Marco51

probably the "foreigner " was Chinese ...........or she would have called Anutin with some soap......and a purely medical joint...........

foreigners , if from Europe or the west, are defined by their probable country of origin, if chinese or likely chinese they are resembling foreigners or simply foreigners. By order of his excellency the embassador of the evil empire.

....and being a very polite Thai he/she will share said liquids so as not to be offensive................

Experience.............

does it have any PM 2.5 ?????

Start looking out for curtain hotels and the number in any town or city is staggering and they don't really ALL function as tax write-offs, do they? In my direct residential middle class area I know of , say, 6-8, and when driving past cars actually do enter and exit, probably just to make a U-turn. Taking the secretary along for the ride. Hey, guys, nothing wrong with these figures , as far as any statistics that I did not fake myself may be believed, good on them. Think of the smut places you need to go to (after convincing your "partner" of fresh bed sheets) for example in Hamburg or London or A'dam.......in the US in some places you'd likely get arrested for sex per se not used to multiply under the gods' eyes. And here you always have an additional service bloke filming or fotographing you in the act, even with a zoom or night goggles......where else do you get this?! And the author is wrong : since Modi sex in India has quadrupled, just not voluntarily, at least for the women being participated.

....oh, they were chinese ?.......and here I am thinking the eejit tried to film to see if someone else's dick is large than his teeny one, can be no other reason to film something that one despises.............or he is Christian? Or Taliban? They have that habit too, the devil lurks in any type of fun....that others have. The land of the curtain hotels strikes again!

There are "stupid" farang who have lived and worked there for decades and have no choice unless they give up all they have invested here and go back to the street in Europe.....all for the greed and incompetence of an unelected government and a handful of unusually rich .....

right, and apart from CCTV following you around, face recognition, fingerprinting at immigration, reporting when you go play golf in another province, it is now that the banks and the government knows every chewing gum you buy and how many bottles of wine , etc etc etc. Next they will "ask" you to wear4 the bracelet "for your health of course and personal safety" that reports where you have been and to your insurance wether you exercise or need a higher premium. Aaaah yes, cars also have a reporting system already and newer ones even record if you are tired by checking your eye movements. Who needs an evil emperor when we are already doiung this ourselves..............ooops, and I was not only talking about China's latest satelite Thailand but most of Europe.

Sell Phuket to China, they can then let the triads and the russian mafia fight it out, the evil emperor can take over from the winner and send in some gunships with water cannon to swart renitent tourists. After all, China is always in need of islands that belong to other people thousands of miles from China(incl. occupied lands) and Russia loves to go to war about the same thing......... and maybe Thailand will get some 2nd hand unmotorised submarines for it from China or oil from russia....ooops, already. Israel comes to mind, they also love other peoples' country, but they leave so few buildings standing, although the people problem is definately gone afterwards...... OK, not an option. That's what can happen when your major part of income is focusing on mass tourism , come what (pollution, garbage, corruption, greed, violence....) may, figures and statistics are all that counts. Oh, nostalgia, I spent a honeymoon on Phuket almost 40 years ago and shared Patong beach with 4 or 5 normal people .............enough said.

The problem for many expat apartment owners or interested parties who actually intend to live in one will be that most of at least the chinese owners buy these as investment using them as Air BnB apartments with constant in and out and party and noise and and and. This in Thailand completely unregulated market is already fact in almost all apartment buildings in the low and medium priced section in Chiang Mai and even Thai owners being not so touchy about their peace and quiet are completely unnerved meanwhile. And the question is here : making money in this way in Thailand, then Air BnB transfering it out to a Bank, probably in Hongkong or Cyprus or Malta: no tax, ey? Not like the petty pensions of the unshowered farang, right ? Those Must be taxed 1 way or another.

You apply for your yearly Non-B ? Then just wait. It will be additional documents s.a. tax declaration, declarations from your bank here and (as the international ones eventually get reported ) the one abroad, then the ID has a list of (crooked, almost impossible to understand ) boxes to tick off. Ticked: fine, 1 left out: bring more documents. I predict the expat community and the amount of pensioners will slowly disappear to Vietnam, the Phillip Peenes and be replaced by Chinese and Privilege Card holders. Hey guys, maybe Europe is more expensive but fair and the pollution....... Wasn't it Thaksin 20 years ago who came up with this Privileged card in the 1st place? Hmmmmm............

....and every ATM withdrawal gets reported?...................

what do you dream at night after the 11th beer chang? The Chinese are pressing the point and our dear self-elected leader will stand to attention, apart from .......berttter cancel that. Have you not heard that at times returnees to china get tested wether they have consumed? Probably running out of space at the "reeducation camps"................the only religion is the stalinist party, the only drug is the e vil emperor. By the way, do more tourists come to parts of the US of A , Canada or soon Germany because they don't have to queue up at the corner for a hit? Legalise all drugs , public health education and let everyone be responsible for him/herself. Down with nanny states.

...........yes, german style : exact regulations meaning everything is sooo bureaucratic that it makes more sense to get pissed or keep buying the dope in the dark corners................