Stocky

Comedy gold, not. 

Artisan

Thai

Mart

Artifice 

Belgian

Uranus

1 hour ago, Darkside Gray said:

Please! It's a BMW with a guy with a lap top! Nothing smart about the car!

Indeed, fitting out Sa-Mart Tuk-tuks would have been far more cost effective; there could be swarms of them scouring the country for miscreants. 

Jury

Zola

6 minutes ago, geisha said:

Well there’s still a lot

Did you ask them, or did they just 'look Chinese'?

Hat Yai's full of them, but they're actually Thai-Chinese or Malaysian-Chinese.

5 minutes ago, CGW said:

Yes, look at my post #46 1.655 plus for CM

Yeah, but those numbers are for the whole province, not everyone lives in or around the provincial capital.

The issue with Thai population/census numbers is they are given for mueang bearing the name not the metropolitan area.

Sack

14 minutes ago, Number 6 said:

My least favorite province. With all the money racing to the islands and back it's always struck me as very scammy. The Muslims are indifferent and cliquish. I'll admit I've not spent a great deal of time there not really explored the place.

 

I like camping on islands to getaway but there are often huge daytripper numbers of farang these past years. But they leave at day's end

I think you're confusing your provinces. There's just a few rocks off the coast of Songkhla province, certainly nothing that attracts money or huge numbers of farang, day tripper or otherwise.

Strumpet

Spirit

1 hour ago, CGW said:

Yes! seems to depend on who is counting, its bigger than I thought though. 

But those numbers only report the populations for mueang Hat Yai, or mueang Chiang Mai. They don't include the surrounding districts which are integral to the city. Greater Hat Yai has a population of about 800,000 the population of Greater Chiang Mai is I think similar.

48 minutes ago, CGW said:

HY caters to Malaysians mainly IMO.

Yes, they are the staple of tourism here, and a good fit with a city whose population is a mix of Thai-Chinese and Thai-Malay. 

8 minutes ago, yogavnture said:

no big c in songkla so now i look at hat yai. hat yai looks really big so i suspect its a busy place and hard to manage on a motobike

There's a Tesco Lotus Extra in Songkhla plus a couple of Big C Minis 

Just now, CGW said:

Sure? thought it was 5th or 6th.

Numbers 2 and 3 are just suburbs of Bangkok. Then it's a toss up between Hat Yai, Chiang Mai and Khorat depending on how you measure the numbers.