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When I lived in a rural area a car was good to have. Motorbike trips in the rain are not a lot of fun plus always felt a lot safer and more comfortable in a nice a/c car. When I lived in BKK or Pattaya I did not want or need as SkyTrain, baht buses and taxis are fine for my needs.

and meantime millions of people guzzle red bull ....shame on anyone who supports anything to do with this spoiled rich brat piece of excrement and his family

same thing with buddy who owned porsche...everytime he took for oil change it was always something else and cost $1000 +.....he finally got tired of it and bought a toyota which has had zero problems...

I started out trying to force myself to listen to ten minutes a day of Thai vocabulary words on an MP3 while doing daily walk...ultimately cut it to five minutes and listened to several different lessons over and over day after day, month after month...some days had to force myself to do it but small "price to pay 5 mins a day" of a 90 minute walk ...ultimately did learn to say and understand quite a few very useful words but putting them together in the proper order to make sentences took some time...but have to say that the Thais i practiced on were very helpful and even though i often had words in wrong order etc they seemed to get a laugh out of it all and it was always good fun...as for learning to read i did take a few lessons and can read words like hong nam, toilet etc...but remember even if you can read you still need to know what the word you are reading actually means...i will never ever be close to fluent in Thai but just knowing a bunch of words is not all that hard to do and if you make it fun by practicing on Thai people it can lead to some good laughs...

i lived surrounded by big rice paddies for several years...had a klong that ran along my perimeter wall. It was wonderful as beautiful fields of bright green turning to amber...got to watch the planting and harvest from my deck which was always interesting to me...the workers were mostly all women coverd head to toe who would laugh and talk sing song as they worked from 8 am til 5 pm......then came the men with big machines to haul rice off and plow the remaining stubble under..after harvest it sat idle and sun baked it hard as a rock til the rains came and then on one particular night dozens of Thais showed up as all hundreds of big frogs emerged from mud and were harvested....never had a snake inside my walls as they seemed to prefer the klong which was full of frogs small fish etc...next door was a big limestone mountain with caves full of bats who came out at night and took care of the mosquitoes....i loved it all....then one day trucks appeared and in a matter of hours/days big portions were filled with dirt and all kinds of buildings eventually went up destroying what was once a beautiful sight...i sold out and moved on as no doubt soon would follow more buildings, karaoke, etc etc...

How about YOU stay out of the gym if you cannot follow the posted rules and requirement that masks are required in gyms? Or are you somehow "special"?

Have a rich red bull daddy and do coke speed kill and drag a cop, try to cover it all up, flee the country and flaunt you are untouchable as you socialize around the world no problem. Receive assistance from top judges and politicians to hide evidence and create delay after delay to try and run out clock on charges. No problem. Be prime minister and promise crackdown on corruption except among hi-so, No problem. Be a poor girl from Isaan trying to make money to support her family, stand on corner of soi 4 every night and solicit every passing male for prostitution. LOCK EM UP.

And rest assured that when the antivaxxer ends up with covid they will run to the hospitals demanding treatment from doctors and nurses with a variety of drugs/treatments created by those same scientists and experts that they have scoffed at for the past year. Moron is too kind a word.

So IF IF IF everyone had gotten the shots like adults when first available instead of playing pretend doctors and scientists and fighting all attempts to get to 100 % vax rates would the virus ever have mutated to the point that it may well shut down the world again? I don't think so. The virus is very "smart". People not so much.

Thanks yes I think antigen ok for usa and trendy very convenient for me

As long as there are multitudes of men willing to pay significant money for the "company" of ladies there will be ladies all over the world willing to take that money and provide that company. Bar owners also understand that having some hot girls available will always increase alcohol sales and keep those bar seats filled.

never mind found this: https://thaiest.com/blog/covid-19-tests-in-thailand

What are the options for getting a test to return to USA?...test has to be within 24 hours of departure so need to have results quickly. I understand bumrangrad charges about 4700 THB which seems expensive.\ Anyone have listing of other cheaper reliable places in lower Sukhumvit area? What type of covid test is required for travelling to the United States? The test must be a SARS-CoV-2 viral test (nucleic acid amplification test [NAAT] or antigen test) with Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

He should have donated 5 k baht a day to local police and no problem

"Foreign arrivals under “test and go” and “sandbox” schemes are the only ones subject to a maximum of one-day quarantine while awaiting their negative COVID RT-PCR test results

more bs https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/980035707/lying-through-truth-misleading-facts-fuel-vaccine-misinformation

The last time I was there I would say maybe 1/3 or more of the people on the ship got so fed up with the rip off taxi mafia ($400 USD r/t Bangkok for example) that they just stayed on the ship meaning that they spent nothing in Thailand. Truly disgusting.

I have been on over 70 cruises all over the world. Laem Chabang port is controlled by a taxi mafia that is one of the worst I have ever seen anywhere and they rule with an iron fist insuring that passengers get fleeced. It all operates very openly with posted taxi fares to Pattaya and Bangkok at prices that are truly obscene. Obviously a Mr Big is receiving some very nice fat envelopes and TAT is either on the take or scared to mention the stain that this creates for visiting cruise passengers. The ships dock at a mile or more walk from the front gate so good luck with older passengers being able to escape the mafia. Heaven help any taxi that are not allowed by Mafia that tries to pick up any passengers near the ships.

Vaccines have never ever been promoted by any serious person as a "cure". They are a preventative measure that have been enormously successful for decades in reducing the spread and severity of a variety of diseases.

Put out a reward for anyone who provides his whereabouts and the bounty hunters would find him in a week or less. Of course that would indicate that the "justice" system of Thailand really wants to find him to face the music. An even bigger Lie than lost elections...."equal justice for all".

thanks all..usa.. .don't need til next fall so hopefully borders open then...at least it appears worst case is 60 + 30 days and best case 60 +30 then leave and get new 60 + 30 in vietnam or Laos...would like six months total ..if not then will make 3 months work.

Not using turn signals is certainly not just a thai thing...no shortage of idiot drivers in most all countries....never ceases to amaze me how many brand new cars often mercedes must not be equipped with turn signals or their drivers don't know what they are for as they rarely use them....

so can not be extended at immigration for sure?

If T has done it he would have had his picture embossed on the vials and sold them to the highest bidder along with a bright lite to stick up your butt for $39.99 extra (all made in china of course).

Does the 60 day tourist visa still exist? If yes can it still be extended an extra 30 days at immigration? Can I leave at 90 days and get another 60 day tourist visa at Thai consul/embassy in Laos or Vietnam etc allowing me to come back to Thailand for another 60/90 days? Thanks for any up to date info.