Your solutions on 3 million baht to find longevity here

[Korkenzieher]

The only thing I would say about trading of any kind - other than the timezone issues - are that brownouts can leave you with awful positions sometimes. Plan redundancy into everything you do. Sooner or late you *will* be caught out by infrastructure failure in Thailand.

[Super Joe]

Thanks for the info. Just wondering if there is a time of day the power goes out most often? I will be trading Nasdaq so that means I would start around 9 pm. in Hua Hin

Power - Cuts are rarely longer than two hours in my experience, and UPS' start from 3,000 odd Baht. Plus a lot are electric board shutdowns for works which are mostly done in daytime, so before your 9pm start.

Network - You'll have the Broadband landline connection, if you then have a smart phone/tab or whatever with say a TrueMove 3G plan, you will be able to hardwire 'tether' or WiFi to the phone's 'hotspot' in the event the power or network goes down. Connecting to a phone's 3G 'hotspot' provides very good speeds imo, a monthly plan with 3GB of 3G is around 700 Baht/m, but this includes around 700 Baht's worth of calls, sms & mms. 5GB of 3G is 900 odd Baht/m.

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I just got this result connecting to a New York server, laptop to Android phone's WiFi hotspot, on TrueMove. Ooh, look at her... "Grade C - Slower than 57% of Thais". I'll settle for that, better than I did at school


SJ

[Pleng]

No it's not really regular. It is often dependant on when the rain comes; but not always.

[Korkenzieher]

Sometimes when it rains ; sometimes when it doesn't rain...

About covers it really

[han108]

I have looked through the responses on the original post and the various strands that have developed. I cannot believe that anything less than the ownership of property and a steady income are a pre-requisite. I have property in Thailand and will ensure that I have free capital of 75m baht before I think of living long term in Hua Hin. I am over 60 so am thinking that I will need health care and other assistance long term. I will also keep assets outside Thailand.
What intrigues me is any way I can invest in a business (not a bar, building company, estate agent etc) but something that uses my accountancy skills - most likely in an advisory capacity. Even though I will get a retirement visa the need for a work permit visa is something I think I will want - I am not sure that day trading on the internet is what I want to do - stuck in front of a computer as any time away without securing positions is a recipe for disaster.
I will want to play plenty of golf!
Any views on what is possible.

[lomuamart]

han108,
I'll just address one point and that is that you won't be able to get a Work Permit if you have annual retirement extensions. Retired means exactly that.

[PeteC]

If you've got 75 million Baht Han, get spending and enjoy life, and forget all the other stuff. Money has a habit of out living people who wait too long. Pete

[Super Joe]

I have property in Thailand and will ensure that I have free capital of 75m baht before I think of living long term in Hua Hin.

$2.3 million dollars in cash it is then!

SJ

[mrgtingtong]

3 million baht goes a long way in thailand as long as you are careful and dont go crazy. If you had an income from say rental property back in the uk, about £500 p/m=25,000 baht you could easily do it. Live is too short and before you know it youre dead, so why wait, go and enjoy the rest of your life.
I am doing the same later this year, im 52, self employed builder, worked hard all my life and now finding the aches and pains getting worse and i think the uk stinks now, very depressing being here. I go to thailand every xmas and new year for about 2 months and i always feel great, young and fit when im there, come back uk and feel old, depressed and suffocated. Go for it mate, all the best, chokdee