Too much cartel machine gunning in Mexico plus constant pilfering of your stuff.

@Paul *********

yeah, get some manners. My Thai wife and I have managed our plans for 16 years.

I stay 6 months doing that. Actually 5.5 months until going to Los Angeles.

Except DTV ALLOWS FOR MONEY IN YOUR HOME COUNTRIES BANK.

@Daniel *********

BINGO

@Neale ********

we know expats that took 1.5 years to SELL THEIR CONDO. Very rarely make any money. Right now there is a GLUT OF CONDOS FOR SALE. We decided to lease on a yearly agreement of $258 USD per month. We consider it money well spent.

60 days on arrival. Learn to read the Thai website.

Ken. You can do 6 months quite easily. That’ll give you enough time to save up some cash. $14,700 will get you a DTV visa. You can get it in the USA and that money can remain in your US bank and not in a Thailand bank. A retirement visa is $23,500 and that money has to be in a Thailand bank. You have to get good at rat holing money. Start selling off your stuff, cut your expenses. Our rent in Bangkok is $258 a month. Easy to save money. I would do this for a no Visa 6 month stay while you save up. You get just with a passport a 2 month exemption on arrival. It’s automatic. Then before that expired get another 30 days at immigration for 1900 baht, (like a DMV) that’s 90 days. Then take a tour bus to Cambodia for a day trip and on the way back into Thailand you’ll get 60 days again, then 30 at immigration for 1900 baht. Thats 6 months. No visa. You can live well on $1000 a month USD here, save the rest every month. Don’t mention you’re in Thailand. Have the monthly you get deposited in your US bank and you just suck out what you need at the ATM here in Bangkok. Good luck sir.

Just down the hall at immigration building they take passport photos for you. I try to arrive in Thailand with 4 of them.

You’ll be approved as a digital nomad from your own Countries THAI WEBSITE.