Visiting Thailand and not seeing Muay Thai is like missing the most authentic experience in Thailand today. I am here in front of Rajadamnern Stadium, the oldest Muay Thai stadium in Thailand. Eighty years ago, it gave birth to the world’s first Muay Thai stadium, and now it is raising the bar with the world’s…
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…
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…
When I first started coming to Pattaya, there were no mobile phones, no internet, no YouTube, no influencers, no endless commentary. You just arrived knowing very little, and you learned by watching and listening. You walked everywhere. You got lost. You found places by accident. Bars were places where you sat down and talked to…
I often meet guys who have got Thai girlfriends and they don’t live here full time. They might come out here for two or three weeks, maybe a month, and then they go back to their own countries for two or three months, but they’re always with the same girl, and they class that girl…
I know what you normally hear is that guys meet a Thai bar girl, get in a relationship with her, she ends up rinsing him for everything he has, and then she moves onto the next one. When a Thailand Bar Girl Relationship Works