So after years of planning, and some worries, we are making the move next month. I appreciate the advice and odd non-useful replies to various topics. Eventually I will be on a retirement extension (for all the visa grammar Nazi's out there). Looking forward to making the transition to early semi-retirement (I am 53 years old).
We are shipping several boxes of household goods, I would have wished for less, but in the interest of domestic tranquility I went along. Look forward to meeting some of the members in late Feb-Mar 2017.
The one thing that we all have in common is that we departed our home countries to live in the boonies of rural Thailand.