Hey TreeLove, thanks! Luckily my love of Bangkok isn’t only due to the people – the city itself has enough flavor and excitement to keep me happy for a long time. 🙂

I wanna second Scott: you found words I never sought out but pinpoint some feelings I also share – feeling kinda old at 42, having seen crowds of friends disappear and be replaced, interests shift, and more than anything, feeling bored when the visa question arises!
But still you heart sings for this place, you made your own marks and crowd, found your own sweet things!
Keep writing about it, your blog is just as interesting as Thai food: a mix of unpretentious things that taste good and I can’t get bored of! 🙂

Hey Adam, thanks for the FF song – nice! That’s a good point, I’m sure the feeling is the same anywhere – you head to a club you used to visit a lot and you don’t know anyone, and then you just go home and do your taxes and other grownup things.

Thanks Scott, that’s a really good idea – a conversation between 2001 Greg and 2014 Greg! I’ll keep that in mind.
Age certainly plays a big part in it – 36-year olds don’t usually want to do the same things that 26-year olds do, and when you’re an expat – and life consists of lots of “How do I…?” questions – once you get them out of your system, you want to move on to more interesting things.

Insightful and enjoyable blog as usual.
You make some really good points here that I hadn’t thought of before. Namely that you’re now older and have little to no interest talking about visa issues, the best places to eat, etc. You’ve been there done that.

Also, you’re now older than when you moved to Bangkok and are not interested in the same things that most new residents are, mainly because they are younger than you, closer to the age you were when you moved to Bangkok.

It would be interesting to read a blog on the things you now do, value, partake in, people you associate with, versus the same things you did 13 years ago.

Keep up the good writing!

Scott

Indeed, TOGJ, there was far too many people there to make waiting for food/drink worthwhile. The ‘replaced by new faces and new friends’ is the key here. The problem is that it’s hard to maintain the 1:1 ratio of old friends leaving:new friends arriving. When it falls to like 1:0.5, you get my situation. 🙂

Indeed, I feel a bit sheepish saying it. But compared to the new crop of whippersnappers, 39 is getting up there. 🙂