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Old 02-17-2010, 11:11 AM  
Slappin Fish
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Originally Posted by Les Grossman View Post
That's usually the way it works with expats. They spend a year somewhere and they think they know it all. It takes YEARS, often a lifetime, to truly understand another culture and how to co-exist with them in the proper manner. Just because you can roam about in a tourist hot spot or can dabble in the language, that doesn't mean you know anything about the country or its people.
You know that scene in casino when the doors of the more accessible casinos open, middle America comes flooding in and De Niro says "Things were never the same again..."

You could still gamble, get hookers but things were never the same again because the crowd had changed.

This is what is happening to Pattaya.
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