Aurelien

In Thailand, 20 +

I'm lucky enough to have a couple of great foreigner friends here who don't fall into the alcoholic / sexpat / weirdo categories... Mostly regular guys who just enjoy living in Thailand and are respectful of the country and others. But that being said, I do avoid befriending other foreigners or expats (whatever that means) for all the reasons already cited by other members here.

i'd say most men here probably date / hang out with / marry women far more pretty or beautiful than what they could have in their home country... or the other way around, pretty Thai women can be seen dating foreigners who back home wouldn't be able to have a girl that clean... why ? I'm not sure. But that is a fact. If you like SEA women style, that is

This is absolutely right. But the opposite is true as well, Thai clercks hardly say goodbye or have a nice day (unless it's a very small business) whereas in Europe, we would profusely wish each other a nice day and such..

Thank you chatgpt ?

These days, sometimes 3 .. and i groom myself too

Don't get me wrong, Thais are lovely when they hold business transactions in stores, in the streets, in taxis... the cleaner lady says hello to me everytime i see her in the hallway.. but if you're not in their 'perimeter' anymore, you're like air to them. I'm at the supermarket, i want to buy broccolis. In front of me are a couple of Thais, and the vegetable lady spontaneously holds them plastic bags so they can wrap the broccolis inside them. Come my turn, I'm being ignored... I had to come to the vegetable lady, and point to the plastic bag. "Saitong, nung krap". I had to repeat several times until she finally decided to give one to me. I enter the pharmacy at the same time as Thais. Thais are directly being greated and served. "Hello, how can i help you?" I very distinctely put myself against a counter, clearly indicating that i need something, but no employee would come to me. Everybody see me, but nobody comes. I had to wait until the Thais were done, that finally and employeed comes to serve me. Speaking in good English too. In fact, I know all their staff speak good English, as I go there often. Down my condo is a mini mart i go to every few days to buy cigarettes. The employee, a young Thai man, seems very happy to see me everytime, big smiles, kindness, chit chat etc... I'm walking down the street, see him walking as well, and thought "oh, our paths are going to cross, we'll probably greet each other". Once we cross, I look at him, just waiving my hand slighlty to say hello, and he doesn't even look at me like...so weird. There's no way he didn't see me, or even if he's shy he could just waive his head and that's it... I know this is trivial and it probably doesn't apply in the most tourist based areas of the cities, but once a little outside of the usual hustle and bustle, and the behavior of Thais change drastically I found...

I'm only doing volunteer work, which means a few hours here and there so in reality i'm not even part time... But I could never imagine teaching full time in schools here

After living in Thailand for years and dating exclusively with Thai women, I'm pretty sure I'll never go back to Western women for a number of reasons. But did any of you here went back to a Western girl, coming from dating a Thai girl, and if so how was it ?

There's no reason to compare Thailand with "the West", imo. Although it's impossible to do for most of us foreigners. Sure, they got influenced by it to some extend, but their model is rather other Asian countries. But if I had to compare... I don't think that Thailand is on par with the West in terms of general safety. Sure, no thefts or crimes here (or very little), but air quality sucks most of the time and makes people sick. Road traffic is madness. Walking anywhere is not convenient. Natural disasters like floods and fires are more prominent here. No social security. Healthcare not affordable for most. Low pay for most Thais Corrupted governement, police and royalty. Education sucks. Basically i think that Thailand is too much of an 'endoctrinated' country for its people to develop any thinking outside of what's happening directly on their front porch. But at the same time, that's what make its charm and I like Thailand for it's simpler, less troublesome way of life

Because they are being thaught to literally never ask any questions. Being a part-time teacher myself in Thai gnvmt schools, I found that the best way to make them understand and remember something is to go to each student individually and go over the material with him/her. Otherwise they just copy from the board and nod as if they understand but in reality they dont

Any news about what happened since 2 weeks ?

A lots of what we call 10s, are actually 7 or 6s after all the make up, jewelry, filters and clothes (push up bras....) are gone...

We humans function by social imitation. If you grow up in an environment where everybody has tattoos and having a tattoo is perceived to be 'cool', chances are you're gonna get a tattoo later too. Especially if you grow up in a society like Thailand, which has a pretty big tattoo scene.

People keep saying that about Thai girls but in my dating experience here, it never occured once that a date would bring a friend with her