Thursday, February 21, 2013

RETIREMENT----WHY THAILAND ????

Retirement----Why Thailand

When we travel on vacation or we are out and about one of the most ask questions is "Why Thailand."In order to really answer that question , First, you have to know that I am married to a Thai lady , and one of my main concerns in my marriage was what could I do to make her happy .We came to Thailand in 2003 on a vacation and a chance for me to meet her family and kids. I saw at once ,how happy she was to be in her home country with friends and family , and yet have the security in knowing that she had a husband who could and would do anything she needed , with-in reason to make her happy. Not only could I see how happy she was , but I at once fell in love with Thailand , there was lots of things that attracted me to the LOS , BUT the most important one was how happy Ciejay seemed to be .

I knew it was about time for us to start thinking seriously about where we wanted to live out out retirement years , I had always thought about somewhere close to my Brother and Sister, out Tenn. way , and we went for a visit to check things out before coming to Thailand the next year on Vacation , and somehow it just didn't feel right to both of us. Before we came over to the LOS we had mentioned to each other if the opportunity and time arrived that we would look around and maybe think about Thailand (of course it was my first visit ,so much of the decision would be on my shoulders. We looked around and then on the last day when we came to Kanchanaburi and our small village of Whang Pho , We looked at each other and smiled, and knew this was the place. We had little daylight left for this visit to her Older Brother and the next day it was off to Bangkok to catch the plane and head home , Would you believe we found a little house and piece of land and bought it in the dark of night , saying that we would be back next year when I retired and make it our home , Everyone laughed and thought to themselves that they would never see us again, but we fooled them all and you can read about the move and remodel and moving , in a older post , just go back and start from my first ones .

Now that was a long story to tell you the main reason for choosing Thailand. Some of the others are as follows and in no order of importance , all of them to us are important reasons for choosing the LOS.

1.--My small SS check is enough for us here in Thailand.

2.--We were able for Ciejay to buy a house and small piece of land with what little money we had in savings.

3.--The weather is the kind of weather I always thought I would like about a place, when I retired.

4.--The food is out of this world tasty, healthy (spicy mind you ) but plenty and fresh, and growing everywhere , even in your own backyard.

5.--The Thai people, even tho it took a while to get use to their way of life and culture and their way of thinking .

6.-- The almost crime free village and area we live in .

7.--Lots of things to see and do , and a lot of it not far from where we live .

8.--Our Thai family

9.--Our dogs(our kids ) that can run free and wild .

10.--Our home and little piece of paradise.

11.--Our village and the town folks .

12.--And our neighbors

13.--Our Drs. and health care

14.-- Our church and church family

15.-- The difference in my health since moving here to Thailand

16.-- And the difference in me and my thinking about life and living.






That's not all the reasons , I could go on and on , and you might say "well couldn't you find that in your own country ", maybe so , But we didn't. and we have found it here in what we call our little piece of paradise, that , we believe the Lord had saved just for us and all the blessings that go along , with being Retired in Thailand and Loving It . Malcolm

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AlaskaDave said...

Hey Malcolm,

I totally understand. I'm about to leave for the summer and I'm getting depressed at the thought of being away for so long. I have a pressing medical issue that needs to be resolved stateside.

I love being here and when I get back might just decide to do as you've done and buy a place in the country where Nut and I can live.

Best to you both....

Dave

Malcolm and Ciejay Burgess said...

Hello Dave , thanks for the read and comment , hope all goes well for you stateside and that you get the treatment and things done that need be , Ciejay and me will pray for you , take care and hurry back to Thailand and Nut.

A friend ----Malcolm

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Hi Malcolm. I have enjoyed your blog the last couple of years. I really hope that Thailand is still available as a feasible place to retire to when I get a bit older. My wife is from khon kaen and she has land there, but id much prefer to be down the coast (do you know ban krut? or up on the mekhong). The idea of living in a quiet little village somewhere is very enticing. Thanks for blogging!

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