NorthernRyland

That's the best part. All her cucks are unsubscribing and marrying Thai women. 😂

I feel like I rarely saw women travel in Thailand but the numbers have dramatically gone up in recent years and they seem have to found us now. Is this what they think of us? Remember what she says next time some young white women walks past you on the streets. 😬

There are cultural norms aren't there? Thai and American aren't the same on average by any means.

She stays in CM and you go to her house in Lampang? I guess she has a vacant house that's available. That's a good arrangement indeed.

I think some (many?) women are control freaks so they need to get their husband under their control at all times. Going out too late or leave her alone is too much freedom.

hmmm this doesn't sounds like a very good marriage. Good luck with that one.

I've seen multiple times Thai people show disgust towards Indians and Arabs. They simply do not like them. Surely this has been going on long before any farang showed up anywhere in Thailand. Its makes sense does it not? How many Thai people are moving to India vs the America or Germany for example. Probably none and that tells you what they think about the people.

My boss is Indian-American and he always remarked how even the middle class in Indian all have servants. Appears to part of the culture. Come to think of it when I travel last month I was in line with an Indian girl and she had the most intense BO I ever smelled. This was inside an air conditioned airport mind you. Maybe the claims are true? I do hear it often but I've not been around many Indians.

This is crazy. Thai's are far more racist than any white country in 2024 with the exception of Eastern Europe maybe.

Minorities? pretty sure there's more Indians alone than all white people in the world combined.

Easy, Thailand just has to request the money and say pay up or go home. They don't need any more justification than that. They could literally come out tomorrow and say 1 mil baht expat visa fee starting January 1st and we can't renew our visa unless we pay. Governments are basically the mafia let's not forget.

I let my wife speak rudely to me for too long and I'm trying to reel it now. Nothing malicious but just not a tone you should be using with other people. Her parents should have taught her this but I guess I need to do. "say thank you and please" kind of stuff. Like you would do in public strangers etc... She manages people at work too so she has that attitude and takes it home. I didn't bother me so much in the past but I'm starting to notice it more and more so I decided she can't do it anymore. Maybe it's too late but I'm trying. I've heard once a woman loses respect for you it's basically over and she'll start being abusive. If that's the case might as well leave sooner than later.

Oh believe me I don't care one bit. I tried to explain to her how the women are here in my observations but she was having none of it so I wanted to ask others if they had my experience with Thai women too. It's laughable to think anyone would fear getting divorced by some bossy 60 y/o woman. Where would I get my floppy tit fix when I need it and who would argue with me over where to eat dinner? 😂

Good to hear. I think this is right. Thai men to their credit have not let themselves get browbeaten in to the ground like American men have and the women seem to have a little fear for them. My last GF was ok in this regard too. When I had enough I told her she needs to go back to her parents house and give me a few days off to be alone and she complied. No hard feelings we just need our space. My mom however is horrible here. She gets all bent out of shape when my step dad doesn't come for dinner at the right time and he's given in to her for years. It's pathetic to watch. If my wife did that crap I would have never married her.

How could it not be. I don't know what I'm going to do but I'm done. We'll see how it works out in the future but we've been good for the last year. Maybe because we've been living together for 10 years we needed some time apart anyways. 🙂

I wonder if the new 5 year visa is drawing in tons of these people. I didn't know about a "digital nomad building" My last house in the city was 2010 I think and Nimanhamen was just a normal road then. I think most of the younger expats are around there. Changed 180 degrees from what I remember. I'm actually a programmer and always did that to make money in Thailand but this whole digital nomad thing snuck up on me. I've always just worked out of my house and so I missed Chiang Mai becoming a DM Mecca or whatever is happening. I guess I'm a digital nomad too but please don't call me that. 😂

The background, last year I decided I just can't take living anywhere near Chiang Mai and being exposed to the city. It's making me miserable being stuck in traffic and eating off the sides of noisy roads. All I see being built are these miserable over priced housing developments. Investors bought everything and land prices are absurd. It sucks and I'm done. I told me wife I'm going to have a mental breakdown if I have to stay another year and so now I've been staying at my rental house up in the mountains with my dog and she can visit me on the weekends or wait until I'm bored and come down to here house for a few days. She's been totally fine with this and happy to have some space to herself and make noise watching stuff on her phone. Win-win. I was just back in Colorado visiting family and I told my aunt about this arrangement and she was totally not ok with this and even went so far as to say she would divorce my ass if I did this to her. 😂 Honestly I don't care if I get divorced but I'm not staying in that city until my wife retires in 15 years and I'm not going to let her quit and take care of her so this is where I'm at. If had the same marriage as my aunt and her husband I would have bailed years ago. What a nightmare. Anyways this got my thinking, are Thai women more accepting of this or is it just me? I know 3 of my wives friends that have husbands that work in other provinces and send money back home. Everyone thinks this is normal. Maybe the guys do this to meet their societal obligations and then see girls on the side and that's just how some Thai people do it. No idea but that's the impression I get because there's certainly a pattern here. Curious to know what your experience is. Are Thai women different in this regard?

I'm seeing like 10 people a night riding motorbikes around the Samoeng loop. I would go weeks and not see a tourist in the past so it's been dramatic.

I was watching some YouTube channel and they guy was going to move out of Phuket due to the massive influx of Russians, Chinese's and Indians and he mentioned he would never consider CM because of the smoke but all the sheer number of "digital gonads" 😂 It got me thinking how bad really is it? is it another tourist trap now? Back when I lived in the city over 10 years it felt pretty normal to me and I didn't see big tourist numbers except for a few areas and even then not overwhelming. I think things have changed drastically in the last 10 year, feels like it's past its prime or something. Maybe just me...

Part of breaking free from the Liberal West and Feminism is understanding the role of the sexes and leaving things like intellectual stimulation and friendship for men. The major reason relationships are failing is because women are trying to impose on male spaces and weak beta men are giving in to them instead of keeping both sides in their place. Not only will women walk all over you if you let them they're insert themselves where they're not needed and compete you with in areas where they have no business being. Thai women have been much more accommodating in this regard which is why they're easier to deal with for me.

I was just in Colorado for 2 months and when I got back I noticed new tarmac on the road to Hmong Village Gong Hae from Pong Yaeng. This is one of my cycling routes and the road has always been smashed up concrete, for at least 10 years I've been riding it and probably forever. Location here https://maps.app.goo.gl/UUs8GaNrjyCi15Mu8. The road into the village is still crap but there's a bypass around it with is new tarmac and I think they even did the road which comes out to the main road to Samoeng but it was raining yesterday and that road has some 20% grade curves that would be insanely dangerous if it's wet and tarmac. So now you can do tarmac on most of the road and only hit concrete on the bypass to Buak Chan and down the backside to the Samoeng/Hang Dong border. It's a great ride and so much more fun now to cruise up to Gong Hae. Note there's some more tourist stuff there's opening (WTF coffee) so it may get busy in the winter sadly. WhatsApp Video 2024-09-14 at 17.37.52.mp4 This is the top at Buak Chan with the bubble tents they put up a few years ago.

I feel like in the last year and especially this year there's been an exponential increase in the number of tourists and expats in places I never used to see them. I'm talking about seeing a farang once a week and now 5-10 day. Any one else notice this or is it just me? I don't go in to the actual city anymore except on rare occasions but people in the thick of it have you noticed a large number of people moving to Chiang Mai? I spend most my time these days in Samoeng and I'm seeing tourists riding the loop that weren't there before and even my wives house out in Mae Jo has had a large uptick of expats it seems. Maybe all those YouTube videos about Chiang Mai are driving an influx is my guess. No reason to ask Just curious.

For people living in Chiang Mai is it just me or have the number of Farangs increased dramatically in the last 3-5 years? I never used to see tourists or expats ever in the far northern part of the city but now I'm seeing them multiple times on a daily basis. I don't go into the city anymore but it could be a totally overrun tourist trap is some areas for all I know. Does't feel like the city is under touristed at all.

Same thing happened to me a few months ago. Something about my bank and micro transactions. Never had a problem before but now it's kind of a worthless service unless you plan far ahead .

Why should Thailand give them any of those things? Thais are one of many groups which have converged in the same area but Karen are a literal tribe and don't accept outsiders whatsoever. Compared to Thai people it's next level racism/xenophobic or whatever liberal buzzwords you can think of. If they let those people into the forest they'll clear cut and start massive forest fires every year, throw trash in the forest etc... etc... They should go deeper back into the mountains towards Myanmar if they don't want problems.