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Not sure Yakuza knows it

High rise in place of our beloved and sadly demise soi Twilight is growing very fast and onlt trace soi was there is our memories. As expected bar recently opened across form world famous Foodland Patpong, well known for never having any customers closed and unit sits in darkness again. Yesterday was Saturday, usually busiest day in bars but at 10 pm Hot Male gogo had no customers. Few come later but we are talking few. What is surprising dozen or so boys there were very decent looking, attractively dressed in uniform red track pants and equally uniform shirts removed. At first glance I could off any one of them so bars and boys must have it hard. I did not stay for the show so no idea if they had any. Drink and off fee 500, boys drink 400. From tips dispensed yesterday and today it looks that boy's expectancies are accordingly lowered, it was, long since I got a kiss planted on me just for tipping nothing outlandish.

Yes

No need for belligerency, no fires we're needed to vanish Soviet Union.

This is hope all sides hold dearly but when ballistics are flying, nerves are frail and world is not far from edge in matter of days.

I wouldn't be surprised if you believe in such a nonsense. Russis's collaborating with Nazis is well rehearsed with Ribbentrop Molotov pact being it,s pinnacle and helping to facilitate caving of Poland in half between those two in 1939, no doubt fact NOT taught in Russian schools. Neither fact that biggest butcher of Russians over centuries were their own governments, not external enemies.

Still holding up nicely. And Russia, like every thug , attacked them for that reason, hoping for easy walk.

But people living behind barbed wires and worried about there 5 y.o being raped is far from universal

Seems nice problem to be forced to deal with.

Reads as copy of German reports from Eastern front from fall of 1941

To the same extend local's Piso or baht stimulates economy. And those locals , on top of their stimulation by spending , are paying their taxes some resident foreigners are trying so laboriously avoid

Mission almost accomplished, this is what I hear from Cambodians

That's very nasty piece of argument straight from colonist handbook. Replace "Khmer " with any name of country ever colonized and occupied throughout history and is could be said the same, including parts of you own country occupied by Germans 1941-43.

There's thing called keeping up appearances. In almost every country there are foreign investments and yet signages are in local language, not investor's one.

And crime almost non existing

There's logic in it as one lives and consumes tax funded resources in the country without contributing to the till. At end if day we should remember that taxation is not about fairness, is about extracting money from general population.

Exactly for numerous reasons you listed above. It's called city life, not for everybody I agree but must have some spell since 10 million lives there

Which is best visible in new Siem Reap airport where inside I couldn't find even ONE sign in Khmer, Chinese and English only

Indeed

They may introduce kind of pass for frequent crosses like ones existing in several countries.

One may be very surprised upon settling in the Phillippines that their tax rules re foreign income of residents mirror those of Thailand and Indeed most of countries of note in the world who usually have tax treaties between themselves and treat those issues quite uniformly with income taxed in another country either exempt in another one or tax credit given for tax already paid in that thay call " other contracting state " As advised many times here, instead of being heated about those issues , time is better spend studying tax treaty between counties of interest as variations do exist. From what I get Thai rules are nothing new, rather thay decided to implement what is in the books already. Look at it the same way as one would about mandatory helmets on motorbike. Imagine outcry if all of the sudden new PM ordered police to enforce it strictly and without exception even for short hop.

People look for different things and consider them of higher or lesser importance, be it property ownership , climate, sound of spoken language and everything in between. I'm baffled why anyone would chose Pattaya over Bangkok and still thousands do heading to Pattaya right from Swampy day and night

This morning at TT Exchsnge in Pattaya by the Boyztown: 1 USD =34.17, up fro 34.15 last evening

And rightly so. If senior is able to undertake grueling trip , often more than 30 hrs door to door rom home to Thailand , certainly can survive lining up in regular lane. This comes from me who have head full of white hair and not exactly because I use perhydrol liberally. Sorry if somebody is offended but I truly mean it. Arrived Wed early afternoon and while crowded lines were moving quite fast.