He almost sent 400,000 baht. The only good decision he made was not to.
A 41-year-old British man went in two weeks from a Soi 4 fling to talking dowry and house renovations. He almost sent 400,000 baht. He did not.
#Foreigner in Thailand
#Foreigner in Thailand
Being a foreigner in Thailand is the common starting point of every story on this site: someone who arrived from outside, not knowing the language or the customs, and had to learn almost everything at the same time they were falling in love. This tag brings together very different accounts — tourists, retirees, workers, widowers — but with that shared thread of looking at Thailand from the outside and ending up becoming part of it. It's also, almost always, the first step toward paperwork like a visa or toward decisions as big as a wedding in Thailand. The degree of adaptation varies enormously: from those who learn Thai seriously to those who spend years never leaving the expat bubble, and that difference predicts quite a lot about how things turn out.
Stories with #Foreigner in Thailand
I have been married nine years and have three kids. And for the first time, I do not know if I should stay.
A Canadian sailor has been married nine years to a woman from Pattaya and has three kids. Now he faces the hardest question of his life: stay or leave.
He was 70 years old and his wife had died. His daughter booked him a flight to Thailand.
At 70 he became a widower after forty-three years of marriage. His daughter booked him a flight to Koh Samui that gave him back what he thought was lost.
I arrived in Bangkok convinced I would be the one helping her. I was wrong.
A British man arrived in Bangkok carrying every prejudice about Thai women intact. What he found instead was a woman who did not need saving at all.
I went to Bangkok to see the world. In Chiang Mai I found something I was not looking for.
A 45-year-old American arrived in Thailand with no plan at all. In a small Chiang Mai café, one genuine smile changed the entire course of his life.
Six hundred thousand baht. Eighteen months. And a 29-year-old American I never met.
A retired teacher thought he was building a future with Lek. Eighteen months and six hundred thousand baht later, he learned who he was really funding.
I came to Thailand for two weeks. That was two years ago and I am not going back.
A retired electrician went to Thailand for a two-week holiday. At a night market, a woman said something to him that changed his entire life forever.
A 28-year-old Thai nurse and the 71-year-old German who came to Chiang Mai to die
A 71-year-old German man came to Chiang Mai looking for a quiet place to die. A 28-year-old Thai nurse gave him back his will to live instead.