Quote Originally Posted by jamescollister View Post
Quote Originally Posted by piwanoi View Post
Either way not a lot to look forward to for the dirt poor rural Thai is there?
Out my way, locals are starting to hurt badly, they were flying high on money from illegal logging, new cars everywhere.
Logging has died off now, rubber was the other main income, cars, new homes, plenty of jobs, now that's down the toilet.
To make matters worse, the locals used to live off the jungle, hunting and collecting mushrooms, frogs, wild honey etc. With the crack down by the army on the logging came a crack down on hunting and collecting from the national park.
No happy campers out here at the moment and these folk don't like working in the cities. Hard times ahead all round. Jim
Yeah Jim ,we've all read and said it many times before ,for quite a lot of Thai's there is no "tomorrow", now tomorrow is knocking on quite a few Thai's front door .