Thailand as a Future Destination for Relocation

[KhunLA]

23 minutes ago, Hummin said:

If you where 50 now, where would you move, what would your options had been? 

 

I moved here when I was 47,

45 for me, and if doing over, would probably just stay in the USA. 

 

Instead of liquidating RE holdings, buy more, and income would offset higher cost of living & inflation.   Live the same lifestyle, probably have more money, as doubtful I would have married again, 2X at that, or raised a kid, 20+ years, through Uni.

 

Based somewhere in moderate weather, small house in middle of nowhere, and play nomadic tourist.  Same as now, here in TH.

[save the frogs]

8 hours ago, Hummin said:

and also miss the dark winters,

never met anyone who misses dark winters.

[save the frogs]

7 hours ago, KhunLA said:

small house in middle of nowhere

sounds boring

 

[KhunLA]

9 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

sounds boring

Not at all.  Same as now, and I fill my time in with things that interests me & wife.

 

Out the door tomorrow, to explore Chumphon.  PKK is a base to live, comfortably, having everything we need, and explore from.   Same as would be if in USA, except out for much longer times if at USA, as so much more to explore there, USA.

 

I don't need nightlife or hectic urban living, as can always travel to it, if wanting.

 

In the middle on nowhere, simply means, no neighbors, no jobs, or decent schools.   Equates to less population, congestion, and higher taxes, cost of living, based on surrounding economics, high incomes.

 

Also ensure land & RE isn't overpriced.  Retired, so don't need a job market or schools.

[KhunLA]

11 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

never met anyone who misses dark winters.

Don't know about dark winters, but I do miss playing in the snow, and change of seasons.

[Hummin]

10 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

never met anyone who misses dark winters.

Im not here to convince you, because you need to have it in you. Like to work, feel cold, pain, suffer to feel gratitude for what you have and accomplished. 

 

As said, I like to work, and have always worked for something, against something, so for me, retiring esrly which was a dream, is not right for me. Im happy, but not satisfied. 

 

Imagine going out 4 in the morning pitch black, drinking your coffe, listening to the boat engine roaming, and you listening to the radio going out to the fish bank for todays catch, you see flares of polar lightd in the skies, the waves hits your boat, you feel alive

[save the frogs]

21 minutes ago, Hummin said:

you feel alive

yeah, I get where you're coming from now.

good point.

 

Comfortably Numb, man. Pink Floyd was warning us all those years ago that sitting around not challenging ourselves and being too comfortable leads to numbness. 

 

 

[GypsyT]

38 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Don't know about dark winters, but I do miss playing in the snow, and change of seasons.

Yeah - right!

Mental illness has many forms...

Go enjoy;

https://www.yahoo.com/news/over-85-million-americans-under-165400845.html

 

"This alert is for wind chills as low as -50 degrees. Those temperatures can cause frost bite to exposed skin in as little as 5 minutes."

 

And they are F, not C temps. If it matters..

 

 

[Hummin]

1 minute ago, GypsyT said:

Yeah - right!

Mental illness has many forms...

Go enjoy;

https://www.yahoo.com/news/over-85-million-americans-under-165400845.html

 

Most people have become soft and to comfortable. 

 

Who would manage to survice in the wild a month? Be it in the jungle or arctic? I most likely would survive both places, but I would have a walk in the park back home in the north Norway compare to the jungle, where my wife would easily find food to eat

 

Lack of resl purposes and dicipline is our worst enemies. 

[KhunLA]

11 minutes ago, GypsyT said:

Yeah - right!

Mental illness has many forms...

Go enjoy;

https://www.yahoo.com/news/over-85-million-americans-under-165400845.html

 

That's apparently impossible ... MMGW & CC

 

Haven't you heard.

 

That's actually a good thing, as Trump may make it through the day without getting bumped off 

 

[GypsyT]

36 minutes ago, Hummin said:

 

Who would manage to survice in the wild a month? Be it in the jungle or arctic?

I would!

How?

I won't go there... I go to Isaan. Girls there take good care of me.

 

 

[atpeace]

19 hours ago, Keeps said:

20 baht a day on water isn't going to break the bank and a pad gaprao moo is twelve quid in the UK so your point is?

He hasn't figured out a water filter in all the years he has been here is strange.  Also don't get the can of tin beans comparison.  I've never bought a can of tin beans.   I think he has been here so long he has doesn't grasp how expensive back home has become.