1. Foreigners Are Restricted to Selling to Other Non Thais Thai nationals often receive preferential pricing. When they build a block of apartments (condo, whatever you want to call it), they’ll always sell it cheaper to the Thai person. So let’s just use these numbers: if we said £200,000 or $200,000 is the price that…
Story 1 A Transactional Relationship The Best Decision I Ever Made I enjoy listening to your channel and hearing all the stories the good, the bad, and the very ugly. People often criticize relationships between Western men and Thai women as being transactional rather than based on true feelings. But I believe that for a…
One of the questions I get asked fairly often is: if I came to live in Thailand, if I came to retire or I just wanted to come out for, say, 3 months, how much would it cost me to rent an apartment? And quite honestly, that is one of the hardest questions to answer…
Some guys come here and they want to party five nights a week. Other guys are a bit more mellow, especially as they get older. Here’s an example budget done for Hua Hin and obviously Bangkok is a lot more expensive than a city or town outside of Bangkok. Similar expenses would apply in somewhere…
These ones will be pretty obvious, but there might be one or two in there you haven’t heard before. These are signs she’s looking for a sponsor or just playing a game with you. 1. Every Conversation Turns into Money, Bills, or Family Problems You go out with a girl for a date. You might…
Story 1 The $4 000 Dowry That Never Was This is from a guy called Anton. He lives in Africa I’m guessing South Africa. “I have been to Thailand five times and I’ve had 10 or so Thai women fly out to visit me here in Africa. I always play to win with these girls,…
Story 1 A Filipino Adventure Bucket Showers Fighting Roosters and Kidnapping Warnings I have been married to my Filipino wife now since 2001, and we’re both happy living here in Australia. My wife speaks perfect English. In fact, she says she speaks better English than me. My wife has a master’s degree and studied on…
The way I see it, in Thailand, things are deliberately set up against foreigners. But the problem is, as a foreigner, this isn’t something that you find out until it’s already too late. I personally had never been to Thailand until I reached 61 back in 2015, and my reason for being in Thailand was…
My name is Jess. I’m 59 years old and work as a general contractor in California. Here’s the story of my first trip to the Philippines in case anyone is interested. I had dated many Filipino women here in Los Angeles and grew to love the culture. In 2013, I married a beautiful Filipino ex-girlfriend…