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Prevalent mind set in your average Thai is if allowed, foreigners would by up the whole country. Clearly an unrealistic assumption but that's the way they feel.
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To be fair they're not alone in that, very much a similar sentiment in New Zealand. Foreign ownership was allowed some time back but in a lot of cases under very strict limitations.
That singer Shania Twain(sp?) recently purchased a high-country property and had to agree to a truckload of restrictions and caveats (things like no extra buildings, building a public access track etc).