Stupid question time: does Amazon deliver to Thailand? I just searched ‘ Dill Pickles ‘ on Amazon and there they are.
Do you have a blog or can you recommend a site for ex-pats retiring in Thailand?
I read an interesting article from the Charlotte Observer that
stated the SS administration is sending 380,000 retiree checks
out of the country every year as of 2014. That number has increased 50% from a decade ago.
Looks like this is the route I will be headed for any number of reasons. But what a sea change in this country when so many people can not afford to retire in the their own country.
It’s a damned shame.
However, the simpler solution is make your own pickles. Which also helps employ you with a hobby instead of joining the Expats at the local bar to sit around and Bitch.
“Looks like this is the route I will be headed for any number of reasons. But what a sea change in this country when so many people can not afford to retire in the their own country.”
My Mom retired in Arkansas after working there for Lockheed. I had never been there and wound up loving it. It’s a welcoming, laid back place that would actually favor retirees because real estate and such is cheaper (I’m talking about Camden/Chidester, for ex.). I was also shocked that their doctor network was excellent. Some things had to be done elsewhere, but it was all handled well. My stepdad has stage 4 prostate cancer and using up to minute treatments they’ve stopped it and my Stepdad’s back on the river boating (after having had a hard period).
I mention this because I believe there must be many places in America where someone could “expat” from the big city government nitwits. Small towns can’t do monolithic things here anymore than they can abroad, so the same community aspect around keeping it together exists here, too.
Its all part of the new world order
“Do you have a blog or can you recommend a site for ex-pats retiring in Thailand?”
http://www.thaivisa.com/ has forums, etc.