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Thailand Made It Easy to Meet Women After 60. It Didn’t Make the Next Part Easy
Where older foreign men really meet Thai women, what each side actually wants, which myths are myths, where the fraud runs in both directions, and why the where was never the hard part.
Saturday, half past five, the corner coffee shop across from the Wua Lai walking street. The chair is mine. Everyone says so, the Thai staff and the farang regulars both, and they say it like an accusation.
The couples I know go past this corner all week. Tom and Ploy, tandem on one motorbike, on their way to yoga or a hike. Pete and his wife, on the days she isn’t at the farm. Dev and Nan used to pass every morning on the way to the gym, until they didn’t. Walter has never once brought his wife by. In two years I have never seen her.
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Not one of them met on the walking street. Nobody does. So where?
It took me two years here to learn that the question has an answer, and that the answer is the least interesting part of the story.
