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Agree totally! Been here 30+ years and you'd think I'd be used to Thai drivers.......but I'm not! You have to drive defensively 95% of the time and keep your head on a swivel looking out for anything that might be headed your way, epecially the uninsured motorcycle riders! I could go on and on, but I won't, anybody who's driven here any amount of time knows what I'm talking about.

Male 65 years old--120,000 baht a year, my wife 61 years old--84,000 baht a year, depending on exchange rate approx $3500 USD/$2470USD respectively

Good to see something like this as govt spending/waste is the main reason the US is 36 trillion in debt. It can't keep going the way it is, eventually the US won't be able to service it's debt. I wish them luck because as thaibeachlovers said, it's a herculean task!

I live full time in Thailand, it won't affect me at all.....sabai sabai

Nooooo, not in Pattaya, and with a fake ID(?!), that's hard to believe! 55555

Improvise, adapt, and overcome, the Thai way!

No red flags went off in her mind after talking with him about legal advice then all of a sudden he asked her if she had a boyfriend............hmmmm. Then wanting some piano lessons, c' mon Jan!

Uhhhhhh, been married 30+ years to the same Thai woman, couldn't be happier, so maybe this Filipina shouldn't make generalizations. Has she ever been to Thailand or just spouting off "what she's heard?" There is "marriage material" in all nationalities, and vice versa. It's like a minefield, better to tread carefully until you know where it's safe to walk.

A Brit that ran a boiler room operation in Pattaya--among other things, that was murdered supposedly by a friend. Don't know if I'm allowed to post the link but it is from Aseannow so here it is:

You'd think they would keep their visas up to date so as not to arouse suspicion.....but then again, most criminals aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer hence why they end up in prison.....or dead. I guess they never heard of Tony Kenway.

Drunken parties like most other celebrations in Thailand.

Typical rich Thai, more worried about reputation--losing face, than the actual charge of theft! TIT

Canadian truck drivers learned about a cashless society in 2022, bank accounts frozen because they were protesting. Cash is king!

The thing is also, how many people, even if they want to go to the business blocking the parking, are going to stop, get out and ask the business owner to move the cones/chairs so they park and go inside their shop.....probably not many. So the business owner is losing out to everyone that wants to shop at their place of business. Personally if I see a business doing this I make a point not to shop there, it's city property not the business owners.

A 100k fine for any business doing this would probably stop it.....but we know that's not going to happen so back to business as usual tomorrow. TIT

55555, anything about foreigners owning Thai land--even with a 99 year lease, never going to happen. Or maybe it'll go on the books as law but it will be so difficult to navigate all the hurdles it won't be worth it. Kind of like the law that foreigners can own one rai of land for a personal dwelling, been hearing that off and on for 30+ years.

If found guilty, into a wood chipper while still alive. Some crimes are unforgivable.

Developer probably didn't distribute enough brown envelopes. TIT

I clean the dust filters monthly and have a contractor do a deep clean-complete disassembly, every 3-4 months. Pretty amazing the amount of dirt/sludge that gets on the evaporator and fan, especially the fan. The one time I tried to stretch the interval out to 6 months the drain got clogged from all the debris, started leaking on the floor. The unit runs approx 12 hrs a day. The thing to think about is not so much the dry dust but the mold that's forming on the evaporator and fan.

It's Asia, brown envelopes all around makes people go blind.

As others have said, I also had a friend that contracted shingles, I asked him if the vaccine was worth it, his reply, "Worth every penny, get it." He described the pain as having your nerves on fire, not really something I'd like to experience.

How about Thailand goes after corruption in its own house to gain revenue instead of always looking at tourists/farangs?! I'm sure there's trillions of baht being squandered away every year. Oh, that's right, we can't ask those types of questions, people will get upset and lose face. Easier to go after the farangs, easy targets.

I wouldn't exactly call "holding hands and hugging" abusing, but that's just me. Grooming, maybe, but hopefully we'll never know as maybe he learned his lesson--no pun intended.

Larger pipes obviously help but they've got to get the water OUT of the pipes, if you don't, they just act like a reservoir, fill up, then back up which is what's happening now in most parts of the city. I don't know how many times they've installed larger pipes on beach road and it's still the same. I guess the constant construction does provide a steady stream of revenue for all those involved........

Go team Spain, stop the invasion!