New York, New York.

The city that never sleeps.

If you can fake it there, you can fake it anywhere.

So the exercise here is to name things found in the greater Pattaya area that you won't find in New York City (all boroughs).

Let the game begin.

I'll start.

Pattaya has a 24 hour Burmese (Myanmar) restaurant.

New York City does not.

How do you like them apples?

New York, New York?

Pattaya Pattaya

4 7/11s within 200 meters of each other.

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well,

1: Cheap local transport around down, i,e, baht bus. Can not beat the hop on, hop off convenience for less than 1 US D

2: $ 6 USD foot massages

3: $10 USD Oil massages

5: Full english breakfasts all over town for reasonable prices

6: Thai meals all over town for reasonable prices

7: Warm weather, reasonably priced hotels with swimming pools

8: Cheap and convenient nice laundry shops all over town typically with pleasant workers staffing them

9: Cheap and friendly barber ladies all over town

10: Inexpensive tourist guides

11: Relatively inexpensive air conditioned buses to many other cities in the country

12: Relatively inexpensive movie theaters with popcorn and soda snacks that do not cost a week's rent

13: A heck of a much safer environment to walk around at any hour of the day or night.

14: Beautiful Thai temples

3 hours ago, Jingthing said:

I'll start.

Pattaya has a 24 hour Burmese (Myanmar) restaurant.

New York City does not.

How do you like them apples?

They have Burmese restaurants, just not 24 hour ones.

7 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

They have Burmese restaurants, just not 24 hour ones.

Yeah............ Jingthing mentioned that.

1 hour ago, gk10012001 said:

well,

1: Cheap local transport around down, i,e, baht bus. Can not beat the hop on, hop off convenience for less than 1 US D

2: $ 6 USD foot massages

3: $10 USD Oil massages

5: Full english breakfasts all over town for reasonable prices

6: Thai meals all over town for reasonable prices

7: Warm weather, reasonably priced hotels with swimming pools

8: Cheap and convenient nice laundry shops all over town typically with pleasant workers staffing them

9: Cheap and friendly barber ladies all over town

10: Inexpensive tourist guides

11: Relatively inexpensive air conditioned buses to many other cities in the country

12: Relatively inexpensive movie theaters with popcorn and soda snacks that do not cost a week's rent

13: A heck of a much safer environment to walk around at any hour of the day or night.

14: Beautiful Thai temples

Not that I'm particularly fond of New York City but anything you can get here, you can get there for a higher price, and in many cases, better quality. Things cost more but you make more living there.

The Thai food is as good or better, and the foreign food, from all over the world, is top rate.

The weather is warm from April to September, and you have 4 seasons. here you have too much rain, where you need to stay indoors a lot longer, and then hot and dry.

Entertainment is nil compared to NYC.

Both places have hookers, if that's your deal, and Pattaya is alive for that reason. Just cheaper in Pattaya, with STD's rising in Thailand.

I worked and visited there hundreds of times, at night, and never had any trouble whatsoever, while a foreigner is a target in Pattaya for scammers. I would still feel safer walking in NYC. I still have relatives in NYC and Brooklyn, and they've also never had any troubles since the 1920's. You fit in and don't start trouble, along with being smart, you'll likely never have trouble.

15 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Yeah............ Jingthing mentioned that.

18 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Yeah............ Jingthing mentioned that.

True, and I guess if you're hard up for Burmese food at 4AM you can go there, and NYC does have accessible food 24 hours a day. Just harder since Covid.