These 2 statements are contradictory to my life in Thailand. ... "What happens when the Western retiree who arrived at fifty-five, healthy and cashed-up, turns seventy-five, and the country he committed to begins to close in on him? " ... Nothing closing in on me, and life has actually gotten better for most part, the longer I've stayed here. ... "Now, at seventy-two, he sits on health insurance renewal notices that price him out of coverage. His wife is nearly three decades younger and has started planning her own future without him. There is a growing recognition that if his mind or his body gives out in the next few years, Thailand has nothing on the shelf to catch him. Notably, this man is not a cautionary tale of somebody who did it wrong. Rather, this man is somebody who did almost everything right." ... Far from doing everything right, if he can't afford to keep himself healthy. Having a 30 year younger wife who doesn't want to stick by him in old age would be the same in any country, and nothing to do with TH, or, same, if he failed to financially plan his retirement in any country, even home country. If you need a safety net in you later years, simple, don't leave your home country and earn more into you later years. Apparently, he could not afford to retire at 55 ish yrs old. oops ... has nothing to do with TH. It's just a location, that people bring their problems to, then blame the country for them.
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