Point Arguello

Evidently you are deflecting from the context here Hoss. This is about Pattaya not the UK or Madagascar. If your not in Pattaya then refer to the Pattaya news section. Even Stevie Wonder could see who 90% of the (too many) screw ups around here are

Indeed and this unknown exposure in Thailand may require shoring ups with the foreign currency reserves leaving less of those reserves that are currently proping up the baht.

Too many thai males in Pattaya . And to answer the question: Yes safe crossing are easy but you may have to wait 20 minutes for a clearing- your call

Maybe by destruction of the native natural environment along the beach cities: For example the North end of Jomtien just past the police building : That area to the North was a nice shady sandy area with alot of native Casuarina trees . Now it is a large parking lot with palm trees. And that parking lot has very few cars at any time. The oblivious chinese don't care but for Westerners it's another bogus contract/kickback project at the expense of a nice natural environment. And there are plans to continue this same destruction Southward. Following the same playbook that turned the Pattaya beach promenade into a glorified Rd. As I've said a few times: July/August used to be a mini high season for Europeans along Pattaya beach. The city lost that crowd to endless construction with Chinese tour buss traffic where you could about walk the length of Beach Rd on top of tour busses. Now with the tour busses gone you have beach side pickup party parking.

The Thai economist ,Chartchai wrote an article on the situation. Titled " Why do I Smell Tom yum kung cooking"And among the observations :

Short falls in tourism and exports. Is that why the Bank of Thailand continues to prop up the baht to artificial levels?? We shall see how that works out.

Commonly known as a word salad

Could care less who is running this country from whatever means. Only two things matter in my book: visa requirements & exchange rate.

But the bahts value now is not in line with fundamentals. And if those fundamentals, tourism, exports, outflows, household debt/consumer spending keep going South then how sustainable is this artificial baht exchange rate. Those foreign currency reserves are going to be needed to cover the aboves.

You can do some searching on what this Thai economist knows about the foreign currency reserves and the Bank of Thailand intervening in the exchange rate.

Teflon bought with billions in foreign currency reserves (37 $billion in past two and a half years) by BOT to prop up/defend the baht. https://www.thaienquirer.com/44229/thai-baht-heads-to-near-37-baht-us-as-bot-defends-its-use-of-19-billion-in-defending-the-currency/

And if the Bank of Thailand was not spending foreign currency reserves defending the baht the exchange rate would be about 58baht/pound. According to Chartchai Parasuk,a noted Thai economist: The BOT has already spent $37 billion defending the baht over the past two and a half years. If not the baht would be 45/$

Boo hoo hooo. That is why Jomtien is nice: Small seafood places on the seafront and cheap accommodation. While it lasts. Pizza hut displaced some hole in the wall seafood places in S. Jomtien. And now plans to destroy "improve the promenade" like these jerks did along Pattaya beach. Have a look at history:

Nope ?? Speak for yourself

Those are exceptions inflation is about 10%: Suppose 10 years ago something was 500 baht, now 1500. The compound interest formula applies. With logs and algebra this is shown .

Indeed and besides tattoos also block cigarette smokers . There is a correlation these days.It's bad enough putting up with all these cigarette smoking locals.

Something like this in Cambodia looks goodhttps://www.tiktok.com/t/ZSLQcGHm3/ : Mr Ton from TicToc. * Wait 5 sec for dancers

Something like this:

Well the girls sure were dancing to R&R then. Pattayalands 2000's Before in was Indianized . What could work now is these R&R songs with a Techno beat.

This is a go go promo on the beach South end early 2000's In lower left photo the Ko Larn ferry boats and pier in background

Early 2000's Pattaya lands

A go go like Rodeo Girls that was on the Pattayalands would do well today playing R&R with the girls dancing to Brown Sugar.

They have no one to blame but themselves. With the slop the girls can't even dance to. The go go's on the Pattayalands, Sois 13/4, 13/3 sure were doing well.

Not in Pattaya