Nice point about sex being the reason to move to Thailand. I believe there is another angle, some guys believe they have discovered utopia, and they quickly move to live in what see see as paradise, or perhaps gay pradise!

In fact I have two gay friends who (although they would not admit it at the time) did just that:

- The first guy quickly gave up a high paying satifying career after he first experienced the 'candy shop', sold everything to be with 'his sweetheart' who was in fact a married straight young man with small children and the young man was totally honest about this from day one, and not interested in having any form of 'relationship' with the farang. After 12 months the farang became very depressive, quickly spent all of his savings, pension pay out funds etc., then went home broke and totally disillusioned.

- Second guy spent about 5 years years learning Thai and became quite fluent, both speaking and writing, and was convinced that his Thai language skills would mean that he would instantly crack a high paid senior executive job in a Thai company. Trouble was that he had no other skills or real experience and no executive experience. After about 2 years of going nowhere he got angry with Thais and Thailand and got himself into several nasty confrontations with supermarket staff, bus ticket collectors, people who didn't hold the door open for him, government officials (e.g. Immigration officers), and more. Eventually his close friends became very concerned that he was going to get into serious trouble and they gave him an ultimatum: buy a ticket and leave within 14 days or we will buy a ticket and take you to the airport. He bought the ticket and took himself home.

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