Benjie

I do find it strange that the term "Krongan Baan" has only ever been mentioned by you two guys in the history of the entire internet. A search on the phrase in google or other search engines only brings up your posts here on Thai Visa, so it can't be a phrase that's widely used in English.

I do not think that anybody would think that 4 years in prison for snatching a handbag was justified - We have all done silly things as teenagers .

What mugging people?

Mostly its just a case of sales technique with a made up initial price and then offering a big 'reduction' when the place is only really worth the reduced price anyhow.

Neighbourhood could mean anywhere and development could mean condo etc... I thought I'd made it pretty clear, we refer to Thai built housing developments that are an enclosed neighbourhood as Moo Baans down here in Phuket. Moo Baan is simpler than writing all of that and having to explain that I dont mean Condos or a plot in a rice field in the middle of nowhere.

Please - can we keep this on topic.

Hi, Yes I can't seem to find this magazine in Phuket anywhere.

I already have a home in a development here in Phuket so know of some of the pitfalls and that slight changes to the plans would most likely need to be made.

So we know a child has died? or rumour?

I know they (Kajonkiat) are closed today as my daughter goes there and is off today. TBH I'm not really that worried about Swine Flu, seems to be less deadly than normal flu.

Please use another thread for your cause, its already taking up 1/2 the thread.

FYI a search on google for Krongan Baan gets about 160 results worldwide whereas Moo Baan nets nearly 1/2 million. I'm not trying to be dictionary specific for the sake of it, I'm looking at getting information on the internet.

I believe most of the people who will be able to help me on this forum, understand what I mean and are actually not Thai, I'm not walking the streets asking villagers at this point.

Back to the Thread.

Not to "nitpick" but it seems that you are looking for a krongan baan and not a moo baan.

Yep thats nitpicking - 99.9% of people use the word Moo Bahn in this situation.

Do you have a link to their website? I've tried searching google for both Oriental and Regent 3 without much luck.

Thanks, I'm ideally looking to buy and don't want a pre-built house (i.e I choose a plot and house style and then they build it). I will check out those developments.

Hi,

We are looking at potentially moving to Chiang Mai. I'm currently looking into the housing side of things, I like the idea of a Moo Bahn for now and have looked at the following places online;

Sansaran

Karnakok 2

Koolpuntville 12

I was wondering if anyone knew of any other similar developments and would really like to hear of anyone with experience of any of the above.

Looking to be fairly close to Chiang Mai and within easy commuting distance to Lanna International School.

Thanks

I doubt they are kicking back 15%.

We are thinking of buying a house in Chiang Mai - I'd love it if they threw my wife a 15% commission on any house we did buy, I'd even pretend not to know.

The US is the largest consumer marketplace in the world, Its also the cheapest place for almost everything... Cars, electronics etc... regardless of where it is made, precisely because of the previous point.

Is Ali Baba still in Pattaya.

That was the best curry I've had in Thailand (and I've tried a few places). Was a few years ago so don't know if its still there.

They will cost a fortune then, ANyone find anything built locally - Else I'll go and buy some wood and get someone to build me a shed.

I run a home cinema company here in Thailand and can attest that with a HDMI cable you can quite easily use a cheaper cable and receive exactly the same picture quality in most cases.

Cheaper cables will not be as high quality so may not last as long, connectors may break etc...

It has to be of a certain quality, I have seen cheap HDMI cables that have been able to do 720p but not 1080p. You will know out the box whether or not the cable will work, it will either simply not pass a picture or sometimes will have what we in the business call sparklies. These are random pixels that appear on the screen in random places and is very noticable.

I would suggest going with cheap but brand name cables, not necessarily any of the big names but a company that has a website and some background etc...

HDMI has a lock-on and handshake protocol, a very poor quality cable may see problems with losing the HDMI signal.

If you are after some of the more advanced features of HDMI (like Deep colour, auto lipsync etc..) you will need to make sure the cable conforms to the 1.3 version of the HDMI spec. The box should state this (most likely 1.3b).

I wouldn't advise anyone to spend more than say 500 baht a metre on HDMI cable.

send me a PM, I can probably drop a few in the post to you.

10k baht? doesn't sound like a lot of money, are you sure?

Projects launched in 2007 and after belong to the third wave of development with prices Bt90,000/m2 and above. These are the overpriced units that were fully booked within a short period of time and are now facing no-show during transfers. Will prices fall? Ask the developers.

Whatever you do dont ask the developers (and 50% of farangs in Phuket are 'developers'). My neighbour (a brit) had a plan to build 8 storey condos up to the edge of his chanote which was on the coastline at Bt150k/sqm - he could at least have spent 5 minutes reading the planning regulations.

High end developments havent sold anything for months - Trisara not a villa in a year, Yamu maybe one plot in a year. The only place that might have sold say 10 units is Andara. Kata Gardens restaurant is now closed. I dont know much about the low end, suspect it has held up much better, but for how long?

Where did you hear those figures?

I personally know of two guys who bought in Trisara in that time frame, both houses due to finish later on in the year.