I understand your anger
BB but we all know, that the Thais totally ignore all the rules of the road, whether in the city, or out in the sticks, but then, don't quite a few farangs?
We were on our way to Cha Am beach one day and going along the road from the main highway to the beach, was a yellow Ferrari parked at 45 degrees across the road, with both doors wide open and 3 blacked out Range Rovers parked along the centre meridian line, completely blocking the road.
All traffic was at a complete standstill.
It turned out to be Taksins daughter, doing a bit of shopping.
We had problems with rich Thais wanting to enter our home compound, with their chauffeur driven Mercs, they would have a go at the security guard on our gate, even send in their driver to complain. I and my wife used to go out and tell them in no uncertain terms that "if your car comes in, then you stay outside, if you want to come in, then your car stays outside" Word soon got round after we made it plain, that the car spaces and the drive were for our family cars and no others.
Maybe, they were surprised that we were not going to be brow beaten like many Thais are by Hi So's and after a couple of weeks we had no more trouble.
The problem with any city like HH, is that the more popular it becomes, the more traffic it generates.
This in turn, brings in the big name shops, increases house and land prices and generates higher incomes for many local businesses, many of which are owned by us farangs.
The amount of traffic in Hua Hin and the Hi So's indifference to the rules, used to upset me, but after a while I realised I was retired, in no particular hurry to get anywhere and just learned to live with it.
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