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Originally Posted by dizbusta
This strikes me as a strange comment coming from someone who has never been to Thailand. I'm also puzzled as to why you are so intent on packing your bags and starting fresh in LOS.
I think you need a serious reality check here, as you appear to be trying to live a fantasy. First thing you should do, is stop whining about your present predicament and get your **** over to LOS and check it out. If you still love the place as much after, then maybe you can think about moving out there.
Also, I think I'm right in saying that the minimum legal age for drinking is 21 in the US and most of this forum revolves around bars, women, what the best hotel is etc. This means that you have been fantasising about just stepping in to this magical land called Thailand and becoming part of the furniture. Well, you are in for a big shock, for a start the beer is likely to be much stronger than anything you've ever tasted and the women will have a field day with some raw 21yo kid from the US on his first trip to LOS.
Have your trip over and then go back to the US before thinking any further about living/working in LOS and a little tip from me, don't bring any of that stuff you smoke, snort or stick in your veins with you as you will definitely see a side of Thailand that you won't like.
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*shrug* Well, hey -- if I cared about convincing completely random people on the internet that I'm a rational human being, I'd never get anything done.
I consider myself more successful and capable than most men, and not without reason; I've managed to arrange my affairs so that I can work from home (home being a 3-br apartment instead of a house, as I don't want to be tied down), making a comfortable living, and doing work that I've loved since I was a kid. Consider that this is what most unhappy sods spend their entire life failing to achieve.
So, while any number of men seem to have trouble with being pulled off their feet ****-first in Thailand -- and while I'm not judgemental about it by any means -- I very much doubt that
I will have that problem, if for no other reason than that (again, no offense) at this point in my life, I don't need to go to Thailand for girls.
And unlike (it seems :P) the majority of single males that go to Thailand, I can keep my **** in my pants when I want to. Likewise, I don't have any problem limiting my alcohol intake.
As to the whole "Whoa there buddy, you haven't been to Thailand yet" -- have a cookie!
That's sort of the point of this thread.
As I mentioned in my very first post -- I have friends that live in Thailand full-time. By one coincidence or another, two couples that I was close to growing up ended up moving over there, they're relatively young (early 30's), and if I need day-to-day advice . . . as you say . . . these forums are mostly about bars and the chicas.
Which isn't a bad thing, but the questions about doing biz in Thailand are more relevant.
As to why I'm looking at business information: I have my head on straight.
I *am* going to thailand for a month, at the end of the year. I want the trip to be productive and purposefully directed, because besides the fact that that's the way I prefer to live life, it will keep me from just "drifting", with nothing better to do than cruise bars.
As for why I'm poking around curiously and asking tons of questions
now, instead of during or after a trip . . . well. You know how people always say "Oh, I
wish I had asked [x] before I left"? Yeah. I never have that problem.
Been up for a couple of days again, so I might not be too coherent right now. I have a demo of my project management app, and I think it's going to be a bloodbathe.
