Good morning Lamporn and Pun Merry Christmas Bye-bye Good morning and welcome to the channel. I'm
Heath, Lamporn is over there eating, and I don't know if you just saw I caught a guy on the video
there who just walked up to Lamporn with a hundred baht to take her photo, and she said no, but I
just thought it was really funny. He said how come you get away with it, I said well, that is my
girlfriend.
Funny things happen here all the time anyway, it's Christmas Eve, and it's a beautiful
morning; actually no it's cold and snowing and it's terrible here. No it's a beautiful day and um
yeah well, I thought I was going to do this video that I'm still not sure if I'm
going to post this or not. I'm gonna make sure I approach this subject correctly and
I'm going to play the video and do the video, then I'm going to play it to a few people
and see, to make sure I've done it right, because I have to be really careful because
this is quite a difficult subject to cover.
This video isn't for people that are coming
in here on holidays. It's for people that actually live here and they like the idea of
not living alone and having a girlfriend here. It is one of those questions that it depends
who you talk to. Everybody is different here and the ladies that live here. They have different
needs now; believe it or not, not every lady that comes to Pattaya is looking for a partner.
You have to understand quite a few things here before you can get a good idea
of what it is really like.
Now where do you start? It's
really difficult okay. I'm going to pause the video and have a
think about what I'm going to say. Lamporn 100 baht to take your photo Okay, I was filming this on the beach but my phone got really hot
and it cut out, so I've come to this new little coffee shop on Soi 19. Now you can miss it if you're
going down Beach Road, but if you turn into Soi 19 it's actually the only business here and it's
a small coffee shop, open two days ago, and it's opposite the seafood restaurant. I'm not even sure
what it's called but I find out and I'll put it on the screen there for you but I've just brought
an Americano for 45 Baht where in Pattaya yesterday I paid 90 Baht so it is worth checking out these
small coffee shops and also supporting the local businesses.
You know, if you go to Pattaya, don't go
to Starbucks, just go to one of the smaller coffee shops and try something different. But anyway,
I was talking about people that want to live here and they don't want to live alone. As long as
I've lived here in Pattaya, I've only met two people that were born here. Everybody
comes here for the work opportunities if you meet someone here and you spend some time
with them and you like them and you don't want to live alone, it really is a real relationship
where you have to put in the effort and so do they. There's some real male chauvinistic
people that live here that have the attitude that they're paying, they can do what they
want. I don't agree with that, now I know you know people that pay their partners 15,000 Baht a month
some people pay a little less I know one person that gives his girlfriend
45,000 Baht a month but there again, he's doing quite well for money. He doesn't have to budget.
You know but um, you also got to remember you get someone that's going to take care of you.
She's not only going to be your companion but she's going to cook for you, she's your translator,
she's going to keep your condo clean and believe me, if you're a single guy living here, it's going
to cost you a lot more to be single because once you start going out and you have any
short-term encounters they're going to cost you a lot of money.
So having a girlfriend here is a
pretty good idea if you're living here a long time Stay away from Pattaya if you're
looking for a long-term girlfriend You're not going to meet her in Pattaya. Pattaya is
for tourists. Yyou might be in a go-go bar and you might think oh that's the woman of my dreams.
Believe me, she's not going to be the woman of your dreams, she's going to be the woman of your
nightmares, and stay away from a dating app called Thai Friendly and also Thai Cupid. Both of these
apps advertise themselves as dating agencies but really they're just platforms, or they have become
platforms, for freelancers working girls to find customers.
So, there are dating agencies here but
you'll find most of the women on those dating agencies will be looking for marriage. So you
might want to stay away from them as well okay another thing I should mention is it's
quite common here for children to live with their grandparents because when you get older
there's no pension or anything to take care of you and it's normally your sons or your daughters go
out to work and they send money home to take care of their parents and also of their children. So
that's quite common here, so a lot of people come here to work and send money home for that reason.
Now, I hope this video has given you some idea of what you would be expected to pay if you had a
girlfriend here but keep in mind when two people live together things cost twice as much.
If you
go out for a meal you're going to buy two You go out drinking, you're going to buy twice
as much and also if you go out to buy groceries you might find she might put a few extra things
in the basket there there like hair shampoo or hair colouring, or something, and you would
be expected to pay for that as well I do know some people that have had bad
experiences here with girlfriends. I know quite a few but it's not always the fault of
the woman you have the same problems in the west, you have a few more here. You just have
to be careful and you have to stay away from what I call professional bar girls.They're bar
girls that have come here to make money, You get to know who they are just by their mannerisms
and the way they act around foreigners in the bars stay clear of them, be careful, and I'm sure
you could come here and meet someone and you'll be very happy.
So, I don't think you'll be watching
this video today, and it's Christmas Day tomorrow so I won't say Merry Christmas, but I will say
Happy New Year if you're watching this in 2022 If you're watching this in 2023, I say what
I always say which is, thanks for watching have a great week or a great weekend, and I'll see
you very soon in the next video.
Take care, bye.
