Westerners follow Thai brides to live in hard-up northeast FEATURE 03/26/2010

Westerners follow Thai brides to live in hard-up northeast

FEATURE 03/26/2010 UDON THANI — On what the locals jokingly call “Westerners street,” Australian Justin Raines is laughing over a beer with his pregnant Thai fiancee Eve — who at 21 is half his age. “It doesn’t matter whether you’re fat, you’re ugly, you’ve got spew hanging out of your mouth or whatever else, there’s some lady here who will want to take care of you,” Justin says with a grin. Nine years ago he moved from Queensland to this hard-up, northeastern region of Thailand, known as Isaan, to be with his first Thai wife, whom he met on a trip to Bangkok.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100326com7.html

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