if I had my time again I don't think I would have chosen here.
There are many better places to live and make money,
places where you arent treated with suspicion and/or a potential criminal because you are a foreigner.
There are easier places to get PR or become a citizen,
Thailand makes this extraordinarily difficult for the average farang, and they know it!
it's like them dangling a sweet carrot in front of our noses and they enjoy watching us suffer..
this whole 90 day reporting I find completely ridiculous,
it's like they want to exert an almost sadistic control over us to make sure we are behaving as they want us to.
It's very authoritarian when you actually look at it from an objective standpoint.
when you are in it you kinda get used to it, but from an outsider looking in it does seem rather onerous.
but on the whole I go with the old 70/30 rule.
it was 70% good and 30% bad.
sadly the 30% was quite pronounced and Thailand has given me scars that may never heal.
I only hope that I don't take that resentment with me to my next destination.
and if there is a Thai sitting next to me on the plane, well, he/she is going to have a very memorable journey!
bob.