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    A friend of mine had sent me an email, which enclosed the following. Other than the mention of all the hydroponics crap which this guy seems to be engrossed by, it's a fairly good evaluation of the Pattaya area. I'll surmise in the end...

    Notes from the Field

    Date: November 9, 2010
    Reporting From: Pattaya, Thailand


    If you know anything about Thailand, you know about Pattaya. It is, without doubt, one of the wildest places on the planet. From the mundane to the urbane to the profane to the insane to the inhumane, if you can dream it up, you can do it in Pattaya.

    Funny thing, I really like it here... so much that it's on my short list of places where I would really spend a lot of time. And no, it's not for the craziness or the wild parties or the eager young ladies... you can find those in a lot of countries.

    Pattaya, and Thailand in general, has an almost zen-like serenity when you get away from the touristy areas. Just minutes away from the bustling hedonism there are nearly deserted beaches, monks at study, Muay Thai students training, and parents playing with their children in tiny tin shacks, completely devoid of problems or worry.

    There is also a plethora of full-time foreign residents in Pattaya who have brought their intellectual and financial capital, and it's left quite an imprint on the town. Thriving foreign-owned businesses are everywhere-- a Danish bakery, German eateries, Russian property agencies, African TV repairmen, Indian IT gurus, US immigration advisors, etc.

    They come here for the same reasons as I do. Cost is one factor-- even with the Thai baht at a decade+ high against the US dollar, it's still very cheap. Housing, food, transportation, medical care, and 'entertainment' cost next to nothing, though prices are rising... more on this in another letter.

    Most of all, though, people end up staying here because Pattaya is simple, peaceful, but still well within civilization.

    In Pattaya, you're an hour and a half from Bangkok Airport which has routes all over the world, and you're never more than 10-15 minutes from the insanity of Walking Street or the myriad of shops and restaurants... but you can still live like you're in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by quiet farmland on all sides.

    In fact, agriculture is one of other reasons that I enjoy Pattaya so much-- it's quite easy to eat healthy foods here. For example, just a block from the apartment where I stay is a hydroponic farm which grows a host of organic vegetables and raises free-range livestock with their produce.

    I can literally walk down the street to the farm, see what I'm buying, inspect the conditions, pick out what I want, and walk back home in just a few minutes. It's quite comforting for me to know exactly the source of the food that I'm putting in my body.

    In case you're not aware, hydroponic farming is based on an ancient technique of using water (instead of soil) to grow terrestrial plants. Modern horticulture has perfected the method, but it's still based on the same technology that the Egyptians, Aztecs, and ancient Chinese relied upon to grow many of their own plants.

    The major advantage to hydroponics over terrestrial farming is economic scale: you can produce more, faster, and use fewer resources-- notably water and land.

    To give you an idea, a commercial hydroponics operation based in Arizona grew 600 million kilograms of tomatoes in 2008 on its 318-acre facility; that's about 95 pounds of tomato per square foot.

    Because hydroponics provides a natural barrier to many insects, you can also grow without the use of pesticides-- another major advantage in my book.

    I really believe in this system, and I intend on implementing a similar farming method as the agricultural cornerstone for the sustainable community concept that we've been discussing for the last few months.

    In fact, at our upcoming Sovereign Man workshop (February 18-20 in Panama), we'll have a few sessions and sidebars dedicated exclusively to firming up plans for this sustainable community. If you're interested in participating, I really hope to see you in Panama at our workshop. Details will be coming soon... these things are a lot of work!


    Until tomorrow,


    Simon Black
    Senior Editor, SovereignMan.com

    OK, as for the summary of Pattaya, in my humble opinion, a few words:

    Thai whores. Katoeys. Drugs. Low end nightclubs. Low end hotels. Fair to midland beach quality. Great food. Russian mafia. Oh, and more crime than is typically found in Thailand.

    OK, that's it. Phuket is much better.
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    im gonna visit pattaya atleast for a few days just to see that street lolo
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    • #3
      You wanna see a 'street"?

      In Bangkok, go to Patpong 1 and Patpong 2. Oh, and also Nana street. Ain't nothing in Pattaya that you won't find there. Utter madness.
      Experienced Community organizer. Yeah, let's choose him to run the free world. It will be historic. What could possibly go wrong...

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        ill have to remember this thread then because ill probably forget that, but ill be going to bangkok for a visit to(muay thai fights, shopping etc) so maybe i can just go right to bangkok and get the whole experience at once lol
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        • #5
          Just be aware that in Phuket, there are now almost 7000 known cases of AIDS, mostly amongst the ladies who engage in the sex trade.

          Which is all of them.

          OK, I'm joking. Not all of them. A damn lot of them.

          No doubt Pattaya, has similar statistics. Bangkok, due to the size of the practicing population, probably has more.

          Something to keep in mind.
          Experienced Community organizer. Yeah, let's choose him to run the free world. It will be historic. What could possibly go wrong...

          "You're just a jaded cynical mother****er...." Jeffpeg

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          • #6
            right, i wasnt planning on paying for sex or anything crazy, im not really that attracted to asian girls anyway i need a little more TA

            but...i do need sex lol so it will become a problem the longer i stay...what did the dengfeng driller do with all the rampant aids then?
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