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not allowed to fly back and so if no allowance made by immigration and required to jump through all hoops to start anew I will simply advise them I am moving myself my funds and my support elsewhere. Goodbye to hassle and being taken for a ride.

Easy decision for me as I am out of Thailand. If my retirement visa expires whilst i still cannot fly into thailand and immigration demands I must start the process again. I will  fly in on a VOA  and move all my funds back to uk and return to uk. My Thai adventure will be over.

I plan to slowly move back to uk spending longer there gradually but this would just speed it up. 

Thai life is getting expensive with ecvhange rate no longer of benefit and I now prefer it in uk - fresh air, countryside, no soi dogs or noise. Etc  etc. 

Thanks

So i could book a flight to return 60 days later knowing i will extend in thailand. Then I have a return ticket that works for me. I will of course buy a return ticket but if it must be within 30 days then it is a nonsense rule imv.

I thought that 60 day return ticket would not work when asked before. So net effect was a nonsense if in practical terms I must book a return flight for 30 days. I'm looking for a practical solution that works and afaik it means booking a cheap local flight within 30 days that I don't use but shows I depart within 30 days. Idiotic imv

Thanks. Found out before, that extending 30 day visa exempt required a flight out booked within 30 days in order to extend. The exact rule may differ in words but thats the net effect. Does that still apply? If so then it's a nonsense and I will stick to the 30 days.

Thanks.

Already decided if it does go then so will I. Then just return to Thailand to send/take money back to uk and deal with my few Thai assets. 

I assume I could just arrive with no visa but on a VOA and have 30 days stay without having to do anything but arrive at BKK airport immigration?

How long after retirement visa expires can you still renew it?

I am in UK and concerned that by the time I return to Thailand my visa will have expired. Is there any allowance being made?

What should I do?

Putin is a lying thug. So many bare faced lies when he's instructed a hit on foreign soil. A rogue country nowadays.

Property crash may finally arrive.

Air is less polluted.

Back in UK where medical treatment is better from my many Thai experiences and cost is zero.

Inevitable. Rather be in UK and glad I left already. 

Good luck 

Yes much more risky to fly now than before with risk of catching it on plane and costly perhaps.

Stay in Thailand and if you catch it risk Thai hospital care. NO thanks! I've had plenty of Thai hospital experiences and no way would I stay in Thailand. Plus the cost would cripple me!

I flew back to uk couple of months ago due to coronavirus. Much happier bring here no matter what happens than risking it in Thailand and paying a high price if I got it there.

Surely if the ban on foreigners flying in continues then immigration would put measures in place so that passports out of country in this period would be allowed on return to Thailand to renew retirement visa I.e. extension to visa even although the renewal date may have passed.

That would be a sensible and equitable solution but immigration don't work for our benefit and may prefer the extra income and inconvenience from starting from scratch.

I am in UK. If when I am able to return it is past my renewal date with no provision I will not reapply. Game over doesn't bother me as lost a lot of my love for Thailand.

Stay in Thailand probably less risk of catching it but if you do then more risk as imv Thai hospitals are just not competent. I have a lot of experience from many issues and costs. I went back to uk early. If I do get it no way do I want to rely on Thailand or pay what could be a sizeable hospital bill. I am relieved to be in UK even though currently it is worse here if the spike in pneumonia cases in Thailand hasn't been a cover up

I flew back to uk early due to virus. No way would I stay in Thailand with my experiences of Thai hospitals and the cost if you need care. I don't think travel insurance will cover this so looking at a big expense possibly. Virus may be worse in UK but Thai figures are unreliable if you look at the spike in pneumonia cases correlated to start of this virus in Thailand.

I am relieved to be back in uk

I have exercised my ability to leave Thailand and have returned to uk.

I don't trust the covid figures or Thai hospitals from the experiences I have had. No way!!

The thought of paying through the nose to die in a Thai hospital scares me. I feel way happier having left and can look at the Thai pneumonia (cover-up) stats without feeling concerned and if I die I will do so in a country I have faith in and without a huge inflated hospital bill.

I can only speak personally but I am very happy to have left Thailand. I do not rate my chances in Thailand wrt hospital competancy, costs, honesty, accountability, outcome, etc 

The Thai health minister is a good example of the general concern I have, as is all my many past dealings with thai hospitals. Tourism and $$ over public health and safety.

A huge sigh of relief to have left!

Do not buy a gold ETF.

When economy and markets eventually blow hold the physical asset rather than the paper form.

ETF backed by physical gold is best one but I wouldn't hold any asset in paper form as too risky when push comes to shove. 

Possibly for this reason?

I went jomtien immigration yesterday to do annual retirement visa and I fly back to uk next week for iro 8 months. I said I would be unable to do the 90 day bank reporting and IO told me I did not need to anyway. I asked why and told that it was  because I had a  year fixed deposit account and not need to do it when fixed account.

So the mortality rate is somewhere between 1% and 3% I gather. Let's say 2%.

All us retirees are on average in our 60's+ ( 50 to 80+)

We are also the demographic hardest hit by this new Coroana virus, so what do we think the mortality rate is for us? I'll take a stab at 10% though I suppose it could be anywhere between 3% and 15%.

Nobody has specified or even discussed  the mortality  rate for the age range most of us retired ex-pats inhabit, but it's not going to be the current lower numbers (1% - 3%) we hear of!