What visa options are available for someone under 50 looking to stay in Thailand for a year?

There are *many* foreigners living in Thailand, employed, usually at schools as language teachers. If they do well and keep both school staff and students happy, they may be here for years. International schools pay the best. These intl schools also hire math, science, social studies, and IT teachers too. Check out and look up "Dave's ESL Cafe" website too. Also look at the pic below to get an idea of what a university offers (sorry, appl time has passed for this one). Steady job, monthly income, work permit, no visa runs... it is a good arrangement. They do require a 4 yr degree about 99.9% of the time. Downside: you have to work everyday. Good luck!

I have been here 9 years on just about every kind of visa available to a person who doesn't qualify for a long term visa.

You can pull a multiple-entry tourist visa (METV) which gets you 9 months but you have to do a border bounce every three months. I have had good luck doing back-to-back METV's / SETV (Single Entry tourist visa). I spend 1-2 weeks in a different country between visas, Bali is very nice.

You should be able to pull a full year from tourist visas and visa runs. No doubt there are better ways (LTR, Retirement, Elite, etc).. But if you have few options, its pretty easy to do it this way.

Ed visa?

Please check with an agent they will do every thing professional for you.

Just buy a ten year thai elite visa and you are good to go

You need to be 50 or over. I'd suggest you get a multi entry tourist visa if your plan is to come and see how you like it, that'll get you up to 9 months stay

One child in school can "sponsor" one parent for a non-O visa.

The requirements are on the LTR website