than a couple of years ago ?
I'm leaving in a gated community north of Bangkok. Recently in every soi there are at least two or three houses going through big renovation. I also noticed a number of nice cars with red license plate.
A few years ago, it was the opposite, houses were falling apart with a increasing number of them abandoned. Cars were old. There were a few Benz and BM but they were usually more than 10 years old.
So definitively my feeling is that Thai people, at least in my neighborhood, are doing much better than a couple of years ago