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If you are to believe what you hear in a beer bar you could very well believe that if you choose to work and live in Thailand it is because you have traded a lifestyle gain against earnings potential. As always, it got me thinking – is this true?

So I have lived in Thailand over 10 years and slowly but steadily I have grown my business and my salary is now well above the UKs national average and more aligned to an upper management position. So maybe I have got to a position where there is no trade off. I have worked hard to ensure I get the best of both worlds.

But then I thought about it a bit deeper. I have worked my ass off to get to this position and I was senior management before I hit thirty in the UK anyway. If I were doing the same job in the UK I could more than double my current salary and there is always that nag in my mind about what could have become of me if I stayed working in the rat race back in the UK. So perhaps, in reality, I have traded lifestyle against earning potential trade off.

The fact is there are so many conundrums and variables that it is impossible to know your real position. That is, what would have been if you chose another life path, impossible to know.

I recently went back to the UK on business and it was very cold and it was also dark – you would wake in darkness and by 5pm it was dark again. In Thailand we have year round sunshine and this is wonderful, it really is a mood enhancer and sets you up for the day when you go to work.

So, is it easy to make money in Thailand?
It seems to me you have two tiers of expats working here; those flown in by their company on a good package and then the rest who need to really work hard to command anything deemed to be half decent. There is good money to be made in Thailand for the right person in the right industry.

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