BangkokHank

With 40 million baht, he didn't need ANY return on his money to live comfortably for the rest of his life in Thailand. So what was the point of risking it like that?

Thanks. That's very clear. So I wonder why that article whose link I provided said that it was possible. And I wonder about the other countries on the list. By the way, I live in Thailand on a retirement extension. But I was thinking of moving to Vietnam and dropping my retirement visa, and just visiting Thailand a few times a year. But if I cannot enter Thailand with my US tourist visa, then this would not work, as I wouldn't want to apply for a visa every time I visited Thailand. So I'll just keep the Thai retirement visa and visit Vietnam on tourist visas.

You've totally missed the point. I am not a US citizen. I am a citizen of a country whose citizens need a visa to enter Thailand. I happen to have a valid tourist visa for the US. Some countries (listed on the website for which I provided the link) allow people to enter without a visa (when they otherwise would need one) IF they happen to have a valid US tourist visa. (This is because they trust the strict US vetting system.) So to repeat my question in a slightly different way: Has anyone who needs a visa for Thailand been able to enter Thailand without a visa by using their valid US tourist visa? Thanks.

I read on this website (scroll down to country number 16 on the list): https://voyeglobal.com/visa-free-countries-with-us-tourist-visa/ that it is possible for people who need a visa for Thailand to enter the country visa-free if they have a valid US tourist visa. Can anybody confirm this? Has anybody tried it? Thanks.

That's something that I'll never have to worry about being.

I came to Thailand for a great job 30 years ago. When the job ended, I stayed, mostly for the women, but also for the relatively low-cost, comfortable lifestyle. I am able to get a lot of bang for my buck here, in both senses of the word.

Of course the whole point of this is to be able to switch off the passports of people who engage in wrongthink/wrongspeak/wrongwrite.

Yes it does. Freedom of speech means freedom of speech, including speech that YOU deem to be hate speech. I suppose you would approve of hate speech against Kanye?

"I'm very rich. So bring me all your food. And also lend me 4,000 baht to pay the tips." It would have never occurred to me to borrow money from a restaurant. I'll try that the next time I eat out.

To be able to convince people to accept a dystopian, unelected, one-world global government, there needs to be the appearance of there being a global problem that can only be solved by a global government. "Climate change" was chosen for that purpose - precisely because it is easy to fool people about, as most people can't distinguish between climate and weather. There is no climate emergency.

So the countries that have nukes haven't used them and probably won't, but the country that doesn't have them (Iran) WILL use use them? Talk about cognitive dissonance.

Foreigners used to pay the same as Thais at government hospitals. Ten years ago I paid 9,000 baht at a government military hospital for a procedure that required me to spend three nights at the hospital. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that foreigners now have to pay much more than Thais for treatment at government hospitals.

Good point. Thanks for reminding me of that. I recently got a five-year tourist visa for India, so the next time I need a hospital for anything significant, I will just pop over there.

So there are over 2 1/2 times as many Thai patients as there are foreigners, but they only contribute 55% of the revenues. That means that foreigners are paying a lot more per patient than Thais. Why should that be the case at a private hospital?

I'm not British. And neither is that Indian.