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“They keep strays alive to carry on barking, biting and causing a mess, disease and traffic hazard. These people are part of the dog and cat problem.“

Can top visa agent work with this like other issues they seem to get around ?

All condo pools are private, they should stay open.

With all the new restrictions yesterday is closing the pools part of that ? I did not see pools at condos needing to close posted but our condo is closing pool and even when there was government rule for pools to close they never did . Just wanted to find out if closing pool is part of new rule ?

26 minutes ago, gk10012001 said:

I remember when swimming in Jomtien beach water was OK.  A beautiful stretch of beach. Pattaya Beach water well, not sure when that was really clean for swimming.  I only go back as far as 2004.  But even if not swimming, beach road in Pattaya was so much nicer before.  There were park benches to take a break and sit on.  There were more trees and natural shade.  There was no obnoxious Bright stadium lighting which totally ruins a peaceful pretty walk at night.  I have pictures of flower beds on the Northern end of Beach road.  Remember the path you could walk around the point towards Naklua? wong amat beach area?

Yea I remember all ( you described it so well even the runway lights on the beach ) of that and quietly moved down to Jomtien when that area changed .
 

Then a few years ago Jomtien turned into a new situation with building and traffic everywhere and trash everywhere . So then moving to the Na Jomtien to Bang Sare stretch was the next escape from the runaway destruction that has been occurring in Pattaya and Jomtiem but now this area is going south fast as there seem to be no rules or regulations with anyone doing anything or building anything . It’s like the Thai way is to just let things go and then build new places in new area leaving the trash behind but if you want beach near Bangkok they have run out of new places and almost all the beautiful spots are now dirty unkept spots that have lost such beauty . Now they widen Sukhumvit Road from Pattaya to Bang Sare and kind of accommodate the move to pave paradise as the parking lot grows bigger . It’s interesting to watch and I guess that’s progress but the people who traveled to Thailand decades ago to find a kind of paradise will go somewhere else now possibly and the new tourists will be more Russians / Chinese and Thai tour groups that really don’t require nature at its finest . “Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not? “

“Maybe Pattaya was even more paradise-like for existing residentsbefore your building went up,"unsupervised and unregulated"

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⬆️ you are absolutely right but back then 30 years ago it started to become obvious things were changing fast and at some point there needed to be some changes so there would not be overbuilding and things turning into almost a slum beach ? 
 

Many of the original Thai owners who bought there and around that area did buy back then because it was such a beautiful spot 25 years ago now have moved long ago when the buildings in that area became neglected in terms of maintenance and building in the area became  completely out of control with no restrictions or zoning and no effort was made to keep beaches and surrounding areas clean .
 

So many building in that area that were once beautiful have all but turned into ghost buildings mostly empty, unkept and filthy with the original owners leaving long ago when things went south .

Is it too late to clean up the mess that is almost irreversible at this point and try to set some new guidelines and restrictions that never existed before so the whole area is no just Bangkok by the beach ? The great thing about that area is it’s close to Bangkok so it’s great location and easy to get to if your main home and business is in Bangkok and a perfect beach getaway without getting on a plane and dealing with big travel .