Next to impossible to 'move' here.
You need $25,000 usd in a Thai bank for a start - untouched to get a retirement visa. Don't judge a country on the tourist traps - that's like judging America on Las Vegas, and Thai women with vegas show girls...

There are nice places and it can be done, but it takes quite a lot of cash.

Lots of 'eco' farms here with westerners living next to nature, but you do need an income...

and never trust a Thai beauty that speaks good English - unless she is genuinely well educated - and those ones generally don't want to leave Thailand - life is easy here if you are from the upper-middle class... frikin easy.

I've got a full time nanny for my son for $3 a day