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There is no requirement to do in a shop. The idea is not to serve an intoxicated person on the spot. Buying alcohol at a shop doesn't mean you're about to drink it.

It could be fairly argued that Malaysia is more beautiful. But people don't only travel to look at scenery.

You'd think a big part of the motivation for Chinese people to travel would to be to get a break from this kind of surveillance.

For sure. This question used to be specifically whether you have had same sex sexual activity in the past 3 months. Not whether you are actually gay.

As I said. Screening is irrelevant if it's during the window period as even if you keep the blood it won't show positive on a test because the antibody process will stop, and therefore there's nothing to test, even if the blood contains HIV.

The problem is that a HIV test doesn't actually test for the presence of HIV virus in the blood. It tests for antigens and antibodies that take several weeks to appear. If blood is taken from the body during that window period that blood will never test positive as it's no longer part of the body's immune system which would eventually produce the antibodies which show up in a test.

Statistically 11-15% of Thai men who have sex with men are HIV positive. A significant decrease from 20 years ago when it was 34%. But still a lot higher than 1% for the population as a whole.

I don't know of any normal visa that costs more than 1900 apart from METV or Elite Visa. Don't know much about Digital nomad visa, but SETV and Non B are 1900 baht.

50 baht per dish (30 where I live) is normal. But it isn't really a whole meal.

10% seems high. Most younger people in western countries live week to week and save nothing. Most people I know back in Australia live off credit cards.

1900 baht is the price of a 12 month extension.

Never in 20 years. What are you up to if you have encounters with them? I got pulled over once for doing a U turn on a red light and paid a fine. That's the only encounter I have ever had, and it was all done legitimately, no bribes.

Plenty of Thai women pay their own way, and some even financially support their farang bf. Paying for your Thai gf isn't universal.

I see this so much on social media. Farangs who think their experiences are normal. Most Thai women around here work and contribute, and are often the bread winners. I know some farang guys who actually have their gf paying bills for them because the gf earns more than he does. Also the going out and getting drunk "like most Thai woman". Almost every family I know here, the man drinks, and the wife doesn't. You see some young women in the bars (well dressed middle class women, not bar girls, we don't have them in my town), but very rarely ever see married women drinking here.

Because it's one of the wealthiest countries in the world. So it is surprising to see a much poorer country having a lot less poverty.