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An economy that is based only on tourism is a dead economy.

You've joined for sure the globalist scaremonger narrative of BBC, CNN etc etc etc

The members of the lowest Thai social ladder can usually be found in the bars.

True. Or you just don't want to wait many hours at Immigration and get it done in 30 min.

Another war monger. Find something better to do than scaring people.

You can budget about 35k baht for a legit 1 year course to pay to the school. Then you have Immigration fee: visa convertion from tourist/exempt to NON O about 7-10k baht (not always, it depends, you could go to an embassy outside Thailand and apply for NON O), extension every 90 day (1900 b). 90 day report is free, do it yourself. Grand total is about 45-50k for 1 yr legit school.

It is an extremely arrogant attitude to live in another country and pretend that the local people speak your language. To be honest, if I was thai I'd easily send you all to hell, especially those of you who get mad at me for not understanding your slang. That being said, it's a very difficult language to learn, but this is no excuse, if you're living here you should at least show to locals a little bit of interest in learning and speaking their language. Otherwise you are just a colonialist.

I wouldn't do it if country of destination is in the West, no matter you can show all is legal (no black). They're going to give you a hard time. The West is calling for central bank digital currency. No more cash in use. If you mean 500k USD then completely forget it, if thai baht up to you.

NATO should leave the rest of the world alone and in peace.

You're talking like google is the Bible, it is not.

Avoid trying to understand them and you'll have a better life here. It can be difficult sometimes.

Not really, because we mainly take what they are not interested in (dark skinned, over 30 yo, etc).

Despite that, I hear there's a lot of tourists around, even with the bad smoke, and restaurants and hotels have barely seen any 'low season' in the last six months.

EXACTLY THIS

Are you on a wheelchair?