That makes a lot of sense! That would explain my confusion about "most remote" comment, since it's hard to find a thatch-roofed bar on a really remote beach. In

That makes a lot of sense! That would explain my confusion about "most remote" comment, since it's hard to find a thatch-roofed bar on a really remote beach. Interpreted as poser one-upping, I now read it as "not where all the other tourists go." Well, except the Swedish women. FWIW, I spent a couple of weeks living by a beach in Florida in the panhandle. Not much going on there. Would rather live in a city. If you want to live in a first tier city, the cost arguments do make some sense. I enjoyed Cape Town a lot. It had plenty of night life, activities, stores and other attractions, and even for a tourist month-stay apartment in the Fresnaye neighborhood, between the mountains and the sea, and with cleaning every other day, it was about under 1/2 of what I paid in the US. I didn't like (when I was first in Sweden) the feeling of being illiterate. I imagine for Thailand, outside of doing tourist things where they cater for foreign money, that it would be similar.