Maggie’s Retiring to Thailand- how you will fail

[hermosabeach]

An acquaintance told me many stories about his plans to retire as a lineman and live in Thailand.

Around 1990, he purchased a home in Thailand and had two girls who lived in the house.

He would go to Thailand 3-4 times a year to drink, PT and F like a madman.

When in country, he stayed in the master bedroom and they cooked/ cleaned etc.

When he was not their they simply lived rent free and maintained the home and paid utilities.

Evidently a non Thai citizen cannot own land so some are able to lease land for 99 years or they can own 49% of a home.

Evidently as a 49% owner, they can simply vote you out and sell the home to themselves or for cash.



I have another friend in the middle of divorce who want to be a digital nomad, leave the US and live in Thailand while still working their IT job.

At face value it seems perfect.
Thai developers built too many condos so you can rent a nice 3 bedroom condo for $300-$400 while making your US income.



Evidently Thailand has a culture in Thailand of fleecing retirees....


I figured I'd post this video and see if any of you have any first hand knowledge of friends / family retiring in Thailand.



Is this video accurate?Thailand

 

[W54/XM-388]

Evidently a non Thai citizen cannot own land

Perhaps they are on to an idea.
Maybe we should pass similar laws here as well ??
Only citizens being able to own the land kind of sounds like something we in the USA should be doing...

 

[lonegunman762x51]

Had a buddy retire from the State dept and move to Thailand. He built a house in Pattaya Beach two blocks off the water for around $30k US. First floor is opened for flooding. 99 year ground lease, hired an older couple to live there. They cook, clean, shop and do all the yardwork. He feeds them off his grocery bill and tosses a hundred bucks now and then.

His retirement budget includes money for drinking and whores. He flies home to ride Harleys and go to Sturgis every year.

He should be dead soon. Its been about 15 years. Hopefully he died happy.

Its pretty affordable in the scheme of things.

I have actual hobbies and guns. Renting pussy and sitting around drunk with shitty tourists is closer to hell than I'd like to live. Sounds like a miserable life after about two weeks.

 

[jbuck88]

Perhaps they are on to an idea.
Maybe we should pass similar laws here as well ??
Only citizens being able to own the land kind of sounds like something we in the USA should be doing...

While I agree whole heartedly, asgh with most/all the politicians being bought and paid for with foreign $$$$

 

[Maggot]

An acquaintance told me many stories about his plans to retire as a lineman and live in Thailand.

Around 1990, he purchased a home in Thailand and had two girls who lived in the house.

He would go to Thailand 3-4 times a year to drink, PT and F like a madman.

When in country, he stayed in the master bedroom and they cooked/ cleaned etc.

When he was not their they simply lived rent free and maintained the home and paid utilities.

Evidently a non Thai citizen cannot own land so some are able to lease land for 99 years or they can own 49% of a home.

Evidently as a 49% owner, they can simply vote you out and sell the home to themselves or for cash.



I have another friend in the middle of divorce who want to be a digital nomad, leave the US and live in Thailand while still working their IT job.

At face value it seems perfect.
Thai developers built too many condos so you can rent a nice 3 bedroom condo for $300-$400 while making your US income.



Evidently Thailand has a culture in Thailand of fleecing retirees....


I figured I'd post this video and see if any of you have any first hand knowledge of friends / family retiring in Thailand.



Is this video accurate?Thailand

A buddy who docked there in the Navy told mehe was offed a $5 blow job by an 10. year old girl. He turned her down but day'um.

 

[Drago6]

I have an uncle, personifies the boomer meme(s) with 90% accuracy

Met some FOB filipino lady stateside and against everyones advice he marries her in short order, decides to retire to the Philippines, sells his house in U.S. and ships all his shit over there, buys a place and spends a good chunk of money on renovations.

His new wifes family and extended family basically move in to the new house, he realizes the weather is brutal, and he's permanently "the outsider" in the cultural/racial sense. It's not that the people are unpleasant to him, it's that he has basically nothing in common with them, doesn't speak the language, etc

I learned this after seeing him earlier this year and he basically spent 30 min complaining about everything and lamenting the situation. I dont really feel pity because a grown ass man really should have considered this shit before sticking his dick in something new and then putting it all on red

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Bunch of years ago a friend who found a second career after retiring from Marshals Svc.... was working at the State Dept. on various intl. projects, training, etc. He went over to Thailand as part of a 'Task Force' to help the Thai govt. root out heroin and the sex trade. You know... those 'intl. cooperation' things. Lots of talk. Nods, handshakes, expense accounts and not much happens?

He was picked up at the airport by his 'mirror' on the Thai side of the task force to take him to the conference hotel.

They hadn't been in the car 5 minutes when the Thai govt. Task Force senior official dude... offered him a pack of opium-dipped joints and asked him if he wanted some young girls. When he said 'no thanks' the guy asked him "Boys then?"

The whole task force thing went about as expected.

They got to make a living somehow... Different culture... different worldview.

I have no urge to visit there... not even to get swept away in a tsunami!

Retire there? Good lord, some folks just don't get how depraved (maybe desparate is a better word) some parts of the world really are! Retire in the third world?? If you want to do that, you can get really cheap houses in Oakland or Dearborn... Me, I think I'll just die on my mountain. Here in America. If you can call this state America any more. Oh well, the view is nice!

Sirhr

PS. He had some great stories... he spent some time in Afghanistan (or maybe it was Iraq) on a training gig. And was on a base with some Gurkhas. Turned out his dad had worked with Gurkhas in the CBI theater in WW2 and when the Regiment guys found out, they would not let him out of their sight. Told him "We are tigers for you" and that nothing would ever happen to him while they were around. They even sent him home with a Kukri, which is way better than a coin! They literally had guys as his personal bodyguard the whole time he was there. He said that their British officers were also probably the most squared away leaders he ever met.

 

[ggmanning]

F that. I'll do Texas panhandle or nowhere Wyoming or the Dakotas and be in America. Got good friends in all three.

 

[Ronws]

Because I just had to:

 

[Redmanss]

Phrase never heard in Thailand:

"Check out the tits and ass on that chick!"

The women are stick figures, and the ones with tits also have a dick.

 

[SONIC SAAMI]

I love my mountain home here in Central Oregon. That being said, I will admit the Archipelago of Japan has recently started to interest me.

 

[Eostech]

Evidently Thailand has a culture in Thailand of fleecing retirees....

Who gives a fuck? Western tourist only go over there to fuck Thais, including children.
Any "relationship" you have with people in such places is purely transactional and you'd be a retard to forget it.

 

[Edsel]

Sounds like typical white trash aspirations.

Low - achieving male with self - esteem problems, rejected by local wimmen, looks for foreign tacos instead.

 

[delinquent pleb]

I have an uncle that is living this dream.

The guy worked oil, gold and uranium mines all through the 90’s for US and European mining, oil and gas companies all across Africa and the former Soviet central Asian republics when they opened up. Made shit tins of cash. A great life for a single bloke, unattached bloke.

Anyway, in the early 2000’s he had a relationship with a pretty good lady here in Australia, brought a house with her, he paid for it mostly cash up front. Was working a lucrative role in Kazakhstan for chevron or another large American resource company. Pretty well set-up a by most metrics.

So on his rotations back to Australia, he starts detouring via Thailand to get some beach, cheap beers, sun…and some local pussy on the side. Well he does this for a while, apparently he got busted by his missus in Australia when she picked up some STD that he brought back from his stop-overs in Thailand. Now this goes the way you expect, she ended it with him and he doesn’t want the fuss so gives her the keys to his house and says ‘catch you later, it’s yours. I’m going to Thailand. See ya’. From what I understand a significant chunk of his wealth was tied up in the house he walked away from.

He moves to Thailand, moves in with said side girl in Thailand and buys a house over there in her name. Married her, I think. Got a job In Thailand, working contracts for some energy company. Covid hits, he gets laid off cause Covid shut downs everything. He now hasn’t worked since 2021, has diminishing savings (what’s left) and is in a pretty precarious situation financially where she thought she landed some white whale that would pay her way and keep in some lavish life. a forced retirement in Thailand…

 

[Fx51LP308]

A lot of places only permit native citizens to own land/real-estate. I learned that about Palau. Not only can't non-natives own peoperty, I discovered that only native Palauan's can be boat captains. I dove at a resort that employees both Palauans and other people (USA, EU, etc.), and we always had to wait for a Palauan to come and drive even the little Boston Whaler boats to take us to the dive sites. The tour owner married a native Palauan and it's her name on all the ownership docs.

And, no, I would never retire to Thailand... nor anywhere else in Asia for that matter. I like it right where I am in FL.

 

[Sandhog308]

Had a good friend that lived and died in Thailand living his dream. Groover….his nickname could speak 5-6 languages fluently , made a small fortune in hotel management , later on started a business flying mail and supplies to Pacific Rim countries. Married to a beautiful Thai woman and they had 2 kids.
Word was he slipped and fell to his death from a high storied roof , others said she had him thrown off the roof. I had planned on doing a SE Asia trip in 2014 after my wife passed away. Planned on visiting him but fate intervened
No telling how much money and gold she ended up with ?

 

[Fx51LP308]

And, lest you think we're joking about not messing with Thai women, - consider Lt. Castillo from Miami Vice... His wife, Mei Ying, was Thai, and they sent a Thai Assassin after him.