@Graham *****

it was really easy and then they added insurance. To renew there were only twelve Thai companies on the list with really bad and expensive insurance. So you neded an extra international anyway....

@Brandon ***********

not likely since it is a 5 year visa. They might stop issuing them. So that means 5 years ahead of time. You don't have that on the rest. Just look at what happened to non OA.

@Tracey ******

then shows income or transfer of 65k THB per month...

@Rene *******

you always have at least one....

@Rene *******

that is a totally different question....

Of course you follow the tax laws for the jurisdictions that you have....

You can't avoid swift. What you can do is minimise your cost. Use a service like wise to send money to your Thai bank account

@Jeffrey ******

so they missed that over 20kusd need to be declared...

@Florence ***********

in Hua Hin is like. I haven't moved. Ok here is your new date...

Learn to live on a dime in the US and save as much as possible in an index fund.

Learn to travel cheap.

You are going to need 300 times your monthly budget. Geo arbitrage gives you advantages. A starting point can be numbeo.com .

Learn to live like a local. Remember that most Thai live on less than 400 THB a day.

Even in a relatively expensive place like Hua Hin you can find rooms for 3.000 THB as a foreigner. Breakfast 20 THB, lunch 30 THB .