@Yasmin **********

Ok, point taken, but I don't listen to speculation only to fact.

@Robert **********

Not pushing mate, but I took offence to his opening line. "What don't you understand," Ignorance becomes him. If I'd been replying to a comment like I made, which was. I know a guy who got the visa by booking on a Thai language course, then my reply would of gone like this. Oh! I wasn't aware that you could get the visa on booking a Thai language course! Not, "what don't you understand". So you know what stick that in your pipe and smoke it and while I'm at it, what business is it of yours?

@Yasmin **********

I understand your concerns, but just because it isn't listed doesn't mean its not acceptable for application.

So all the experts that critised my post, know what I mean Mr. Stanner, your quote to me, "what don't you understand" unquote.

@Will ***********

Why don't people just have the overseas account they used to get the DTV in the first place, don't withdraw from it and top it up every month to compensate for exchange fluctuations. Not rocket science.

@Sean **********

So your a clairvoyant are you Sean? So why does the soft power option look dubious? At least the people I know that have gone down that route have the 500,000 equivalent in their UK bank accounts and it is there every month. The remote working side of it might be a bit more questionable, some that have the DTV on that basis may not be guaranteed continuous work, therefore may have to dip into the 500,000 baht they have that they used to get the visa in the first place. I take everything I read on Sadbook, sorry FB with a large pinch of salt so to speak.

@James *******

Well that's what you get in Pattaya.

@Mic ****

Best way to be careful is don't use drugs. I get the impression by a few comments on here that maybe there are some Farangs into that scene. Hope I'm wrong. A bad name for some usually rubs off on others.

@John **********

Used to be a problem until the ex. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawat told the police to bring the dealers to justice. A lot of them were killed in ensuing police actions and border army actions. Deal with it in a hard way, don't pussy foot around it like they do in the Western countries.

@Paul *******

That is one of the reasons I would never consider staying in that place. Each to their own. I used to work with some guys, expats offshore who lived in Pattaya, they were into drugs of one sort or another. I stayed up in the North East in a rural community away from all that shite.