You are quite right Arsenal, Pattaya was full of excitement on my first and early visits over the last 20 years.
What one has to take into account is the fact that everything is now completely familiar and can become boring. One Gogo bar is much the same as another.
Also over that time we have all got a little older, and our interests change.
I personally find a 3 month visit over the European winter and a month in the summer are sufficient and realise when it is time to go home.
If I was thinking of living in Thailand as well as the lack of things to do during the day I could not live in a condo permanently. Not after living in a house all my life!
I would need a nice place, but that would mean living a long way from the “entertainment”.