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It does not take a rocket scientist to look around pattaya and jomtiem and see the explosive growth of more and more massive condos, more bangkok visitors, more people, more businesses and all the crap and problems that generally comes with such massive growth. All of that over time will contribute to more trash, more noise, more traffic, more crime, etc. The problem seems to be that the powers that be love all the big money projects that flow in but do not seem to have much of a plan or finance to improve the necessary infrustrutre , cleaning staff, cops, secuirty , traffic enforcement to deal with it....this is the area where mai pen rie just is not gonna cut it because it does matter more and more not just to tourists but locals as well. They can pass laws and put up signs til the cows come home but if nobody seriously enforces it why bother? It really does take some serious people serious planning serious money and serious law enforcement...digging up beach road every few weeks and redoing the tile yet again and saying mai pen rie is not gonna fix the problems. All sorts of problems come with growth all over the world...some places deal with it fairly well....others not well at all....

That is what happened to me...got an email from them saying where is your outbound flight...i responded i planned to leave thailand overland. Next day i got the evisa via email with no further comment or questions. This was from Los Angeles embassy. No idea if they are all same or not.

So why not just tell them you are departing Thailand by land rather than all the BS of a fake ticket? I have never ever had an airline ask to see my departing flight ticket though i guess it is possible....but some people indeed may be doing a trip around several countries and do not know when or where they plan to fly home from and do not want to commit to some nonrefundable ticket or big change fees..it's called being a tourist. That is what i did with thai evisa bunch, going out overland, and they did accept it and issued the e visa.

Some truly amazing posts on here. So if somebody goes on line and says over and over that he doesn't like YOU and is going to kill you as well as several of your colleagues and the police go to his house in an effort to protect YOU. The police already know the guy has a house full of guns as he has posted that over and over and has threatened over and over to use them. So the guy pulls a gun on the police and after telling him over and over to drop the weapon that he is pointing at them the cops shoot him then according to some of the posters on here the police should have just left him alone as they have violated his "free speech"? How far down the rabbit hole do you have to be to say crap like that? Pathetic.

Take a chance to get beat with a tire iron over 10 baht and 10 minutes of your time? I don't think so. Maybe happens once in six months if that. Move on.,

I do not know but from story it seems to be a recent event or at least it has gotten louder......I don't thnk there is enough due diligence in the world to protect you from various neighbors, noise, etc in Thailand. At least they are down on the beach and not next door or right above or below you going on all night long with the building refusing to do anything....buy a house out in the country and live in peace and quiet for years,,,then somebody opens a karaoke bar across the street and good luck with due diligence. Of course to be protected you would need to buy or control several acres all around your property and then next thing you know the road outside turns into a loud motorbike "raceway" for a bunch of wild teens...TIT

I do not know who did what but it is probably not a good idea to greet FBI agents with a gun after making a bunch of death threats online and they loudly announce FBI at your door which you refuse to open and they have to use a battering ram....with FBI likely knowing that you have a variety of weapons which indeed you did....that is not going to generally end well....and freedom of speech does not include making death threats against presidents of the USA..... “Six rounds go off in pretty quick succession, and then the SWAT team you hear [him] yell ‘Shots fired! Shots fired! He has a gun!’ and then a whole bunch more shots,” the witness says they lost count of how many fired.

sure seem to create a lot of chaos for short stays.....

Fancy doing your due diligence and then LATER the beach in front of you turns into loud bluetooth speaker singing drunks party central from midnight til sunrise...so much for lying in bed with balcony doors open and a fan instead of a/c and listening to the waves and the ocean.

but who wants to BUY a fake ticket...ultimately i told them i am leaving overland and all of a sudden they said oh ok....i think it depends on which clerk handles your application as seems it is up to them and some are easy some are pain in the butt....best advice is to start the process early, take several deep breaths and a valium, and don't be surprised if u have to go back and forth on several pics or questions til u ultimately get it...

and if you sort of like to leave door open and live with fan instead of a/c? i think the problem is not the party but the increasing loud bluetooth speakers not to mention lots of drunks yelling all night long....and yes i know TIT so good luck with any controls....now IF IF a mr big from bangkok in the Penthouse suite of a building was disturbed i suspect the beach would be cleared in a few days and it would be the sound of the surf only....

Yep what a pain in the butt..i did one last year and if anything it has gotten worse..so absurd that they seemed surprised that i was leaving thailand by land like i was first ever to do that...i did figure out the hotel thing last year after big hassle and booked 90 days no $$ til check in, got the confirmation send them screenshot...they say no screenshots so take a pic with camera of screen and send them that and they say ok though not nearly as clear as screenshot...and the pic of me standing in front of white wall...my wall is white but lightly textured and they would not accept after five attempts...go stand in garage and take a pic not nearly as clear and it works...and of course there is the take a pic of your passport page showing last year or so....but of course it is not all on one page and requires two pics but they only allow download one pic... .whoever designed the whole thing is a sadistic SOB...but yet day after day people have to deal with it...i am reasonably ok with computers but some older guy not so inclined would NEVER be able to figure out all the downloads etc...now i have to cancel my agoda booking...can u even imagine if you are traveling all over thailand for 60 days (u know like a TOURIST applying for a tourist visa might do) that u would have a different booking for couple dozen hotels to give them and how many pics downloads of confirmations that would take....i wonder if the people in the thai embassy have ever been on a trip in their lives but u would think that after a few years of dealing with same questions over and over day after day they might actually say OH so that is how this tourist thing works...wrong.

Fancy living in a nearby condo and having the audacity to want to go to sleep.

Only a true kool aid drinking trumper could find a way to try and blame this on the biden/garland DOJ and a far left conspiracy and not even mention or recognize that trump is the one who has fanned the flames of violence over and over, created legal problems and indictments by his own actions, and this idiot as described in the story was a full fledged trumper out on a mission... .I cannot read this man's mind but it would certainly appear from the story that he was "inspired" by the MAGA anti biden anti garland movement that has been created and propogated by trump over and over and over.... and the "far left conspiracy" is that the one where republican after republican are the very witnesses that have testified under oath as to what they personally saw and heard trump do as relates to criminal activites by trump....so i gues those brilliant left wing dems somehow managed to get to all those republicans and convince them to tell lie after lie under oath naming the man that they worked with/for and had voted for providing more than enough probable cause that a grand jury indicted trump on criminal charges....wow that is some great work by the left wing and biden and garland to pull that off....

I just went through similar....my flight departing is from viet nam....they wanted to see my flight departure and i told them i was going overland to viet nam so not flying out of thailand...they said ok and that was that...hassled me to death over lots of other stuff as would not accept screen shots etc and did not like the pics of myself that i attached etc ,,also wanted to see confirmation of every hotel for 60 days which of course is absurd as i want to travel around an stay here and there ....finallyt...went on agod and booked a hotel that did not require payment...sent them that confirmation and will now cancel it....all took two weeks and more BS than can imagine but finally got approved...good luck...

Having just gone through t e wringer of trying to get a 60 day tourist visa online i wonder what kind of visa these kids are getting...I have been in / out of thailand dozens of times over 30 years...never once overstayed, never a hint of any trouble, no police record anywhere, and yet it took two weeks and about 5++ hours of taking this pic and that, air flights, bank statements, hotel confirmations, pics of all passport pages for last year, pic of me standing against a wall,...and then oh cant accept screen shots only jpeg and pdf and on and on with a ton of hassles and BS... .I keep foolishly thinking that why don't they check my history in their computers and see i have never caused any problem, have played by the rules and now am a harmless old man who would like to come spend a few months in thailand spending $$ and be in bed by 10 pm.....gee maybe we should not hassle the hell out of this old man and spend a bit more energy weeding out people with police records, bad behavior record in their home country or in Thailand. So again what kind of visa do these kids have and if the cops arrest them and put that in the computer then don't let them in again without requiring all kinds of conditions?? And maybe not just kids...don't let obvious troublemaker adults in either or if you do make the requirements a lot tougher on them than someone with a spotless record for decades....

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Thank you for that info....seems very cheap at 1000 thb for middle of night but i will of course give the driver a nice tip if all is ok...

Surprised the anti weed gang is not somehow trying to say they were all hyped up on the devil weed...ironically if they had skipped the booze and smoked weed they would most likely had a few slices of pizza and listened to the music with a big smile on their faces and gone home with no problems. Alcohol on the other hand seems to bring out the absolute worst in many and convinces some that they are invincible. Hint: You are not.

looks good to me....i see when u book they do ask for your flight number so i assume if u got delayed they would be aware of it....

Any possiblity that you could hire a pro tutor to work with the kid couple hours after school without wife being involved and that might calm situation ...mabye wife is horrible at trying to help with homework and just confuses the kid? Good luck to you and the kid. I believe that all kids should get a chance to be a kid sometimes and not have the nose to the grindstone every waking minute.

Any good recommendations? Can you book in advance and they monitor your flight if should be late? Arrive approx midnight at swampy after long flight so don't want any drama. Approximate price standard car two big suitcases one person to central pattaya? Thank you.

And it appeared that a farang who probably weighs twice as much as the bouncer thought it would be a fair fight for a great big farang to slap a little bitty Thai. How did that work out?

So in Tree Town near skaw beach hotel end.

How sad that people will have a dog that is totally suited for cold weather climates and use them to strenghten their ego to have something different by having one in thailand...they care nothing for the dog other than as a converstation piece...there are plenty of dogs that are fine in hot weather but not cold weather and vice versa. Don't be a dick.