My name is Brian, and at this time I’m 52 from the USA. In January 2020, I visited Thailand to meet someone and hopefully start a relationship. Details of that first person aren’t really important because we didn’t hit it off from the jump. Soon I was alone and searching for someone to at least…
I love Thailand and have been visiting for over 20 years, ever since falling in love with the place when I first took a long holiday with my friends at age 18. When I was about 25 and backpacking, I found myself living in New Zealand and missing Thailand. When on a night out, I…
In late 2024, I was riding a motorcycle down a city street with a girl I was dating at the time named La. It was already dark, but not particularly late, maybe 7:30 or 8:00 p.m., when I rounded a corner and happened upon a situation ahead. The traffic in Vietnam is bad on any…
One of the biggest questions I get asked here by guys who want to move out here is: “How do you meet friends? How do you meet people in Thailand? I’m not a drinker.” Not me personally them. “I don’t drink alcohol. How do you meet friends here?” I do know guys plenty of guys…
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…