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I notice that Thailand has steamed into the top ten locations for retirement, with gushing pride from TAT of course.
Has Thailand morphed into the kind of place you might consider for a retirement home?
There is a big difference between finding your ideal life partner, and deliberately choosing a country based on purely retirement options. I know very few who came here just to die in relative peace and comfort.
Certainly there are options for the retiree, in terms of busy and interesting social activities, or the more rural and even cultural retreats, but I’m equally sure, there are many who came to relax in a tropical climate where the living costs are as amenable as the company.
Its easy to be critical, and forget that in many ways, Thailand is still a developing, third world country. It has sufficient Wild West culture about it for elderly drunkards to settle here, but has it changed much over the last decade?
In my personal experience, the significant numbers of single blokes arriving for holidays, or even staying long term, has dried up, to be replaced by a similar number of families opting for cheap package tour visits.
But what of the retirees? Is it still bristling with options today, or has the climate changed as Thailand tries to drag itself into developed country status. TAT will seize on anything and willingly blow it out of proportion, so what is the truth about Thailand as a retirement destination?