Maybe Bangkok is a bubble. I don't see how Bangkok can keep getting more and more expensive when the baht keeps rising strongly, and almost all world economies are very weak. (I'm writing this from U.S.--but maybe my view of the rest of the world is wrong.) Is the Thai economy really strong? I know agricultural commodities (rice, rubber, cotton, etc.) are way up. But from what I see on internet dating sites, the young guys seem almost all to be students and/or unemployed.
Someone posted that they thought tourism was down now (which is strange for high season). Maybe tourism is down because of a higher and higher baht, increasing prices, less young guys (and increasing money expectations), ever-increasing air fares, bad economies elsewhere, etc. I think with Europe tightening up on welfare, there will be less younger and middle-aged farangs circulating around Thailand (I could never figure out how these people travel around so much and for such long periods).
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