[QUOTE=FakeIt;2928948]I hadn't been to Bangkok in at least 5 years until my recent visit a few months ago. And the most striking change I noticed was the vast disparity that had grown between NANA and Soi Cowboy. I don't know when it happened but NANA has had a serious makeover sometime in the last 5 years with security check-points at all entrances and exits, and an overall clean feel with outside seating and clean air. On the other hand, Cowboy is now jammed packed with street hustlers selling you fake watches and other junk, rogue canabis stalls and (sorry to say) stinky street food grills every two feet. On my last visit to Cowboy, and without a word of a lie, a guy on a scooter drove screaming down the soi at high speed taking out at least 3-4 people before he went down. Thai police were comically chasing him on foot. I'm sure several people got hurt and witnessing it with all the screaming was certainly sobering. But perhaps what was most disturbing was how after all the commotion, the soi just went back to normal in about 2 minutes. A serious incident had just taken place, and I saw no blue lights or emergency vehicles. No investigation or halting of any businesses. A few people were dragged away and it was like nothing happened. A sense on unease decended on me at that moment. It's like Soi Cowboy has become this unregulated lawless part of town where anything goes. Whereas NANA has gone the other exactly in the other direction with no rifraf even allowed into the square. It's no surprise the better looking women are now to be found in NANA, its simply a cleaner and safer place for them to work. Cowboy is officially a dump.[/QUOTE]Yea I liked Nana better too, but to be fair I didn't spend a lot of time at Soi Cowboy. Cowboy seemed pretty safe and cool to me though when I was there. The street hustlers are all over Bangkok and they really aren't that bad. If you have ever been to Cartagena, those mother fuckers straight ruined that whole city for mongers. I ll never return to Cartagena after dealing with those guys.
Also, be careful in Nana, some of the gogos are normal gogos with normal girls, but they have super pushy ladyboy mamasans who will try to sneak a grab at your junk. I didn't make a mental note of the name of the clubs in Nana, but Billboards was packed every time I was there so I hit the smaller empty clubs up and it was like shooting fish in a barrel with a 12 gauge. The girls out number the guys so much and some of these girls really do want to just play with a dick for the night. I would have multiple girls trying to grab at my shit just because I was the only guy in these joints doing it up. You can literally walk into a club of 20 horny young girls and your the only hard dick in the place. You do the math.
Gentleman. Hundreds of years from now when scholars record the history of mongering, the year 2024 will still be part of the "Golden Age" of Thailand. End of Discussion.
