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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing the Eastern Economic Corridor also known as the EEC. The reason I thought of making this video, I was reading a recent article that would seemingly be kind of unconnected to the EEC but give me a minute here. 

This is from Pattaya Mail, pattayamail.com, Pattaya Grapevine: A forgotten Brit-Thai Connection, under the subheading: Not Another Booze Zone. Quoting directly: "Pattaya opposition is mounting to the suggestion that a special zone may be established where alcohol can legally be served beyond 2:00 a.m. for a further 2 hours. The problem, of course, is that bars or eateries in adjoining areas will be cut out of the extra profit taking. Many worry that the Walking Street only will get the extra concession. "Should be all or none," according to a Sexy Soi Six bar owner." So interesting perspective from the Sexy Soi Six bar owner.

It brings up something that we brought up in another video I think about a week ago where it was talking about there was a proposition on the table to make the entire Eastern Economic Corridor a 24-hour entertainment zone; it would just go to 24 hours. Honestly if you think about it, especially with what they are trying to do with the EEC in terms of this major tech hub and also the airports, I mean presumably we could see a situation where about like 2030, people are coming in and out of the EEC, the three Eastern provinces, Chachoengsao, Chonburi and Rayong, they would just be coming day and night. It could turn into like a Las Vegas kind of situation not presuming gambling but just that 24-hour a day city kind of feeling because that's what it will be, it'll be a 24-hour city. If you have got Tech Companies that have operations for example in the United States or on Greenwich Mean Time back in the UK, I mean they could be running in the middle of the night here, that's totally feasible. They could be sending people out in the middle of night and coming in in the middle of the night for Thailand time and you need to deal with that. I mean I worked in Vegas briefly and when you get off work there, okay it's 4:00 a.m. but you still want to go grab a burger and a beer, whatever and it's 4:00 a.m. but Vegas is 24 hours. When you live there you get kind of addicted to it because you can go to the dry cleaners at 4 in the morning you can go to the movie theatre even in the early a.m. There are all kinds of things, it is just running 24 hours. 

If the EEC is going to be what I think the EEC has the potential to be, with all the infrastructure that has been invested and frankly I think International Companies have taken notice and we are starting see things move into the EEC, I think it is a great idea to make things operational 24 hours in that particular zone and it would kind of put paid to all this, it would put all this to rest with respects to different parts of Pattaya, "does this place, can it run? can that run? what's going on?" I think it would be far better idea to just say "okay look it's a 24-hour zone; that's just how it runs down there." Again this isn't Bangkok. Bangkok would largely be presumably unaffected by this but in that particular zone, it's just look you are either working or playing and you can do either 24 hours a day.