Visiting Thailand on a holiday and living here full time is completely different.
When you are on a holiday, everything is new and exciting.
Traveling around to different places, eating exotic food and drinks, seeing things for the first time.
That first allure is what makes many people decide they want to move and live in Thailand fulltime.
PS? No one is on a holiday forever!
The reality of living in Thailand full time, is the same exact reality of where you are moving from.
Are you on a full time holiday in your own country?
Of course not and it will be the same in Thailand.
Retiree’s have it the easiest.
It is those that are younger and not retired.
Your dream holiday in Thailand becomes a 5 or 6 day a week slog at what job you chose to work or can find to survive.
Whether teaching English or Youtube, it is all the same.
You don’t have the free time to do as you please.
You need to pay the bills each month. After doing this for a year or two, the shine of Thailand wears off.
You want more, but due to low salaries, you cannot afford more. Just barely making ends meet from month to month, paycheck to paycheck.
Mark my words, sooner or later, you will tire of this lifestyle. Plus the fact you probably have not saved anything or built up anything towards a pension.
Thailand is not a fun place with limited funding. It takes some people longer than others to find that out.
That US $60 waterpark ticket was fun as a tourist, but now that you live here, you cannot even afford it.
The same doldrums that made you want to move from your home country catch up to you in Thailand.
Work is not fun, work is tiresome and it wears you out and makes you unhappy. You have to work. You have to earn a living. Life is not free.
Unless you can live like a Thai person 100%, you probably will tire of this life living in Thailand.
Any country in the world, you need money.
How much money you have determines what kind of quality of life and happiness you will have.
It is not easy and for males/females, it can get even worse when you meet that one special person and she/he wants a new house, new car, and all the things you will not be able to afford.
Plan for the worst case scenario in every situation.
If you can manage the worse, any better situations will be like a breath of fresh air.
Life can extend 80 to 90 years.
Not just the month you decide to move to Thailand.
Look at the big picture.
Life is not free and life is not cheap.
Not even in Thailand.