Thailand is a place, where white boys can live a rockstar lifestyle for $300 / day :thumbsup

Thailand is a good.I like it!

Good if you are visiting, living in the remote jungle or in the deep south surrounded by a muslim insurgency might not be so appealing though.

And unfortunately, anywhere else, tourists or not, the "land of smiles" is often the "land of plastics", "land of electric cables" or the "land of noise"...

Here is why, in my opinion, Thailand falls very short of being a Paradise. Relationships.

Now I know that might sound crazy.

But really, if you are an expat, apart from your girlfriend (if you have one) and her immediate family, how many Thais would you consider real friends? How many would you trust and would count on whatever happened or even have meaningful discussions with?

In places equally as poor as Thailand, like Colombia or Cuba, after a couple of months, people will have taken you in like one of theirs. In Thailand you'll always be an alien, on the long term, this has a huge impact on your quality of life.

I agree that Japanese are the hottest girls (and they do come in different shades), second I like Chinese american girls (a ton in NYC)...and then Korean (too crazy to date). Don't get me wrong hot girls come in all nationalities. I also like Latin girls.

When I visit Japan I always wear my glasses, my wife always says wear your contacts your wasting your looks...but then she would catch me checking out all the babes......oh yeah I married a Japanese girl too. :thumbsup

That is really the bottom line with Thailand. You said it well.

You can live like a KING there for cheap.

My friend who lives there has a small palace on the beach in Bang Sara. He actually keeps several girls on the payroll to just hang around dressed sexy and topless with high heels on (and yes, they fuck him too). It's insane. Even his maid is sexy and walks around topless. It's one of those dream scenarios. I think he paid 40 million Thai baht for the house and the girls get 15,000 Baht a month. When I die and come back, I want to be him.

Just go to Ratchada strip. Those karaoke joints for the locals ain't cheap. Most of the foreigners think they are super rich coz normally they hang out in Nana and Cowboy where poor girls goes to work. Complain a lot of 150 bath ladies drinks. Try going to Ratchada area where the locals go and you will surely be shocked how those rich Thai businessman parties.

Most of the rich Thais love to send the kids to study abroad like Australia and UK. Their English is good and very cultured. If you do not want to have bad impression about Thai girls, go get a Thai girl who work as a lawyer or some other decent jobs. But most likely you are going to get frustrated for not getting close.

We are are only KINGS in bar girls scene :winkwink:......

thats the problem i have with moving to new country, meaningful relationships.. yeah you can go to thailand and bang 10x girls a day, but how many TRUE friends will you have that will be there for you?

can you get by on english with friends.. what i mean is down here in panama, you can get some friends who speak english, BUT when you want to hang out in a group settings, they all speak spanish so you feel completely lost..

in thailand, if you get a group of friends who are locals, do they speak english when they hang out in groups?

nah. all you need to do is hook up with some ex-pats that are already established. ko lipe at southern most tip of Thailand, for example, *IS* paradise. i know a married couple (both white) who have ran a bar there for 5 years. now they have a huge sail boat and are doing tours. i lived there for around 4 months (6 months total) about 2 years ago, they hooked me up with all the non-tourist deals. i even worked at their bar a little bit, just for shits and giggles (i don't need to work), never really had much of clue what i was doing, but i was master of the ipod lol. we went again last year for 3 months, spend most of our time on ko bulon, tarutao and lipe. i think bulon is going to be the next lipe. totally undeveloped, cheap as hell, no motorized vechicles, endless deserted beaches, perfect water, and there is only one bar and two restaurants on the entire island. we met a (western) guy, who just totally dropped out of society, built a simple hut, lives off the land fishing and gardening every day. he gives some of his fish to one of the resturaunts, and in return, they give him the land for his hut and garden. wears nothing but a leather thong. pretty fucking funny. but anyway, the point is, there are options, you just have to seek them out. pattaya and phuket suck. not trying to offend, but, well, yeah. suamui is good for a couple of days, same with phangan (everyone, once in his or her life should attend a full, or even better and less talked about, half moon party), but most of the gulf of Thailand (east coast) is a tourist trap now. ko tao is still pretty cool, that is about as good as it gets on the east coast imho. if you want east coast, head to Cambodia: sihanoukville. awesome place, tons of ex-pats there.

as far as the muslims in the south go, i would avoid the suntun [sic] area, etc. boring as hell.

girls, i was either traveling/living with my cousin, or with my girl over there, so i never even tried to go that route. i have only heard bad things about hooking up with thai girls long-term. serious horror stories lol. i wouldn't go there with a 10 foot pole.

it's not Thailand, but in Ventiane, Laos (which rocks btw), this guy we met had a quarter of the meat on his arm bit off by a crazy Lao prositute. he told everyone he fell off his scooter, but then after a couple of beers told us the real story. we felt bad, but you kind of have to laugh at the craziness that is south east asia. /blabbermouth.

anyone else thinks this looks like monkey cages in a fucking zoo?

Nana, Soi Cowboy, Patpong and all those other places are low class. Ratchada is where it's at. Yes, you spend more money but the service is exceptional and the quality is unmatched if you get the higher end girls, magazine models, Thai Penthouse girls and so on.

Back when I lived there, that is where I would get my hookers from. Why waste time with "jeppers" and star fish, when you can have the best?

Koh Lipe is AMAZING mate! Maybe the most beautiful place in all of SE Asia. It's a hidden gem.

absolutely, you nailed it. do you know of karma bar on sunlight beach? i know the owners, Jeff and Fiona. they closed it this year after 5 years, and 3 years previous to that in phi phi. now they are focusing on their sail boat cruises in an around lipe. pretty good friends with these guys, damn i love it there.

Of coz they speak Thai.....it would be weird for them to speak in English among themselves. If you are in a foreign country...of coz it is up to you to learn their language. So if a French dude visits US, you expect him to continue to speak in French among your friends? Of coz he will have to learn English to blend in. You also need to eat the local food and try to follow as much as the local culture. You can't be living there and expect to have all the things you have in your own country. I bet Thai people will complain there's lack of good Tom Yum in USA or Europe.
:2 cents:

I've been here 8 years, was in Laos just last week :winkwink:

What I am saying is that if your idea of paradise is an immaculate beach you'll have a much easier time finding it in Borneo, Polynesia or even Sri Lanka, not that there is none here but paradise, after a while, is more than just a pretty scenery.

I caught malaria in Borneo about 15 years ago. Almost killed me. But what a beautiful, pristine place. At least it was then.

Some very accurate comments in this thread.

To the comment about the monkeys in a zoo, well, experience that group of bars a few times, and maybe you will realize, YOU are the monkey in the zoo :upsidedow
They do yell and shout a lot, and as soon as you sit down and buy a drink, most go about ignoring you and chatting amongst themselves or screaming at other guys to sit and buy a drink. So who is the hunter and who is the hunted in there? That section is on my list of least favorite bars to frequent. My buddie found a companion at one, but not so hot.

Rock star is a decent description. As long as you are in some areas throwing money around you are popular. Then have your money run out, you are a leper. It's too easy for most of us to be confused and think they really love us.

marry a ladyboy

funny how every travel thread is post after post of continual one-upmanship.

so insecure you can't simply exchange experiences but turn it into a chest beating primate chest beating ritual .... funny humans .....

what kind of pussy gets hit by a woman?

My question exactly.

I really wish I did, I am only dying to get back to fuck all the girls that I said sorry I have a girlfriend back home whom I love so fucking much and it would break her heart if I did something like this and I couldnt live with myself if I did.

not only that I really wish I was there to hit some pads.. I feel like im I am going to snap of anger soon, my emotions are all fucked up.. I go from crying all night to calm and happy to wanting to punch holes in my wall.. not that I have or will.. just so frustrated.

Danny dude... the attachment isnt worth it...

move on buddy, I know its hard, especially with kids but you will get by easier and live happier without a loon bin like her. You also dont want your kid growing up thinking its normal to be violent in a relationship. She hit you dude... What would happen if you hit her?

move on, live happy

Hows Hongkong with porn aspect, are they adult friendly or that Retarded Chinese government censorship is also in Hk?

thailand looks sexy

i'm in thailand for almost month, now ill, hopefully it's only cold....
i didn't bang any hookers... it's kinda sad when you see drunk or drugged girls...and three legged stray dogs running around their bars ;-) sorry i can't :) besides all that i don't like asian girls that much

dont forget the ocassional children hanging out with mom.

Dude we kinda told you so. :2 cents: :mad:

amen... also can i reiterate that 1 night in bangkok makes a hard man humble.... :winkwink:

Hope you had a good time there, its an interesting country

If you cant find someone you like and have something in common with in a country with more then 60 million different people... well good luck finding her anywhere else.

Have you got any pics?

In Thailand, you can live for 1 year on $1000 bucks.

Care to elaborate how? Not saying it is impossible but where are you living on $85 a month?

HK is a lot more relaxed that the mainland. I don't shoot porn here so I don't have to worry about that, but if I did, I doubt I would have much problems from the police. Better chance of having problems with gangs.

My buddy lost a ton of weight out there too. Actually too much weight, I think he caught the AIDS yo.

Yeah, if you live in a fucking cardboard box or a hammock and eat deep-fried cockroaches and crickets and som tam / rice for the entire year. I fucking hate the backpacker culture --- oh, it's so fun carrying around the heavy-ass rucksack, getting 'dreads, being broke, and always smelling like a dirty sock. It's so fun having a guy like me behind you in line at immigration, paying your overstay (allowing you to get your ass back to France after you've clearly been on 'E' for a month in Koh Phangan, waiting for the full moon party). Really, who the fuck wants to go to a 3rd world country and live on $85 / month? The girls (and, even ladyboys) won't even fuck Brad Pitt without the money. So, the only thing that you're guaranteed is that, as a bum, you probably won't freeze to death, being in a tropical environment. :winkwink:

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

That is about $2.80 a DAY.

You can NOT live in Thailand or anywhere else in the world for $2.80 a day unless you are homeless.

so far i spend here around 40 usd daily...cheap accomodation, eating street food, massage every 2 days, motorbike rented etc. . I heard that average thai salsary is about 300 usd , so i guess you can survive on 10-15 per day also...*especially* if you travel in group :)