Reader-submitted Thailand stories covering first trips, nightlife, Pattaya experiences, relationships, expat life and successful marriages. Real experiences from visitors and long-time Thailand regulars.
I am a guy living on the east coast of Canada and have traveled around the world several times and spent time with many women worldwide during my travels. I have been very lucky, I guess, and never met a lady who stole from me or messed with me or gave me any kind of…
I thought this would be a good time to explain to you what I found out from my perception of coming out here to live full time, compared to what it was actually like, and the things that I have discovered personally along the way. I want to share that with you today what I’ve…
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…
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…
Story 1 The Nong Khai Bar and the Roulette Problem I moved to Khon Kaen in Isan about a year ago there’s not a whole lot to do and the local scene feels like being there done that rather quickly for a bit of variety I started to visit the neighboring cities of Udon Thani…
I didn’t throw away my retirement. It was taken from me. But I know there will be some clever clogs saying it was my fault. Wake up. I was done over. And it had nothing to do with the fact that my girlfriend was 35 years younger than me. My retirement was perfect. It really…