Originally Posted by BJ

Just to add a major deterrent about thailand. If you want to live here, full time and not have to leave you will need a company based here with 2mil baht registered capital, four thai employees, have to pay payroll tax every month, company audits, work permit, accounting/legal fees. You can fake most of this, but if you are caught, goodbye. Otherwise, depending on your visa you have to do border runs every 30 or 90 days. Thailand makes it extremely difficult to do business here legally.