Over the years, Thailand becomes another place to live just like anywhere else in the world.
People choose Thailand for their own reasons, just like people choose many other different countries to live.
There is no magic bullet and over the years living in Thailand has the same, if not more challenges than the country you moved from.
You are not going to do well in your home country or any other country including Thailand without having enough money to last throughout your lifetime.
Over the years, you see and do everything there is to see and do in Thailand. Then you discover there is many things you don’t want to see and do any more.
The single, carefree, dating lifestyle can turn into marriage and all the responsibilities that come with it. Same as anywhere else in the world.
Over the years, Thailand has modernized it’s cities and tourist areas.
Air pollution, maddening traffic, crime all have risen.
Costs in the cities and tourists areas are sky high.
Compare western goods here and most are more expensive.
Cars are more expensive.
Costs continue to rise over the years.
Isaan is probably the one place in Thailand that doesn’t change much, because there isn’t much to change in rural Isaan.
Whatever drove you to Thailand in the first place, those reasons will change over the years.
Can you accept and handle these changes as you get older?
Can you financially shoulder the rising cost over 20+ years?
For many the magic wears off and they wish they were anywhere but Thailand.
Missing family, friends, their own culture and country.
What you wish for right now, may not be the same thing over the long term you thought it would be.
Over the years Thailand has changed and so will you.
Make sure you look at the long term picture before throwing your life away.