Cambodia will be a much cheaper place to retire to that Thailand, I’m sure of that. Also I have heard that a foreigner can buy land in Cambodia and build their retirement house, something you can’t do in Thailand. (I mean a foreigner is not allowed to buy land in Thailand)

It’s been reported that Cambodia is not as developed as Thailand and not so westernised.

Apart from that I don’t have much much to add about retiring in Cambodia, because I have never been there.

I have thought, though of buying some land and building a retirement house in Cambodia, not too far from the border with Thailand. I would use this as place to stay if I had visa problems in Thailand.

As to the best place to retire to in Thailand, everybody has their favourite place. I would suggest that you stay away from the coastal resort areas because they are the most expensive and the most dangerous.

The further away from the cities you go the cheaper it is. Many foreigners marry Thais from the North East and end up there. There is a huge community of foreigners retired in Chaing Mai.

Personally, I don’t like to go so far north. I like to be close to the big cities of Bangkok and Korat (Nakhon Ratchasima) hecnce we chose Pakchong (Pak Chong) as the place to retire to.

Go to http://retiringinthailand.net/retire-pak-chong-thailand-3 to learn why I chose to retire to Pakchong (Pak Chong).

In the north two, you’ll find the language and the food quite different from the Bangkok area. Particularly if you go to the North East of Thailand, known as Isaan where they eat food called laap (or larb) which is a salad incorporating ground rice and meat, usually pork and often uncooked!

The people from Isaan are either from or are very strongly influenced by nearby Laos, and the language is Isan, which is a dialect of the Lao language.

Isaan is a very poor region so it’s cheap to live.

Does that help?

I suggest you spend a bit more time on this website and get to read some of the posts because the people posting on the website live in many different parts of Thailand.

Thanks for the question and if you have any more questions, please ask again. I I can’t answer I’m sure someone else will.

Chock Dii (Good Luck)

Alan

Wish I could retire to Thailand like you pair.

You didn’t mention what kind of Thai visa you need, I mean whether it’s a retirement visa or not.

The Thai Retirement Visa Requirements page is one of the clearest explanations of requirements for Thai retirement visas that I know of.

It clearly explains the differences between the “O” and the “O-A” Visa.

But it’s only as good as the information upon which it is based and Thai visa requirements are renowned to change and to be interpreted differently all over.

There’s also a lot of information and comments from people about Thai visa requirements on the Thai Visas page.

I must admit I find the requirements for a Thai retirement visa to be onerous and one of the things that put’s me off the retiring in Thailand idea.

But let’s be positive and please give some feedback on your experiences.

Best Regards

Alan Brown

I have a company that supplies engineering labour and services to the mining industry, I intend to retire at the end of 2012.

I am currently looking at purchasing a 7/11 as a source of income while in Thailand as well as renting out my unit in Bangkok. My Thai fiancee of 3 years has agreed to live somewhere in Thailand and intend to spend the next 12 months looking at a suitable location to settle.

Her dad has a farm in Rattanaburi but we do not wish to live that close to family.

When I read the comments of other subscribers I think I have won the lottery with my fiancee, we have yet to have an argument even when we spend months together, she is a devout Buddist I think this helps, she seems to want to please me above all else and having been previously been married to a western woman this is totally foreign to me as I used to spend all my married time trying to please her and tolerate her moods.

As a result of my relationship with my Thai fiancee (Montitcha) her I have completly changed into a more soft and loving man, so I actually like who I have become and am slowly mending the deep scars of the divorce and property settlement.

We are currenlly looking around Tak in northern Thailand. We would like a small plot of land big enough for a garden and no really close neighbours, can anyone advise?

Julian and Montitcha .

I was very interested to see you mention about becoming a permanent resident in Thailand and I’m sure may more reader would be interested in what you discover. So if you have the it would be terrific if you could post some news on this front when you have some.

I have just returned (to the U.K.) after two weeks in Thailand with my Thai wife, Kanyah.

I was very busy, go lots done about setting up the model engineering workshop in our retirement home in Pakchong (Pak Chong), Thailand, (amongst other things) and have written few Posts but couldn’t post them because I lost my Internet connection. (Lost “dongle”).

I took quite a few photos and some videos so I have a lot to do over the next few weeks updating the website from the trip.

Do keep in touch and let us know what you find out about becoming a permanent resident in Thailand.

Chok Dii

Alan

It’s quite amazing how many people want to build a house in Thailand. Guess those Thai wives are pretty persuasive!

I’d love to learn more about your house plans. Do you have any land yet?

The original scope of our house build project in Pakchong (Pak Chong) is finished already. Now Kanyah is adding on other projects of her own, a large concrete patio – presumably it’s going to be paved, marble flooring to all the ground floor areas and a massive stand-alone utility block.

Seems she won’t move in to the house until everything is finished.

The latest photos are online now on the Thailand Retirement House Photos Page 2 Post.

I’m going out to Thailand for the Christmas and New Year period which is actually only 12 weeks away and intend to stay in the house, so she had better hurry up and finish it!

Please feel free to ask any questions or post more info about your house build project in Thailand plans – make the RetiringInThailand.net website more interesting for everyone.

Please keep in touch – I’m sure we can meet up in Thailand someday.

Alan