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They say that when you reach the age of 60 or 70, your bones would be frail and that you would need to extend your sleeping hours and take naps in the afternoon, thus would not be able to keep up with the night life.
Well, I say you’re wrong and these stereotyped and preconceived notions about senior citizens should be thrown and placed inside a trash bin. Many people who would have hit retirement age are more than capable of staying up late at night and enjoy late evenings.
So where do adventurous, nocturnal people retire to? Where else but in the Kingdom of Thailand, a country that knows how to celebrate and always give its visitors and foreign retirees a rousing good time.
Various night bars, disco clubs, karaoke abound in this Southeast Asian country to cater to the different tastes and budgets of its patrons. Bright lights from these establishments beckon to its prospective clients to enter.
And if you grow tired of the nightlife and would like to slow down, in this Kingdom there are a lot picturesque sandy beaches to choose such as the Phuket Island, Krabi Phi Phi Island, Koh Lanta, Koh Samui, Koh Chang, and Koh Samet.
Enjoy the solitude as you walk barefoot along the white sandy beaches while sipping your favorite glass of pina colada or you could laze around on your beach chair or lie on your towel. It is not too late to get a tanned skin you know.
But the you ask yourself this would be a dream come true, but can a pensioner really afford this kind of retirement lifestyle. The answer is a definite yes. The cost of living is much more affordable in Thailand than in some other countries especially if you came from a European country or from the United States.
Since Thailand is a favorite place of tourists, the locals have had a lot of time to brush up on their English, so communication with them would not be a problem. You could even have enough money to hire the services of a housekeeper to help you with your daily chores.
You can rent a room and eat 3 meals a day for around $24 USD! Talk about affordable retirement living.
The Thai government is so accommodating that it would not give interested foreign retirees a hard time to settle down. In order to get a retirement visa in Thailand, it requires the basic such as the applicant has to submit the documents such as a health certificate from a hospital within a three month period, no criminal record certificate, birth certificate, marriage certificate, a certificate of income or pension, and a photocopy of the passport showing that he or she has been going back and forth to Thailand for the past three years.
This is just a small sample of what makes Thailand one of the best countries to live and retire.
-Stephanie