It's a challenge, life in Asia is exactly that but you adapt if you stay there long enough (as you know yourself).
There was a documentary about Joe Dresnok - the famous American who defected to North Korea in 1962 - and the first 5 or so years he hated it and he
kept trying to escape and his guards kept beating up and he was sick of this of course and he said one day:
'It was then I decided - they may be a different colour and worship a different god but by damn I am going to learn their language and learn their ways.'
And that is what he exactly did - it didn't take six months or a year, it took years and years - but he is happy now, he would never go back, so the end justified the means.
Are there some losers who go abroad - yes, but there are the same losers in the army, at any university campus on the globe, parliament or congress - wankers and mediocrity is everywhere - yes, even in Asia, but most people I meet are normal people, yes, I am sure if one goes to Pattaya or Angeles City - freaks and sexpats abound - but in most places outside their types of places - they tend to be normal.
It all takes time, takes effort, for me, to transplant a westerner in an Asian city takes years of acclimatization. Now this goes the other way - if you bring an Asian woman who lives in a mid level city here - which could contain 3-4 million people - and take her back to Wankstainville Nova Scotia (population: 60 plus CdnFA's sexually abused goat tied up in his backyard) and expect her to be grateful - then CdnFA is in for a rude shock.
The thing is with him, he is trying to project, he doesn't have the balls to leave Wankstainville Nova Scotia therefore - if he projects onto us that we are 'losers' then it makes him feel better about himself.
He knows he hasn't got what it takes - a fair few people don't - I suspect he is one.
But you are right - living in Asia is the epitome of living for me - doesn't even have to be a place with available girls - I love Georgetown and Penang in Malaysia - they are my favourite places in the whole of Asia. And it has nothing to do with women (though there are lots of pretty women there

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