@Dave *******

yes correct before I got my Thai license I used my British license which is not an IDP and got stopped many times without any problems.

@Nigel *******

not true.

@Nongnuch *******

that's not my experience. Although I now have a Thai license, I was driving in Thailand for 20 years with my British license and had one accident. The insurance company accepted my license without question and fully paid for the damages.

@Ulrich *******

yes there is a one year annual renewable Visa using marriage certificate. It doesn't mean you can live here permanently. You have to renew it every year and if you go for the lump sum route you have to have 400k in the bank. And there's the 90-day reports.

@Keil *****

there is no such Visa.

@Stephan **********

I can't remember the exact source but I saw an explicit statement which came from the revenue office quoted in the Pattaya Post I think saying that foreign pensions will not be subject to tax.

@Stephan **********

yes that's true but my point is this doesn't necessarily mean it's scrutinized by someone sitting at the desk at the revenue department. My friend who runs the IT department for a big European Bank told me that there is such a vast volume of information that goes to the revenue department which just sits on a computer somewhere. To have the manpower to individually scrutinize all of these transactions is something else.

@Stephan **********

the revenue department "knowing about you" and the bank's financial IT system automatically deducting tax from an account aren't the same thing.

@Paul ********

cash? What's that?

@Jeff ******

you have a point. The last time I went to see my doctor I asked why he was wet and he told me he had just got out of a dinghy in a very rough sea. And the last time I went to a Thai clinic there were 30 Thais in front of me. How stupid do you feel now?