@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

I used wise because better deal than amount that would have reached Thailand if I used my bank account

I did not hire an agent but I did have a person who speaks Thai go with me to immigration office to get all sorted which helped tremendously.

@Peter ********

or at least take a Thai friend if you do not speak Thai. That helped me a lot for my NonO.