BKK in depression?

[Nomyai]

Central Rama 9 is deserted @ 8pm? <deleted> is going on. A lot of places are just not teeming with shoppers. Very noticeable. Bars emptying out @ 10 pm?

Is it global warming..............................................hahahahahahahaha?

[Lannig]

...or just Thailand's economy going down?

Just every Thai I know who's running some kind of business keeps telling me "toorakit may dee" (business is bad) these days.

[SoiBiker]

Or it's a holiday and everyone is elsewhere?

[Supaluke]

Or it's a holiday and everyone is elsewhere?

Yep, that was my initial thought also.

Our local LOTUS (TESCO) was packed on the Sunday.

[Cypress Hill]

Why do so many foreigners sound gleeful at the prospect of Thailand's economy falling into recession?

It's weird

[nickmanchester2]

Why do so many foreigners sound gleeful at the prospect of Thailand's economy falling into recession?

It's weird

just trying to wind up the white knights

[YeahSiam]

Why do so many foreigners sound gleeful at the prospect of Thailand's economy falling into recession?

It's weird

It could just be that

they want to feel like

the Thais need them

and their money.

They probably feel as

if the Thais have gotten

too big for their boots

and need to be

snapped back into line

where they depend on

falangs.

[huawei]

Why do so many foreigners sound gleeful at the prospect of Thailand's economy falling into recession?

It's weird

The exchange rate..

[SoiBiker]

Because they're losers, basically.

[chicowoodduck]

Yup, was up at Centre Point Hotel buffet today at Asok.....just me and a few gold diggers.....nice...???

[Berkshire]

The OP is constantly trying to find negative stuff about Thailand, real or imagined. This is the best he can do?

[sailblue]

Been back in Sydney and going to work again, minefield of regulations and licensing. What I see is the gap between Thai and Sydney cost of living is less than it was. Gas same ( $1.06 lt ), food maybe cheaper thanks to Aldi, houses and the cost of doing business high, but the income potential is way higher.

Thais in BKK and Pattaya are doing well or they could not afford to shop at Tesco.

Sydney does not have the noodle shops and many other good value ways to eat, but groceries in Sydney are surprisingly cheap, maybe a little more than Thailand, but not double.

[GOLDBUGGY]

The shops in Udon Thani are also bad. I never saw them so empty all the time. Farmers don't seem to have much money these days and can't borrow much either, so I guess this shows here.

[harness]

Most farang like to hear negative stories about Thailand because basically they don't like the locals.....especially the men.

[ExpatOilWorker]

I was at Central World yesterday and it was like an anthill. Impossible to get a chair at Starbucks.

Over the weekend I was at lower Sukhumvit and it was shoulder to shoulder at the girly bars.

[jacky54]

Hospitals are doing good business

[farang1979]

Long weekend. Everyone out of Bangkok.

[Just1Voice]

I'm in Chiang Mai, and I don't know what to say about the tourists situation here. Was in town today, and going around the moat, I hardly noticed any tourists at all. And never saw a single tour buss on the way in, in town, or on the way home.
But I have noticed that over the past 6 months the flow of local traffic (cars & pick ups) has increased tremendously. What used to take me 15 min on the PCX to go into town now takes half an hour. Or longer.

[Nemesis7]

Good observation....

[IAMHERE]

Why do so many foreigners sound gleeful at the prospect of Thailand's economy falling into recession?

It's weird

Makes my exchange rate better so I can spend more local baht.

[NoshowJones]

Or it's a holiday and everyone is elsewhere?

I'm coming to Bangkok on Thursday, the long weekend starts this weekend, so Bangkok will have even less people.

[HooHaa]

Or it's a holiday and everyone is elsewhere?

I suppose you would have to be aware of your surroundings to realize it was a holiday monday evening following a long weekend.

[NoshowJones]

Why do so many foreigners sound gleeful at the prospect of Thailand's economy falling into recession?

It's weird

Maybe it's because we will get more Bahts for our GBP. It was about 70 when I first came here now it's 54.

[NoshowJones]

The OP is constantly trying to find negative stuff about Thailand, real or imagined. This is the best he can do?

If the OP is trying to find negatives here in Thailand, he won't find them among the good people.

But he will find plenty if he looks to the Immigration authorities.

[smokie36]

Or it's a holiday and everyone is elsewhere?

Yep, that was my initial thought also.

Our local LOTUS (TESCO) was packed on the Sunday.

Yup its the holidays....funny post though...I hope Rama9 stays quiet...no queues for my favourite krapow moo.

[micmichd]

I was blond, too, and I used to hang around in KSR and Banglampoo (the Muslim area) in Old Bangkok when all these Salafists came. Americans were frightened and ran away in panic. Nothing happened at all. Nothing.

[micmichd]

I was blond, too, and I used to hang around in KSR and Banglampoo (the Muslim area) in Old Bangkok when all these Salafists came. Americans were frightened and ran away in panic. Nothing weird happened at all. Nothing.

[micmichd]

I was blond, too, and I used to hang around in KSR and Banglampoo (the Muslim area) in Old Bangkok when all these Salafists came. Americans were frightened and ran away in panic. Nothing weird happened at all. Nothing.

[farangmick]

Why do so many foreigners sound gleeful at the prospect of Thailand's economy falling into recession?

It's weird

The exchange rate..

For me as well. Right now I want the baht to plummet to the 74 to 1 GBP I got ten years ago. But 15 years from now, when I am dead, or cushioned by my state pension, I want the economy to power out of recession, like it did after the 1997 crash, since my sons will be of working age. Selfish, but I've discovered here that family is everything, Something I never experienced in England.

[djlest]

i think the whole world is on ISIS alert right now...