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On 7/16/2018 at 9:31 AM, RonF said:

Well, to the surprise of many here, I'm sure, I am back in the States now - after a seven-week vacation.  My bank account is intact.  I didn't jump off of any balconies.  I didn't get married or fleeced.  I stayed within my budget.  I just got one of the best health checkups I've had in years.  The heat didn't bother me.  The spicy food had no ill effect on my stomach or intestines.  I met a lot of great people who encouraged me to start living my life again.  Wow!  Is that even possible?  Not according to many of the posts here.  LOL

I had a great time touring Thailand.  The video(s) showed a couple of evenings that encompassed about 1% of the total time (50 days and nights) that I spent in Thailand.  The other 99% was spent stone-cold sober.  Yes, I had more shots than I would advise others my age to do.  I don't believe that I ever recommended such action to anyone else.  As to the alcohol/antidepressant deadly combination - I took NONE of them during my entire stay.  I've had none since then either - after almost seven years of daily consumption.  I visited some tourist sites, and some sites far from the beaten path.  Do I still think that others in a similar situation to mine should get off their butts and visit places they've never been - before it's too late for them to do so?  Of course I do!  Do I recommend that they start downing shots of Tequila at their first opportunity?  Of course not!  Do I think that they should perform careful due diligence before visiting any country they would like to visit?  Certainly!  Should they carefully lay out a reasonable budget for their stay?  Naturally!  Should this advice have been the focus of the video(s)?  Of course not - there are hundreds, if not thousands of those videos already available on YouTube.  The video(s) were never intended to be instructional video(s) about how to plan for a Thailand vacation.  I really thought that was obvious, but it seems that I was mistaken in that belief.  Oh well.  Such is life.

 

Again, I am amazed that so many commentators could watch a few minutes of YouTube videos, and feel that they were qualified to judge the person's life that was the subject of that/those videos.  I wonder if they feel that they would be OK with others doing the same as a result of a minute snapshot of their life?  I doubt it.

 

Thanks to those who offered sincere comments filled with encouragement - including TourPro.  Thanks my friend.  Hopefully, we will meet soon.  To the others - judge away.  I feel no need to waste my time trying to live up to your expectations.  I intend to live my life in a way that meets my OWN expectations - not yours.  But, feel free to flame me anyway.  As I said before, better flamers than you have tried - and failed - to rattle me.  This post is just to express the fact that I avoided the inevitable fate that so many had predicted in their comments.  Nothing more.

Peace - out.

My judgment of you Ron is you bloody well did the right thing and enjoyed "YOUR" life what I saw on the vids was a guy rediscovering that life is meant to be enjoyed.....I hope one day we can meet and share a bottle of water with Simon or maybe a shot or 2 of tequila too. Take care!!! give the cat a stroke from me

3 hours ago, Proboscis said:

Any woman or trans-woman you meet in Pattaya of whatever age, education or nationality (yes, you heard correctly!) is likely to be a player of some kind. Otherwise, why would she go there? And mark my words - I did not say hooker - I said player. In other words, they are there to play you, by which I mean some method in which you are separated from your cash whether that be small things like padding your bill to larger things like introducing you to people who will "go into business with you," sell you illegal substances or get you into trouble and then "help" you out of trouble because you are their "friend."

 

And yes, many players, especially in pattaya, are also involved in the sex game in some way or other, whether as hookers or as pimps or in some sort of long game that involves building relationships and then pumping the money that way. Chances are that your lady is of this kind who can portray herself as a "the good girl" or the "nice" girl but ask yourself, how does she live if she is not working at the moment ?Remember, ATM also stands for Automated Teller Machine! She may have several of those, one of whom is you.

 

I have known quite a few ladies like this. They can introduce you to their parents but when you have been around for a while you find that their parents are not their REAL parents but two older people they like to call Mummy and Daddy and whom they drop a few baht to from time to time. Or they may be the real parents and they are not going to say anything to anyone about a previous or other boyfriend.

 

If you don't want to meet players, move away from Pattaya. You can have the same lifestyle in other parts of Thailand. Yes, you can meet players in all parts of Thailand but in Pattaya they cluster like moths to the flame.

 

There is another way of looking at all of this - I know an older gent who is loaded with money and just does not care. He has a different girl in each town and when he is in town his girl from there will stay with him. He pays up a certain amount to deal with the herds of sick buffalos and crowds of undereducated younger brothers. He knows a lot more Thai than he lets on and can understand the gist of conversations and usually knows exactly what's what.

 

But he does not care - he never gets married (I think he claims to have a wife already who is disabled but still alive) and he has long ago had the snip and lets the girls know that so that no one tries to land a fatherless child on him. He just enjoys his time and does not let it get to him and takes each day one at a time. But he makes no plans, buys no houses, invests in no businesses etc, claiming to the girls that he lives on a relatively small fixed pension (which is a big fat lie!). He almost never has to kick the girl out for any reason - they usually buzz off once what they think is a better proposition comes along, which suits him just fine. Very soon, along comes a new one and life goes on.

This is my exact "Modus operandi" too, ~I live for the moment I have no one to inherit my pension pot and I spend my days just playing the field,  spreading my buckets of blessings to whoever relieves my ball sacks

On 5/23/2018 at 5:43 AM, marko kok prong said:

see how he feels if he stay's six years.

By then he will feel 66 yrs young which can not be too bad

Back in March 2018 I received my Residence certificate from immigration, can anyone tell me for how long it is actually valid for?