MrMo

I just wonder from where the blame is being shifted. It can't be from the government as they have never accepted any responsibility for anything that was not a wonderous achievement.

If you do come you can easily make a small fortune. Just make sure you are starting with a large one. And be prepared to pay a ton for medical, no matter whether the private or state. The state hospitals have a policy of multiplying the standard charge by up to to 3 fold for us farang. And medical insurance has a limit depending upon how high a premium you are prepared to pay.

I recall the question posed to farangs on arrival to Thailand forty years back. How do you become a millionaire in Thailand ? Come with many million !

One point that the Thai people in general fail to appreciate that in many cases it is not the foreigner who ends up paying. Those of us who have a family here will, when we die, leave to that Thai family whatever is left in our estate. They will end up the loosers. I have recently needed a CT scan at a government hospital. When booking the scan, we were told that it would cost Baht 17,000 but to bring a total of Baht 25,000 to cover total costs. The bill charged turned out to be Baht 29,000 for the scan with the total coming over Baht 50,000.