for OA instead.of O visa, you have to buy health.insurance every year to renew your visa, the cover has just been raised to 3 milion baht which means substantial premium increase

Thailand certainly has its own attractiveness but can further improve on: air pollution, drinking water quality, pubkic drainage, frequent big flood threat, road safety world ranking… and dual pricing system for expats, 24 hour? and 90 day reports for foreigners etc, further details can.be found by google search on news, reports readily available there

it is a bit strange omicron cases rising drastically in US/Europe but Thailand covid.cases dropped dramatically, is it related to test availability?

is it really possible to apply non O retire visa outside thailand? or only OA available? If OA, the change in heath insurance requiremnent is a headache!

can DEEMONEY show up as IT? if no.guarantee from transferwise. i remember once i asked them online, reply was: if they have funds in thailand,then they usually just transfer that local fund to your thai bank without IT

and important, live away from high risk flood area, and not too near river/beach /map-of-flood-risk-areas-in-bangkok/

seems thailand keep on raising requirements for retirement with policy surprise

just beware : premium may rise with mandatory coverage minimum

better if you can:

possibly need more soon, mandatory health insurance going to need more: