Hardly, its horses for courses: Hua Hin is the focus for large scale extortion and fraud in the villa building and maintenance scam attracting UK, Dutch and Italian gangsters in cahoots with several local big hitters, Phuket is essentially an independent state operating in a law enforcement vacuum in favour of local mafiosi where millions of dollars has been defrauded, Samui does a very nice line in land encroachment/sale of bogus title to the unwary and unsuspecting, Bangkok is of course the epicentre of boiler rooms and money laundering, the processing of bogus travel documents in the SE Asian region and illicit gambling by Asian gangs, but in terms of crime Pattaya is pretty much little league attracting the lower end operating more as a cottage industry for small time villains, or as an extension to the BKK centre, or in many cases it is simply an R & R destination for scum looking to lie low.