Most leave home and end up in places like Pattaya for materialistic reasons. They see friends with the latest iPhones, AirPods, make up, money in their purse. Etc. The friends talk about. dancing and partying every night and the prospects of meeting a well to do foreigner. I was once very friendly with a Thai girl up north and driving from the main city to her village we would pass modest to elaborate homes and she would say, “so and so owns that house and land, she met a guy when she worked in a bar and he bought the house and land for her. My friend could nominate where they were working Pattaya, Bangkok, Phuket etc.