India is not quite as welcoming to foreigners, from a banking/legal/property-ownership perspective. If you've already met an Indian partner in the West (or are Indian yourself -- but then you'd know this) and are thinking about moving back there as a geoarbitrage play and/or to be with family (in-laws), it could work. I do worry a little about the political climate though. On the one hand, people will go out of their way to be nice to you in a way that doesn't happen in the West. On the other, it's a country where "is an Indian citizen", "looks Indian", and "is Hindu" are not really separate concepts outside of some minority communities. Whether India would work depends on what kind of family you have there, I think. Because in India, family is everything.

One thing often left unsaid about some of the locales in these articles is a fairly loose attitude towards sex, prostitution, and relationships between older foreign men and much younger women.

You will find the people profiled in these to be overwhelmingly men.

Yeah, I'll take Vietnam, thank you.

India has tons of English speakers by raw numbers, but as a percentage it's below world average[1]. Obviously, it's higher in the more cosmopolitan areas where westerners are likely to go, but the same would be true of every country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...

Many parts of India have some of the worst air pollution in the world.

There's also the ever present risk of a nuclear war with Pakistan or China.

Terrorism is another significant concern.

India is quite as expat-friendly as Thailand or Vietnam. India is crowded. Cities where you'd find other expats are usually very expensive already.

All that said, India has a niche that can only be surpassed by China - road tripping on diverse terrains. Done by lots of retired expats from Thailand and Vietnam.

I hate to break it to India but everyone speaks English these days except for like Japan & China because they don't give a shit

What else?

Other English speaking countries too like Belize, New Guinea as well.

South East Asia, thank you.

As an Indian, no.