Gone globetrotting can't get my apps or my music

Question

2 yrs ago I decided to leave my hombebase Switzerland and go globetrotting.
I took my iGadgets since they were supposedly all about being globally mobile.
Take your music and your apps with you anywhere in the world! Worldwide accessibility!
So we thought!! Errr! Wrong answer!
Not so!
I used my Swiss credit card to buy tons of Music and apps ... from the store I was originally obbliged to adhere to.
After a 18 months of travelling I settled in Thailand and since it was becoming rediculous buying and paying through the Swiss store I went through the "honest" and proper motions of getting a Thai credit card and a Thai billing address.
Well, there were already problems when I switched my country but, that was fixed promptly. Thank you.
I bought my first MacBook 2.5 months ago.
I am now forced to use the Thai Apps & iTunes store as my credit card billing address is a Thai one (don't have any others in the world anyway) AND, get this, I have no more access to the music and Apps I bought from Apple iTunes and App store in Switzerland.
Actually, since I own my MacBook, for some reason I don't even have access to all my purchases made in Thailand with my iPad (I bought 4 new Apps 3 days ago. I see neither hide nor tail under the "Purchased" tab.
Tons of money spent for what should be my property now and I've been duped.
I'm not getting my money back and I'm not getting my stuff either.
If I go back to Switzerland I won't get access to my old stuff using a Thai credit card .... nor will I have access to anything bought recently in the Thai store.
In Thailand, I don't get access to my old stuff (bought in Switzerland) for the same reason.
I've backed my old phones up to the cloud for the Apps but, I'm still having no access and, get this, I cannot even update the Apps I bought in Switzerland BUT I still get the message that updates are available (and of course the number bubble cannot be cancelled from the phone because I can't download the available updates so, I'm stuck with the annoying number bubble permanently on my phone screen).
So, where is "global" and "worldwide mobility"?
It appears to me the Apple (technicians and managers) are offering and promoting a mobility that the accounting departmentS are just not able or willing to support.
Please don't blame the banks (copout!). My grandfather used to say "you make your bed hard and then you have to sleep in it". Yep, promised something you can't deliver. That's how I see it.
Why don't you create and "International" store so Globetrotters can get access to their stuff EVERYWHERE?
(I don't expect access from space - now that privates can actually buy a ticket on the Space Shuttle - but, at least global Earth access would be nice.)
Thnx

Answer 1

The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
I think that traveling and having access to your content because your homebase, banking and billing details remain the same is a much different concept than what you are describing, which is immigrating, where your homebase is relocated and your banking and billing change. I travel and have no issue accessing previously purchased content and buying new content.
Others report a similar experience as you are describing when immigrating, but only at first blush. Have you tried updating an app obtained with your previous, Switzerland base? What happens?