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AmandaFlo

Hello

I'm interested to hear from anyone who has retired to Thailand from the UK recently.

I'm looking at senior living 'villages'.

I don't want a huge villa just a comfortable ensuite room, with a terrace.

The villages I've looked at include all meals, excursions, hobbies and very basic medical check ups.

I've looked at several.


People have said avoid Chiang Mai because of the burning - what happens to the residents of the care homes there?

Pattaya is dirty and seedy apparently.

Hua Hin?

Many thanks

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California4me

Hua Hin might be a good fit for you there are my housings options down there. They have a strong Expat community that is active in the community. I would contact a property management team to help you find what you’re looking for. We live down there half of the year and we really like it. Many families and retired seniors live there.  Patrick

Malcolmleitrim

There is a convenient flight between Chiang Mai and Hua Hin, so if you visited for a month you could easily explore both. If you are looking for an expat community then Hua Hin might suit you very well.

ukalan

@AmandaFlo

Hua Hin Most definitely and no other place I visited aimed at the more mature generation with good facilities. Beautiful built on a hillside well plotted out unfortunately I forgotten the name of the place and I’m going to save this page and find it and I will post it to you.

ukalan

@AmandaFlo

If you are looking for something serious and I’ve worked hard all your life and now is the time to relax and enjoy your hard earned money this would be a good place to start not for the budget looking people but for the more serious people looking for piece of life. I visited the place myself and it is very beautiful but well out of my price range.   [link moderated]

taylorswiftyui

@AmandaFlo

Hi! Are you still looking for a senior care home? We have a new nursing home in Chiang Mai that is opening soon, and I’m happy to share more details if you’re interested.

Fred

@AmandaFlo
Hi! Are you still looking for a senior care home? - @taylorswiftyui

Please avoid advertising on the open forums.

You may place free of charge adverts in the classifieds sections

taylorswiftyui

@Fred

Oh!thank you for your advice.  How can I delete it, though? I don't want to against any rule here.

PattayaPools

@AmandaFlo

Pattaya is the 2nd largest city in Thailand so it's like Birmingham is to London but its a beach resort and only has a population of approx. 500k but it will also host 20 million tourists this year. People that say its dirty and sleazy don't really know. Is London or Bangkok dirty and sleazy? in some parts yes. But like all such cities there is an absolute abundance of services, infrastructure (Pattaya will have a Fast Train that gets to BKK in 55mins in a few years and a mono-rail is in the pipelines) that no other city in Thailand outside the smoggy congested capitol will not see in generations. It's also a LOT more affordable than other places because of such abundance of competing businesses. Pattaya is also surrounded by some lovely places like Bangsaray only 20 mins drive south where you're still close to a city with 5 international standard hospitals yet still enjoys those postcard looking lifestyles. People who slam Pattaya probably haven't been here for a while and most likely say uninformed negative things about anything they don't know about.