Every winter, they'd leave home and travel to Thailand. In 2017, they left their old lives behind and moved there to run a boutique hotel.

Every winter, they'd leave home and travel to Thailand. In 2017, they left their old lives behind and moved there to run a boutique hotel.

Pauline Cabessa left France and moved to Koh Samui, Thailand, to take over a boutique hotel she'd vacationed at for years.Amanda Goh for Business Insider.The sun was shining, the sea was glistening, and the woman in front of me looked every bit the boss of this little slice of paradise in Thailand.Dressed in breezy beachwear — a matching set with bold prints in yellow, pink, and orange — she stepped out of the hotel's front office and greeted me…