IMPORTANT: If You need help planning your visa run, this Pattaya to Savannakhet Visa Run article contains some useful links, including a link to the Thai consulate website, and where you can get help and read recent reports. My goal: Obtain a multi-entry 1-year Non-Immigrant’ O’ Visa based on marriage to a Thai. I plumped […]
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Pattaya Culture Shock
When I first arrived in Pattaya I was a backpacker setting out on my journey of a lifetime. When I left I was a failed backpacker, I was broke, in love, optimistic and hopeful, with a grand plan to return to my newly-found promised land. And that was the second and last time I would […]
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Pattaya is a popular destination for so-called “sex tourists.” Does that make Pattaya such a bad place, and does it make “sex tourists” seedy or undesirable people? I was reading a somewhat long-winded article discussing the reasons why people are compelled to travel for sex, and in particular, why they travel to Thailand, especially Pattaya […]
Continue ReadingWhy Did You Leave Pattaya
Have you said “good riddance to Pattaya”, or bid a sad farewell to Pattaya. Are you one of the many who came to Pattaya and found your Utopia, decided this is the place for me, settled into your dream lifestyle and then slowly but surely you fell out of love with Pattaya. More than likely […]
Continue ReadingWould You Raise Your Child In Pattaya
Would you raise your children in Pattaya ?. My own answer to this question is yes, my own children were both born in Pattaya. I only decided to open this topic because I have asked myself the question, and the reason I asked myself is due mainly to seeing and hearing statements such as “Pattaya […]
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