DonniePeverley

The face of Thailand is going to change with these visa changes. Go look on Indian forum immigration pages. You have people already preparing to move here for a long time, and looking to come here to work. The sheer vast numbers is going to be ridiculous. Especially during the peak season when most tourists venture here - can you imagine the numbers now? Enviromentally a disaster for some of Thailand's most natural beauties. Quality tourism over Quantity was the reset mantra during covid they wanted. Thrown out the window.

If you leave the UK, and reside abroad then all pensions, perks should be cancelled. Do Thai's pay their citizens when they leave to other countries? No. I got relatives in Canada, who claim a state pension in Canada, and get their UK pension too. With dual citizenship they then come to the UK to use the NHS, and get all dentistry taken care off. Ridiculous lax system.

Do you really just want to move a tourist town ?

There's been a few Youtube channels where by the host goes around a destination (including Thailand) and then charges followers to come along with the youtuber. Accomodation and everything included. Definately skirting the line on legality of being a tour guide.

Too many racist British lads in Pattaya being racist in this topic.

Sounds interesting, but i can't be bothered to go to China again. Trying to get to Shanghai with a visa on arrival was soul destroying and they were determined to not let me in, to the point the immigration person was almost ripping my passport up in their belief it was a forged document.

Surely everyone has done Kuala Lumpur and Singapore by now. I was hoping to find something of the beaten track.

Dude the fee is about the cost of a sandwich in the UK. Chill out.

Intriguing. Do tell us more ....

I went to Ho Chin Minh City. We enjoyed our two days there. Saw plenty of attractions (historical). Enjoyed the coffee culture, the motorbikes whizzing around, the old government palace there was brilliant to see. Really enjoyed it for a weekend away. It could be a destination to rival Bangkok, but unfortunately it lacked that craziness that Bangkok has. There was no huge massage culture, and of course it really lacked a metro system to get around - albeit the traffic is nowhere near as bad as Bangkok.

What are the differences between this and a Thailand beach destination ?

Totally respect that opinion, and thanks. I did imagine i would see the Himalayas in a sort of rural setting, didn't realise it would be a polluted city. That's a bummer.

Does this visa begin tomorrow ? Already looking on the Indian websites, and they practically see it as an apportunity to come to Thailand to work and live.

That would practically mean you are permanent resident then.

The people of SIngapore are boring, but Singapore itself is decent for a few days .... sentosa, Universal Studios, a beach although it's crap, China town, Little India, marina bay sands, etc

Yeah so ? If 300 baht turns away a nomad (ie a backpacker with a laptop) then i'm all for it.

What flights? Which area? I've looked into going there too. Tell me more ...

They already have it. So yes. The issue with Nuclear is that if something goes wrong, the neighbouring regions and maybe the world too, would suffer the impacts.

He's sitting in a bar in Pattaya, enraged the British citizen has an apparent Pakistan or Indian name.

I am assuming you are talking about the very small tiny percentage that claim aslyum by arriving on boats. The UK had 600,000 legal immigrants last year (alot from Hong Kong and Ukraine, and alot of students that pay through the roof to study there). Around 3% came on boats to claim Asylum. Provided they are even succesful with their asylum application - they still have to go through the full process and long term path to get British citizenship. And yes that includes taking a life in the UK test, British language test, savings, and job earnings. Colonial links to the UK, from a time when the UK laundered those countries wealth, then needed that population to help them in two world wars is probably a reason why they have links to the UK. France also has a similar issue with many from Africa wanting to settle there. If you think the life in the UK test is easy, with such questions like what is the distance from the bottom of England to the top of Scotland, or who was the 10th century king of England then you are a well versed men. Most i know who do that test have studied very hard for it. No thick planks will pass it, and i doubt the vast majority of the UK population would even pass it without some form of revision. But let's not get in the way of your issue here. Every modern metropolsis in the world, from USA, Canada, Australia all require some forms of immigration. All these shiny buildings you see popping in Bangkok - i'll give you a clue they aren't built by the indigenous population.

Follow a few of these hardcore 'influencers' from the UK on TikTok who sprout out that the UK is not great and come to Thailand mantra (without ever giving you all the details) - they create a platform of entertaining videos, seemingly offering advice. Then you get the odd message from them they are doing a tour. Even some of the major guys on TikTok have done this sort of thing in the past.

It will just be incorporated into the ticket - well it should be. 300 Baht is quite low, considering what they've lost in waving visas for Indians and Chinese.

Utter nonsense. You need to have lived at least 7 years, and worked. If you came to the UK through marriage your partner needs to be earning at least 30,000 pounds approx a year (and this is rising). Then have to do a life in the UK test (which trust not even the locals would pass), then a language test. Then after you pass all that <deleted>, criminal record check, and can afford the application you then after all those years can become a british citizenship and get a passport. It's not easy at all.

There's a few British who try and do tour guides here, marketting themselves covertly on social media (ie presenting themselves as just normal vloggers but the deep line secret is they want you to buy a tour of them), and judging by the details i seen the get paid back into the UK account. Quite a few famous british tiktokers who have been clearly doing this, getting people signed up, or have done this in the past.

Nuclear power plants in my opinion need to be kept to modern developed nations, who have the capabilities to tackle any major issues that could occur. The risk of something going wrong in a less developed nation is too risky.