it's not a matter of gaming the system. You have to have a bank account to get a visa. You can't get a bank account. You have to transfer money from overseas but most of the banks can't accept the transfer anymore. Endless games.
try to keep up. They want you to get long term visas like retirement or education instead of letting you come repeatedly as a tourist then make it impossible to get the long term visa
I only wish we had gone before they got rid of the elephants. Yes they have big malls in Bangkok but we can still eat pizza and ice cream. They even have Carl's Jr in Cambodia. It's gone from Thailand
but you could come and cruise around Asia for 3 or 4 months in and out of Cambodia Thailand Malaysia Indonesia take a cruise and come back in 6 months and do it again.
It was heartbreaking. They said he might try to stay and take advantage of the medical system. He said but I have a return ticket I have already paid for my stay. I can put a deposit. They cleaned him up and sent him back home