I don't blame you at all and I applaud you!easyas wrote:I have to totally disagree! If you're poor, cold, depressed, living in seemingly incessant rain and it's dark most of the time then you have a great incentive to become an economic refugee and live here where you can live well on very little income (just a state pension would suffice), where it's certainly not cold, where you should feel less under pressure and thus less depressed, and where the rain when it comes is generally welcome, as is the dark which restricts itself to night time.STEVE G wrote:When you consider the state of the economy in the West with falling property prices, the demise of decent pensions, changing demographics and raised retirement ages, I personally think that the number of people from the West moving to places overseas like Thailand will be in decline from now on.Where have all the farangs gone....
There was a period when people were retiring earlier with large amounts of value stored up in property and generous pensions which certainly seems to have ended....
If you read back on this forum I've always been a defender of the idea of living in Thailand on a budget in the face of those that keep telling us that you need 150,000 bt a month to get by.
My point was that there aren't going to be as many people around retiring with money in the latter category.
) that 5 of us could be in and out in less time than it takes 1 of them to ask an Immigration official which table can they pay their water bill at...