Sounds like yet another hapless bar girl victim. If he had hooked up with a Caucasian Las Vegas stripper instead of Thai bar girls, the outcome probably would have been "all the same". Next.

I find the tidbit that Thais don't talk to each other / don't have fun at parties particularly disturbing. It could be argued that partying is the only thing they are world class in, so if they don't enjoy themselves at a party, it must be the company.

Cowshed Cowboy wrote: ↑Fri Nov 06, 2020 11:27 am A decade of his life down the plug hole living in a place he hated, that's got to hurt.

And this type of person never learns to fix what is wrong in their lives. They don’t want a solution they just want to whine and whinge to anyone who will listen.
Expressing your feelings while we not not being prepared to act on a solution leaves a person in a place that is far from ideal.

Big Daikon wrote: ↑Fri Nov 06, 2020 12:36 pm See above.

The guy should:
1. Go back home

Fixed for ya

Personally, I applaud the individual at the source of this tale for venturing out, and having a look. I applaud his/her/it’s initial effort at a sense of adventure.
Sadly, though, that’s where it ended. It would appear that they fall into that category of people who should never venture much beyond their home state/county/village boundary. At least, not for the first few visits to places foreign. If the local food, lingo, skin colour and culture are all different from what is familiar and comfortable, then expect to be challenged.

To such folk, I suggest a trip to the nearest Walmart that they’ve not yet visited, and see how different it might be.
Eat a Wendy’s instead of a Maccy-D.
Use chopsticks at home for a bracing challenge.
Learn to synchronise knife and fork usage, while not emptying the dinner plate onto the best table cloth.

Maybe map-reading needs to become part of school curriculums. Maps with messages like ‘ere be dragons’ might help equip these feeble minds with some caution to temper their ambitions.
Learning to swim in the shallow end before venturing beyond 1.5m.

I can’t think of anything worse in the world of travel into the unknown, than arriving there to find it the same as where I was. Clearly, for some folk, the reverse is true.