Good for you. My forebears came in the 1600s. Farmers, shipyard owners, refugees from religious persecution. I retired after 41 years of teaching as an Emeritus Professor of history of History in a poor state in the USA. Retired along with millions of of working middle class Americans in a lower cost country.
Expect an uphill walk. Young? Pretty? Single? Without solid ties demanding that she return to Thailand? Slim to no chance. Unfortunately far too many such over stay if granted access. Oh, it is possible but not easy to convince the immigration representative that she will return to Thailand.
Probably true as in authoritarian countries, you conform or else … None of this mamby Pamby stuff. Thanks, I’ll pass … If I wanted to live under such regimes I would seek life in Russia, China, N. Korea or several other nations that come to mind.
Love it! My girl is 26 younger than me (kind of a Michael Douglas -Katherine Zeta Jones thingy). Yes, all depends … we did not meet until past our primes.
Good to know that equal education is available to all, no matter which state or community they reside in … I seemed to miss that during my career as an educator. Oh, I am fine, not being able to live in my own country on my earned retirement. I compensated by retiring to a lower cost country.
I put the bid in at worse … due to the air pollution here in Chiang Mai. Riding on the motorbike feels like driving into the mouth of a blast furnace. Last time, when I arrived home actually felt weak and a bit dizzy. The Weather Channel said it felt like 44C that day = so over 110F! Yikes!
I can only identify as a retired working middle class American. The working middle class gets stuck again. I have been most sorry when I learned that your state pensions were frozen if living outside the UK. First the system does not allow for a reasonable working middle class retirement in our own countries and then there is a withholding of earned benefits when we move to a lower cost country. You guys get hit with the pension freeze, we Yanks cannot use Medicare (even though costs are much lower outside the USA).
Heard the report this morning. Basically entering during heaviest business hours and it ifs a $5.00 USA equivalent daily entrance fee. Ringing in my ear, “be careful what you wish for …”.