I live in bang saray. A village about 25km south of Pattaya. Sai kaew beach is beautiful and the water is clean enough to swim. I swim about 1km most days when I go. Unfortunately it's become very popular during the week these days. It's always been busy on weekends but it's still the most beautiful beach in the area. My internet works great where I am so if youre a digital nomad it should be fine. Socially there are many expats here but I always end up friending snakes who just want to bludge off my financial standing bring able to retire at 50 3 years ago so I avoid people like the plague here and just head to Pattaya for a few short times on soi6 for my company which yes costs me money too but at least I get some good physical entanglement for it. Good luck

@Einat ******

well this is 100% crap

Yes you can. Who told you that nonsense

If it's only 5 months a year I'd go setv, 30 day extension, 2 border bounces. You could get the metv but you'll still have to do 2 border bounces. Either will do

@Duncanc *********

only issue with this is immigration will eventually deny him entry due to this new drive to stop people living in Thailand on visa exempt and tourist visas

And everything else about Thailand? Lol. Be honest mate. You fell in love with one of the young girls 555. We all do at some point

Only if they don't get there TM30 sorted. It's a clever system to get money out of foreigners

The guys in here know their visa and immigration stuff pretty good. You won't get false information from the main guys.

Yep most of us do. 30 day extension then border run

I did 3 30 day exempt border runs in 2023 and had no issue. The only interrogation I copped was when I entered with a 60 day visa in July. You'll be ok so don't fret