My actual presence is required.
I didn't have any property, not even a car when I was living overseas before of pension age, as that would have allowed the money grubbers to tax me at residential rates, despite not living in the country.
It's all pointless even discussing it now, as I had to spend the money that I had as the Visa extension 800,000 baht to just survive in NZ, given the pension is too pitiful to live on alone.
That means I can never live in LOS again.