what is considered Chiang Mai? Chiang Mai has around 500,000 within 5 minutes of the old city and probably over 1 million within 30 minutes of the old city.
The CM work permit department doesn't want to give work permits to volunteers. Now they are saying that they will give every 3 months.
No work permit, no visa extension at immigration - just power plays all over and the 80-90% real volunteers are stuck in the middle. Rules, what rules!