Not all Bgs are so poor.
First FL I went with had a new car and owned a house in Phuket Town.
Another FL I was with lived in a house she rented near BKK. Not bad at all.
Last week I went to look at a house my friend is buying here for $570,000. Not as nice as the FL's house in BKK. The rooms looked much worse than the one in the picture. There is no toilet in the bathroom on the main floor, you have to go down to the basement to use a toilet. There is no furnace, just a stove to burn wood in, andthe electricity does not work in most of the house. There are 4 people living there now. And I live in one of the richest area in the whole world. Even here there are many living in poverty.
In LOS, conditions that you may regard as terrible and depressing, may not seem bad at all to the girls. They do not come from homes of middle class comfort. They grow up with sleeping several people in a bed. This is not something new to them.
I grew up in a small but comfortable middle class home in America. But after my Dad threw me out when I was 21, sometimes I lived in places that were worse than the room in the picture, places where when the wind blowed hard outside, you could feel in coming through the walls. In cities where the temperature dropped below freezing in the winter.
Nobody gave me any money or felt sorry for me, and I wouldn't have had it any other way. Life is about how you feel, not what you have. And on that level, many poor people in LOS and other places have more than many of us!
So the reason I try to stick to the 1000 Baht rule(although I am easily talked up to 1200 because I figure there is inflation, after all), is not because to save 500 or 1000 Baht, but because the more money you pay, the more it is about the money. I know the girls are prostitutes and come with us only for the money in most cases, but if a girl, nevertheless, can enjoy my company, and the way I treat her, and likes me a bit, then she can show it by being easy on the price, i.e., go for 1000 Baht. If she wants much more than that, then the relationship is more likely to be cash for sex, wuid pro quo, and that is too cold for me.
But the bottom line is pay what you like! It's your money! I'll do what I like, you do what you like. I don't tell anyone else what he should pay!