Great article. I am on my third trip to Thailand and while I most certainly enjoy Chiang Rai, I wouldn't want to live here or any other part of Southeast Asia. You have done a fine job of identifying what most don't realize. There is a whole other issue, most particularly where I am in Patong at the moment, as it relates to both the sex trade and the young girl/Old White Western man syndrome. That is of course a whole other article, but worth looking into before the men make truly idiot assumptions about what's available. Sure, lots is available. But it costs in a hundred different ways nobody planned, too.