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Just to add a personal note, I retired at 45 after working for a couple of years in Thailand. Now, three years later, I find my brain under-challenged. I've just signed up for a Masters Degree by distance learning. This is very expensive (by Thai standards). You too might find that living a relatively comfortable but cheap life isn't enough for you for the next 50 years or so, and that to retain your sanity you have some unexpected expenses.

Your biggest worry should be exchange rate risk. Exchange rates between currencies regularly fluctuate 30% per year. Without such risk the amount you have is (as others have said) borderline, but with further depreciation of the dollar, you'd be in serious difficulties. If you can double it, then you should probably be secure.

You also need to consider unexpected large expenses - the most likely of these being medical expenses. Your budget should include a top-notch medical insurance plan, and to afford that you may well need a higher level of income.

Father Joe Maier's Human Development Foundation/Mercy Centre, which runs a number of homes and schools.

It's in Bangkok, run by a genuinely good man who lives in the slums amongst the poorest he tries to help.

http://www.mercycentre.org

There is nothing wrong with your DOCTYPE.

The validation errors are because of invalid HTML - even by old standards. BGCOLOR used to be part of the standard for the TD element (it's now deprecated), but BACKGROUND never was part of the standard. (BACKGROUND can be used with the TABLE element, though.)

Incidentally, you are specifying some very specific fonts in your HTML - fonts which aren't available on a large proportion of computers. Your site will look very different on different computers.

I've given up on inkjet printers. Over the years I've tried many different brands, but none of them seems to last more than a year or two. If you're an infrequent user, you regularly use up half your ink cleaning the print heads trying to get all the colours working again. Eventually one or other colours stops working, or some part inside the machine fails - and then it's cheaper to buy a new machine than to get it fixed.

Now I use a cheap black and white laserjet (a HP LaserJet 1020) for my day to day printing, and take any colour printing to a print shop to be done.