Couldn’t agree more. Thailand doesn’t just change your habits — it changes your baseline for happiness. The warmth, the chaos, the constant human contact — once you’ve felt that, going back to small talk and cold weather feels like punishment. I lasted three months back home before booking another ticket.

Spot on. Back home, I had a house, a car, and zero connection. In Pattaya, I had a rented condo and more life in one week than I’d had in a year. It’s not even about sex — it’s about energy. You’re surrounded by people who actually want to interact. You go home and realize… nobody touches anyone anymore.

I’ve tried to explain this to friends back home and they just don’t get it. Thailand gives you immediacy — things happen now. You meet, talk, laugh, and live all in the same night. In the West, everything’s hidden behind screens, calendars, and fake smiles. Once you’ve had real-time living, “normal life” feels like slow death.

It’s funny because I moved to Chiang Mai thinking I’d only stay a month. That was four years ago. Thailand doesn’t just ruin normal life — it replaces it. Here I work less, stress less, and feel more. The trade-off? Once you adapt to this rhythm, you can’t unsee how cold and transactional the West has become.

I relate too. Even as a woman, I feel the same thing. Back home everything’s structured, polite, and distant. In Thailand, people touch, talk, share food, and care in small ways. It’s addictive. Maybe it’s not that Thailand “ruins” you — maybe it just reminds you what life’s supposed to feel like.