The one thing to remember is that the vast majority of the farang community does not have to pay to get girls here, nor did they or do they have to pay in their home countries now. My friend is an oil rigger, mid-forties, and he practically has to keep a stick with him in the UK to fight off the school girls. They just love that white beard and dirt under the finger nails look that he pulls off so well and I guess his chiseled upper body and wisdom acquired from all those years out in the sea helps too.

The farang that live in Thailand, do so for a variety of reasons, but only the smallest percentage of them are here for the cheap cost of women. Primarily, they are here for the Buddhist temples and architecture, bird and insect watching, the wonderful climate and beaches, and most of all, to build healthy and productive relationships and friendships with the Thai people and to embrace their culture to the fullest extent possible. I think its time that we finally shrug off this propaganda once and for all that all of these intelligent, interesting, gentle farang which call Thailand home (scientists, former Ministers, race car drivers, noble prize physicists (to name a few) are some sort of social misfits who can only get it by paying and are not productive members of society. Please remember, these types of lies perpetrated by the media and members of this forum can only damage our reputations in the eyes of our gracious hosts.

Sarcasm does not become you.

ThaiVisa doesn't become him either. He is a nut case and a serial pain in the bum.

all of you who claim "Thailand is not cheap" are in my [not so] humble view a bunch of poor boys who obviously have never paid tax in their home country because you don't own anything and/or you earn(ed) only a pittance and do/did not "qualify" to pay income tax.

I concur - deluded dirtbags!

I thought that nice dinner last night over looking the sea, even with the outrageously priced wine, was rather cheap. My friend thought his 20k bht hospital bill for 4 nights was inexpensive. The wifes condo with beautiful ocean views would cost 4x in the states.

I think the above covers the basic necessities ( eating, health costs, and sleeping ). I guess if If I drank wine like it was kool-aid, ate imported sea food, slept with European women, and didn't do anything that another Thai might do, it would be a little pricey.