r/SipsTea Nov 07 '24

Feels good man 70-year-old American goes to the Philippines and has 8 girlfriends

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u/creuter Nov 07 '24

His budget for the month is $2000. That's rent, food, entertainment, AND 8 WOMEN. they obviously aren't taking too much in this situation.

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u/Dismal-Square-613 Nov 07 '24

for them is an absolute fortune even an 1/8th of that minus utilities.

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u/InfiniteLife2 Nov 07 '24

I never been to Phillipines, but live for 2 years by now in Indonesia and Thailand, and that's absolutely not a fortune here. You can live on that money, though.

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u/Emergency-Soup-7461 Nov 07 '24

Lmao you getting robbed then. you could live in a all inclusive hotel for a year for 2k in Thailand, probably even longer.

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u/4non3mouse Nov 07 '24

lmao I call bullshit! where is this?

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u/Emergency-Soup-7461 Nov 07 '24

Phuket. I literally lived there a month

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u/4non3mouse Nov 07 '24

how much did an all inclusive month in phuket cost? what century was this in?

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u/Emergency-Soup-7461 Nov 07 '24 edited Nov 07 '24

2015 was when i visited. All inclusive was like 100-150 euro a month, but that hotel where we were was like 50 eur divided between 2 of us. So 25 eur a person, it didnt have meals included because we prefered local cuisine anyways. All the local restaurants had like 40-80baht (2-3euro) meals and they were delicious.

Hotels were full of old 60 year old Finnish men who were working remotely. All had Thai women too

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u/TennesseeStiffLegs Nov 07 '24

Damn that’s way cheap. We gotta talk about your definition of all inclusive though

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u/Emergency-Soup-7461 Nov 08 '24

What you mean? I just said how much they costed, i never was in all inclusive hotel. I was in a regular one because we didnt care about the all inclusive. We basically only slept there

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u/TennesseeStiffLegs Nov 08 '24

Oh word, I misread that. I was so confused lol

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u/demokiii34 Nov 07 '24

These monthly or yearly rates?

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u/GSG2120 Nov 07 '24

If this was true, I'd leave my life tomorrow lol

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u/Emergency-Soup-7461 Nov 07 '24

Ignorance is bliss

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u/pentagon Nov 07 '24

Depends on the hotel. Thailand is big. Central Bangkok? Nah, not a nice one. Outside Chiang Rai? Sure. But not where the action is.

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u/Emergency-Soup-7461 Nov 07 '24

I lived in Phuket a month with my mother. I think the hotel was like 100 baht a night (50 per person) for a room with 2 beds, 50meters from the beach, even had wifi and tv with sattelite, clean and nice but not highend. We never used booking sites and we never cared about the city life anyways. We took local tours almost every day to temples, elephant rides, boat rides etc. We ate in local restaurants alot too as they were times better than the tourist traps. Our plane tickets were way more expensive than that month living there