What should a couple in their late 50s consider before moving part-time to Thailand?

You'll be divorced in a year 🤣 don't stay in a city Bkk etc you'll go crazy after a month of walking around 🤣 retire somewhere nice and relaxing. People who want to retire in Thailand are usually single men 😝

Anytime will be a good move from USA to Thailand. If you can do it now do it now. As a couple you pretty much need to figure out what you both wish to do with your retirement but wouldn't recommend Pattaya. My missus quite rightfully said Pattaya wasn't an option for us due to the temptation that faces men in that city.

I planning to retire and move there permanently next year at 29yo , i cant stand ppl in states anymore

Money, medical and visa

Immediately ,before 60 buy international.heakth insurance .

Before 60 no health checks ,at 60.it gets way more expensive !!!!

Also BUY nothing for two years !!!!rent is so cheap and you have control as you can leave at at By time ...building a new high rise beside you ,a new karioky bar ,20 barking dogs ,a pig farm etc etc

You value things based on home prices ,but when you sell its Thai prices .

You nothing about Thai rules ,noise ,building quality etc etc .

lIVING is nothing like holidaying !!!!

Best bet ,get a multiple entry tourist visa and go for 9 months .

I love Thailand have spent twenty winters there .

Go slow

My wife & I retired 3 years ago. We live 6 months per year in Thailand and the US, just like you want to do. Very easy. Well, kinda. We leave the US in mid October and return in mid April. You should think about-do I want to live in the North East (Isan) for seemingly pennies per day. Or, Bangkok for mega city life. Maybe Phuket, Hua-Hin or Pattaya for lots of foreigners nearby, mostly Europeans, Russians and Australians. Phuket is a suburb of Moscow. Hua- Hin and Pattaya are European.

My wife and I lowered our US expenses to near zero. Our daughter and her husband live in our paid off house and pay utilities & property tax.

Get Medicare when eligible. This last 6 months I had several hospital and doctor visits. I paid up front and my United Healthcare Medicare advantage plan reimbursed me. If you live 6 months per year in the US you are eligible for this.

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My advice would be to spend a lot more than 10 days here on your second visit.

It’s a big decision to make - to move to a new country. I feel that you may need to see a lot more of the country and get the feel of how things work around here.

Of course, Thailand 🇹🇭 is indeed wonderful, I love it and I’ve been coming here for 40 years.

I just feel that for such a big life decision, and you’ve only been here once, it would be better to explore more of the Kingdom. Living here, may be very different from your experience as tourists.

I hope this helps 😃

I have been staying in Korat and the Nakhon Ratchasima District this year and find it a pleasant place to be. It’s about 3.5 hrs ENE of Bangkok.

If your income more than 80k$ try LTR Retirement 10 years family visa

Just made the move 3 weeks ago staying in Bangkok do it while you can tomorrow is not promised

If you don’t put yourselves first , no one will put you!

We have moved to Thailand , loving it , we are in (just)60’s!

Not looking back !

We live more healthy here , love the culture and people, and feel safe.

Glad we made our decision, now , as no one knows how long life is! You only live once, and I don’t want to be, one of those people, who lives with ‘wish I’d done this, and what if’ ! Children in their early 20’s living in SA and NZ, living their lives, so they are happy we are doing the same!

Go for it! 🙏🥂🇹🇭

Firstly, figure out what sort of life you want as each area has different things to offer. If having a big western culture community around you is important - places like Hua Hin, Pattaya etc - for us, we wanted a quieter lifestyle away from the girlie bars and party places so we opted to move about an hour south of Hua Hin to Prachuap Khiri Khan in a little beach cottage just north of the bay in the fishing village and we love it here - the draw back is if we want to shop for western foods, clothing etc we have to go to Hua Hin not a big deal for us, others, maybe it would be - it wouldn't suit everyone but to us it is heavenly. My advice is to travel around, see the different places and figure out what is and isn't to your liking. We stayed in hua hin the first three months and got our retirement visa sorted and the plan was to drive around until we found our ideal spot - luck would have it, it was the first place we stopped at after Hua Hin lol

"Where to stay". You need to say what you like best here, beaches, remote beauty, busy city life, for example.

My wife and I started out renting a condo in Bangkok, and while we were living there we traveled around to other areas of the country to find where we might want to move next. I think that was a great strategy for us. We’re moving to Krabi next week. We had traveled to Chiang Mai, Phuket, Jomtien, Udon Thani, Hua Hin, and Koh Samui. We settled on Krabi for the limestone cliffs, air quality, proximity to islands, beaches and sea. Good luck in your move!

Check up north. Chiang Rai.

Beautiful area and people

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I think ask this question next year as there's alot of change here and we are about to go to War.

Go now or you never will. Finding excuses it easy. Making real life changes is hard