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Old Jun 11, 2014 | 2:41 am
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Originally Posted by dsquared37
What relevance does that have? Costs are home are related to costs at home and have no bearing on costs somewhere else.

If pad thai costs you $10 in NYC does that make it legit for a mom n pop resto in Ayuthaya to charge you $9? (When the menu in Thai says 50 baht?)
You make a valid point, but so does the previous poster. I can remember in Pattaya a few years ago a lot of farang getting absolutely apoplectic about paying 10 baht on a baht bus while Thais were paying 5 baht. If I dropped a 5baht coin on the ground and it rolled 10 feet away I wouldn't bother walking over to pick it up. Then to get into a screaming fight with a baht bus driver over the same amount simply didn't make sense.

Matter of perspective, IMO.
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