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Travellers Vent Frustrations Over Soaring Costs, Two-Tier Pricing, and Cannabis Concerns
Give up! Please go and swim in the ocean. (with my favourite sharks, just make sure there are no kids around) -
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Are young farangs out of control?
There was little in the way of 'high culture' in the US town I lived in, either. But, it was relatively safe, there were movie theaters, restaurants, good health care, good shopping, good recreation, a fairly wide variety of housing, and there was a big city and an international airport not too far away. Ditto for Pattaya--except it's safer here, with better year-round weather, and an even better variety of housing--at more reasonable prices. Anybody who states, 'If there was no sex business, Pattaya would wither on the vine', clearly is clueless and needs to do some exploring. And, it's actually the opposite, by the way. If the sex business disappeared, Pattaya would be doing even better. You only need to look at all the new development that has been built and is still being built--it's not for sex tourists. The big, new water park I mentioned in my earlier post? It's geared mostly to Thais and other Asian visitors. Probably a dozen new car dealerships have opened since I arrived in Pattaya--sex tourists aren't keeping them open, or T21, Central Festival, all the big box stores, the resorts, water parks, etc., etc. If you venture from the small area you seem to frequent, you'll find there's a whole 'nother world out there--from dozens and dozens of very nice, new housing developments to, according to Google, eighteen international schools--including Regents and Rugby--with a new one, Highgate, scheduled to open in 2026. Spouse and I drove around Rugby for the first time a few days ago and we were super-impressed--even after some 14 years living here we are still discovering new stuff. While you're exploring and you need a cup of coffee and a pastry, check out the huge Nitan coffee shop/cafe on Sukhumvit. Here's a question for any deep thinkers out there. If, according to the consensus of Forum posters, Pattaya's population is 40% sex tourists, 40% sex workers, 10% gold chain snatchers, and 10% poorly-trained brutal bar bouncers, how in the world does Pattaya have enough students to fill 18 international schools--with another one on the way? Perhaps those Pattaya population figures need some adjustment and, in reality, there's lots and lots of families--most living apparently nowhere near where the Forum posters are. One of the international school buses picks up three or 4 kids in our project so I can vouch for there being actual international kids living in Pattaya. I have never heard of 'C1, C2, and DE' but, judging from your post, I could probably guess that they are references to maybe economic or educational levels--and I assume you think Pattaya expats are sorely lacking in one or the other--or both. Perhaps you should, once again, get out more and meet some actual expats living away from the non-tourist areas--that's where lots of them are. We have expat friends who worked, or are still working, at a wide variety of occupations. Doctors, lawyers, maybe even an Indian chief. Most run from middle class to wealthy. Several own multiple properties here. With mortgages hard to get for expats, most pay cash for their homes. The project where we live is fairly typical of new projects in Pattaya. It has 28 homes, most costing around 10 to 12MB. There are lots of new Pattaya projects in this price range, by the way, and a number of new projects with higher prices in the 20 to 30MB range--and, some higher than that. So, with no mortgages, the owners in the project we live at had at least around $300,000 in ready cash to make their house purchase--not exactly destitute. Not exactly living in a fan room--although that's the impression you might get from the Forum--that every expat in Pattaya is living a life of quiet desperation in a fan room--when they're not sitting on a bar stool at 9am drinking. The development we live at is a regular United Nations. We have multiple owners from the US, China, and Russia, and also owners from Israel, Dubai, India, Britain, Ireland, Holland, and Italy, that I know of. Likely other countries, as well. Most living ordinary, normal lives, doing ordinary, normal things. Probably not all that different from what their lives were like where they came from--I know mine isn't. But, likely in a nicer house and enjoying better year-round weather. -
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Travel Pattaya Faces Mixed Reactions Amid Decline in Chinese Tourists
And the article forgets to mention the #1 main factor: the abductions and other incidents that eroded the image of Thailand as a safe destination in Chinese' minds. Either way we'll take the win. Less Chinese means less competition for resources and less upwards price pressure. So happy that low season is finally here. -
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BREAKING NEWS Carney WINS Canadian Elections
There is very little chance Trudeau would be attracted to her in any way. -
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Russia Dismisses Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Offers 3 Day Ceasefire
Yes, all those sheeple. Baaa-rilliant. -
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Trump's decisions will cost lives as he walks away from responsibility
Harbours are already empty.Guess what?Dock workers will get fired! but not to worry ,the hundreds of billions in tariffs should take care of that right? I just can not believe how stupid these MM"s are.
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