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Paved streets of gold, walking ATM machines, yes the bright lights of Pattaya for the first time will make you feel like your in Wonka's chocolate factory, so many different flavors to taste, but as days turn into weeks and weeks turn into years its not all what its cracked up to be. Many foreigners come out here with a dream to make it on a budget that will not allow that dream to ever happen and eventually the music stops and after years of being in the land of smiles and no money in your pocket the walls start cave in and I guess there's 2 options go back to your home country broke and pathetic or take a leap off a tall building and hope heaven is like the first day you walked down walking street, or in some cases hell is not like the last day you walked down walking street. All good things eventually come to an end, the question is how long you can make it till your day comes.

Being a teacher you must show patience for the students. A student giving a teacher the bird goes with the territory and therefore the teacher has no right and authority to discipline the child. Slapping another person child is probably not in the job description. Now as far as being smashed in the face with a motor bike helmet that is assault with a deadly weapon and the striker should be severally punished. Pinpong bombs being thrown into the school should warrant some kind of government or police protection around the school 24 hrs a day. At the end of the day sounds like everybody in this story have set a bad example for the future of Thailand.

I enjoy reading all these reply's. My advise is u got 2 options. #1 come out for a 30-60 day holiday. 2 things will happen you will go home broke and probably in love with a new Thai lady. One that is younger and that will treat you better. Or 2 get back to work and start scratching lottery tickets mate. Lol at some of these guys telling you can make it on 30k-40k a month. Thailand is called the land of smiles and on a budget of that there's no way there smiling. Sure you wanna eat sticky rice and a piece of broccoli in some soup broth everyday for 20 baht 3 times a day. Live in a room were your toilet has the shower nozzle on top of it with no air con in some village off the beaten path. Yes buddy these guys aint living in Hua Hin or BKK or Pattaya or Phuket. There living in villages in 3rd world settings which is cool and all if thats what u like.

I been in Thailand 7 years now, lived Samui , BKK and Pattaya and in the last 3 years this country has gotten more expensive weaker Euro,Pound and dollar and a stronger Baht. You find a apartment in Bkk for under 15k today and its basically unlivable. Come on down to pattaya and lets go out for a night out, and yes i like to shag bar girls, minimum it's going to cost you 5-6k with dinner and guess what your going to have so much freaking fun that your going to want to do it again and again.

I'm on a 1 year visa which means I leave the country every 90 days, lol what you think that costs. I play golf why, because Thailand has some of the most beautiful courses in the world, I try to play every Sunday caddie tip balls green fees lunch there goes another 3k. Dinner out once a week decent bottle of wine for 2 there goes another 3k and keeps adding up. So yes if you wanna live in a shack with no aircon and eat soup in 100 degree weather everyday then come on down and all of you who say spending over 80k month is stupid then all I can say is at least I'm smiling ear to ear mate