I appreciate the reminder. Some of us belong to 10 or more Facebook groups and it can be difficult to remember the rules for every group. Maybe add something about no agents in the group name.

@Brandon ***********

yes. This! You have to leave every sixty days if you don’t extend but it can come in handy. But since you are saying at least 8-9 months, check into the variety of NonO visas

I would suggest starting at numbeo.com to get a rough sense based on your needs.

@Brandon ***********

hehe. Phuket has immigration volunteers? Niiiice

Make sure you keep an eye on the potential new taxing method next year. It might be based on amounts coming into thailand. If so I might just stick with leaving 800k in Bangkok bank getting tiny interest.

@Brandon ***********

krabi also told me 45 days

Or you can get six month multiple entry tourist visa which allows you 60 days at a time with the ability to ext by 30 days when you get close to end of 60 days. Or you could look into over 50 visas NonO or nonOA.

@Marc *******

hmmmm. I only showed one flight into Thailand but i probably just got lucky

Don’t get in a situation where you are reliant on just one card (even wise). I went to transfer funds using my wise card and it took 9 calendar days to sort out because they wanted to verify my source of income on no notice and then took a long time to verify my uploaded documents. It took a phone call and emails and several upload attempts to finally get access to my money again.

numbeo.com has been a good resource for me to compare cities