This Is It

[boris]

Mike

Congratulations.I hope your retirement years are happy.Two pieces of advice:

1.Find something useful to do (other than hobbies ), helping out a local charity or school perhaps.Full retirement is eventually not a happy option.

2. Food and drink should play a relatively minor role.Doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy wonderful Thai food and the odd beer, but I have seen many farang retirees throw away the chances of happiness through over indulgence.As so often in life, less means more.

Good luck

[buadhai]

Moving from Saipan to Korat? Congrats, but sounds to me like your moving AWAY from paradise! Never been there, but it sounds like a nice retirement village.

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Saipan is a nice place, but 26 years was enough. And, it is very expensive to live there. On my pension I would not have had a very nice lifestyle in the islands. Plus, it is small and isolated, so "getting away" is always an expensive and time-consuming proposition.

And, Boris, thanks for reiterating what is always good advice. In my years of coming to LOS I've seen so many farang to whom that has happened....