Article in the Nation today, which appears to be a publicity pitch for Raimon Land's new development at Naklua and The Sails in Jomtien. Some extracts:

Buyers need not concern themselves with the miserable journeys from the main road to the resort, with all three roads always jammed as vehicles can park anywhere.

Traffic police should tow away all the parked vehicles on the main thoroughfares but fail to perfom their duties.

In the absence of hygiene and the city's inability to recognise it when an enlarged population brings with it unprecedented dangers of infectious urban pests.

The city's most prestigious stretch is beach road. But the road has been ruined by shoddy and reckless construction work and was left to rot for much of last year. It is now overrun by rats, with the rodent poulation feeding on the refuse thrown by filthy workers from the provinces.

A civic re-education programme is badly needed to curb the growth of pestilence but, as usual, nothing is done. It is clear the town's authorities are ignorant about the dangers of rat colonies breeding on the esplanade.

A second problem is the cockroach colonies spreading in old hotel buildings. Because health checks are seldom properly conducted, hotels can get away by cheating on pest control costs.

...residents need not feel the indignity of living under the third world conditions of old pattaya.

...buyers are protected from from the unsavoury aspects of tourist dumps that fill up much of central and south Pattaya.

In the future, the safest place to be in Pattaya will be the private enclaves as public areas get more crowded, dirtier and disease ridden.

There is more; but the above provides the tone of the article. Presumably Raimon Land are warning potential buyers of their Northshore development on beach road about the rats and the filthy workers......

Two leg variety??

My family and I have to live somewhere.

............and we don't take up much space.

Just imagine how crowded it would be if hordes of foxes roamed the streets.

The Sails ... It's in Jomtien ... Whoaaaa, you'd need a packed lunch and a water bottle

for the trip to the nearest 7/11

Naka.

It is quite a spectacle. Stay out until 3-5am and walk home on the beach side of Beach Road from Walking Street. The rats are everywhere, coming out of every crack in the promenade. Climbing the coconut trees like squirrels.

Seen it many times and will never get use to it.

Well, there are all kind of rats around the beach Road...this is just another kind of rats

Rats are common in Thailand.

Which is why it is a good idea to keep a cat.

You are never further than 2m from a rat...........

My family and I have to live somewhere.

............and we don't take up much space.

Just imagine how crowded it would be if hordes of foxes roamed the streets.

Don't you mean. Wily vixens?