Scott Walker had been going to Tenerife for years. Then one January, the self-employed painter and decorator from Inverness tried Thailand and never really came back. He is now married to a local woman named Jaa, living in a small rural community near the Cambodian border, running a launderette and helping out at her grocery store. His two-bedroom home in Scotland is rented out.
'I don't want to sound sexist, but she's more caring,' Walker said. 'Women here are more old-fashioned, more feminine. Women in the West are so demanding. One friend comes out for two weeks of fun. He has no interest in dating local Inverness women. They give nothing and expect everything. They play games.' Walker is, by his own admission, what the internet has come to call a 'Passport Bro': a Western man who travels to Asia or Latin America in search of a partner who embraces what he considers a more traditional relationship.
