SoiBiker

We must not be reading the same forum.

Another question could blame the host country: why can't Thailand attract and retain [well adjusted, polite, smart, successful, culturally sensitive, younger, richer, etc.] farangs?

It can - I know plenty of people here that fit that description. They just don't post here, probably because it has a reputation as a den of whinging whoremongers.

I will google the thai touristbrochures from the last decades myself.

When you do, can you post up the pictures of smiling Chinese businessmen? I'd be interested to see them.

You'd be rather naive to assume the entire country would resemble a tourist brochure - or that the entire population would welcome you with open arms.

Perhaps such unrealistic expectations are one of the reasons so many end up disillusioned?

I can honestly tell you that the good members of this forum vastly outnumber the bad...

You may be right, but unfortunately the latter are a very vocal minority. Barely anything 'sensible' can be posted without being swamped by negativity, abuse and childish sexual references, with the net result that the decent posters stay away and the grotesque sideshow continues.

I've been reading this place for some time, and have always found it quite remarkable - like a view into a parallel universe. The prevailing attitude simply does not correspond with the Thailand I live in or the people I've met here. It's amusing to peek into now and then, but it does seem a bit of a shame that this can't be a forum for the many decent expats who live here, without the constant wailing of aging, drunken, miserable long-term sex tourists who lack the insight to realise that not everybody sees this country in the bleak, limited palette that they do.

Or...you could think....i am happy that my experiences are only good.

Nobody's experiences are ever "only good". The world doesn't work that way. Most people don't let the occasional knock turn them into a misanthrope, though.

I've been reading this place for some time, and have always found it quite remarkable - like a view into a parallel universe. The prevailing attitude simply does not correspond with the Thailand I live in or the people I've met here. It's amusing to peek into now and then, but it does seem a bit of a shame that this can't be a forum for the many decent expats who live here, without the constant wailing of aging, drunken, miserable long-term sex tourists who lack the insight to realise that not everybody sees this country in the bleak, limited palette that they do.