I’m now on the 10 year LTR. Used agent visa before that. Came here for Covid as it was clear Canada was gonna struggle with managing it. So have been here 5 years now.
Overall, Koh Samui fairly expensive for Thailand. Likely more than Hua Hin
are you here full time now? We live on Koh Samui, but have mostly spent this last year travelling.
Yes - the lump sum doesn’t make much sense to me. If you can arrange the 65k baht monthly income, it seems a good method or just use an agent for simplicity.
Yes - I see quite a few DTV rejections. Interesting