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Old 10-14-2016, 07:45 AM   #39
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Originally Posted by blkgsr View Post
i was there (in bangkok) the night they announced the coupe....to say nothing changed is completely incorrect.

maybe from a business stand point but from a day to day for the first while things definitely changed....and going again earlier this year things are slowly coming back to what they were before but not completely. the military has cleaned up bangkok quite a bit of the street vendors and that kind of stuff. atleast that's what we saw. and we've been in and out of that city about 15 times over the last 3 years.
airport, car, hotel, restaurant, car, factory, car, hotel, and repeat...

i didn't see much materially different, but i suppose it depends on your perspective.

of course the day of is a shock to the system, but shit settles down real quick and life carries on - as will happen now.
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