After living in Thailand for 15 years, both in Issan and Bangkok and seeing all the changes take place. It is now over priced and doesn’t offer much value at all anymore for foreign residents or tourists. Chaing Mai air is rotten, Phuket now essentially a Russian enclave, Pattaya infested with a disrespectful low spending often unhygienic demographic of so called tourists.
Crazy rents for anywhere decent in Bangkok, endless traffic jams, rorts and scams and red tape galore and fleece the Farang is now almost a national sport. There’s not too much appealing about the place anymore.
I have a lifetime elite visa, went to Phnom Penh a month ago for the first time. For me i found it better than Vietnam and better than Thailand in every way. Packing up and going.
Thailand has lost most of its shine and has become only about $$$. I don’t think I will miss the place too much and wouldn’t recommend it as a holiday destination any more.