sidjameson

Yes. The "I want to improve myself set" has never had access to so much good advice on nutrition and exercise. Improving themselves tends to lead them to the cities. The "I have no interested in improving myself" set have never had so much access to cheap crap food and phone entertainment. They tend to have no interest leaving the village either. The gap will only get wider.

Found I love my new routine. I exercise with dumbbells. Need to be in Bangkok a month. Near mass transit. Small gym ...even just one dumbbell. Budget 25k Hotel or Airbnb near a gym ok too. Any ideas?

Money pays for pleasures that can distract you from your misery. Money also provides comforts while you search for fulfillment. These days comforts and pleasures can be had so easily but misery still as common as fulfillment is absent. It's complicated.

Hard not to what the death penalty for Singha..

Probably worried she will use the wrong name.

Pls share mate. Pm if you prefer

I learned to enjoy reading more than drinking. Cooking more than restaurants. Using charm to get women more than money. Having girlfriends more than having kids. Exercise more than owning cars. With those preferences even a lazy git like me could work a bit and retire by 45 I'm surprised how easy life has been.

Do you have a link to that infamous thread by chance ????

The wife constantly urging caution if reported accurately suggests he was reckless in some way.

chicken fried if I had the choice.

I've always dreamed of being the guy who was perfectly content living in the jungle with just a knife, piece of string and a needle. Alas I like watching the premier league too much.

Im 55 and in the UK living off my modest savings I feel I'm in the 3rd class carriage of life. In Thailand I feel like I'm riding 2nd class. And occasionally allowed into the 1st class dining area.

Very nicely written. I've followed your posts thru the years, just wondering where you settled on for now?

Is your Thai good enough to ask that question? Understand the answer?

Because your qualities of "providing, loyal loving" are fine if you find a woman who .... 1. Is attractive...imagine a guy providing for an ugly woman. Don't want to disparage ugly women but it just isn't our natural state to work for someone who isn't providing beauty. 2. She didn't get baggage from other men. We all know men are pigs at times. Providing for damaged goods.....why do it? The deal you propose worked for the past. But are you saying that a man should work hard and provide financial security for a woman that enjoyed her young days with casual sex while the guy worked on his career?

I think you've just described what a woman who has ridden the c.o.c,k carousel and is an alpha widow would love to mould a beta man into.

Thai women don't agree with you. 99% choose a Thai guy who couldn't afford or want to pay for everything. Very few Thai women want a foreigner.

Possibly, but you can see many couples aging and still in love even after 'property A has gone. I wonder how many women attracted to the money stay if that runs out.

If rules applied equally no man would be interested in a woman earning less than he did. Or shorter.

A perennial favourite topic. I'm 55. If I were single I know I should aim for a compatible 40 year old. I fear id be aiming for the nearest to the hottest 25 year old I could find.

If I had any debt I wouldn't even buy a 25bht iced coffee on the street. Many Thais remind me of the small kid in the playground whose been conned out of his lunch money.

Where would you have looked for a woman to marry then?

I've been charged extra based on gender. Night club entrence for example. I've been charged extra based on age. Pensioners and kids being subsidized. I pay in tax for people who refuse to work. Life isn't fair. But who wastes emotion on this stuff?

Nice ladies everywhere. Is Chinese popular in Thailand?

But even in the cheap range of countries there's still enough choice to not end up in a country one doesn't presumbly like.