiculous.

Liverpool Lou said in another thread it's a "presumably reputable company".

What makes you think this was a reputable company? Thais usually know very well which company is reputable (eg Nakhonchair Air) and which isn't (it is against forum rules to give an example)

I don't tell you their names without their consent. And I doubt they would give it. But it's not a secret at all, I think you know and you are just trolling.

Thais are efficient. Farang, looks like he works here, with a reasonably new car - why waste resources to inspect it?

As opposed to which country's culture?

Pimps are the biggest difference between many Western "liberal" countries, where prostitution is "legal", and here. Here, any girl can follow her aunt's advice how to find customers, put her contacts in the relevant websites or walk the streets. The money is hers, not taken away by a pimp. If she tried this in the West, she would be physically forced by the mafia to use a pimp. The pimps, of course, are well connected in those "squeaky clean" Western countries. Prostitution here is a lot freer and safer for the girls than in the West.

Both. And someone like you who spends most waking hours on this forum knows it. I won't feed the troll more.

There are several Thais on this forum

Are the regular interprovincial busses (999, Nakhonchai Air, Chantours etc) always diesel powered? Or sometimes powered by CNG? Bangkok Taxis are always gas powered. I cannot remember a similar accident. Is that only because just a couple of deaths don't make it into the headlines?

No, they live 2 sois further down. OP can PM me for an introduction. Tell me your preferences: less then 5 kids, or more than 5 kids? BMI over 30, or a bit less than 30?

Rule of thumb: if they move slowly, they are venomous. If they move fast, not so. Exception: cobra.

That's not the python I told you who lives there. Nice to hear he got some company. A bit further up the soi is a pretty green one, it's often indoors.

I have heard this, too. Do you actually know this?

The school chose the bus company. A company with a 54y.o. bus, illegally fitted with 11 gas tanks.

This thread is about Thailand, not China

The cold never bothered me anyway

You may be right about US prices, I have heard quite a few horror stories. But it looks like you are quite mistaken about prices in most of Europe.