Forgot to mention being irked by the fact that there is church on (seemingly) every corner.  It must be some sort of tax scam or something.

I couldn't disagree with 333386's politics more but his opinion of NC seems spot on.  I'm originally from the Bay Area (Alameda), CA but have been living in Raleigh (Cary, actually) the last 3 years and Raleigh is boring, boring, boring. 
Off the top of my head, here are some annoying things about living here?
- No luck finding a gym that closes later than 10pm.  (The shitty Anytime Fitness doesn't count -- My high school gym was better equipped.)
- Holy fuck am I tired of strangers waving hello to me. 
- Also, I'm sick of seeing so many white people.  Reminds me of when I was stationed in Germany -- except Germans seem a lot more intelligent.
I could continue this rant for a while but I'll stop here.

i agree

And luuk kreung babies, don't forget!!

I think we agree about most of this stuff.  Though I try to understand where my wife's family is coming from with some of their crazy ideas, I'm not all a pushover.  I paid exactly ZERO for sin sot.  (I told them that in some countries a dowry, instead of a bride price, was the norm, and asked how much they were going to pay me to take her off their hands.)

I think where I disagreed with you was that you made it sound like ALL girls are motivated only by money when it comes to seeking a relationship with a farang.  (I would agree it is the case with MOST, though.)  "Why do you want a farang husband?" was a question that I asked all the women I met from Thailovelinks.  And, of course, most said "Thai man no good", which you have to take with a grain of salt.  But you know how my wife answered this question?  She said, "Because I do not want to raise a daughter in Thailand".  And how the fuck could you argue with that?  Thailand is a paradise for guys but it is hell for most women. 

I agree with all of that.  Anybody who's read a lot of stickmanbangkok would agree.

You accidentally a word.  ("ATM" fo' sho').

Good question. And believe you me, I'm trying to find an answer to that question.   Anyway, I'm still sticking to my theory that it wasn't me, it was them;  The first wife was super intelligent and very funny but I was never very physically attracted to her (She was taller than me and was big-boned - weighed 170 and really wasn't fat) the 2nd looked like Miss America but was fairly retarded and an emotional wreck from being abused as a kid.  This 3rd one is just right, I'm hoping.

And the reason I went the Thai route was strictly because of supply and demand.  It's just easy to meet quality women there for a western guy with some money.  BTW, my first wife was German (met her when I was in the army) and 2nd wife was American. 

It this 3rd wife doesn't work out, then I'll give up on the idea of marriage and just hang out an screw hot chicks.

You know some Thai habits but you're either ignorant of their culture or you insist that your world view is the correct one.  Of course a Thai woman looking for a husband is looking for a man to take care of her financially.  What do you think love is to most Thai people?  Love = taking care of that person.  This idea is inculcated in every Thai from the moment they learn to talk.  There's no fucking welfare in Thailand.  If you don't have a job you can starve in the street.  Your family (those you love and who love you) are your safety net.  The basic goal of raising your kid is different in Thailand than it is in the west.  In the west, we try to raise our children to someday be independent and self-sufficient.  In Thailand, kids are raised to be interdependent on their families.  (And guess what, if you marry a Thai, you become family.)  

You kinda sound like you ideas are set in stone, but if you (or anyone else) wants to learn more about this, I highly recommend this (stupidly titled) book:  Thailand Fever.  You can get it from thepiratebay if you're a cheap bastard and can even read the first part (chapter or 2) here:  http://thailandfever.com/
It's written for Thai/western couples so that each understands the other's culture better and avoids a lot of the misunderstandings (especially concerning motivations) that are very common to such couples.  As you turn the pages in the book, the page on the left is written in english and the page on the right is the same thing but in Thai.  Really, this book will open your eyes to the fact that the western way of thinking about love, relationships, and family is not the only way.  I found it fascinating.  
Even if you and your girlfriend/spouse are of one mind about most things, the book will forewarn you of possible shenanigans you'll encounter with respect to her family (who likely don't have as westernised a way of thinking).   For instance, when some of her extended family (cousins -- her brothers and sisters know better, haha) tried to hit me up for money, I did not just tell them "No" like I was inclined to do.  This would've just caused some drama.  Instead, I did it the Thai way, haha, I told them "Sure, I can give you a loan, but I need to analyze my finances to see exactly what I can afford."  And then, whenever they asked my wife about it (via Skype) I would say that now is a bad time or I would stall them some other way.  Eventually, they realized that this khee-neeow farang (cheap honkey) wasn't giving anybody any money but no one lost any face over it.  

Hmmm. This is a young-guy attitude and I used to feel the same way. 

The alternate take on it is what the old ex-pat's say:  You're not paying the girl to have sex, you're paying her to leave in the morning. 

And, to take your comment more seriously than it deserves, the guys often aren't just paying for sex (cold, mechanical amsterdam-style), but are paying for the Girl Friend Experience.  They get all the benefits of having a loving, caring girl-friend but on a temporary basis so they can waste much less time on the whole thing than guys who are only after freebies.  (And, let's face it, most freebies, when you factor in not only drinks, meals, entertainment but also TIME, are not at all free.)

Mostly true.  Skinny but athletic (as opposed to, say, Chinese girls, many of whom are skinny and weak) IS the perdominat body type.  But you also see that particular type of Isaan girl who has the extremely sturdy peasant/farm-girl body.  They have big legs and big shoulders but are not what you'd call voluptuous.  (They're the ones who have the big face that makes me think, "Damn, I bet she can take a punch.")

Source?  Because this is not true.  Most of the girls live together as roommates.  Usually 4 -6 girls to a room.

Even the girls who make a lot of money (by being smart or exceptionally good-looking) often don't have Thai husbands.  But they do have as many foreign sponsors as possible, haha.  Lot easier to make money by having it sent from some lovestruck dope overseas than it is to just make $$ per fuck.  Beware any girl that has more than one cell phone.

Also, I liked most of MOS's post, but $100- for a personal driver for only a week in Thailand?  100 US dollars?  WTF?  That was some charity shit, there. 

This is true.  You do have to weed out the pro's, but it's pretty easy.  They do not want to spend much time with any one person, especially one who isn't already in Thailand or who won't be coming to Thailand very soon.

Errr. WTF?  I'm pretty sure that the guys here are comparing the girls to the ones they can get in their home countries.  I'm currently living in NC and based on bodyweight alone, your average Thai girl has it all over the girls here.  You are right about one thing; The nightclubs ARE filled with prostitutes-----which is why, if you want a quality girl, you don't look there.  And say all you want about the well-worn prostitutes (that you've probably mostly come across in BKK), but have you ever ridden the BTS skytrain at commute hour and seen all the regular office girls and uni students?  It'll take your breath away.  I think it's straight misleading for you to give guys here the idea that Thai girls aren't good looking.

And Viet girls do look OK (about the same as Thai girls except even thinner and smaller) but surely you know that they have the reputation of being totally cutthroat when it comes to lying to the western guy.  When I was getting a K-1 visa (I'm American) for my Thai fiancee, I frequently used a website called visajourney.com.  That website is replete with sob stories of guys who would bring over viet girls only to find out that they were already married to some vietnamese guy back home who was encouraging her to get a foothold in the western world before bringing him over.  This is so common that the U.S. embassy in Vietnam is known to be the most strict in Southeast Asia when it comes to granting fiancee and spouse visas.   Bottomline, when it comes to girls, is that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  However, it must be said that it's indisputable that Thai food kicks Vietnamese food's ass.  

Tell yourself that if it makes you feel better but it's not at all true. 

I'm gonna treat your comment as if it were serious:  Look, although you can never predict the future with 100% accuracy (much less 101%, haha) I can tell you that I did my homework and married a very intelligent, university-educated (only one among her 9 siblings who can say that) woman who is NOT from Isaan.  She comes from a country family (no electricity until she was 15) in South Thailand (Nakhon sri thammarat) and, like many women from there,  she has character and self-respect. Very few bargirls come from the southern provinces.  I did not marry some vapid supermodel shop-a-holic.  She's been married before, too, so she is not only intelligent but has some life experiences that have resulted in her having realistic expectations of what a good relationship is all about.  Not sure if I mentioned this earlier, but I spoke to her for 2 -6 hours per day (like it was my freakin' job -- I got no sleep) almost every day for about 4 months before even meeting her.  And today I can say that we KNOW EACH OTHER much, much better than was my experience with my 2 prior wives (5-years with one, 14 years with the other).  There are so many things that she's told me that illustrate her character. Here's one:  I used to be like a lot of people and had the idea that Thai bargirls, because so many send money home to their families (in stark contrast to most sex workers in the USA), were kind of noble and were just trying to make the best of their bad "hand" in life.  When I told my wife this, she sneered and said simply, "Those girls are lazy".  Bwahaha. She's not at all your typical Thai. 

So, for the reasons above, I don't think she's just gonna turn around and leave me for a younger guy.  Ever. Why would she?  I make her laugh, I make decent money, I'm loyal (which counts for a WHOLE LOT considering her prior marriage broke up because her husband wouldn't stop whoring while they lived in Thailand) and I don't look like your run-of-the-mill 47-year old.  As an ex-bodybuilder (qualified for NPC nationals in '99), I've pretty much transformed my body in the last year (I'm now a blast & cruiser who uses GH) and am doing all I can to stay youthful.   Oh yeah, we're also planning on having a baby next year, too.

So, now that you know all that, what would you say the percentage is now, Nostradamus?

You are doing it right!

NBA player at one time.  Pretty sure he's out of the league now.

You are right.  I stand corrected.  Tell the rest of these guys what it was like the first time you saw all the available girls on that site who've listed the age range of the man they'd like to meet as "18 - 80". lol
I know I sound like I have some kind of personal stake in that site (I don't) but here's another cool thing I remember about it:  When you have any kind of paid membership, you get advanced search functions.  I remember one time, just for shits and grins, I entered a search so that I would only see the available "spinners", in this case this was girls who were between 4'8" and 4'11" in height and between 80 and 95 lbs -- And holy shit, there were hundreds in the Phuket area alone, haha.

My wife is female and was born female, ya meatgazer. 
Besides, I'm pretty sure you can't get a (fiancee or spouse) visa to bring a ladyboy to the USA.  Even if it looks like the most feminine thing in the world, a thai ladyboy's national ID will still reflect that she/he/it was born male.

Don't know how I missed this post.  My wife, btw, is 18 years younger.   hahahaha   Life is good.

None of you guys know the best way to meet regular girls.  And, it's easier than wasting time by going to clubs or hanging out at the mall.  How then?

Thailovelinks.com.  It's how I met my wife. 

Great thing about Thailand (if you're a guy) is that there are a about a kajillion great looking, university-educated girls with good jobs (for Thailand anyway) between the ages of 24 and 35 who have no suitable men for them.  Why?   Because Thailand has a history of polygamy.  A successful guy doesn't want to settle down with just one woman from his same social stratum -- He'd rather have 20 jaw-droppingly beautiful rice farmers' daughters.   It's the truth.

My Story: 3 years ago I was an OK-looking 45 year old guy with a decent tech job (about 80K/year) who, after being divorced for a year, decided to go to Thailand to have some much-needed fun.  I'd been there twice before with the ex, but this time I wasn't gonna bring sand to the beach.  While researching what to do and where to go, I ran across a forum posting that I thought was probably bullshit;  Some 50-year old guy told tall-sounding tales about how he'd used thailovelinks.com to set up a lunch date with a different decent woman (dentists, accountants, real estate saleswomen, etc.) for every day of his vacation.  His plan was that if there was a "love connection" during the lunch date, then they could make plans for later.  And if the lunch date fizzled, then he could always fall back on the bargirls.  OK, even though I thought this guy was exaggerating about the quality of women who wanted to meet him for lunch, I thought this was an excellent plan.  So I put my profile up on the thailovelinks and lo and behold, 331 women contacted me in the 15 days that my pic was up on that site.  It was pretty fucking unbelievable.  I would receive an email on my smartphone whenever a woman would send me interest and I had to turn off the ringer.  I quickly began chatting (first via the website's IM client and then on MSN Live if I really liked the girl) with about 10 different girls.  (I don't speak Thai so I quickly limited myself to the girls who rated their english as "good" -- which is a damn shame because some of the girls whose english wasn't so good looked like freakin' supermodels.)  What made me take my profile down was that I met the woman who is now my wife.  for me, her personality was head and shoulders above all the rest and we shared a lot of the same values and even life experiences (believe it or not).  After talking to her via Skype (virtually unlimited calls to mobile phones and landlines in Thailand for about $6-/month) nonstop for 2 weeks, I changed my plans and deactivated my Thaillovelinks.com profile.  And 2 months later, I went to Thailand for 3 weeks and spent every minute with her.  And we are very happily married (and back in the USA).  None of this is bullshit.  If anyone has questions, PM me.

WTF?  Just no.  Zane had legs.

dbol for me.  Probably because I didn't take it at the right intervals, though.

Is Japanese a tonal language?  I'm american and was a russian voice interceptor in the army (studied Russian for a year at the Defense Language Institute) and then took 5 semesters of college German (and married a Bavarian girl) so I thought I was a pretty much of a stud at learning languages....until I tried to learn Thai while on vacation there.  Um, holy fuck, my mouth can't even make the sounds of their language much less hear the different intonations that help them to distinguish word meanings. Thai is a tonal language (5 tones; high, medium, low, rising and falling) so there can be 5 different meanings for a word that sounds the same (to me).   Thai grammar is ridiculously simple but the listening comprehension and the writing (holy squiggles, batman) is stupid hard.