@Chris *****

I haven't been to Pattaya for over ten years but I assume it's still the same. But yes, dirty old men go to Pattaya to get young women (mostly rice farmers daughters from Isaan), but places like Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Kanchanaburi, Phuket, Samui are real tourist destinations. However you try to spin it, Buriram is not a tourist destination. Furthermore, Buriram only became part of Thailand less than a century ago. Historically it's Cambodia, so why doesn't Thailand give this huge rice paddock back to its traditional owners?

@Todd ********

Exactly my point! 65k is the minimum required for the average retirement visa. You obviously don't realise that. And yet so many can't afford it, so they have to scamper every year to an agent to get the extension they can't afford. It's comical to watch them. I retired at 48 and accessed Super at 50 - so yep, I worked until "almost dead" - these days I'm getting 10-12% return tax free! And yet again your basic arithmetic fails you. LTR is 50,000 for ten years, OX is around 14,500 for ten years, but LTR is better? Yeah, right! I'd say OX is the 'smart' visa for those with better things to do with their money, but heyho to each their own huh?

@Steve **********

Yes I have been there. Awful place

@Chris *****

That's your opinion alone. So more international tourists go to Buriram than what go to Pattaya?

@Farang *****

Most girls from Isaan are ex-bar girls

@David ******

Sadly I have

@Darren *****

Your wife's house you mean? 😂

Why would anyone want to go to Buriram? There's nothing there

Yes. It's to pay for the war

@Todd ********

I'll ask you a simple question. Johnny has good income and transfers a minimum of 65k to his Thailand bank account every month, which he can use immediately. Why the f*ck would Johnny pay an agent 20,0000 for a simple job he can do himself? Anyone who has provided for their own retirement has sufficient income. The only people who use agents are those without a decent income stream, so they scamper every year, hand over the 20k and their passport. I know losers like this. Never made provision for their retirement. Meanwhile I'm not one of your loser friends. Being Australian my super fund pays me between 10% and 12% per annum TAX FREE, and also being Australian I've got the best visa, the OX, five years ME, extendable another five years. Total cost? 12,000 baht plus 1900 for the extension. You really have no idea. But keep pushing your visa company. I'm sure there's enough Cheap Charlies out there desperate for an agent every year