BlogHide Resteemsjack.russelle (76)in coffee • 7 days agoThe overabundance of coffee shops in Thailand is crazyThose of us all say it with a bit of sarcasm in our voices when we see a new business being set up anywhere in Chiang Mai and the same sentiment exists anywhere else in this country with a…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 10 days agoDrug-tourists keep coming to Thailand and the news is suppressedI'm not talking about weed / marijuana here. I am delighted that this was made recreationally legal in Thailand and hope it stays that way. There has been some talk about reversing the…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 13 days agoThailand considering raising foreign condo-ownership rates. Is it a good idea?If you live in Thailand for a while you already know that they have rather strange laws regarding what foreigners can and can't own. For one thing, as a foreigner you can never own land. You can…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 18 days agoA fantastic value found in a local chain storeI like to have some fun with silly mistakes that probably happen all over the world but things like this I guess bring out the immature person in me. I have seen similar mistakes in my own country…jack.russelle (76)in corruption • 20 days agoRich people in Thailand never face any real consequences for their actionsI suppose it is true in most other countries in the world as well. OJ Simpson comes to mind. Everyone knows that this man killed those people to the point where in a civil lawsuit he was found…jack.russelle (76)in dating • 26 days agoThai man gets scammed online but story inspires foreigner to pay it back to himThis is a bit of an all-too-common story I'm afraid. From what I have been told it happens all over the world as well. People meet a pretty girl on a dating site like Bumble or Tinder and they…jack.russelle (76)in travel • last monthThailand doubles duration of tourist visa for the short-termThis isn't a visa that you have to apply for and that makes it even more special. This is a visa that is called a "visa exemption" and what it means, provided you are from one of the 93 countries…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • last monthStabbing a monk: Is there a more sure-fire way to insure bad karma?One of the things that I really enjoy about living in Thailand is that for the most part, there isn't very much violent crime. Sure there is plenty of theft and petty crime such as the time that I…jack.russelle (76)in immigration • 2 months agoThailand introduces 10-year work visa! Don't get excited, you will not be eligibleEvery now and then Immigration releases some information about ever-evolving visa regulations and at first glance all of us that struggle with visas get excited.... until we dig into the details and…jack.russelle (76)in food • 2 months agoFavorite foods: Buffalo wings with ranch dressingPeople often ask me what it is that I miss about living in the USA and most of the time I quite struggle to come up with anything because I feel like the pace of life over here in South East Asia is…jack.russelle (76)in podcasts • 2 months agoIf you pay to piggyback on someone else's podcast, I will go out of my way to make sure I never listen to youI get it ok, it's really tough to make it in the online world. These days it seems like everyone and their grandma has a podcast and there are some really good ones out there that probably, very…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 2 months agoLet's talk about "Thai Time"If you live here for a certain amount of time someone at some point is going to start talking about "Thai Time" and you can't really understand until you have been exposed to it for a while. For a…jack.russelle (76)in retirement • 2 months agoRetiring in Thailand getting to be more difficult for many nationalitiesA lot of the population here in Thailand that are expats are retirees. They normally had normal jobs in their lives where they were definitely not wealthy, but because they paid into a pension…jack.russelle (76)in humor • 2 months agoJimmy Fallon skit leads to hilarious Yelp reviews for a business in SacramentoWell they are hilarious if you have a silly sense of humor like I do. Someone forwarded me a clip that I probably wouldn't have seen otherwise where Will Ferrell is on the Jimmy Fallon show doing…jack.russelle (76)in thai • 2 months agoThai language looks like "cake decoration." hahaLearning to read a bit of Thai has become something I am quite proud of. There are a lot of people that can speak Thai to a reasonable level but learning to read it for some reason has been quite…jack.russelle (76)in pattaya • 3 months agoForeigner attacks bar staff in Pattaya and I have mixed feelings about thisSo while it isn't huge news and certainly not international news, the media does do some coverage of how recently a German man in Pattaya attacked the staff after they insisted that he pay a bill.…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 3 months agoThe land of fakes: Thai police bust fake shampoo operationThailand is frequently referred to as the "Land of Smiles" because the people are very smiley all over the country. This seems to be the common greeting and it is a very real thing. I think that…jack.russelle (76)in thailand • 3 months agoA rather large portion of Thailand's south east wants to secede from Thai ruleNot many people that I know have ever even been down to the area in question but the few who do were afraid to go any further south than Songkla. The area of Yala is probably the most famous for…jack.russelle (76)in stpatrick • 4 months agoSt. Patrick's Day: Other than drinking, what is it really all about?There are a lot of Irish Pubs all over Thailand including at least a half dozen of them in Chiang Mai and their biggest day of the year is today, the 17th of March. I've normally dabbled in…jack.russelle (76)in money • 4 months agoIs Thailand embracing cryptocurrency? Latest move suggests they are at least for nowThailand is a tough little country to figure out sometimes but just like any other country they are eager to attempt to lure in investors to the Kingdom. They have been a bit strange about…
