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7 hours ago, cardinalblue said:

Air quality is incredible important to westerners…we were raised in it as a right to breathe clean air….

 

So expectations are extremely high…

True, I have a very slight respiratory problem. No problem what so ever in most countries I visit.  But, in Thailand it makes it absolutely not livable several months a year. I thought I had out grown the problem. Also the older I am getting, 70 now. It is getting worse for me there. I didn't have allot of problems yeas ago when I used to live there. Now it is not possible. 

17 hours ago, Maha Sarakham said:

Florida is a very nice and less expensive alternative to California.

Problem is rent and buying a home is so expensive now it is crazy. I bought a home in Texas about 18 years ago. If i had to come back and rent I could not afford it. The US is getting crazy. My appraisal value on my home here went up almost 50,000 since last year's appraisal.. It is insaine.

Haha, what a clown show.

Haha, you guys are crazy... Love these TOT threads..

So what!  Happens everywhere. Christmas, New Years. It flattens back out and most are mild cases.

Just looked out my window here in the US.. The house about 5 houses down is doing a good business. The cops pass by all the time ..

This is a middle class neighborhood.

Why would I come to Thailand for hemp... ha.

19 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Too  right, the only  people responsible for their debt is themselves reminds me of  gamblers who blame advertisers when its  them that dont have any self  control, If  I couldnt save up to  buy it, I didnt, iTs  not hard to understand, the stupid  thing is  unlike many western countries they dont have to   in general get a mortgage for 25+  years many of them have land and a  "home"  already

Combine that with the fact they are too  lazy to do  a  lot of  manual work but  happy  to sit and moan how they aint got  any  money, always want the easy lazy  way. Impossible to find  anyone to work on the  land these  days who is Thai.

What actually needs  changing is the mindset of many Thais

Same in the US. It's a mess here. 

If China follows Russias lead. Tourism in Thailand will be R&R for the Chinese and Russian soldiers..

Western expats will be in a rush to get out. 

I wonder what is going on with the western expats in Russia and the Ukraine that got caught up in that mess? 

I lived in Kolok for a while. I bet the Malaysian young, men were about to bust.... haha

But, when I was there you could bypass immigration with little trouble. 

I wonder how it was during the pandemic. Anyone living on the border there have a comment?

Search?  Most getting hit with Thai span and clicking on the search engine.  

1 hour ago, zzaa09 said:

By most instances, life is a scam.

Whattaya gonna do.....

Only if you let it scam you!

12 hours ago, bluejets said:

Out of touch with reality and incompetent at governing the country.

Meanwhile the tourist dependant Thais still hang on by the skin of their teeth (if they are lucky) economically.

It not just the tourist dependent Thais.   It is devastating the economy. 

I have a friend in a small town in the north. They tell me they have never seen anything like it.

Anyone betting against the US for being a financial global superpower for the foreseeable future has political propaganda dry rot in their head. haha

Chinese economy is in the toilet. If and when it ever rebounds then we can resurrect this thread.

Chinese immigrants have owned Thailand for years. US is not even in the picture.

Thailand is clickbait capitol.

Thai tourism council has 0 pull. Not organized and no money to spread around apparently.