[ragle]

Off topic, but perhaps of interest to anyone in Thailand who would like to experience similar views firsthand:

https://www.booking.com/hotel/th/thirty-nine-boulevard-execu...

The room my wife and I booked in 2019 offered a panoramic, bird's eye view of Bangkok's skyline from one of the higher floors in the building. Not bad at ~$90 / night at the time.

[peteretep]

Bangkok is absolutely full of view likes this, in no small part due to lax planning regulations. Also there are many tall buildings with bars on the top.

[jimmyed]

Makes me want to take my few hundred thousands in retirement savings and live like a literal king in the 3rd world.

[yojo]

My wife and I once visited a friend of a friend who was “living like a king” in northern Thailand. He had a walled compound with a Mets baseball theme, a half dozen Burmese slaves, and had recently downsized from multiple wives to 1. He explained that there were three ways people make money in Thailand, drugs, money lending, and prostitution. And that he didn’t touch drugs...

It was one of the saddest and strangest experiences of my life.

But yes. People do this. It is weirder than you think.

[peteretep]

So do? Plenty of companies hiring remote, and you will be far (far far far) from the first tech worker to move to South East Asia. Bangkok in particular has world class (and affordable) health care, food, and night life, and you’re only ever a couple of hours from the beach

[yarky]

The dream of a literal gringo.

[cigaser]

I get similar view for $400/month. I really do not get this Stockholm syndrome for expensive cities.