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Mostly for marketing purposes. Potential buyers won't buy a condo in a building without a pool. Not luxurious enough. They imagine themselves going out there and paddling a bit and having a cool drink. Once they buy, they almost never, if at all, go out to the pool, but part of their common fee goes to maintain it anyway.

And the favored GoFundMe solution, with a claim of not having read the fine print, wouldn't work. Perhaps the cops figured she'd been punished enough and would remember this lesson. We'd like to see more, however.

We didn't need to wait long for that knee-jerk. First post. ????

Of course you would. Let's cue up all our old buzzards to drop their usual droppings on these overstaying job-stealing draft dodgers. Where are they when you need them?

Link to a representative comparable example to show why your hypothetical is justified as a real question at all, rather than mere hysteria arising from the usual paranoia and victimism.

????OK, I gave you far too much credit. You win on the point of obtuseness, congrats. Your little googling remains irrelevant to the fact that public sex has been and still is illegal in Thailand, including Pattaya. Perpetrators will be punished if caught. So police recently tracked down, arrested, and fined the foreign tourist who made headlines on Monday for fornicating with a Thai woman against a power pole on the mean streets of Pattaya in eastern Thailand. --Thaiger Why did they make headlines? For engaging in behavior illegal in public and unusual precisely because illegal. These idiots will meet a similar fate if police can find them.

Children will need their mothers.

Dealt with a number of them, including Immigration yearly, never suffered any nightmare. All went smoothly, if sometimes a little slowly owing to crowded, once I knew the system, met the requirements, and came prepared. I bring my tablet and surf around, read, or listen to music while waiting. Comfortable enough.

I wonder if you might share your monitor w/ your missis, or is it for your exclusive use only?

Nonsense, except for the fishing village. R&R was in Bangkok. Widespread myth been discussed here many times. It persists throughout the 'net and will never die.

Link?

We love that idea. Yet there they were, all lined up extending their visas. Why can't they be here w/o the Agents and IO corruption just as they were before?

Built a lot, dept stores and malls have parking. Would more parking lots solve the traffic problem in BKK? Of course not. Otherwise, more would have been built, cheap "solution." Los Angeles tried it. How'd that work? BKK also has the taxi fleet, buses, BTS, and MRT. Neither all that transport NOR the stopping of cars and bikes parking anywhere they want ever solved the traffic problem. And Thais do quite a bit of walking to and from stops and stations. In the tropical heat of Thailand, walking isn't the experience it is in northern climes, BTW. Most foreigners are ALSO quite happy to take the BTS (or baht bus in Pattaya) to avoid walking in that heat as well. They drive their cars and bikes same as Thais, if they have them. The better the infrastructure (not just transport), the greater the economic growth and the larger the population taking advantage of it and supporting it. Central Festival (or CP) helped pay for an upgrade to the electric grid to make the mall possible. The mall helped bring in a lot more tourists and traffic to Pattaya, even though it has a parking lot. The festivals started up to cash in. The road needed widening . . . . So it has been in Pattaya, even with its limited development. That's why implementing your idea would make little difference in the long run, just as it hasn't in BKK.

Woe is us.

And now we have all these clowns, ostensibly adults from "advanced" Western countries, posting how it's normal for Pattaya, nothing wrong with it anyway, wondering why it was filmed and uploaded to social media, mock horror, whataboutism, phony misunderstanding, and the usual silly puerile jokes, hee hee. Sadder!

Sex in public, however, has always been, and still is, illegal. No change. One thing I really like about Asian culture: if stoopid, Asians will try to hide the fact rather than consciously show it off as a point of pride; if not stoopid, they don't try to pretend that they are.

Except it's also illegal in most places in the world, including in your own country.

Irrelevant to my point, as you well know.

Just get up off the sofa and go get your own. Enough with the living vicariously.

Fact.

That it affects 13 million people? Many expats here are extremely delicate and fussy, known for their exceptional hygiene and cleanliness (if unfairly maligned by Thais), so this should take away one of countless causes for whinging. They've never succeeded in mastering squat toilets, either. May this serve as inspiration for other gov't depts to follow suit.

Many foreigners, including most of those posting here, exist in a time warp. Public sex may be common in your country as noted here: Public sex is a popular -- and quasi-legal -- activity in Britain, according to the authorities and to the large number of Web sites that promote it. But has always been very illegal in Thailand, including Pattaya. How so? Public sex is quite rare. I haven't run across any in my decades of living here. All such incidents are taken seriously, as in a recent case.

Indeed. Why didn't they just leave it like this? Why can't they heed the astute pronouncements of the ANF Bureau of Urban Planning? Yeah, Thais, as we all know, are just always screwing things up. Similarly, Bangkok was once a truly great city, with manageable tourism. Look what they did to it!!!

Probably they have.

Fail. They did that and much, more in Bangkok. How's the traffic?