>>2465952>Painful tired miserable is Thailand 50% of the time. Are you sure you want to retire here? Have you been there before?What makes it those things 50% of the time? I heard about burning season and the heat and humidity, but it sounds like it's still fine indoors.
I haven't been there before, I was planning this to be both a vacation (first half), and getting a feel for the place (2nd half) where I would live like normal there so I can better gauge if it is somewhere I'd like to retire.
>- $4000 for leg stretching is not worth it speaking from experience.Yeah I get that it's not a lot of value to most people, personally I can't stand being elbow to elbow brushing shoulders surrounded by people for more than an hour without feeling like freaking out. I can't stand packed movie theatres either.
It's not like I want to spend a lot of money but I don't see any other way to avoid it without spending money
>It's an absurd amount of money. It will buy you a third of a year in a luxury Thai apartment or a whole year in a not so luxury apartment. Is twelve hours worth 365 days to you? If so why the fuck are you retiring in Thailand?That's a good way of looking at it, using it to pad out my retirement for more safety would be the financially correct decisions.
I'm not a millionaire only have about 400k, so I know it'd go a much longer way if I just saved it, so why can't I just suck it up and deal with being miserable on 40hrs of flights? I guess I'm just very adverse to being stuck next to people, I probably have some mild autism/aspergers.
>You are budgeting $15k?? That is a year of Thailand rent included.Honestly I haven't set a budget yet. That was more to demonstrate that there isn't much to spend money on "at the destination" that would improve things that much.
I think I'd have to really go out of my way to hit that too. I imagine the flights would probably be 70-80% of the cost of the entire trip