I came here with my Thai wife from the UK 10 years ago when the evil witch Theresa May kept increasing the money needed to keep a foreign wife while doing that to limit immigration numbers and refusing to exit the EU which should have solve that problem. So I sold everything and cut ties and now we live in a gated walled village bigger that most towns just North East of Bangkok City. Frankly it is ideal except the land is flat unlike the OP's beautiful landscapes. What I miss most about the UK is the Surrey Hills we lived in and North Wales mountains we holidayed in yearly. But what is great is we have a lovely detached 5 bedroom 4 bathroom house far superior to the heavily mortgaged semi in Sandhurst UK plus it is ours 100%, well, hers but my name is on the house too. Close by we got Big C. numerous 7-Elevens, Lotus's (formerly Tesco). Thai Watsadu about 5 miles away and sundry other useful stores like TOA. All we don't get are mountains but we do get water monitors, occasional snakes (3 in 10 years) as we have 4ft nets atop the boundary walls to keep them out. Our lounge ceiling void is home to rice-field rats and a few tokai, they are noisy with scampering feet over our heads sometimes but do nothing to disturb us and I gave up trapping them a year or so back because you get one family out in humane traps and another moves in. Our neighbours are quieter than we are I think, we got an unused flooded farm field over the back wall and the usual wildlife as mentioned. TBH our life here is quiet, comfortable, we want for little and live quietly (mostly) and simply and Thailand bureaucracy, apart from on-line 90 day reports and the annual extension ritual with ever more paper year on year, passes us by. We shop in Big C and Makro and local markets for food etc, and most everything else is Lazada and Shopee which is stupidly cheap. I love it here!
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