If you want to live like a European in Thailand it's more expensive. If you happy to only live on Thai food.Which most europeans can't or don't want to it can be reasonable i don't understand people who move here and want to live on. Pennies, you move somewhere like this to enjoy the rest of your life.
Apply for a non OA retirement in your own country First, it will give you two years to decide what you want to do,it gives you easy access to opening a bank account as well keep it simple
The Best thing to do is actually talk to the immigration office Your will be dealing with.They can provide a letter to open a bank account. Based. on a non o retirement permit some people who have used an agent to try and get around this have had their bank accounts frozen, just be careful.
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