Jonathan Vickers

If you are looking to retire, (which I am not) 40,000,000 bt will buy you a lovely home near the beach in sunny Queensland, Australia, where you are invited to actually become an Ozzie, are made to feel welcome and respected and where it is beautiful one day and perfect the next! You get to fully own the property, leave it to your children and not have to put up with the narcissistic, xenophobic and persistent racist nonsense of this megalomaniacal Thai system.

If you hang around long enough in Thailand you see too many news articles of “Foreigner Jumped, fell, slipped or flew off a tall building, mostly in Pattaya but a few other places in the south also. Almost never in Bangkok and don’t remember hearing of one in Chiang Mai! From a few months back…in one article… .one Haakon Halvorsen, 46 fell off his balcony and died in Pattaya and was apparently suicide, only a few hours after Khun Yulanan, 43 did, and his/her death was put down to a bungled attempt to jump over a disused building, something this person did on a regular basis as some kind of strange short cut. In June the Foreign & Commonwealth office, alone with ABTA urged British nationals to take care on balconies and sited that last year there were 14 incidents involving Britons and this even prompted the FCO and ABTA to launch a campaign warning of the dangers. yup…it’s almost a sport here.