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24th March 2010

In response to both “Good Women are Hard to Find” and “Where are all the Good People?“ I know what both of you mean exactly.

I have been working in Thailand for over 7 years now and yes, it is sad to say, I have never really made any female friends at all.  Sure, there are a few that I work with, but they are in their early 20s and only interested in going out to Khao San or wherever and partying it up every night.  Needless to say, that is not my scene.

So - for all the “normal” foreign females out there who just want to get together for coffee, shopping, a few drinks, a movie, etc. - how do we meet each other?  Where do you find women that are over the partying-every-night-stage, but too young for the my-husband-has-a-Thai-girlfriend stage?

Renee

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