It sounds like you have a wonderful wife. Not all Thai women are only after a man's money just like not all women in your home country are not only after a man's money. There are good and bad women and men everywhere. Men need to trust their own judgement regarding their wives. If they don't plan to live on the land then I wouldn't buy it and I would never buy land for someone who was only my girlfriend. My wife and I bought land and built a house on it, which we moved to, two years ago. Everything was done in my wife's name and I had no problems with that as we have been together for almost three decades. We are now in the process of transferring the land ownership deed - chanote - to our son who has just turned 18. We had wanted to put the land in his name from the beginning but he needed to be 18 years old. You only tend to hear horror stories on forums like this, but there are many more successful relationships than bad ones.