Bhodi wrote:It takes a lot more than just desire to retire in Southeast Asia than to actually get it done I'm here now and I'm still thinking about whether not I should do it. I know one thing for sure I don't want to live in Phnom Pehn I want someplace quieter cleaner.
If I had my choice I love to retire in Thailand perhaps but the Thailand government is fucked and I'm not allowed to have my medicinal cannabis And extremely strong narcotic for a broken neck where's the fun in retiring in a semi paradise if I'm always going to be in excruciating pain because I don't have my proper medicine.

Sailorman wrote:I traveled to Thailand since 1980 and just about every year since.(sometimes staying for 5 months at a time.) Thailand doesn't want long stay retirees, just people to come in spend their money and leave in two weeks. I was going to retire on the far side of Ko Samui, but found Sihanoukville.

I lot of people down Sihanoukville, but usually its people that only go to the tourist/girly bar areas. I find it wonderful and paradise. Come down and find Hawaii beach. Look across the street from Hawaii beach at the compound there and tell me its unlike anything you have seen in Cambo. I squint my eyes and its a suburban street in America/England with mango trees as big as oaks. The landlord has built more two bedroom houses behind our compound. We are 3 min walk from the beach, 10 min from Independence beach. There are 10 beach's in Snookyville. I know one beach at the edge of town no one goes too.

I spend $290 for a one year visa and have it in 3 days. I spend 45 dollars for a drivers license and have it in about two weeks. We have one grocery store that has about everything you need and two others with some things. I use a pharmacy that gets the old age drugs I need. We now have a KFC, but there already is better fried chicken here. Any tuk-tuk driver will get you the smoke you need. Lots of restaurants. You want to get away, there are islands just off shore.