With baby boom retirement in the USA and EU upon us, I was wondering that given the bad press and restrictions talked about on here so often, if there are still many foreign husbands and wives considering retirement here and purchasing/leasing property in one form or another?

The poll is also inclusive of Foreign/Thai partner retirees, and single retirees.

This should give everyone good insight into what the current thinking is about Thailand, so please give some reasons if you had plans before but have now changed your minds. Pete

Planning on a 50/50 split between Canada and Thailand.

I suppose this poll is not really for me as I'm not a member of the baby boom era. I'll throw in my 2 bahts worth though.

I'm not sure where to vote as I'm a good 20-25 years away from the official retirement age. I'd like to think that I would like to retire here but it's a long way off and Thailand will be a considerably different place then to what it is now, maybe better with more latitude, who knows.

I'll have to wait an see over the next decade or so, see what happens. I do have major reservations sometimes about many things here, as it stands at the moment, but if it all pans out or changes, then why not?

I suppose I'm in the undecided section, mainly due to my age. I can foresee that I will always have a connection here, probably in the form of a house and spending at least half my time here each year, but could see myself and the Mrs being elsewhere aswell.

Unsure for me. I do know that it won't be retirement in the UK unless it goes totally south on all fronts and there is no choise.

The poll is not for me either, even though I'm definitely a boomer (born in '49) because I'm already retired here. My only motivation for retiring here was my Thai wife (of nearly 14 years). She lived in the U.S. for between 8 and 9 years and always wanted to come home to live in Thailand so I took early retirement and moved here.

I would probably still do it again if I had it all to do over again, but I probably would have put her off for another five years until I was 60 and could save more and I'm not sure it would be Hua Hin because of the changes/growth over the last five years.

I'll be there as soon as HMG grant me early retirement. Failing that, we'll be there in 2012.

I've voted yes, but I'm in the same situation as Spitfire in that I'm only 45 and with pensions being what they now are, I'll have at least 20 years before I've any chance of retiring.

You can still vote HH, I did. Just because one is already here they may decide to move on therefore the 'no' would then become appropriate. If staying, a 'yes'.

Anyway, we have about 120 views and not many votes or comments so we'll see how this shapes up in the next few days.

FYI, the USA calculates baby boomers as born between 1946 and I think 1964. Why they go so long I have no idea and would have thought 1946 to about 1955 would be more indicative of the post war birth surge. Maybe they calculate it as an entire generation of 18-20 years? Pete

By the by Steve, have you ever looked into getting a position with some aircraft company or contractor here? Is there a clearinghouse or some kind of service that professionals can reference for open positions in various countries? Pete

We (Thai wife) are planning on retiring in 2-3 years, if my business continues on. We may spend 2-3 months back here in California, uncertain yet.

But my wife has been here ~14 years, so she even admits that she may not want to live full time in Thailand.

Already quite happily retired here for the past couple of years.

Short of war, expulsion or some major civil disturbance, this is where I plan to be for the foreseeable future.

For better or worse, this is my home. Unlike some of you, I have no other home to "go back to." Returning to America would mean selecting some place there out of the blue ( Hawaii perhaps, New Mexico?) in which to live.

(My siblings live in totally depressing places ( New Jersey, Michigan) so moving to be near them is certainly out!)

I voted Yes by the way



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I voted yes, but really it is a yes/no or yes/but; and for the same reason as Migrant.

My wife has lived in CA for 20+ years and has her friends, kids, and her food here. We have a townhouse outside of BKK next to her sister and close to all her family. So we go over once or twice a year for a month +. We will go over more in the future, but won't live there year-round.

This is pretty common among our friends. The farang husband wants to get out of the rat race and retire in thailand and the Thai wife likes the comfortable life style here and wants to go back and forth.

As stated in my previous post, it was just the opposite for me... the wife wanted to move (full time) back to Thailand, but she wanted to bring that comfortable "western" lifestyle with her...

I posted yes, foreign couple, we should have been there now but the current economic crisis made us realise another couple of years and a bit more financial planning were worth doing.

We have been coming to Thailand for 16 years and have watched it change, but the atmosphere, people, food and weather, which were the deciding factors for us to live there haven't changed enough to make us want to live anywhere else.

Thailand is a great place for anyone with a bit of life in them and a sense of humour.

I'm really glad to see what 'Sam' has said and the fact that in less than 24 hours we have 5 foreign couples who have responded yes.

Those of us who have Thai spouses probably sometimes forget how daunting a move like this could be without their assistance. Pete

Did it some 8 years ago and would do it again but I would be making a choice between VN and Thailand