What can you do now in Thailand that you couldn't do twenty years ago?

[geronimo]

One for the oldies,

I'll get the ball rolling ......

• Jump on the skytrain
• Pay your bills at 7-11
• Get locked up for stating your opinion
• Buy a big bike
• Sign on every 90 days
• Visit Suwwannaphum airport

[Carib]

I can be in Thailand now, 20 years ago I couldn't...

[taotoo]

Rest my stomach on my thigh whilst on toilet.

[geronimo]

Transfer money via ATM

[phuketrichard]

in phuket

buy fresh milk, get the bangkok post the same day

INTERNET LOL

Fast food

Villa mart

[dbrenn]

Some corrections on above. You could buy a big bike and go to Villa market 20 years ago.

I'll add: drive anywhere without getting stuck for hours on end. The roads are much better now.

[ezzra]

I'd go back to the Thailand of the 20 years ago in a heartbeat, spare me the generation of narcissism

and self indulgences of today, the slaves and depended of the digital media that without it people will

kill themselves with out FB, instagram and alike, the air was cleaner prices cheaper, people much nicer

and don't get me started on the ladies and the nightlife.....

[Kwasaki]

Turned around it would be more about what l could do 20 years ago that l can't do now.

[Chapelroad]

Read Thaivisa.

[Chapelroad]

Have an actual conversation with a Thai without the distraction of s 'smart' phone.

[Jdiddy]

Have an actual conversation with a Thai without the distraction of s 'smart' phone.

Sounds horrible, glad i can enjoy myself posting chit on thaivisa during a date to occupy myself

[stander]

Communication, then I was using CompuServe dial up and then Loxinfo and also a fax machine, it’s so much better now. But it does have its down side,.........now you can never get away from the office.

[Rhys]

Fill out that helpful immigration/irritation form..

[geronimo]

• Visit a supermarket nearby (if you lived in the sticks)

Pay your water bill at 7-11

Use GPS

Phone a pizza

pay a bar fine over 500baht

[stander]

This quote by Marcel Pagnol comes to mind :-

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be"

[villagefarang]

Twenty years ago sounds like yesterday to me. Go back forty years and then things become very different. Still I am happiest today and have no desire to go back in time.

[geriatrickid]

Survive a medical crisis. Medical care has improved significantly since the good old days.

[geronimo]

Twenty years ago you could never do a "selfie" in public, but today, everyone's doing it!

[geronimo]

and for me this is a great joy, you can follow your friend's lives around the world thanks to Facebook.

[geronimo]

And I know it would have been much more fun the other way round, but the emphasis on my post was how technology is affecting the way we live, besides if I asked you lot what you could do twenty years ago, but can't today, I think the mods would be busy!

[HLover]

Get shot for allegedly insulting a neighbor.

[kannot]

under article 44 almost nothing......................progress

[jay1980]

buy a bottle of wine in 7/11

[Deepinthailand]

Shag as many birds as I want. Married back then limited to 1 extra every now and then

[kokesaat]

get 35 Baht for a dollar!

go ice-skating or bowling in Udon!

find a clean bathroom while traveling by car

get a cup of fresh coffee (not Nescafe instant)

get a driver's license in one day......renew a driver's license in one day

get a refund from the store for a defective item

many many more!

[lj cm]

Good roads, GPS and Agoda.

A pleasure driving around in Thailand now.

[anotheruser]

Order Japanese beef and lobsters online to make a surf and turf.

[benalibina]

Getting a blowjob at a business specifically operating for only that purpose.

[Agent Sumo]

Get shot for allegedly insulting a neighbor.

Yeah there were no senseless murders in Thailand 20 years ago, right?

[wprime]

Communicate at superluminal speeds with Thai ISP's but only when running Speed Test.