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As the title of this video suggests, we are asking "Is Thailand unkind to female expats?" What are we talking about here? I have actually had a couple of female expats, older ladies in this case, who were talking to me at one point; they were kind of a friend of a friend sort of thing, they said they had seen the channel and that I don't really bring up females very often for one thing in the expat context. I sort of retorted with “well I have always kind of viewed myself as making this as sort of gender neutral. I am not talking about only male expats come to Thailand." If I inadvertently use the language of male expats, it's because the vast majority of expats that I ever deal with are male but we do have female expat clients. We have dealt with many female expat clients in the past and in some cases they are doing just fine, they are hunky dory as they say. 

However I do understand there is kind of this and I don't want to get too far off into like social issues or something but yeah, there is sort of this feeling that Thailand is not the easiest place for especially a western female to acclimate. I can understand that, I definitely can. Thailand, it is a very interesting culture and the expat life is a very interesting one because it takes a lot of years, a lot of years to, I hesitate to say assimilate but it is really the only word, assimilate into the Thai side of the experience here. You are going to be in Thailand, if you are looking to be a long-term expat in Thailand, you are going to be in Thailand 3, 4, 5 years before you are making deep connections with locals and that has just been my experience. I think there are expats out there that would tend to agree with that. Now I am not saying you can't become friends with a Thai or whatever, but to have the kind of deeply rooted connections to this country, you are going to be here a while. That is just kind of how it is and I don't know why that is but I think some of it is language barrier frankly. When Expats first come in their language is not to the highest standard, to the highest levels. Mine certainly wasn't, I still think my Thai is lacking in many, many ways and that's after 15 years. 

But do I think it is unkind per se? No, I don't think there is any sort of singling out of foreign females. I just simply think that one) it's difficult to assimilate into the local culture and then meanwhile quite honestly, especially in certain quarters, the male expats out here are oftentimes here for very different reasons than what females are out here for. Now oftentimes, the expats that I  have seen that have happened to be women that sort of "went long term" here in Thailand, they oftentimes were working here and again that may be an element of sort of the longevity to one's expat experience is "having something to do" if you will and again a job, a hobby, a vocation; I see a lot of female expats involved in a lot of Clubs, especially retirees involved in a lot of clubs and social gatherings and hobbies and these types of things.

But yeah it is it is interesting, there is a pretty low number of female expats compared comparatively to the overall expat population but no, there's no like concerted effort or anything to sort of keep them out. I don't think that's the case at all.