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vont, on 2011-03-25 03:00:26, said:
....if you can live off of local food your food budget will still be about 10,000 baht a month but if you enjoy international food it might be close to 15-20,000 baht....
May I please be disagreeable with the aforementioned?
There are probably more than 50% of the local populace who earn just about that amount and also have the responsibility to take care of the family members as well.
Coming from farang salary back home, it does appear Thai salary is meager and dehumanizing sort of.
But there are many farang in Thailand though not highly educated nor highly trained are living comfortably in Thailand.
It all depends on just HOW you wish to spend your and yours life and what sort of life style you wish to adopt.
The farang manager when he goes to bkk three nights, his tap runs around 12,000 baht.
While my Thai executive goes to bkk three nights, his tap runs less than 8,500 baht.
With 10k+ a month, a farang can live quite well in Thailand indeed, if he/she is determined and exercises his/her wisdom. So as everyone can see, with such income, to live in metropolitan such as bkk and chiengmai is mostly out of the question.
May I please be disagreeable with the aforementioned?
There are probably more than 50% of the local populace who earn just about that amount and also have the responsibility to take care of the family members as well.
Coming from farang salary back home, it does appear Thai salary is meager and dehumanizing sort of.
But there are many farang in Thailand though not highly educated nor highly trained are living comfortably in Thailand.
It all depends on just HOW you wish to spend your and yours life and what sort of life style you wish to adopt.
The farang manager when he goes to bkk three nights, his tap runs around 12,000 baht.
While my Thai executive goes to bkk three nights, his tap runs less than 8,500 baht.
With 10k+ a month, a farang can live quite well in Thailand indeed, if he/she is determined and exercises his/her wisdom. So as everyone can see, with such income, to live in metropolitan such as bkk and chiengmai is mostly out of the question.
I am with you 100% on this!
I lived in Thailand for 3yrs when I took a career break and I spend about 3 months there every year. I could easily spend 5000thb a night out but remember many a month where I would live with the mrs and spend little more than 100-200thb a day on myself. Also when you live somewhere I find you live within your means, sure its fun to have nights out but I don’t live like that now nor will I when I move to Asia.
