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Typical Thailand. They dont appreciate that "rich pensioners" and "rich global citizens" would not want to live long term in Thailand. Thailand will always attract the lower/middle status of people. Its a third world country, with massive levels of corruption, unsafe roads, and many other downsides. It will be another failure..........and in 12 months time there will be a "committee" meeting looking into why so few people applied for the LTR............. Thailand loves committees why should any one person have to have any responsibility, better have a committee and then nobody has to take the blame for failure.......... They should just accept where Thailand is in the world - make a LTR visa simple for most people and then reap the benefits. But that means a few people losing face.............and Thai's, like Chinese.......hate losing face.

Certain hotel chains already seem to be putting their prices up considerably Marriot hotels in Bangkok this month appears massively inflated, I normally book quite a few nights at Marriot or Sheraton in Thailand but currently the prices are crazy high against other big hotel chains. Greed factor already coming into play........... but I suppose this is good for the budget hotels, as the big hotels get emptier so the budget hotels will thrive with new clients.