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Honestly with the exception of BKK, Pattaya and the islands, get dropped into any Thai city you wouldn't know where the heck you were, Issan or wherever they all look the same

Boredom to be honest I'd retired too early at 55, and after a few years I was bored outta my skull, only so many books you can read, TV to watch and I don't play golf! I tried to volunteer to teach English at the local HS, but of course ran into the Thai only thing, wasn't looking to get paid, which I think is the definition of 'work' My wife was already piss$$ed off with her job, a women engineer in Thailand who's smarter than the guys is always a problem So we figured it was time to go Still enjoy our time there, now as tourists couple of times a year

That is one of those classic and iconic movie scenes, hard to beat

Thai's, especially outside BKK tend to be very transactional Young girl brings back the old guy from Pattaya or Phuket, builds her a house, they are thinking good for her, lag it out until he dies and just keep the boyfriends outta sight Sounds harsh but pretty much reality

Not sure where to start on this Never been in bar, but my cousin is in the 'entertainment' biz She seems a pretty decent human, but for everything I'm sure the range of folks in the bars are pretty varied. So the punters probably range from total sumballs to rather nice just lonely guys

I'm kinda with you on that. I was never into sports, which pushed you into the High School 'he must be gay' category I liked hanging out with the girls, no pressure it was just easy. That being said, my best male friend who also hung out with us, was absolutely gay just to reinforce the stereotype. Of course back then we didn't talk about 'gay'

There is some truth to that. I know the first time I was introduced to my besties then boyfriend subsequent husband, there was some 'tension' Obviously over the decades thats long gone

Fascinating article in this weeks Economist. Robert Guest Deputy editor On Valentine’s Day this year, when I was, somewhat depressingly, in Addis Ababa airport rather than enjoying a romantic dinner with my wife, I stumbled on a paper asking whether men and women can be friends. The traditional view is that this is hard because, as Harry said to Sally in the film, “the sex part always gets in the way.” https://view.e.economist.com/?qs=9f9e1fc083d55c54a7a13191d1deaba364ccd5ace9d96c7c391255d3804003ef6c836c98c4306b141eba8cf9b0d25bb6f9e2b2ac939e2ccc48728ade2b3a173cb4cc19627d4b93b882500b370904d775 My best friend in the whole world I've known my whole life. We started the same day in Kindergarten. We tried to kiss once in our mid teens and both recoiled saying "nah that don't work" She's Godmother to both my daughters and I know no matter where I was in the world if I needed help she'd be there for me. So I believe men and women can just be besties. Thoughts.

It's a really personal decision. I was fine in Thailand until I wasn't, boredom kinda set in and I wanted to work. I looked into various European and south American countries, but it just ended up easier just to move back to the US and have Thailand as our vacation destination In the US I don't have to think about visas, immigration, wife is a green card holder, son is a citizen, I'm just too old for hassle

It's not that I couldn't get women in the US, never had a problem with that. Now Asian women, well talk to my wife about that, I think she totally gets my asian persuasion thing But never really had any interest in woman seriously younger than me, that would just be too tiresome. The idea that I would introduce a girlfriend to my my kids of the same age would be awkward and weird. So I'm fine with my menopausal old Thai lady, as crabby as she can be

Maybe I'm a little odd, but I kinda get off on that spark of equals. My wife is actually smarter than me, better education she's got a Master's I'm just a humble BS. Sometimes when we get into it, it somehow often ends in sex. I know it sounds like the scenario for a porn movie, but hey it seems to work for us

I'm so sure you can have meaningful conversations. Great to introduce the kids too, welcome to step mom!

Mine was back in the late 80's in Catania Italy. Me and a co-worker had eaten at a seafood restaurant, La Luna if I remember correctly. We were flying to London then to SFO the next day. I was dreadfully ill on the flight from Catania to London. So ill I couldn't make the flight connection to San Francisco Spent a day puking my guts up whatever I had left in there in a hotel room Fun Times

Well I met my Thai wife in Singapore, sordid office romance But pretty sure I would have ended up with some version of Asian if I'd stayed in California. Walk down any street in San Francisco and probably 50% of the couples you see are white male and asian female. For whatever reason evolution seems to have us attracted to certain types

Contact AisianTigers I've done it the reverse direction but they deal with shippers in the US and can probably take care of you https://asiantigersgroup.com/