36 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

I must do some research on my new retirement destination 

 

I'm so excited now ,

Mumbai looks ok , my friend suggested a City called Delhi 

 

I am now watching YouTube though,  there's a City for expats called GOA 

 

It looks nice on YouTube but may be too expensive for me

 

 

You did like 5 Thai cities only

40 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

I must do some research on my new retirement destination 

 

I'm so excited now ,

Mumbai looks ok , my friend suggested a City called Delhi 

 

I am now watching YouTube though,  there's a City for expats called GOA 

 

It looks nice on YouTube but may be too expensive for me

 

Jesus H Christ, you have to be kidding me. This is getting very weird indeed. 

47 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

There are big cities esp. in Isaan that are still non-Tourist.

Bangkok is mostly non tourist.

43 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

I must do some research on my new retirement destination 

 

I'm so excited now ,

Mumbai looks ok , my friend suggested a City called Delhi 

 

I am now watching YouTube though,  there's a City for expats called GOA 

 

It looks nice on YouTube but may be too expensive for me

 

 

Kerala or Karnataka is where most expats go.

Kerala has a significant Christian community and is known locally as Gods own country.

Easy to get a five year visa allowing you to stay 180 days each calendar year.

India's not for everyone but have a visit by all means

Understand the local weather. 50 degrees in summer is common in many parts including Delhi. Air quality can be very bad.

Although India is not much bigger than Thailand as a landmass  it's enormous when you're there

9 minutes ago, Spilornis said:

 

Although India is not much bigger than Thailand as a landmass  it's enormous when you're there

You need a new map.

 

India is nearly 7 times larger than Thailand "as a landmass". 513,000 km2 vs 3.287,000 km2.

 

India is the 7th largest country in the world, compared to Thailand, 49th.

8 hours ago, still kicking said:

Why do some people like to retire in third-world countries? Is it just the money? I lived most of my life in OZ. My wife is Thai and has lived here for 22 years. I am a pensioner, and she is a nurse we have no problems living here.

Not just the money, although it is nice to be saving money in retirement.

 

I would be bored out of my skull in Australia.

 

Two abodes, two cars, two scooters. No way I would have that in Oz.

 

A Thai GF 23 years younger than me. Good luck finding one of those in Oz.

 

When I am drooling in a wheelchair, my GF and her family will take care of me. In Oz, an aged care facility where I am fed dog food by an overworked carer too busy to change my adult diapers.

 

I am betting your Thai wife/nurse is a fair bit younger than you. Good planning on your part.

6 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Not just the money, although it is nice to be saving money in retirement.

 

I would be bored out of my skull in Australia.

 

Two abodes, two cars, two scooters. No way I would have that in Oz.

 

A Thai GF 23 years younger than me. Good luck finding one of those in Oz.

 

When I am drooling in a wheelchair, my GF and her family will take care of me. In Oz, an aged care facility where I am fed dog food by an overworked carer too busy to change my adult diapers.

 

I am betting your Thai wife/nurse is a fair bit younger than you. Good planning on your part.

Entertainment is far cheaper too. Restaurants, massage, tours etc.

 

Plus you can be yourself. Westerners are very judgemental.

1 hour ago, Harrisfan said:

Bangkok is mostly non tourist.

I lived 6 months 2005 on KlangSan pre-Skytrain and know the Minburi area well. So there are non-tourist areas.

 

But really I was only replying regards the OP claim that:

 

I doubt after all my study I will NOT retire to Thailand 

I have been locked up there, assaulted etc so it becomes too traumatic for me 

 

So maybe now just OT.

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3 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

I must do some research on my new retirement destination 

 

I'm so excited now ,

Mumbai looks ok , my friend suggested a City called Delhi 

 

I am now watching YouTube though,  there's a City for expats called GOA 

 

It looks nice on YouTube but may be too expensive for me

 

 

Why waste your time with that?

No visa for retirement there.

 

2 hours ago, Spilornis said:

Although India is not much bigger than Thailand as a landmass  it's enormous when you're there

India is 6 times bigger: Size of Thailand compared to India

5 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

I must do some research on my new retirement destination 

 

I'm so excited now ,

Mumbai looks ok , my friend suggested a City called Delhi 

 

I am now watching YouTube though,  there's a City for expats called GOA 

 

It looks nice on YouTube but may be too expensive for me

 

 

 

Absolutely buzzing for you, mate. What a transformation. One minute you’re getting locked up in Thailand and learning about trauma from attack monkeys in the street, the next you’re having epiphanies in the janitor’s closet with a bloke from Punjab who’s just blown your todger, then your mind, by confirming that yes, India is, in fact, really in Asia. Breathtaking stuff. I can only imagine the spiritual awakening that followed. Did you also find out where the sun doesn't shine and then where it goes at night?

 

Honestly, watching your journey unfold is like tuning in to a BBC documentary written by someone who’s never left their post-code there in the outback. And now you’re on to India. Full of wonder, wide-eyed like a gap year student clutching his pearls and a first-edition Lonely Planet guide, but with zero intention of going anywhere.

 

The way you breezed past thirty forum responses already telling you why your fantasy’s a complete lark, that the place is a filthy toilet you’ll never be able to get clean with even your biggest mop, only for you to pop back in with “Ooh, Mumbai looks OK and someone said Goa” is absolute windup artistry. You’ve got commitment, I’ll give you that. Commitment to pretending you’re discovering a brave new world, while everyone else realizes they’ve just wasted an hour giving life advice to someone who probably thinks Delhi’s a type of lunch meat.

 

But please, keep us posted. Maybe next week you’ll stumble upon Vietnam, Tibet or Nepal and ask if Mount Everest is a good spot to build a bungalow. Or discover that Asia isn’t a state in Australia after all.

 

Whatever happens, we’re all here for the ride, watching the insufferable slow-motion train-wreck of faux-enlightenment and Google Maps tourism. The world is your oyster, broom-closet explorer.

I think aiming to retire in India is similarly masochistic as aiming to retire in Vietnam. (Unless you have an ethnic or marriage connection to those countries.)

 

So for India, let's summarize:

 

No retirement visa.

Probably never will be. 

Only option is 6 month tourist visas at a time.

Getting the full 6 months not guaranteed.

Then you need to leave India and start that over again indefinitely.

Always at the mercy of not getting a new 6 months or indeed not getting a new touris visa at all.

Actually practically being able to live in a country should be the basic first thing to consider for expat retirement destinations.

India simply doesn't make the cut.

Yes some countries don't have a literal retirement visa but have other visas that can be used for that. India does NOT have EITHER.

Again, why waste your time unless you're just here to pull our chains?

40 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Again, why waste your time unless you're just here to pull our chains?

All of his posts follow the exact same formula. He pretends to make some groundbreaking discovery about a place, usually a discovery that’s completely off the mark, and then plays the role of the bumbling fool, just to sit back and enjoy the spectacle of everyone trying to educate him on a topic he clearly already understands.

 

He’s done the same routine with the Philippines, with Thailand, and probably a few other places I’ve lost track of by now. It’s like clockwork. Every 8 to 12 months he’ll churn out another post about Pattaya, declaring how disappointed he is, how boring it is after spending the first week there out of his four week planned holiday, how he’s utterly disillusioned, and how all the expats there are just a sad pack of washed-up, lonely, old drunks.

 

The last time he pulled this same folly about Pattaya was on March 15, in another new topic he titled “To become an expat.” Someone called him out by linking all his past posts on the same subject, and his response? “Oh stop taking life too seriously you surly old miserable git !”, which, of course, just confirmed he’s always been in it purely for the windup.

 

He’s not confused. He’s not curious. He’s just having a laugh at the expense of anyone who takes his bait. He just a cheaper and more dumbed down, attention-seeking version of Bob Smith. 

OP has no hobbies, interests or friends, ( millions of old guys in the same boat) No country will offer a good retirement. He's better off where he is and working imo.

2 minutes ago, sidjameson said:

OP has no hobbies, interests or friends

#NAILEDIT

Probably better to stick to Thailand for less than 183 days a year then spend the remainder anywhere you fancy

11 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Probably better to stick to Thailand for less than 183 days a year then spend the remainder anywhere you fancy

some people get married and that's not feasible 

15 hours ago, cjinchiangrai said:

India is nice as a working expat but they treat women horribly.

especially in the Punjab region! women are just a tad lower than whale crap for those people.  

2 minutes ago, Presnock said:

especially in the Punjab region! women are just a tad lower than whale crap for those people.  

Explain Eve Teasing. They call it something else in other countries.

12 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

some people get married and that's not feasible 

ah yes they are shafted

11 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

ah yes they are shafted

single people are shafted because nobody loves them

I lived in India for about 8 months back in the day and I can confidently say it would be a nightmare to retire to. What people don't realise about India is the sheer volume of people everywhere, it's teaming with mostly men with dodgy stashes just hanging around everywhere you go staring... you can't get away from the swathes of people everywhere unless you lock yourself in your room. 

It is certainly not a place to take a wife or girlfriend to, and the chances of meeting a decent Indian woman are close to zero... guess you might be okay if you are into boyfriends though, haha.

It is a shocking place for your mental state... unless maybe you went far up north to somewhere like Manali in the Kulu valley and smoked really good weed and meditated whilst enjoying hot spring baths, but it also gets so freezing cold there are night and in the morning. You go south and it's like an oven, scam central on everything, Indian police make Thai police look virtuous and the poster-boy for good policing etc. Probably a little bit of a troll post from the OP, but if it wasn't, then you have lost your mind to consider this.

3 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

I lived in India for about 8 months back in the day and I can confidently say it would be a nightmare to retire to. What people don't realise about India is the sheer volume of people everywhere, it's teaming with mostly men with dodgy stashes just hanging around everywhere you go staring... you can't get away from the swathes of people everywhere unless you lock yourself in your room. 

It is certainly not a place to take a wife or girlfriend to, and the chances of meeting a decent Indian woman are close to zero... guess you might be okay if you are into boyfriends though, haha.

It is a shocking place for your mental state... unless maybe you went far up north to somewhere like Manali in the Kulu valley and smoked really good weed and meditated whilst enjoying hot spring baths, but it also gets so freezing cold there are night and in the morning. You go south and it's like an oven, scam central on everything, Indian police make Thai police look virtuous and the poster-boy for good policing etc. Probably a little bit of a troll post from the OP, but if it wasn't, then you have lost your mind to consider this.

Living in India brought me to Thailand. It was so corrupt and draining that I needed a place to decompress. The corruption is astounding and the abuse of women through chattel treatment was offensive.

 

My American girlfriend at the time visited once and some random guy pulled up next to her and requested a BJ, promising to respect her. She was not convinced for some reason.

 

I was treated very well but I could not abide the abuse of everyone else.

14 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

single people are shafted because nobody loves them

You are making a big assumption that the wife loves the husband, don't forget this is the world hub of fake relationships

32 minutes ago, Presnock said:

especially in the Punjab region! women are just a tad lower than whale crap for those people.  

Uttar Pradesh is the worst. Everything is run by the local Panchyats. Village elder law. So if someone rapes your sister, either she marries the rapist or you get to rape his sister. Honor killings are common and overlooked.

24 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

You are making a big assumption that the wife loves the husband, don't forget this is the world hub of fake relationships

REDUX

 

From Sir Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) -- Cary Grant as Thornhill:

 

Roger Thornhill: How do we know it's not a fake? It looks like a fake.
Bidder: Well, one thing we know. You're no fake. You are a genuine idiot.

Just now, jerrymahoney said:

REDUX

 

From Sir Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) -- Cary Grant as Thornhill:

 

Roger Thornhill: How do we know it's not a fake? It looks like a fake.
Bidder: Well, one thing we know. You're no fake. You are a genuine idiot.

I knew my comment wouldn't go down well, bit like the wife, touched a nerve

3 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

I knew my comment wouldn't go down well, bit like the wife, touched a nerve

It goes down or not goes down --  any time anyone mentions a wife in Thailand you go into your fake-wife, cuckold , just her brother, shafted, dragging the wife around routine.

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