* Commenting Closed, thank you for the responses, some of which are very reassuring so thank you. No point in arguing over renting our home out as we have clearly stated we will be selling it not renting it out for numerous reasons *

Serious question

In just over 1 years time myself and my wife are very serious about selling our home (we do not want to rent it out) and emigrating from England to Thailand to spend the rest of our days in retirement

My wife will be 61, I will be 55, it is my private pension that will provide our income with our state pension some years later

We have seriously looked at the elite visa with most expats in other groups all saying it is not worth the cost and instead we should keep simply have a retirement visa and put 800,000thb into a bank to validate the retirement visa

We love the idea of Thailand and know many tens of thousands of people have done exactly what we are wanting to do

But I have a fear, and as we get nearer to the date, my fear is growing

Would we risk getting to an age where our health is starting to cause the usual issues as you age, risk of a stroke, heart attack or worse and end up being forced* to leave Thailand and in effect have to return to the UK

*forced as in the relevant visa would be refused or cancelled

How do the elderly expats protect themselves from this

Please, any reassurance or guidance would be most appreciated

Thank you in advance

Looking for some help for my elderly neighbor.( 80 yrs old ) He was in an OA visa and has extended it for the past few years successfully but this year he forgot and was late going to immigration . It looks like they gave him a 60 day covid visa because his OA extension expired !. ( although he didn’t realize that’s what had happened until today )

Can he go and buy a non o and then extend it for reason of retirement ? What would be the procedure. He would be using samuthprakarn immigration .