MY name is Stephen Gillatly, and I am a 65 year old single male considering moving to this area. At least to SEA in general. Currently live in Victoria, British Colombia, Canada. Served 8 years in the Canadian Navy, then proceeded to take my skills as a Marine Electrician and work in the private sector. Funnily enough, I spent a lot of that time working on warships. Basing my cash available on $1500 CDN a month
Trying to get the best information I can so I can make a better decision on how to proceed in this. I am going to break this into subjects to help both me and the people replying.
Visa
This seems to be a very confusing subject. I am looking at applying for a 3 month multi-visit Visa. Now do I have to do a border run every 3 months, as some articles suggest, or can each original visa be extended twice? I realize each extension requires $US each time if I am getting the gist of these forums correctly. So in essence you would only have to do a border run every 9 months. ( yes I realize that 3 months is not really 3 months but something like 87 days. can someone supply the correct # here?) Is this correct?
Medical Insurance
Starting my journey I will have 2 months coverage from my Union. So my plan was to wait until I got to VN and pick the brains of the expats. I am rarely ill, haven't spent any time in a hospital except for a car accident 20 years ago. Suggestions/recommendations.?
Drugs
Below are the drugs I currently require regularly. Are these available? At what cost?
Delatestryl 1000mg/5ml Testosterone Enanthate by injection
Sandoz-Vaslartan HCT160mg/12.5mg
Ratio-Atorvastatin 10mg
Lomotil 2.5mg0.025mg Diphenoxylate HCI/Atropine Sulf
Accommodation
Figured I would hit Agoda for the first 3 days, to get the lay of the land and then either upgrade and shift to finding either a local realtor or expats for current advice.
Any and all advice would be appreciated. Plan is to arrive sometime in March/18, just trying to get all the pieces aligned as it were.
Thanks