And as for you, Daffy, don't you think it's a bit weird being lectured to by ShilohJim about how to behave as an expat? This is a guy who spent a year or two sitting on a huge American airbase in Northern Thailand over 40 years ago - and by his own statement, has never been back. I would be most interested on where he got this tremendous amount of insight? In Dallas? From his hooch maid 45 years ago? No offense to ShilohJim, but I've been living and working successfully in Asia for 40 years, and reckon I figured it out all on my own by doing it, not by thinking about what might have been.