every amphur requires different things. Some are way way more easy than others.

Also factor in. Every IO office is different

Jan Metzler haha the bathroom. It’s always my go to for determining a place. You explained it perfectly that if they put some money and effort into the place it’s usually a good bet. The noise thing though can be anywhere

sadly a lot of this stuff is hard to avoid. When my wife and i travel within Thailand one thing we have noticed is that if a place has a nice modern bathroom usually the bed is fairly comfortable. But also hotel chains like Centara or other ones, we have just had luck with them, never had issues.

Welcome to Thailand... haha

Eileen Stelladog one hour north of Korat City in the country side.

My wife and I are actually building an assisted living home for expats. Proper care places should take care of all of this for you. It can get into power of attorney and medical power of attorney, or if the immigration office is lenient sometimes a care person from the facility can handle things. But a lot dont... thats why sometimes you will see someone who is incredibly aged at immigration.

This is one thing that a lot of people do not look into when looking at care facilities here, or just researching later in life care if they are going to permanently stay here.

This is a rough one. You will most likely need to create your own business here. Get a work visa and work permit. It’s going to be very costly, stressful and time consuming. Then you will be paying Thai taxes on anything you make on top of that. So hiring an accountant and lawyer. Wish you best of luck.

Sharon Perdue Houchin Good luck... i have been seeing nothing but denials. We were denied as well but that was last year.

We were denied for a tourist visa as well. Brought an absolute mountain of paperwork, including chanotes for our properties, business paperwork for our business in Thailand, bank records etc etc etc, even proof of past travel to other countries. We were supposed to go for my brothers wedding, brought wedding invites, hotel bookings the list goes on. My wife got about 1 minute in front of some sassy black lady, was extremely rude to my wife, denied her with zero explanation.

Wasted about 6,000 baht on a minute... had to drive down from Isaan, book hotels, plus the fee for the "appointment"

And for the goofballs blaming Trump, this stuff was going on before him as well.

Glad we are forced to pay taxes though regardless of where we live :D