About 9 years ago I was staying at a small resort run by an Aussie in Kalasin. It was during Songkhran and they were having a festival. We were the only two foreigners there both married to Thais. They had music blaring. During this one song I told him, "Do you know this song is about Issan men being upset because foreigners are taking their women?"
But anyway all the people there were very friendly.
One time we were shopping at Makro and I heard two women talking to each other say, "His wife is old."
I guess they are used to seeing lots of foreigners with wifes way younger than them. I'm sure a lot of them automatically assume they were hookers too.
But most people my wife meets here thinks she was a professor. I guess because of how she dresses.
I always worried when walking around with some of our neices and nephews holding hands that people would think I was a child molester.