Phuket is full of them, Only last week we had Russian guest check out they are not going back to Russia, he told me his story how they left, they drove and eventually ended up in Turkey where he left his car then came to Phuket, so he has gone back to Turkey to get his car then he will drive to Spain then fly to Argentina get his car shipped over, They plan to stay there, His wife is pregnant if she has the baby there it will get citizenship and so do the parents,
As he said no messing about with visa's like in Thailand