JimTripper

I don't like eating off the same menu each time.

Are the attendants allowed to physically carry disabled passengers to their seats if no wheelchair is available? Probably not due to liability issues.

Another one bites the dust.

I didn't want to drive. Have been a walker for years and just got used to walking. That could be part of the boredom issue, maybe I need to get that motorbike. I don't think so though, where would I go, the darkside? There's not much in Na Jomtein or Naklua to justify regular visits, at least when I was there walking around 🤷🏻‍♂️.

I'm not morning guy. Tried that for years back in the Usa and it almost killed me.

Yeah, I'm talking years though, not weeks. Choices become limited when you are going out every day. Even in Pattaya I'm having trouble finding new places to eat near me after a year. That's one of the reasons I like Bangkok. There's new places to explore without traveling too far.

Some guys like CM, but they are the types that enjoy going to the same place each time. I had a neighbor there who ate and drank at pretty much the same foreigner oriented establishment each time. Nothing wrong with that, it's just not my cup of tea. He knew everyone there very well and a close knit group. Similar to the television show "Cheers" in the USA where it becomes a second home of sorts. If I ever wanted to find him I just went to that bar/restaurant.

There is an employment office near me that lists jobs and pay in the window. Most of them are in the 20k a month range or lower. Sometimes you get a 25k or 30k. I sometimes look on it out of curiosity and think, that sucks. Seems low even for Thailand.

Easy, a cheap room is 3k. The security guard in my building makes 18k a month. Do the math, that's 500 baht a day to live on after rent.

There are loads if these guys in Pattaya. Who are these guys back in the Uk? Lower or middle class? Blue collar or white collar workers? What kinds of jobs were they working in? How would you compare them to a demographic from the USA? Would they be like those poor people from the south like north carolina and georgia or more like working stiffs from urban areas like new jersey?

I see a maan...what is a maaaan?... Legends in our own minds.

Pattaya Pad a bit better, maybe between flybird and nirun. Flybird still has a skeleton of order even if it's not well maintained, probably some sort of HOA. I think lower then that you just get grungy rooms with no real management, community or upkeep. After that maybe the cinder block and tin roof structures with dirt or concrete floors where people put down linoleum and rugs as flooring and use padlocks for the door.

Are you a man?

So what is?

That complex actually looks pretty nice on google maps. If you're into having a yarn or enjoy ghetto tourism you need to check out places like pattaya pad, flybird, etc. It gets much more depressing then 2b or nirun type buildings. That's where you get some down and out's with dirty tank tops, smelly, etc. Just being in a bar at all is not that bad. Down the stream you get guys that need to buy at 7-11 and drink outside the building or at the condo enterance type of scene. Occasionally they can be seen in the big c food court but usually eat at cheap hole in the wall thai places right near the condo and don't seem to stray far from their rooms for the most part. I checked out pattaya pad at one point and just left after a walk around. That's were you get real broke poor foreigners, probably on the way to cambodia depending on the visa situation. You stop complaining about "geezers by the pool" when you see places with no hope of a pool at all. 🤣

I had some mentally ill lady in 2b who would try to open my door almost every night, turning the knob for several minutes. I heard the neighbors through the door talking to her one time, "is that your room, etc". I did not want to open the door and was afraid she had an issue with the owner (maybe why he rented the place on airbnb on an onging basis 🤷🏻‍♂️). Each room had a wall holder next to the door for notices and such and I left some artificial flowers in the tray one day. She seemed to stop trying the door after that, or at least not as much as before. She may have been worried about something bad in the room or something similar 🤷🏻‍♂️, or just curious.

I'm a man

Are you a man?

A lot of it for me may be not owning a place or the land, not necessarily problems with the city location. I could buy a condo in Thailand but don't want to retire forever in a condo. That's one of my primary reasons I'm considering a home country relocation eventually. There are other countries where expats can buy, but it seems complicated at best unless I had a second passport. My neighbor recently purchased a condo near me. He seemed excited about it, but I was like "ho, hum". Not someplace I would really want to be tied to or wake up in 10 years later.

Is it somewhere you would want to retire to, or just a temporary living room? I keep moving around and never seem to find someplace that feels like a permanent home, even when I get places that are nice.

Those people in crowded locations don't actually "want" to be there and most are not happy there. The reason they end up there and are drawn to those locations is following the herd and a sense of safety around others. Being told where to go based on what everyone else was doing, basically. A study was done for "Safeway" (a major grocery chain in the Usa). It found that for sales, familiarity and safety (Safeway 🤔) were a primary driver of success for the franchise. Food quality, prices, etc were further down the list. People "liked" the novelty of a gourmet market, but did not shop there regularly, it being more of a treat. Alternatively, the Food4Less grocery down the street had much better prices and practically the same quality of food items, but was not as successful. People interpreted the store as ghetto-ish and "unsafe" or frequented by people who needed to save money or buy "Food4Less". Just the store name made a huge difference in customers. So if a city was named something that sounded sexual (or just a coincidence it sounded as such) it could attract a large base of visitors looking for that activity. For example, bangkok (bang cock) or phuket (fuk it).

A lot of the premium guys don't go streetside much. They don't seem mope around town, walking around, bumping into whomever like most foreigners do on a daily basis. They seem to have kind of weird sheltered lives whereby they go from work and back home. Maybe you could find them at certain clubs or restaurants. I have met some dental and medical professionals of this caliber (female & male) and I'm certain I would probably never see them outside the office just walking around open for a beer invite.

We are getting into a real dick measuring contest here...

We are getting into a real dick measuring contest here...

The Thai guys don't like us because we have big penises.