When trying to make a decision about
whether a place is right for you it is always a
good idea to hear what people who are living
there have to say. Here are some links to
Expat blogs on the internet who have put down
their stories of retiring in Thailand. we
will add more stories as time goes on.
Feel free to send us your story by leaving it on
our
Retirees Forum
.
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Story of early retirement
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Here’s a story of what it takes to retire to Thailand in your
50s. |
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Living in Chiang Mai |
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Stories of how 6 retirees got from there to here. |
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Romance and retirement |
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This is a story of a person who has fallen
in love – with a place.
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Living in the Golden Triangle |
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Big cities aren’t the only places that
retirees have found to their liking. |
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Feel-good story
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Many retired men come to Thailand and begin
new relationships here. Some work out well, others not so
well. For every feel-good story there are a number of stories
of relationship disasters. He is a story of one retiree’s
relationship that seems to have turned out OK.
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Want to start a farm?
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It’s the dream of many people to move out
of the city and go back to the land. Not a few of those people
have moved to Thailand and done just that. Here is a story of
one family from America that have become rice farmers. |
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Want to buy property in Thailand? |
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If you are thinking of coming to Thailand
and buying your homestead you might want to think again. A
foreigner cannot own land in Thailand but many use various loop
holes in the law to do so, or they simply put the land in a
girlfriend’s, Thai wife’s, or a friend’s name. Read this sotry
to see if that is something you might want to do. |