tomcat

After a life spent accumulating cash and carefully managing investments, I wanted a place where the fat, old and ugly would make me look good.

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Majestically enthroned amid the vulgar herd....

Lor Ling

The first time I came, backpacking, twas the cheapness, exoticism and women.

Second short visit was to meet my wife's family and friends who'd not attended our wedding in London.

The third time was boredom with life in London, and my wife's need / desire to be near her family.

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Meet Nathan - a playa, a baller, a hustler and a mack. Even in pink!
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been there done that

Two Boeing 747s.

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Once is great.
Twice is too much.

jimbo

First arrival (from Korea) was in 1997ish....to visit Khao Yai and do some serious trekking/jungle camping.

Accomplished that and realized I was nearly broke. Headed back down to Bangers and got hooked up with an institute in Nonthaburi that farmed us out to Sacred Heart - Klong Toey.

Became very close with my "to be" first wife. A very looooong story of Bkk house jumping - US - Saudi -Thai - Korea follows.

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MisterStretch

I was in Malaysia after having an unfortunate situation in which my-then girlfriend allowed all of my money to be stolen by a new illegal maid she hired the first day. I lost my apartment, job, car and a damned good future in Los Angeles/Hollywood as a result.

I spent almost 2 years stuck in Malaysia, unable to find work that paid worth a damn, running restaurants and looking for something.

A friend whom I'd worked with in Korea moved to BKK and told me about the Ajarn.com website. Within a few weeks I found a job as a teacher trainer (largely what I'd been doing for the last couple of years). I took a bus to Hat Yai, interviewed and started the following week.

I arrived with US$50, my school paid for my guesthouse and took it out of my next month's salary. I borrowed another $50 from a woman I met on the bus, whom I dated for a while. I got settled in, spent almost two years as a teacher trainer in Hat Yai, met the right woman, and have worked in Abu Dhabi and Korea in the last year to start paying off debt and saving enough for me and my new family to get a good start on a happy future.

aging one

Came over to run bungalows and a restaurant on Samui. Did it for a couple of years. Gone very upscale now Samui Paradise Chaweng Beach Resort & Spa - Koh Samui Thailand

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Too long in Exile, too long not singing my song.
Too long like a rolling stone, Too long in exile
Too long in Exile, baby you just arent my friend.
Too long in Exile my friend, Baby you can never go home again.

WilliamBlake

Time to go on that diet man...

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Aquaman

I was working for a company in the USA doing guest room controls. i came over to commission a nice hotel on the river in bangkok. went back to the usa after that, lost one of my best friends in NY, felt life was too short and needed to do things that made me happy, came back to thailand for vacation, decided that id save up for a few more months and head back to Samui to do something in the guest house field. didnt happen and began teaching in phitsanulok. that was in 2001.

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-Peter Tosh

robitusson

A 14 hour stopover on a flight to Australia circa '98. Decided to hop on the bus to go and see Bangkok rather than wait in the airport.

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D-Man.

Some how woke up under a BTS station.



Not allowed go back home.



Why not hang around and make myself welcome.

wintermute

I'm gay and I had heard that Thailand was a veritable Makkah for gay guys so I booked a holiday here. All I can say is that I'm still here...

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What if the Hokey Pokey IS what its all about?

zehner

came through on the way to oz in 2002. worked in cambo for a spell....liked it...went home, got the pgce and came back in 2004

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Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime,
To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring
Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

robitusson

Do you throw stones at a pillar symbolising good taste and restraint in this gay Mecca?

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Lizara

I didn't really want to spend another year in Korea, but I couldn't think of any more appealing plans. A friend of mine who was, at the time, planning to move here (he's not, any more) said hey, come to Thailand. I said okay.