Unless you absolutely need to be in Thailand year round (I’ll let you determine that.)
Your time and money is better spent in another place for 4-6 months of the year.
No classes. No tuition. No bullshit.
Enjoy Thailand for 6-8 months a year and other places for some other time. You got an almost $1000 head start on your travels.
If you’re a digital nomad. Don’t just be digital.
If you’re under 50, have less than $250,000 in the bank, and hopelessly in love with a Thai you’re either marrying, having a kid, or getting a job teaching English.
17,000-30,000฿ for the tuition. (Language schools. More for a University and more for Muay Thai.)
2,000฿ for visa issued outside Thailand.
5,000-10,000฿ for the trip to get your visa (airfare, hotel, other country visa, new in town tax)
1,900฿ every 90 days for extension.
Total of 360 days permission to stay without leaving the country.
(1900฿ for a re-entry permit if you do need to leave.)
300 days of worry free life. Then 60 days of oh, fuck! What am I going to do? My school says this. Facebook says that. My friend got denied here. Where do I go now?