1 minute ago, newbee2022 said:

Doesn't say much about the air quality. Check the hospitals in CM for additional seasonal respiratory problems.

Also, last year the poor air quality lasted until May.

If you're not happy, why stay?

Your life is nothing but complaining.

Just now, BritManToo said:

If you're not happy, why stay?

Your life is nothing but complaining.

Obviously we never met.

So your comment is just XXXX.

If you would read by posts (could be helpful for you) you would know that I spend 6 months in our house in CM and another 6 in our beach house in the South.

But please don't visit us.🤗

1 hour ago, motdaeng said:

 

my brother loved to sun bathing a lot, we told him that couldn't be healthy ... it didn't concern him.

 

he got an aggressive skin cancer and dead with 50 ... 

 

sorry to hear, he passed very young.

not sure what that has to do with my you post quoted though.

Whatever the Thais did about burning, it's working. This year the burning season hardly affected Chiang Mai at all. Not in the sense that your quality of life was impacted, you could still go out cycling, leave windows open. No issues.

 

Minus 20 in Canada however, well, no thanks.

6 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Free, but could be dead before you get treated.  Good luck.

 

It is possible.

 

Fortunately my family and everyone I know has been treated on time.

 

But it's a dice roll.

13 hours ago, Maxbkkcm said:

What does it means to be Rod stewart? 

it means you dont need to pay by the hour to have sex with girls who normally wouldn't want to have sex with you

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I prefer warm weather with occasional bad air quality

 

I wish we could quantify 'occasional.'

 

Does that mean 3 months? 5 months? 6 months?

 

For me 5-6 months of 'bad' air quality is too much!

 

I know this is a northern Thailand issue, no so much a concern the further south you go.

 

I love the scenery of northern Thailand and the bicycling routes but the air quality is a big concern.

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I prefer warm weather with occasional bad air quality to cold, wet and windy weather with clean air.

I have an AQI today back in the USA of 1, but it isnt warm.

2 hours ago, UWEB said:

Occasional? We have high Air Pollution here in Prachuap since the Raining Season stopped end of November.

 

You have experienced nearly 4 months of bad air quality?  That far south??

1 hour ago, simon43 said:

You have a face like a shriveled prune and a voice that sounds like you've just drunk a liter of sufuric acid....

 

C'mon mate.... Rod never got plastic surgery, bless him.

Crispy voice still kicking axrse.

 

Rod and Keith Richards... devil may care.

50 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

Whatever the Thais did about burning, it's working. This year the burning season hardly affected Chiang Mai at all. Not in the sense that your quality of life was impacted, you could still go out cycling, leave windows open. No issues.

 

Really?

 

You telling me there was no measurable impact from crop and forest burning this year in Chiang Mai and environs?

 

So why is the AQI reading today at 155+ in CM and area?

 

 

It's the warmth of Rod Stewart's voice. He sounds sincere and warm. Plus he had those Alpha male vibes. He had something.

35 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

it means you dont need to pay by the hour to have sex with girls who normally wouldn't want to have sex with you

Then Rod Stewart of 1985…

2 minutes ago, Woke to Sounds said:

 

Really?

 

You telling me there was no measurable impact from crop and forest burning this year in Chiang Mai and environs?

 

So why is the AQI reading today at 155+ in CM and area?

 

 

I have two air quality monitors in my house. Both of them have consistently throughout this whole burning season read "good air quality".

 

Sure there was some measurable effect, visibility clearly less, however, as far as burning seasons go this one was exceptionally mild. I never even ran the air purifiers once. That's how mild it was.

8 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

Sure there was some measurable effect, visibility clearly less, however, as far as burning seasons go this one was exceptionally mild. I never even ran the air purifiers once. That's how mild it was.

 

OK. Thanks for your feedback.

 

It's tough to discern with apps vs. actual boots on the ground.

 

I might just pedal the scenic routes near Mae Jo before tha rains hit...

3 hours ago, Maxbkkcm said:

What does it means to be Rod stewart? 

 

8 hours ago, Celsius said:

I returned to Canada 10 days ago. I don't like Canada very much, but I also don't like pollution.  In Toronto AQI is constantly in the low to mid 20's. Clear skies. My wife is impressed. I also like my free healthcare. I do have a choice and choose what is best for me at this point in time.

 

I really have a laff at delusional old farts who lick Thai boots, quick to file their income tax then line up for their 90 day report like good prisoners that they are while pretending everything is great in just because they pass by Nana and think they are Rod Stewart.

 

 

don't need to lick any thai boots, didn do and won't do for 10 years any tax return here, and no 90-day reports and I don't go anywhere near nana nor can I remotely sound like  stewart!  But if I didn't like a country very much, I sure wouldn't move there!  Also I am not a favorite of COLD weather and snow so wouldn't go to Canada.

1 hour ago, Cameroni said:

Whatever the Thais did about burning, it's working. This year the burning season hardly affected Chiang Mai at all. Not in the sense that your quality of life was impacted, you could still go out cycling, leave windows open. No issues.

 

Minus 20 in Canada however, well, no thanks.

 

what a load of nonsense... the air in chiang mai has been unhealthy since the beginning of the year ...

 

1 minute ago, motdaeng said:

 

what a load of nonsense... the air in chiang mai has been unhealthy since the beginning of the year ...

 

 

Nonsense, it's perfectly fine.

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I'm still out cycling every day, which I couldn't do in the UK no matter how clean the air was.

 

 

This was last evening. Something around 150 AQI hot and dry. Lungs feel a little soar today even so no it's not very nice. Going to Krabi on Friday for 4 nights to see how it is down there.

 

 

6 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

 

This was last evening. Something around 150 AQI hot and dry. Lungs feel a little soar today even so no it's not very nice. Going to Krabi on Friday for 4 nights to see how it is down there.

 

 

 

Yesterday morning I stopped to photograph the pink buffalo near me.

3 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Western snowflakes whining about a bit of smog. Pathetic.

 

If you are tough like me you just suck it up like a real man. 
 

 

Lot's of tough people die every year from upper respiratory problems. And no matter how tough you are, you will soon enough be humbled and find out what t feels like to be older. I was the strongest natural man in most of the gyms I was in, but now my knees tell me I'm older, along with a hip and shoulder pain I never had ever. No matter what you do, father time finds you. Try listening to this classic Kansas tune and see what I mean...........

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9 hours ago, Celsius said:

I returned to Canada 10 days ago. I don't like Canada very much, but I also don't like pollution.  In Toronto AQI is constantly in the low to mid 20's. Clear skies. My wife is impressed. I also like my free healthcare. I do have a choice and choose what is best for me at this point in time.

 

I really have a laff at delusional old farts who lick Thai boots, quick to file their income tax then line up for their 90 day report like good prisoners that they are while pretending everything is great in just because they pass by Nana and think they are Rod Stewart.

 

 

Rod Stewart, boy are you ancient. 

2 hours ago, Woke to Sounds said:

 

You have experienced nearly 4 months of bad air quality?  That far south??

Except some days end of February and the first two weeks in March we have permanent high numbers of Air Pollution. This morning on the way back from Hua Hin to Sam Roi Yot the PM2.5 Sensor in my Car showed 109 microgram and the surrounding Mountains in Pran Buri were complete invisible as covered in thick Smog.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

 

Yesterday morning I stopped to photograph the pink buffalo near me.

..and where is that photo of the pink buffalo next to you? 😳🥰

The air is awful but where else offers,

 

Warm

Cheap

Long stay visa

Feeling safe

Affordable medical care

Willing females 

Pleasant culture

 

If there was a better option we'd all be there!

Bangkok is a disaster of pollution at toxic levels.  and nothing is done to enhance public transport and mainly to discourage people from taking their private cars. Same in other places like Hua Hin where public transport is a disaster and no proper connections between Hua Hin and surrounding villages like Hin Lek Fai that have large communities living and commuting to Hua Hin center.

What makes people choose to live in bad air?

 

Generally speaking people don't choose to live in bad air. People create bad air and then live in it because they have little choice.

12 hours ago, Celsius said:

I returned to Canada 10 days ago. I don't like Canada very much, but I also don't like pollution.  In Toronto AQI is constantly in the low to mid 20's. Clear skies. My wife is impressed. I also like my free healthcare. I do have a choice and choose what is best for me at this point in time.

 

I really have a laff at delusional old farts who lick Thai boots, quick to file their income tax then line up for their 90 day report like good prisoners that they are while pretending everything is great in just because they pass by Nana and think they are Rod Stewart.

 

 

" I also like my free healthcare." It's not "free".

 

San Kamphaeng Air Quality Index (AQI) and Thailand Air Pollution | IQAir

 

Hua Hin Air Quality Index (AQI) and Thailand Air Pollution | IQAir

 

Koh Samui Lamai Viewpoint Outdoor Air Quality Index (AQI) and Bo Put Air Pollution | IQAir

 

Mueang Phuket Air Quality Index (AQI) and Thailand Air Pollution | IQAir

 

Toronto Air Quality Index (AQI) and Canada Air Pollution | IQAir

A lot of people are younger, likely have no underlying breathing problems, and don't much notice it.  On the other hand, someone with a problem would probably find somewhere with clean air, if they could afford to move.

 

I still remember the very first time I flew into Los Angeles back in the 70s.  At 33,000 feet, it was a bright sunny day with blue skies.  When we got over Los Angeles, you couldn't really see the city, just a mass of brown smog.  And yet people lived there.  I don't remember it bothering me when I was there, although back then the air in San Diego did seem better.  Today, with all the anti-pollution equipment on the cars, I think things have improved somewhat.  

 

One of the reasons I've never moved to Bangkok is the air quality.