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Off topic, but perhaps of interest to anyone in Thailand who would like to experience similar views firsthand: https://www.booking.com/hotel/th/thirty-nine-bou
by ragle 5y ago
Off topic, but perhaps of interest to anyone in Thailand who would like to experience similar views firsthand:
https://www.booking.com/hotel/th/thirty-nine-boulevard-executive-residence.html https://www.booking.com/hotel/th/thirty-nine-boulevard-execu...
The room my wife and I booked in 2019 offered a panoramic, bird's eye view of Bangkok's skyline from one of the higher floors in the building. Not bad at ~$90 / night at the time.
- jimmyed 5y agoMakes me want to take my few hundred thousands in retirement savings and live like a literal king in the 3rd world.
- yarky 5y agoThe dream of a literal gringo.
- peteretep 5y agoSo do? Plenty of companies hiring remote, and you will be far (far far far) from the first tech worker to move to South East Asia. Bangkok in particular has world class (and affordable) health care, food, and night life, and you’re only ever a couple of hours from the beach
- juskrey 5y agoThailand is fine until you get into trouble which requires authorities of any kind. It is what "3rd world" is all about.
- peteretep 5y agoUnlike the US you can pay your way out of most infractions in Thailand for a fair price.
- juskrey 5y agoReal troubles start when it is not your fault.
- zapdrive 5y agoSo, like California DMV?
- jimmyed 5y agoI haven't researched much about this but India seems like a better fit for tech workers? There I'll find folks who share my interest and the culture is good too.
- wingerlang 5y agoWhat makes you think you won’t find people with shared interests in Thailand? It has a large tech scene.
- aero-glide2 5y agoHeh, Bangalore traffic and Chennai's heat and Delhi's pollution are unbearable.
- ThaiThrowAway 5y agoThai police can be corrupt sometimes (not always - I've even been busted for pot twice, talked my way out of it both times even though they knew they could have gotten some western cash out of me), but Thai justice system is usually quite fair even for foreigners. There are exceptions of course, but usually you won't get into real trouble unless you are doing something that is obviously illegal (doing drugs, running prostitution ring, something something royal family). Even some my friends have sued and won against a big bank or people hustling money from them.
- yojo 5y agoMy wife and I once visited a friend of a friend who was “living like a king” in northern Thailand. He had a walled compound with a Mets baseball theme, a half dozen Burmese slaves, and had recently downsized from multiple wives to 1. He explained that there were three ways people make money in Thailand, drugs, money lending, and prostitution. And that he didn’t touch drugs... It was one of the saddest and strangest experiences of my life. But yes. People do this. It is weirder than you think.
- Clewza313 5y agoJust to tamp down on the hyperbole a little, while Burmese legal refugees and illegal immigrants are mercilessly exploited, slavery (and polygamy for that matter) are illegal in Thailand, and many Western people who think that their money insulates them from the legal system find out the hard way that no, it does not.
- yojo 5y agoThis was 13 years ago, so the political situation may have changed. But this guy was very much operating in the open, and definitely breaking all kinds of laws. He’d been doing it for more than a decade, and no jail time yet. He did also finance construction of an elementary school and some other community improvement stuff. He didn’t explicitly talk about bribes, but I’m sure he was paying people off. At least at the time he seemed to have figured out a way to avoid the law. But maybe corruption is down and it finally caught up with him - I’m definitely out of date here.
- 271828182846 5y agoThailand and especially Bangkok are not third world ... but let me guess - YOU are an "American", right?
- jimmyed 5y agoNothing wrong with being third world mate. Thailand is very much third world though.
- 271828182846 5y agoWell, Thailand isn't more of a third world country than the US ... http://hdr.undp.org/en/dashboard-human-development-anthropocene http://hdr.undp.org/en/dashboard-human-development-anthropoc... Highlight Thailand and US and you'll find both in the same section above or below the median.
- throwaway210222 5y ago> Well, Thailand isn't more of a third world country than the US The USA is flying a helicopter on another planet right now. SMH.
- 271828182846 5y agoYeah, right ... somebody forgot to tell those people: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=california+homelessness&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=california+homelessness&t=h_&iax=i...
- peteretep 5y agoBangkok is absolutely full of view likes this, in no small part due to lax planning regulations. Also there are many tall buildings with bars on the top.
- cigaser 5y agoI get similar view for $400/month. I really do not get this Stockholm syndrome for expensive cities.