Why would you want to live in an expensive tourist destination, when you can live in a quieter and cheaper location?
You can visit the tourists areas anytime you want, so why waste money living there?
Once you have seen and done everything in the tourist areas it gets old and real quick.
It sucks down your disposable income to a point where you won’t have much left to travel.
Everything from housing, food, transportation, medical is going to be much more expensive.
That is money out of your pocket for no good reason.
Living in a place like Isaan is a no stress life.
People love foreigners.
We don’t have foreigners here committing crimes or boxing each other in the streets.
Rural Isaan has a ton of places to see, temples, national parks, rivers and mountains.
It is quite a joy to see the real Thailand unencumbered by 10,000’s of foreign tourists.
If you are seriously thinking about spending the rest of your life in Thailand, you should definitely give Isaan a visit before settling anywhere else.
The cost of living savings can be 50% or more each month than living in a tourist area.