There are services you can use that will let you purchase a plane ticket and then a couple days later they cancel it. It costs you a small service fee, but it provides you with the necessary booking.
I give zero fucks about if people can advertise alcohol, lol... if this is the kind of argument you want to make against a place then you have lost the argument. And then "potheads like you", just trying to be a dick and insulting. And why, because I have a different opinion about what country in SE asia is best? LOL, nice. You're a piece of work man. Also weird that you like other places better but clearly spend a lot of time talking in a Thailand visa channel. Just one of those guys who loves to fight and argue I guess, shrug. Have a great day man.
infrastructure is certainly not better than bkk. And owning property is a terrible idea, exposes you to all kinds of political risk, interest rate risk, regulatory risk, and so on. The English is nice. /shrug