I was a tourist. I don’t reside there full-time. I got there November 21 told immigration in Pattaya that I’d be leaving the 7th May. because their system is so stupid I had to rent my own house to myself for that period and you have to tell & provide written proof of where you’ll be staying and for how long how much rent you’ll be paying who you’re renting from et cetera to immigration within 24 hours of arriving in the country. The problem is they change their mind all the time on what you can’t & can do and also that was the longest period I was going to be staying there I’ve never stayed that long 
you said they’re not pushing the DTV Visa and they are cause they wouldn’t fucking let me in the country cause I didn’t have one and I’ve had a bank account and house in Thailand since 2004
they are pushing it. I came back from Laos after four days and they wouldn’t give me a Visa upon arrival and said you should get long Visa and then pointed at a poster of the DTV Visa and most of my stuff was in my house in Pattaya so obviously I couldn’t go collect it and I had to sit in a corridor for six hours until I boarded a flight back to London that night the 1st of April and my flight was booked to go back 7 May so obviously cost me money to fly back to England that night and of course I never got any money back for the flight that I couldn’t use on the 7th of May so yes they are pushing that Visa they gave me no explanation no nothing just a wave with the back of the hand which is their way of telling you to fuck off.