In article <1133180294.880595.196140@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
tchiowa2@hotmail.com says...
> Khao San Road's primary drawing card is that it is cheap. It is for
> those people who can't afford a more conventional place. It is loaded
> with $2 and $3 per night guest houses.
>
> So what you said was that unless you go to the poor part of Bangkok the
> Thai you associate with won't be "ordinary Thai".
>
Cheapness is not the key selling point of KSR. It's full of travel
agencies, restaurants catering to westerners, hotels, internet cafes,
fellow travellers etc. It's an ideal base for organising trips, getting
visas, exchanging ideas with other travellers. Plus it's centrally
located, in walking distance of the Grand Palace and other attractions
> > How can it be any kind of fraud? At weekends there are literally
> > hundreds of perfectly normal Thai people in some of the bars in KSR.
>
> No there aren't.
And how would you know if you haven't been there for years ?
> Is it or is it not true that Khao San Road is "the place to go" for
> foreigners to score drugs?
I have never seen anybody selling drugs in KSR, nor have I been offered
drugs in KSR. But I've been offered drugs, even heavy ones in Europe
(Amsterdam, just to make an example). I guess Europe must be a cesspool?
Or perhaps KSR is not as drug-infested as you like to think ?
By the way, not all foreigners are on drugs and prostitutes.
> So why would anyone want to go to Khao San Road to associate with
> farangs who have serious drug problems or to associate with the locals
> who are supplying them?
Maybe you are the one who has a problem.
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