@Bill ********

Thats for you. Specific advice contrary to what the OP asked.

@David ******

Three of those are so polluted, lung cancer will be your long term friend, though you might meet a nice nurse during treatment. Why do people keep selling the crap about places that are at times among the most polluted in the worl. At one time in the last two years Chiang Mai was actually measured as worse than the busiest road junction in Lahore. People usually selling hard have businesses there that tourists are shunning because of pollution or they have unsaleable property and are trying to shift it. Look at the maps from NASA to see Thailand aflame in the burning season, then pick somewhere not too bad.

@Belinda *****

Yes if you want great food the Mall is the place to go. NOT

@Siriwan ***

Small seaside town, how quaint, if only that were true. I owned two houses there, but the day I got a parking ticket in a quiet side street away from the main drag where I had parked for years, is when I realised it had changed. Live in real thailand not some warped disney version all sparkle and hookers and overpriced places. I speak as someone who has three cars here several houses and condos and four businesses, so I am not talking out of my pocket, If you want a lovely, full of flowers, scenic and friendly place, I have not found better than Nakhon Si Thammarat. The girls and women are not interested in Falangs down there, there are genuine women who dont see you as an ATM, its not full of hookers, lots of great hotels, lively night life at times that does not revolve around hookers. Best drive in Thailand up to Khanom, and Samui and Phucket in reach if you want islands. Trains and planes to everywhere from there. And the air is good all year around. Property and rentals are cheap.

@Don ********

Its overcrowded, polluted with hardly any places to park in season and twice as dear as most places where there are mostly Thais and less falangs.

@Dang **********

and you have unbreathable air four months a year, I should know I live there, except for 4 months a year.

@Kent *******

Depends on the mother, my dildo wielding strapon wearing butch dyke of a mother would think her the most perfect gift. We can't choose our family, my father, the right Reverend, has no problem with my mother, neither has his flock, though they stopped her teaching sunday school to the all girl group.

@Frankie ******

Jesus that really shocks me, you were banging hookers and they wanted you for your money. What the hell is the world coming to? What happened to the good old Thai hooker with a heart of gold. You know the ones, they would buy you gold chains, pay for your hotel, dress you in silk. Oh how times have changed.

@Roman ********

ride being the operative word.

My Thai wife said I was spending too much time playing table football with a friend, she said we should do more things together that we both enjoyed. So she filled it with water and now we play synchronised swimming. And Brad, I know about the lack of attraction towards young men, the 'butterfly effect' but I also know that the package you offer, and by that I mean the totality of you, would be enhanced if you were eye candy too. Perhaps you are? I dont know. I certianly am not. But I do know that a good heart, outweighs everything. Certainly looks, because over the years I have got used to genuinley flattering remarks from Thai women about me. I tried to put it down to sarcasm, I tried to explain it away as blatant flattery, but I have become convinced that because they know all I have done for my wife and Thai family, they just dont see me and all my faults anymore. The shiny image blinds their eyes to the true reality. I have learned to live with it, but I dont understand it. But maybe here is a clue, I have slept with many many women over the years, of several nationalities, and one of the things I have learned is that they are incabable of seeing me clearly, the first time we sleep together, because all they are conscious of is their own imperfections. If up close and personal they fail to 'see' me is it any surprise that they fail later to be able to see me as I am. For Thai women, Jai Dee trumps everything, even common sense.