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In Topic: Chiang Mai Then And Now. Four Years On
2012-05-09 01:35:39
trainman34014, on 2012-05-02 09:07:03, said:
Biggest thing I notice when riding around on my Bike is how many Paddy's are being filled in and built on. Shops, Offices, Houses, you name it, are springing up fast all around the Countryside, which is kind of sad as more green belt vanishes under concrete. Reminds me of the UK in the 80's when most of the green between my Village and the nearest Town vanished in the same way. Also a lot of old wooden houses are being demolished and more modern structures taking their place. I suppose this is progress but some of the more quaint aspects of Thailand are being taken from us.
Rather worrying some of these too. We watched a new row of houses going up in a paddy this year. They are maybe 50 meters from the edge of the paddy. They have been raised from the paddy floor about 15 feet or so, and "roads" (pathways/drives) have been banked up too on either end and one in the centre. Worry is, they were raised using brown earth, not concrete or even walled in soakaway. My feeling is that as the paddy around it fills up this rainy season the earth that banked it up (drives and under the slab foundations of the building) will become saturated and will leach. At some point it will either list or just collapse in on itself. They seem to be 2.5 floor properties, terraced. I would also be concerned about the legality of the land ownership too - much of the aggricultural land is NS2 or 3 and not chanote (as it really belongs to the state and was handed out for aggricultural use only), so chanotes (if they have them) may not be particularly kosher (like the ones on beach fronts and national parks that hits the news from time to time).
In Topic: Rain
2012-05-09 01:22:46
My cat hates the rain and will not go out - shat in the shower for the second time this week tonight (fun discovery that one!), all that careful training to get him to poop on next door's lawn all goes to pot in the rainy season (next door is a cop shop 
