As per the title. i'm 45 now but intend to retire at 60ish. It would have been earlier but somehow I managed to get married again in my early 40s and had a child (not necessarily in that order).
It's a difficult one as unlike most western expats I don't have a special forces pension to rely on. Or even a normal old age pension what they give to civilians in the UK on account of never paying National Insurance contributions.
Some options that I have thought of:
One or two rental properties in your home country (mine is the United Kingdom) ?
Dividend paying shares?
Rental property in Thailand?
Buy some farm equipment and rent it out to the locals (probably not a good idea as the big man of the moo ban does that)
Buying a lot of lottery tickets and visiting the temple frequently to facilitate more wins?
How do you survive?
And no 'send your wife to Pattaya' suggestions please as she is over 40 yrs old now and quite heavy set.
Cheers