You misread my post in an extreme way. So I'll go over this, point by point: -- I agree 100 percent that the financial requirements for retirement in Thailand will be raised, sooner or late. Obviously. -- It could be changed on other potentially damaging to expats ways than finances -- I never said that I personally think they would grandfather the old levels (which means for people already in system) out of the goodness of their hearts. Duh. -- The last time they raised the levels, it was grandfathered for people already in the system. So there is that precedent. -- I do think a new raise will be grandfathered. I put PR as one reason. But they don't really have to heave a reason that we would ever know about anyway. -- There is ZERO chance that they would kick out people just based on age at a certain age. No other retirement visa system in the world does that and such a policy would be so outrageous that Thailand would indeed be permanently badly labeled for that. I find it hilarious that anything would think they would do that. They can still sift and filter people out in other ways, but they would never do that and neither would any other country. -- As far as xenophobic, anti-immigrant politics, I think you're grossly exagerrating the political potential for scapegoating old retired foreigners. Yes of course foreigners behaving badly in general, yeah that's a thing they can and will exploit, but focusing on oldsters for political gain, I just don't see that happening. So I guess agree to disagree on some things. Cheers
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