Expect the US economy to continue to slow down and become more expensive. The stock market is on its own time and really doesn't reflect the state of the economy any more because a few huge IT stocks dominate the formula. It's a shitshow.
I bank on both coasts. And my business banker has been good to me. It's a marriage of convenience but I also use credit unions for my local banking. I'm not excited about Thai banks... which one do you recommend using?