r/nottheonion • u/novagridd • 6h ago

Thailand's Prostitution Patrol on High Alert as 5,000 US Sailors Drop Ship After 200 Days at Sea

https://www.fashiontimes.co.uk/pattaya-police-intensify-prostitution-patrols-us-navy-visit-1763395
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u/IamGeoMan 6h ago

ExpatFIRE gonna have to re-evaluate their CoL estimates now that demand is gonna spike certain costs

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u/AzureDreamer 6h ago

You are joking but I bet prices of everything do spike geographically near where this boat ports, the sailors are problably going to have consumption rates of 2-3x and normal person so thats like 10k-15k visitor influx.

This would mean nothing to a city of a million but a city of 30k who knows.

I am just speculating I know nothing in specifics feel free to disregard.

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u/semisociallyawkward 6h ago

I was traveling through Thailand with a Thai and amused discover that Thai has its own number system. Every place had a Thai price and a foreign price, with the latter easily 2-5x higher.

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u/AzureDreamer 5h ago

Absolutely does, that just happens when you travel to a place with lower relative incomes, but even those prices they inflate I imagine can be subject to supply and demand.

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u/Sakarabu_ 4h ago

Not really, most places around the world don't have a separate pricing system, Thais are just insanely greedy and money motivated as a culture. Easily one of the worst cultures I’ve ever visited, they are incredibly two faced but stupid foreigners seem to fall for the "land of smiles" facade they put up while they secretly hate you behind your back.

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u/Simp_Simpsaton 3h ago

A while ago I read factors of why thailand wasn't colonized, and one of the old ass letters that appeared during it mentioned them being greedy lol. It's interesting that could persist for hundreds of years

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u/Ni_Peng_NeeeWom 2h ago

Not really, most places around the world don't have a separate pricing system

have you been to, like, any tourist hot spot?

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u/FrostyD7 2h ago

A culture motivated by money? How exotic.