JimTripper

I’m staying away from the Chinese. Cases spiking way up over there. I heard it was 25 million per day new infections.

Someplace cheap with a reasonably easy visa. If I could afford it I would be living in the Virgin Islands, or maybe have a castle on the ocean in Ireland.

What are your interests and I will send some suggestions for areas you may like.

Why would you move to Pattaya if you don’t like people sitting in bars all day? There’s not much else to do in Pattaya. You can take breaks doing other things, but the main draw is bars. If you like beaches try Phuket or Bangkok for shopping.

But they release sewer water into the ocean. Do you like floating on cigars?

They are asking you to cancel because the platform penalizes them when an owner cancels. You would be lucky if the place you booked was even available when you arrived. I usually get a hotel room in any situation, then book on these sites later. That way I have a place without being put out and dragging my luggage around. I even check out the place the first day with my luggage back in the hotel, then retrieve it later after I get the keys. It’s the dumb Thai property owners that’s the problem, not the platform btw.

Do you have to eat in the condo/hotel, or can you walk outside to get food? I had an elderly neighbor that was too old to walk far, carry groceries etc., and he hired a young lady that went with him on errands, carried groceries up the stairs, etc.

How do you get food and other things if you can’t walk well? Do you live right downtown where everything is close by?

Somebody said earlier that people actually enjoy complaining, so who cares if your listening?

What’s the next step down, those cinderblock rooms that resemble shantytowns, or are there worse condos then Flybird?

After seeing some of the other units in the building I have lost interest. Look at this unit for 350k. That’s pretty depressing. I think I would rather just rent a nicer place.

The reason people don’t do it in other countries, like the USA for example, who don’t absolutely have to, is because with cheap and small you get nasty crime. Anything small like this you would be living with ghetto, drugs and crime and risking being shot or stabbed. Thailand and many parts of Asia are unusual in that you can live cheap and small and not be at much personal risk.

I thought of that, but looking back even the more expensive rooms I have been in, and even nice hotels, have often just been a rectangular room with windows on one end with nice furniture in there. So what’s the difference here. Put in some nice furniture and it becomes a nice, although admittingly small, apartment inside. One thing that puts me off it is the lack of a balcony though. I like to sit outside so that may be a dealbreaker. It would be better if it had a sit on balcony.

Probably pretty low if there are. I’m safe buying through an agent, right? Is there anything I need to worry about just letting it sit empty and leaving the country, or would I need to be around watching it?

I usually pay around 18-20k a month in rent so it would break even in under 2 years.

Is this a good idea? There is an apartment at Flybird for only 399,000 baht. 26 square meters. It looks clean and decent. Is that price reasonable or too high? It does not look like much but I could get some nice leather furniture and lamps and I think it could work instead of renting and paying the first, last and deposit. I would own it forever so it would always be there.

There used to be many people who jumped off their balconies in those days. They called it the Pattaya flying club. There was also a farang deaths website that tracked each death and always had pictures when somebody jumped. Is the jumping still happening? I have not heard of one in years.

Can people be happy complaining, I wonder. ????????‍♂️

If the landlord knows how to read. Many people here just fake it and actually never learned to read.

I’m not sure, but it still won’t get done right.

They may be miserable people though and not “like” to do it. Getting wasted at breakfast and going for a nap all day is not a recipe for long term happiness.

The rest of them got pushed back into Burma by Thai soldiers to be fired upon by the military there, so that one lady was very lucky.

It’s just a PR stunt, not a real crack down.

Food stalls all over, just walk down the street.

Sounds good theoretically, but real life does not work that way for a lot of people. It’s hard to do that every day if you don’t have a reason or excuse to do so, because the motivation and right mindset is not there. Many people need work or a reason to enjoy life, then do those things along the way.