Here's news that will certainly excite and delight all of the masterful marketing executives who have moaned in the past about the Boyztown signs at the entrance to Soi 3. Both have been removed as of 10:40am this morning.
I'm certain the Boyztown consortium took the sage advice of the posters here who thought it was time for them to go! :sign5:
We may now have to find a new name for the area.
The final nail in the coffin of Boyztown?
Not content with gross overpricing they have now removed their only advertising that showed them to be different from other sois in Pattaya.
Stupid.
Personally I think that is the best thing that ever happened. I think it had its time and was a good thing for many many years but now it has become a, how should I say, a thing to laugh and gawk at. A thing for Asian tourists to walk through, laugh and make fun of.
I really think that area needs to be spruced up with plants and nice white lights or something and really look good. Then maybe they may see more business from a different clientele that they did not get before.
Good luck to Boyztown or whatever they may call it and know that I truly am sorry that the future has caught up with the signs but everything happens for a reason.
Everyone hopefully will remember and thank Jim and Gordon for their developement of Boyztown, the signs and their vision and hope that no one ever forgets. :hello2:
This is merely the long overdue recognition of reality - that, for quite a few years now, the real "boy's town" in terms of the number and concentration of businesses has been Sunnee Plaza.
"The fruits of peace and tranquility... are the greatest goods... while those of its opposite, strife, are unbearable evils. Hence we ought to wish for peace, to seek it if we do not already have it, to conserve it once it is attained, and to repel with all our strength the strife which is opposed to it. To this end individual[s]... and in even greater degree groups and communities are obliged to help one another... from the bond or law of human society." [Marsilio dei Mainardini (c.1275-1342), Defensor Pacis]
You're correct - but would you connect it with the well-known preference of many gay men for cheap filth and sleaze?Originally Posted by Marsilius
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Good. Put the signs up down in Sunee and let the Chinese gawkers go down there.
Putting aside the "filth and sleaze" - which is surely a subjective value judgement to be made on an individual basis - Sunnee Plaza is not cheap in economic terms.
It only appears to be so in a comparison with Boyztown because the latter, as has frequently been observed here, in most cases followed a flawed economic strategy that reacted to economic problems by pricing itself out of the market.
"The fruits of peace and tranquility... are the greatest goods... while those of its opposite, strife, are unbearable evils. Hence we ought to wish for peace, to seek it if we do not already have it, to conserve it once it is attained, and to repel with all our strength the strife which is opposed to it. To this end individual[s]... and in even greater degree groups and communities are obliged to help one another... from the bond or law of human society." [Marsilio dei Mainardini (c.1275-1342), Defensor Pacis]
Marsilius, I feel you are dancing on the head of a pin.
Yes "sleaze and filth" is a subjective judgement but I think the consensus of opinion would be that Sunee has far more of it than BT. I could detail activities which happen openly in Sunee which you would never see in BT - and which most people would agree fall into the S&F category - but we all know what those activities are anyway.
As for prices - yes Sunee is cheap only in comparison to BT, but when those are the only 2 significant choices in Pattaya it's reasonable to say that Sunee visitors are (irrespective of the other delights that Sunee may offer) choosing the cheaper option.
Not that I'm saying that there is anything wrong with sleaze, filth, and relative cheapness - I'm just saying that many gay men have a preference for all three. And if they do, Sunee is the place to be rather than BT - which might explain it being the "real" Boys Town, as you assert.
I have been told by a third party , that a new sign will be going up shortly , the old one having been broken , allowing water to enter when it rains. As i said 3rd party only so i cant swear to truth
I don't always bet but I have been know to sometimes and if there were bets on this to be had, I would surely bet with you aot unfortuantely.
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