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Always good to have options, and the products look great!

Some more great videos to be found on thier YouTube channel!

Incredibly painful to watch even skipping past most of it.

What were the "events" of yesterday? Maybe I missed something...

Nothing like a thread about TG to bring the Thai bashers out in full force!

Such a clueless bunch!

TG is going through some tough times and I hope it will get better soon. The hate for them by a lot of TV posters is really strange...

Steerage on a 744 with Thai sucks...guess what Lufthansa is worse, United about the same!

The whole VIP thing in F is so overblown, I have been upfront on probably 25 flights in the last 6 years, I can think of maybe 2 times there were some hi so freeloaders, usually it is way more farangs....and I have done a lot of the F routes, FRA, on the 380 and 744 multiple times, LHR, MUC, HKG, NRT, CDG (when they flew the leased Jet Airways 77W with the suites, miss those birds).

Neversure do you actually live in USSA and just post non stop ....555 almost 10K posts about how much Thailand sucks? Really?

Look sometime the street vendors and stalls suck, but nothing as horrid anti walking MUST drive a car everywhere culture in USSA.

Will never forget the first time my ex came to the states, I picked her up at LAX and we drove down PCH through the beach cities to the peninsula at 8 pm at night and the first thing she said after 20 mins was "where are all the people?"

The most bitter of the bitterexpat dot com crowd seem to be the most vocal, but it is like that on a lot of forums...meh.

Anyways, I imagine a lot of these guys that get pissed off and burnt out are in some cases control freaks that can not handle the outlaw nature of Thailand or just were either unlucky in who they met here or did not fit in well.

I'm not allowed to own a home and land in Thailand and I wouldn't buy or live in a condo so it has to be potatoes and strawberries. I'm describing what my life is like and what it costs in the US vs Thailand, considering what is possible.

Thailand is a smelly rathole. If you can't see that, up to you.

Cheers.

I wish we could dispel the myth that you can own a home in the USA...you can not. You just rent it from the government.

If you do not pay your property tax every month find out how much you actually own when guys with guns come to take it.

Thailand is a smelly rathole huh?

I have been all over the US, (basically like a truck driver, but different job) and have seen A LOT of it. The US is pretty ruff in a lot of parts. Many inner cities are totally bombed out. The old cool downtowns in small places are deserted and boarded up.

The zombified population waddles into the local Walmart to buy their GMO and High Fructose Corn Syrup and pick up their prozac.

Most of the women are fat, if not morbidly obese (although this is getting a bit better as people start to wake up). (The men are just as bad)

Total Police State with a fed gov't bent on empire and control and a broken fake 2 party system.

That said, lots of good things about the place I still love....for me a little time in both places with an edge to Thailand.

I really hope we do not see a property tax put in place, at that point you never really own your home or condo, you just rent it from the gov't, just like back in USSA.

I could see a tax on properties over a certain valuation or commercial perhaps might possibly be fair.

When China blows up there could definitely be some knock on effect here in LOS. I almost think the bigger problem in China now is not the ghost cities or shadowy banks but the pollution is so bad now it is literally making the place unfit to live in.

We may look back in 5 years and say that this was the big boom period for Thailand, peak tourism, peak exports, peak consumerism.

Went in to Hua Seng Heng the other day and purchased 1 Baht, had the usual wait and now days any Thai that tries to muscle past me gets the elbow, they then smile and wait their turn...and while I was waiting three Indian ladies bought just under a million baht worth of gold, then I tried to remember any time I have been in there over the last 3 years if I could recall actually seeing anyone sell any gold back, just buy.

I am sure it happens a fair bit but never seen it, just buyers, like the Chinese and Russians now.

They have kept the plates spinning for sometime, but this year looks to be really interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4SJoloc9do

Sorry video is not great, one handed on the back of the bike...you can see the area of the fire at about 35 seconds, it was down a soi some ways or behind a building that fronts On nut.

I am uploading the video to Youtube now and will post when its done.

I am sure it happens more often but I rarely see big structure fires in Bangkok, so was a bit shocked by it, I am surprised there not more the way things are here and not much hope it seems to fight a fire this size when you can not get equipment in and find access to water...

Anyone know what was on fire in On Nut last night? About a couple hundred meters down from Sukhumvit. I took a moto taxi and grabbed some video, very chaotic, huge fire down a soi but could not see what it was. Lots of responders and pandemonium as they tried to attack the fire I am guessing.

Lots of signs of slowing here, inventory for some stuff we import not moving, other stuff still selling, but it is the upper end of the market. It has held up for years and showed no signs of slowing and always baffled me but TIT and things are different here. In the US we have a total zombie economy but the cracks are showing again....everything was just papered over since 2008...Radio Shack just filed BK today, Guitar Center not far behind and the rest of the big box retail after that.

I am tempted to buy another condo in my building, they are cheap, and BTS construction starts in a few months, but the RE bubble here HAS to pop soon, it is just stupid, way over built and massive inventory...but again TIT so maybe people will hold out.

I do know Bangkok is moving on, the mass transit is moving ahead like crazy, the younger population are traveling abroad and are growing intellectually, the opportunity for growth here is still great with few barriers to start a business, that all looks bright to me compared to the west.

There are some serious speedbumps ahead that we can all see in the next couple years but long term I am putting my money on Bangkok becoming much more affluent and some good opportunities to make money and invest.

Hope the cats fare ok, most I have come into contact here in Thailand have been quite friendly and we used to have a good mouser that hung around the car park that looked after the rodents. Not sure what happened to that one....

Mike I remember hearing before that cats could deal with snake bites pretty well, unlike dogs for some reason....

...especially the Brits who seem to be the scum of the earth...just look at their incessant bleating and thai bashing here on bitterexpat dot com.

Please don't judge us all by the standard of a small but noisy minority of losers.

You're right, I probably painted with too broad a brush, seems as the mods thought so. Anyways as I was saying Americans have a lot to worry about in regards to what our .gov does but how we are perceived by the Thais is of little concern.

Election going to happen soon (the sooner the better) in USA and hope to get a new leader who is not Muslim and does not piss off our friends (like Thailand) and embrace the enemy.

Ummm, the "selection" will happen soon and we will have the red and blue team give us another Bush or Clinton....yippee! And while the diabetic comatose Americans fight over which team is better the mega banks and crops will continue to run the show and plunder the country. Yawn.

Ex is 37, is an engineer (drafting) in oil/gas/power generation, in BKK, just over 60K a month plus one months salary bonus every year.

Rewarding

or back to (miserable) America (but not so miserable locations as Laramie, Wyoming or areas in & around the Columbia River Gorge on the Oregon side or Seattle, Wa. - actively looking), which needs more negotiating as the wife doesn't (yet) want such a drastic change that could easily be permanent with just once a year vacation trips to Thailand.

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Laramie, Wyoming would for sure be the end of your relationship Took my wife there last year as have relatives who live there. Asked her if she cold live there and she looked at me like I was crazy. lol.

Yeah, I figured the much with all the old buildings, sparse open lands & no Asian food, let alone Asians anywhere to be found. But I can't help but to look at the wonderful charm the town holds.

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Actually Laramie has pretty good Thai food at Anongs, the Nom Tok Beef is the best I have had just about anywhere...they also have restaurants in Rawlins and Cheyenne, but not as good as the one in downtown Laramie !