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News Forum - Is Thailand considered a rich or poor country?
And I agree with all that And you having lived where you have lived gives you a good perspective In the end, I think we all admire the country For good and bad And I think, given the posts, we realize that Thailand is much more advanced than most that don't know it would think -
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News Forum - Is Thailand considered a rich or poor country?
We obviously know many Thais here in Vancouver and they are thriving Cost of living or not And for the average Thai, cost of living is expensive in Thailand for them..... I'm not banging on Thailand And I don't consider it that poor of a country, relatively And I've argued on here that Thais are doing much better Just the other day on another forum we were discussing my son's new Japanese GF And someone commented that he probably tells her his Dad works in the stock market And my exact reply was : "She seems well off. Even at University, all my son's Thai friends weren't poor and I wasn't all that more well-off than them. The days of us whiteys being the rich ones has passed" 555 But as a whole, I still think Thailand has a long way to go to bridge the gap That's all -
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News Forum - Is Thailand considered a rich or poor country?
That is all fair enough. As a final comment from me on this post; I have lived and worked in Asia for a good many years. In my time that has been in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. I now live in Thailand. I wouldn't say that it gives me a unique perspective on where Thailand sits in terms of development, but it does provide a broad base upon which to form an opinion. Thailand is by no means a corrupt society, or country. The corruption. where it certainly exists, in comparison to many South American and Eastern European countries, and indeed the near neighbors of Cambodia, Laos and Burma, is at a relatively low level. In the last 10 years, Thailand's development in terms of services, the digital economy, industrial development and infrastructure has been nothing less than spectacular. And, somehow, they have achieved this with an impressively low level of National Debt, hence the strong Baht. Comparing this to what the UK and EU has achieved, or more correctly not achieved, Thailand compares very favorably. It has more to do, but its trajectory is upwards, while so many western countries are going downwards, fast. -
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News Forum - Is Thailand considered a rich or poor country?
I understand where you're coming from, but these figures have to be balanced against cost of life. I know several Thais (mostly women married to French men but a few men and women who came for work) in my French home town who were initially starry-eyed at the prospect of earning the French minimum wage of 1,400 euros (50,000 baht). Try telling them that they will spend most of it on rent, utilities, food and transport and they just don't get it. However, through experience, they all came to understand it, because most of them are living the tedious lives of 21-st century Europeans and it is not a fun life. And they will never be able to buy a house. Whether they are happy or not is not for me to say, but they are certainly not enjoying the standard of living that they thought they would (this misconception is, IMO, partly due to social media and the Thai face culture: despite living uneventful lives, they will systematically portray themselves on social media as living the high life with lots of clichés, which perpetuates the myth). Of course, people's experiences and circumstances vary, but for what it's worth, my wife has spent a long time in France and considers herself very lucky to have been able to relocate to Thailand… though we very much enjoy the occasional holiday in France.- 1
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News Forum - Tourists rush to Doi Inthanon as temperatures drop to 10 degrees
If your wanting to experience the cold, rugging up in your winter woolies kinda defeats the purpose.
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