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Johnny FD
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Johnny FD writes JohnnyFD.com, a personal blog at johnnyfd.com about business and culture. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Immigration Crackdown on Digital Nomads in Chiang Mai, Thailand”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-24, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link this first-hand account of Thai immigration police checking people at a Chiang Mai coworking space, with updates on how the questioning went. Commenters quote it as a source for the raid.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog of Johnny FD, financial independence, digital nomad, and travel. I earn money online, location independently with dropshipping.
Most-linked posts?
- Immigration Crackdown on Digital Nomads in Chiang Mai, Thailand2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-01
What Hacker News says?
I made Panda in Chiang Mai at the co-working office space, Punspace. I too have bootstrapped my business while working here on the cheap. Since I was on a budget I was living off of $600US a month, I authored the book "12 Weeks in Thailand" base on how I quit my job, moved to Thailand to live on the cheap. Now that my business is successful, my budget is closer to $1,500 a month and I'm living a great life in Thaila…
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on “What I learnt bootstrapping my startup from Thailand for six months”Submitted Immigration Crackdown on Digital Nomads in Chiang Mai, Thailand as a story · 78 points
HN discussionUPDATES From the article: Update: The last of us volunteered to come to immigration on our own. We drove there unescorted. Turns out they thought we were employees of Punspace which is untrue. We're all still here but good news so far is that they aren't targeting digital nomads. Update: At Thai immigration near the airport, everyone got interviewed but were treated extremely kindly. It ended up taking a few hours a…
Comment linking /2014/09/live-updates-immigration-crackdown-in.html
on “Immigration Crackdown on Digital Nomads in Chiang Mai, Thailand”It seems, from a first-hand report [+], that the police thought the renters of the coworking space were employees of the company running the coworking space. i.e. They were looking for garden variety "immigrants working without a work-capable visa" rather than digital nomads specifically. That said, I've run into a lot of folks like this over the years (something about the combination of being in software and being…
Comment linking /2014/09/live-updates-immigration-crackdown-in.html
on “On Thailand’s immigration police targeting digital nomads”