mamborobert

I have had Siinet for over a year and to me they are great (reliability/cost/speed wise).  They have been out one time to install.  They have never contacted me by phone.  Bills arrive by mail, I pay online, keep updated on services and packages via their Line group, and when I wanted an upgrade my package I just visited their kiosk at Central and they did it remotely in two working days.  

On the few times when they have been down generally there have been complaints about the lack of answering call centre calls, as they tend to give updates via Line so it seems unusual for them to cold call.

What you are describing sounds very odd.  I would be more concerned that it is nobody connected with Siinet that is phoning you at all.  It would be well worth your effort to go to one of their kiosks and explain your concern.  At least then you will know if it is them or not.  And if it is not that is a whole new set of concerns.

Not sure of your price range (or auto/man or engine size etc) as most of the yards I know do not sell cars under the 200k Baht mark but the CM FB Buy Sell Swap page has a vehicles fairly frequently with a broad price/make range so might be worth a look.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/305872182829627/

also FB pages like

https://www.facebook.com/chiangmaicar2you/

Does anyone know how accurate and reliable these figures are for CMIS (or indeed all CM sites when they can go down for 24 hours easy).  It seems that it (CMIS)  is consistently much higher than Yupparaj Wittayalai.  They are not  that far away from each other (say max of 2.5km straight line) and no significant topographical features between each other, bar the river .  Is it possible to get so different readings in such a relatively short distance given measure is purely generalised burning rather than something always happening at one site?

As an example in the last 48 hours CMIS  for PM 2.5 has a min of 91 and a max of 370 whereas Yupparaj has a min of 53 and a max of 196.

Similar event at Karnkanok six months ago, I thought I had seen a report in TV as well.

26 minutes ago, evenstevens said:

What is wrong with sub letting etc etc???

most   landlords,  are so hard up here,  in C/mai,  largely due to a massive over supply ,    the savvy  ones,  could ,nt give a fluff about subletting etc etc that goes on , its all about having your peice of the action, rented out  365 days a year, otherwise your R.O.I. plummetts  to ????

its what u don,t see,,will never hurt you,  good afternoon to all

 

CM108 reported problems in an upmarket Moobahn earlier.  Cars and mini buses arriving all hours and parking and blocking the road and adjacent driveways, loud noise parties, karoake...this went on for weeks with a set of Chinese renting the house and then being defacto tour guides.  It was the Thai neighbours that eventually had a gutfull and called BIB and other relevent authorities.  Chinese insisted that all "guests" were only visiting extended family members and not staying there overnight.  Either way lease terminated and it closed down and the warning went out in the Moobahn (and CM108) similar to OP..  It was not exactly an Airbnb or single bedroom condo type sublet.  Neighbours made several complaints before actioned as owners in Bangkok.

It certainly looks bad in the city but as at a afew minutes agothe  http://aqicn.org site for Chiang Mai Municipal City Hall and Yuparaj has not been updated from 3.00pm yesterday.  The GAIA station which is cited above at 207 (now 298 so nearly in the Hazard area) is Phrao about 100km away.  Would be good to get some current city figures, but as said, looks really bad now.

Also see them often at the Sportsworld stores at KSK, Promenada, and Festival

4 hours ago, evenstevens said:

news to me

perhaps a member can confirm , your above statement , has been  processed at a  #Standard #  30% discount

always willing to learn

many thks in advance E/S

As Winnie alluded to earlier we have to compare apples with apples (when comparing price of land in Nakhon Bumphuk to  a condo in Rimping).  Not all condos will have a farang premium, and where there is one it will not be a uniform 30 percent. 

There are some condos in Chiang Mai that are bought out, highly desirable farang wise, and do not come on the market often, and when they do are sold quickly at a premium.  These I would include Twin Peaks, Peaks Garden, Flora, Embassy House, Skybreeze, and even Rimping etc.  Places with good location, good management, fully sold out, and at the top of the Faranq quota.

There are other places where you can see quite easily from DDproperty and other Thai sites that the prices are uniform for Thai and Farang (where the Farang quota is not borderline and there is more supply than demand).  The cassic example for me here would be Riverside, and perhaps Galare Tong, Suphanich amongst the established places

I do know of one Farang/Thai couple that bought into Skybreeze in the Thai spouse name just to get in that building when it was teh only option available, and they both feel that they got a bargain as it was priced in the Thai quota, where the attraction for older buildings amongst affluent Thais for condos, in Chiang Mai is perhaps not the highest.  The you have some of the spruiked Farang orientated refurbs like PP and SR where there is a premium for the refit to Farang tastes rater than as a function of Farang quota..

Newer places are generally Thai/Farang equitable to start off with, and then it becomes a function of Farang demand or Thai oversubscription before you see significant variations in pricing.

Personally I like all of the condos named above to varying degrees close to the order mentioned (with the exeption of Riverside which does nothing for me size. amenities, location, management wise and SR/PP).

I quite like Golf, buy only became really familiar when i moved to CM.

I developed similar  interests in Beer, Cake, Apple, Cream, Jam, Milk, and Cartoon.

Plenty of fun in CM for sure, but consistently regular and vibrant nightlife for younger (or even older) tourists is limited in venues and closing and holiday closures.

Is this the place you are talking about?

http://perfecthomes.co.th/property/condo-sale-rimping-condominium/

Has been on the market at that price for a while.  There is a large variety in the units at Rimping.  Some have been extensively renovated. some not so much worn as not updated, still the original built in furniture, bathroom tiling, air con units.  I do like that Rimping is one of the few condos that has really large sized and funtional  blaconies.  There is another larger "renovated" unit on sale for close to 79.5k baht per sqaure metre.

Not sure as a fire sale as I thought was always on offer at that price.  Having said that I do not know what it was actually sold for.,  Even at the asking price it was a bargain to me, and would certainly increase in value with a good renovation/modernizing.  Cannot beat the location and views.

Always diffilcult here confirming what price was advertised is what price was offered is what price was sold at.

As a side there has been some significant work been done on StarSux over the last few weeks and still going on in the day time.   Lots of construction type stuff, and the front of the whole building looks completely different now..  Perhaps it might be moving up from last place where it has languished for a decade or more.

Bit of a worry bods running round in bars/clubs/restaurants/ toilets with cameras though filming bar girls, punters, and diners?.....but no shot of author.......it aint gonna stop I suppopse.

Just now, cmtg1 said:

aren't you becoming a prolific contributor. you seem to know a lot considering canada does not have a real military


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Never been to Canada.....

6 minutes ago, muffy said:

So , why do you live there ?

Me?  Why the Buddhist temples, the food  and the culture of course

25 minutes ago, AlfonsV said:

It is rather ridiculous to mention the airport exists since 90 years. The traffic significantly increased only during the last 1, 2 years. Some years ago the last plane started at 24h+ and the earliest one at 7:05am. Now the noise of starts goes from 6am to 1am+. Thus the "silent" time is reduced 2, 3 hours, and this in the very recent time. Some planes (cargo?) take off even between 2am and 3am. In addition, the corridor became wider just during the last year (this is not from official reports but from my personal impression).

I would think you would have to go back to October 2011 for the really numerically significant increase in vehicles and the Thai government rebate that was put in for new cars.  Every man and his (soi) dog went out and got a car and the 5 year rebates started to be redeemed just last year.  After the scheme was closed just after a year of operation there was a collapse in new car purchases that still has not caught up.  It has also been the main contributor to the increased consumer debt in Thailand...money to borrow cars.  Think Bill Clinton's everyone must have a house regardless of ability pay but on a more mobile basis.  Not unknown for people to have 1 million baht plus vehicles living in shanty housing with no running water or lecky.  Cash for clunkers without even a clunker ....

They are going to need a much bigger immigration office and more staff.....

I am sorta happy if there are more flights.

Means there are possibly more choices to enter CM (for me) rather than through Bangkok (or via Singapore/KL).  Means there are potentially more destinations opening up for brief or quick holidays away (especially when burning season or say Songkran). Potentially means more money flowing into local economy, more jobs, more Thais learning English, keeps CM as primarily a tourist destination rather than massive industrial parks etc etc

14 minutes ago, robertson468 said:

Try: Ready, Aim, FIRE(!) sequence, otherwise your target will fall over laughing. .

err not neccessarily.  Fire Aim Ready is a business management or learning style (especially for children) that has been round for at least a decade.  With the context of the post.  Fire (start complaining about Airport noise and frequency or escalation of flights), Aim (Someone points out that where you decided to live is in an established flight route, near and airport, of an increasingly pupular destiination). Ready...(you are now fully aware of the facts and should understand the ramifications of your choice to reside where you reside)....a sort of "Action Learning" "Learning by doing" rather than Ready Aim Fire.

Off topic but the  IA (Immediate action) drill for rifles I remember the most was when the Instructor would yell out "Weapon fires, Weapon stops, Carry out the IAs" .  To which the response and action by all was "cock, lock look"....as in cock the rifle, lock the rifle and look.  The instructor would then yell out the fault to be tested.  If he yelled out "torn extraction", the response was "mag off, pack off piss off".  

Decency prevents me from response to "fix bayonets" instruction.

Appologies to Greenside for any side track.  But just came from Central Festival and they have a huge promo on with all sorts of  Nikon gear on the ground floor area complete with stage, mocked up displays for macro testing, some 30 staff, oodles of DSLR cameras, lenses, flashes, everything I imagine afficianados may want (sorry I am a point and click person). Ones I glimpsed at ranging from 3k to well over 100k.  Might be worth a look for the serious among you.

21 minutes ago, hobz said:

Interesting read on Red Car Lobby in Chiang Mai 

 

http://www.chiangmailocator.com/114-chiang-mai-stories:public-transport-in-chiang-mai-and-the-red-cab-mafia

 

In the article it claims that previously the red cab "lobby" has prevented development of public transportation (new bus system) in Chiang Mai.

Also worthwhile seeing how active the anti red cab facebook page is that is also referenced in thsi article......some 8000 Thai followers/members and almost daily updates.  Very pro Grab and Uber.  Clearly Thais have a problem with the Red Cab service as well.  Issue I have is that it is alright having a supplement with Uber and Grab but there still needs to be a better scheduled and/or regular public transport system for the Thais going about town like kids going to and from School, or folk carrying wares to sell, or coming from Arcade bus station with luggae etc.

https://www.facebook.com/antiredtaxi?fref=ts.

"This, said Apichai, was in preparation for the setting up of "Happy Zones" at the resort that would be "the most safe places for tourism".

The assembled gathering, in front of a sign that proclaims "The performance of important case (sic)", were left in little doubt that any illegal behavior would not be tolerated"

So under this reasoning....next week we have 50 Jet Ski operators rounded up as the usual suspects?

Perhaps just a Thaivisa Mod in new uniform   

Only if he has hand cuffs and smiles knowingly at you while fondling a truncheon.

11 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

You need a certain level of intelligence to understand the need to wake up to reality, and that is sadly lacking in these leaders of the uneducated, uninformed, blinkered masses.

It was only 500 odd years ago that Copernicus first established a model where the Earth revolves around the Sun instead of the Earth being the Centre if the Universe.

Sadly he is still proven wrong in Thailand.   Thais still learn that Thailand is the Universe, and the Earth and Sun revolve arond Thailand.

The level of xenophobia, nationalism and myopia here is quite simply stunning.  It is to me quite frightening and quite humorous at the same time.  The recent efforts of no less than the Tourism Minister to promote Pattaya based on Jet Skis rather than sex tourism springs to mind.

I love it here every day no question.  But everyday has some news like a thrill ride, where you pay money to have a ride to knowingly have the shit scared out of you......and the next day you gleefully line up again.

The BBC World Service is just that....a service to the world and has been for decades.  The Op makes it fairly clear that the junta see the objective reporting by the BBC as an issue.  This has been an issue for local media and locally printed internationall media to the point where some international media is not printed locally any more.  Same for taking down web sites as varied as the Economist, The Guardian and even UK Tabloids.

But lets at least call this what it is...draconian state imposed censorship.  No different that the old Soviet bloc, Nth Korea, China etc. That is the club that Thailand has joined.

Cannot wait to see what happens if BBC relocate to (unbelievably) more liberal Burma!  Then we will have an article 44, build a wall round Thailand, get the BBC to pay for it. 

Muppets, and all they do is contnue to look like bigger muppets every day.

Am blessed to be an Oz now.  Money I have in Term Deposits in Oz is now at 2.75% pa government guarranteed.  Also have self funded through ETF's that with franking credits consistently have been bringing between 7 and 12% pa.  Plus I have a rather generous pension,  Am diversified more than enough and certainly no plans to leave at present after 8 odd years here in CM.  For the moment even allowing for exchange rate fluctuations I have been way in front of parking 800k here.  Given opportunities and stability and guarrantees in Oz it just seems rather wasteful to park money here.  But again that is just me.

We digress a bit but having health insurance as a requirement should be a given, likewise even a modest increase in financial requirements, and even a penal (police clearance) certificate....I would not mind if they made getting visas more stringent or consistent and maybe even an ID card BUT ONLY IF they equally got ride of the silly stuff  like 90 day reporting, TM30s updating, need for Residency Cert to do certain things.  But snowballs chance in hell at the moment and forseeable future.