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@Ed Childs

Check your messenger inbox- just sent you some info.

I sold everything and moved here from the US several years ago. Had never visited Thailand before. Couldn’t be happier.
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@Ed *******
This forum is a southern baptist church. Agents are a Buddhist temple. Why are you expecting Baptists to help you be a Buddhist?

Because all good Baptists know for certain that Buddhists are destined to burn in hell for all eternity.

As an American passport holder, you are eligible for a visa exempt status on arrival.

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Once here I recommend you go to Pattaya and yak with a handful of expats about the rewards, risks and prevelance of using a Visa Agent for people in your particular financial situation.

You will find that many use Maneerats agent to assist in setting up your “non-o” retirement visa and extension, found in Soi 13-2 just up from beach road. And there are others. Might as well use the agent to open your Thai bank account as well.

Keep a good solid US bank account, and open a Wise account and get it all set up before leaving the US.

Buy health insurance from a Thai company as soon as you can. Stuff happens here - 600,000baht hospital bills will ruin your whole day without insurance.

Finally if you let the baptists here scare you out of doing something that hundred of thousands do trouble-free on the regular, consider getting your retirement visa in Cambodia instead. Cheaper and easier than Thailand.
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Sandeep Kumar Not at all. The fact that he knows about corruption but has not yet taken steps (yet) to end it does not lead to a conclusion that he is himself on the take.
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@Sandeep ******
Because he has no idea of the elaborate infrastructure in place inside immigration to support agents. Please. You can’t possibly be that naïve.
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@Arnold *********
Huge wealth stacked high in a few houses is far less useful than wealth spread more equally across the population, but neither Thailand nor Cambodia could be accused of accomplishing that happy situation.
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This is not the place to discuss the pros and cons of agents. You literally might as well discuss Buddhism vs. Taoism with your cat.
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@Bhavin *********
And one overly alarmist fish can scare away the rest of the fish
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@Jim **********
The operative words are MAYBE and PERHAPS SOMEDAY.

The Youtubers were extremely careful to point out that this is all pure speculation right now.

Given the context of a crackdown on motorcycle gangs, it’s not yet time to panic.
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@Graham *****
In every category of products and services, there are higher cost options for those craving a little more convenience. Why do feel you must obnoxiously confront everyone who chooses to avail themselves of options you personally wouldn’t choose?
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Just remember that only a small percentage of available rental condos and villas permit pets. There ARE some available but your selection will be severely restricted compared to someone with no pets.