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Poll: Thais stressed by rising cost of living and corruption


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A Suan Dusit poll asked Thais last week what they are most stressed about.

 

1. How expensive everything is : 67.76%

 

Asked what was their answer to all this stress the replies were:

 

1. Go shopping: 51.47%

 

A total of 1,358 Thais were asked their opinions in the poll from Wednesday to Friday of last week, said Sanook. 

So your solution to manage the stress of everything being expensive, 

is to go shopping and buy it anyways?

 

TIT - the land of oxymorons 

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53 minutes ago, YetAnother said:
59 minutes ago, webfact said:

Asked what was their answer to all this stress the replies were:

 

1. Go shopping: 51.47%

 

53 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

how incredibly shallow 

Yes and you would probably get a similar shallow answer in the developed countries as well. Maybe even more so!

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1 minute ago, worgeordie said:

I don't know how the poor are managing, all their basic food

is expensive now Pla Tu , Pork, Rice,some veg. . prices

going up a few Baht mean a big difference to them, earning

so little.

regards Worgeordie

Must be stressful...........Time to go shop-ping!

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1 hour ago, YetAnother said:
59 minutes ago, webfact said:

Asked what was their answer to all this stress the replies were:

 

1. Go shopping: 51.47%

 

1 hour ago, YetAnother said:

how incredibly shallow 

Yes and you would probably get a similar shallow answer in the developed countries as well. Maybe even more so!

 

'Shopping' the women's 'therapy of choice' in many countries.

 

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2 hours ago, YetAnother said:

how incredibly shallow 

Why? Have you ever thought about how many people go shopping with family on free days, and see that as a social and relaxing thing to to? What is shallow with that? I think the only thing shallow here is your way of thinking. I would actually go as far as saying it´s hollow.

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Not really noticed any rising prices.

Free government school gone from 0k/term to 6k/term.

Government University went from 8k/term to 12k/term.

Mortgage has gone down from 6.25% to 4.75%

Petrol down from 33bht/ltr to 21bht/ltr.

 

I actually think things are getting a bit cheaper overall.

The 18kbht/year I save on the mortgage (1.5%) more than makes up for any other increases.

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1 hour ago, JungleBiker said:

Never trust a poll that expresses percentages to 2 decimal places (e.g. 67.76%). It shows that the people conducting the poll are amateurs. 

I would suggest that they collated the figures on a spreadsheet and didn't bother (or didn't know to) round the results to a whole number.

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