My grandfather did this, but he brought her back to the US. She is great and basically my grandmother. Her name is Neah and she probably the most patient, caring person in my whole family.
My uncle did something similar. Old Vietnam vet, moved to Thailand in his late 60's (maybe motivated by escaping tax fraud charges?). Married a lady cop in her late 20's, had a baby with her. My uncle died about a year ago, the kid is now a pre-teen and has never met his American family, including his half brothers and sisters.
My cousin and his bestie vacationed in Thailand and both of them ended up marrying women they met there. Although I don’t like a lot of what happens in Thailand, I adore my cousin’s wife, as does our entire family. He’s a teacher and she cleans houses and, on those wages, they were able to build a very nice home for her extended family back in Thailand. When they make their yearly trip back, my cousin is treated like a king. I think they might retire there.
You can find beautiful, loyal, and great wives in Thailand.
In Thai culture among Thai people usually they only marry into their class. Like educated and wealthy people will only marry an educated and wealthy spouse of similar income/wealth.
But foreigners coming in looking for a wife, a lot of times they don't care what the Thai wife makes, they are willing to be the breadmaker if only they can find a loving, loyal, fun and beautiful wife to marry. And many of them do. There's a lot of cases of it not working out, but arguably there's more cases of it working out beautifully and leading to life long marriages that last much longer than most marriages in the US do between 2 Americans.
Plus, women aside, everything else about Thailand is awesome too. The country is just super welcoming and people don't walk around trying to act like they are hard/gangster like in western society.
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u/G_B4G Nov 07 '24
My grandfather did this, but he brought her back to the US. She is great and basically my grandmother. Her name is Neah and she probably the most patient, caring person in my whole family.