Decision

What the Philippine Retirement Authority actually did on 1 September 2025 — categories collapsed, deposits raised, age dropped, and the peer-program floor after Malaysia tightened first.

Thai tax residence turns on a calendar count, not a status. The 180-day threshold, the day-counting rule, the three responses to it costed honestly.

A foreigner can buy the house and never own the land under it. What each workaround signs away when the marriage or the law turns, costed.

Conventional planning stress-tests against a market crash. For an aging expat the plan-ending shocks are certain and permanent: cliff, care tail, freeze.

A monthly cost figure is the wrong tool for a 25-year retirement. The reproducible 7-step method for your own year-the-margin-hits-zero, levers ranked.

Every retire-abroad checklist is built to clear you to go. This one can return 'no': four solvencies, financial to exit, scored on 25-year survival.

The '$10,000 SRRV' every guide quotes was abolished in September 2025. What the restructured visa now costs to enter and hold, by age, sourced.

The 65,000-baht income rule is pre-tax, single-person, and cheapest-city, and the qualifying remittance is itself the taxable event. Modelled by FX.

Average UK rent alone is about 131% of the full state pension. 'I'll just go home' is the fallback nobody costs, and its price rises every year abroad.

Thailand's 2024 remittance tax treats pensions differently. A double-tax treaty decides whether yours is assessable at all, by its character, not its size.