trevoromgh

What other items do you think I need to include? Happy to try and do so.

The house is in a gated community of about 100 houses in Chiang Mai and the service charges are split according to plot size to cover :- 24hr security guards, gardeners, street lighting, clubhouse, pool maintenance, etc. The key difference is in the level of taxation in the UK for just living there not forgetting VAT is 20% not 7% as in Thailand.

Probably, but I no longer own a house in the UK nor do I rent either properties mentioned as I have purchased them outright.

Having spent several years living in each country for six months at a time I've captured my annual expenditure in each and drawn the following comparison table together :- It seems quite staggering the difference in cost of living between the countries and I'd be interested to know if this matches other peoples experience? The higher food & drink price might be down to the fact we eat out more in Thailand and expat food is much more expensive in the supermarkets.