WANTED

 

A Thai citizen with the foresight to start thinking about the future of Phuket (& in this case the future of Patong - which for all its pluses and minuses, still supports the greater percentage of locals on the island)

 

Patong had half a chance in 2004 to develop the town, sadly it missed that opportunity. Patong (& Phuket in general) has been successful at exploiting its reputation. Sadly that reputation appears to have been a handicap in recent years. There has been some attempts to ‘beautify’ the town but these appeared half hearted - prime example is the burying of cables on beach road, still incomplete with road surfaces being atrocious.

 

Now is the time that Patong needs to decide where it’s future lies. It needs to decide  whether it takes the easy route and attempt to restore the old way. Or be brave and find a new direction in which way it needs to go. Now is the time.
 

Phuket, and Patong in particular, needs leaders that will guide the province / town to its rightful place as a superI or tourist destination (because tourism is all it has - no industry and very little agriculture). Phuket/Patong needs leaders that will put the fire of everyone over and above their own selfish/greedy ambitions.

 

Unfortunately this is, predominantly, an expat forum so this plea will never see the light of day with the powers that be that do/will control the future of Phuket.

 

i sincerely hope that Phuket pulls through and recovers from these dire times. I hope, but I’m not holding my breath on this one.

 

Take care everyone

 

 

Unless the mafia types that pull the strings in Patong and elsewhere get turfed out then nothing will ever change. Phuket is tightly controlled by dark forces behind the scenes and unless these are taken care of then things will never get better.

 

From a former Phuket resident. 

Will have a chat with Prab. I guess he is ready to do the job.

Time to go ask the former Democratic Monk named Suthep

The problem being the same people who were destroying parts of Phuket (Patong) have made sufficient amounts of cash over the years to weather this storm however bringing back the status quo will prove difficult with no tourists around for a while so im hoping against hope something just something might change for the good.

 

Fingers crossed.   

 

On a personal note and a sliver lining i will love watching those Tuk Tuks waiting day after day without a customer in sight ( Karma).

I think things improve after they remove the restriction, it always looks pretty bad after a disaster or something like this, but all back to normal afterwards, maybe a year or two, it will be slow recovery... , all the infrastructure is still there just need people back to it, they will come, after a while..., of course the tutuk and jetski mafia too...

 

The vaccines and drugs that help patients plus 10min test kits are on the way in the next few months...

 

In contrast look at Puerto Rico after the hurricane ripped it to a complete flat land, I was then in another island there that escaped it, now that is a hard proposition, after years there is no back to normality in sight.