@Mike ******

You can get over a year out of a 6 month multi entry tourist visa plus a few land visa runs after that.

You can get 9 months out of the tourist visa then 30 days plus 30 day extension from 3 visa runs in a calendar year. That’s 15 months.

Can always do a flight to Cambodia and get another single entry tourist visa for 90 days rather than doing two land border runs.

You can also look at a one year work visa and permit under a BOI company. Or just do another ED visa.

Visa wise they cost more but when you add in a flight and other costs of going home and back, it’s probably the same price or only a bit more.

Up to the airline. I had a US carrier give me a hassle because my return ticket was after my visa expired even after I explained I can extend that visa in Thailand.

They had to make a call to someone higher up and finally resolved it.

Just call your airline. If they require it, get a refundable one way to a nearby country or a cheap train/bus ticket you can refund or just throw away.

@Mark **********

Totally wrong on what lol.

Just saying “totally wrong” isn’t an argument.

Yeah, trump spent a lot and it’s an easily demonstrable fact that it was the democrats constantly pushing to spend more.

They were the ones pushing for trillions more in handouts in each stimulus and economic aid package.

They were the ones endlessly pushing back the end date for government subsidized rent programs.

Would have been 10-11 trillion in added deficit if not more if they had their way.

Standing up to the CCP over their shady and illegal trade and currency manipulation tactics didn’t cause this inflation.

CPI inflation is a direct result of increasing the M2 currency supply. Period.

Don’t take my word for it, look it up. Go see what Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman has to say about it.

@Mark **********

No it wasn’t. You don’t know how inflation works if you actually think that.

There’s no such thing as supply chain inflation.

Inflation is a direct result of currency supply vs GDP.

Just imagine how much worse this would be if the Democrats got the 2-3x more money printing they asked for the last 3 years.

That money printing is what caused inflation. This is economics 101.

@Bonnie ********

So you’re a sexist too. Figures.

@Bonnie ********

So you don’t think the countless suicides, hundreds of millions who faced and will face food shortages because of lockdowns mean squat?

How about the 30k people the UK’s NIH estimated would die because they missed cancer treatments due to lockdowns?

How about the millions that will die in the coming decade due to the global recession and inflation that’s only getting started?

If you think the mortality rate of widespread poverty and food shortages is trivial, go do some reading on various famines and major economic downturns in recent history.

It’s estimated that the Great Depression, only in the US, caused 7 million deaths and that was at a time when the US population was less than a third of what it is now.

By your line of thinking, I guess you’ll have to tell their families that someone else’s life was worth more because reasons.

@Bonnie ********

No, OP made a joke alluding to the effects of the terrible way the global economy was managed during Covid and is still being managed.

No taking advantage, no yelling, you have no idea if they took a flight or what they paid for it.

Also, pumping money into the Thai economy is the opposite of taking advantage of them.

Or would you prefer people don’t spend money in a country heavily dependent on tourist and expat spending?

How compassionate to the millions of Thais who rely on that income to survive.

Lying to justify your unhinged take on his joke shows us what kind of person YOU are.

@Bonnie ********

166k people die each day. Mostly from preventable, even easily preventable things.

No outrage and global reaction to that.

Also, nothing was stopping high risk individuals from taking measures to minimize contact with others, lockdown or not.

And the death toll from a global recession will easily eclipse the deaths from Covid.

Increases in stress, alcoholism, suicide, poverty, obesity.

And those will stick around for the better part of a decade.

@Mark *******

I’ve spoken to lawyers and people who have gotten citizenship recently and are in the pipeline.

It’s not like it was 4+ years ago. Apparently they’re actually moving things along for the moment.

I know years ago you’d have people waiting 4-5 years just to get their paperwork advanced but for now at least, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

I didn’t assume anything. “You” can refer to people in general and not a specific person.

@Mark *******

I’ve seen the requirements and age is only one factor on the points system. Also “retiree” is a pretty broad age range.

Marrying a Thai more than makes up for being in your 50s or 60s. You might have to learn to speak Thai depending on your other qualifications but I wouldn’t call that impossible.