David Broadfoot there is for many people with businesses - 50,000 baht minimum income.

Better time for businesses focussed on Thai customers at the moment.

However plenty of businesses for sale and empty premises in tourist towns which does create opportunities for new enterprises in the long run.

1) Apply for job

2) be offered the job

3) have all the right paperwork ready

4) go to immigration

5) wait up to two weeks

6) go back to immigration and they put visa in passport.

@Sarah ************

if you can get a job first that is ideal but may be difficult at the moment as others have mentioned. Otherwise come on the new special tourist visa with all your paperwork and police check done and so on and then find a job here. Most jobs now will only accept applicants already in the country.

@Sarah ************

start planning now and you should be able to get here by next year. Just expect everything to take time, be a bit confusing and probably keep changing by the day!

@Paul *******

yes but nonetheless I would not assume it to be that quick given how slow and overwhelmed the bureaucracy is here right now. They can't even process the visas and permits for the teachers already here...... Many are working without permits as its taking months to process. All I'm saying is expect it to take longer but maybe with luck it's possible!

I highly doubt that you could be here in a month as its a complicated process and there's limited numbers allowed. Good luck.

Close to zero covid risk here if that's what you are concerned about

Yes same for Australia but as it turns out it is much safer here than back at home anyway so that wasn't very good advice was it? Surely much smarter to let people stay in place rather than travel around internationally if there's such a high contagion risk? The advice was for tourists to return home, not for those with a reason to stay like work and family.

@Ronald ********

when the high season starts? Don't think there will be a high season this year.