AlexRRR

I'm thinking as Thailand is far more capitalists then the US and Britain it won't.

you must be joking sir.............you should be carful with what you write, silly people might belive your an expert on such matters.

How can you go past an iphone or galaxy 4s?

You need to be conected to the internet 24/7?

have loads of apps?

Me i switch of the web, this gives my iphone5 up to 3 days (never turn it off) of power, and i dont have useless apps that need updating every 4 days.

TGF has a LG smart phone she wants a galaxy..after 6 mths it looks like its going to fall apart, motorola were never much of a phone so whats changed?

Everyone i know who has an iphone or galxay only change them becasue they want the latest...there still going strong years on, in fact im brutal with my phones, as a builder they get a hard time on the job...belive it or not iphone 4 was still going strong 2 ys later never a hick up, NO phone has lasted me more than 18 mths ever, average life span of a mobile for me was about 12 to 14 mths, my daughters partner has had my old iphone 4 for 12 mths and stll going strong.

Have you a car charger? an ipod/phone sound system charge and listen to your music same time?

Geeeeee there are ways and means around battery life.

Coffee shop in BKK....yes on the odd ocassion i have been able to purchase a good coffee, but not to often, Starbucks is a nice place to go to but there coffee is disgusting....so i drink tea there "but i did discover" if you dont supersize your coffee to a half gallon mug the coffee is aceptable to drink.

In the Asoke area theres 2 Starbucks yes 2 on the ground floor Interchange tower, nice ambiance in there and you may reconcider.

Over the road in the Citi bank building think 2cd floor (oh both buildings conected from Asoke BTS) nice quite coffee shop but i dont recomend it for coffee.

Further on up the road same side as Citi bank building on the corner one block up is a nice Italian restaurant i think there open all day and night, nice place and pretty good coffee without being sensational, more a restaurant than coffee shop but there not against serving just drinks you can meet inside or alfresco.

Internet in Thailand...hahaha i was use to better...first apartment was decent was able to download movies etc but then again half the tennats were japanese americans and british, to save a $200 a month i moved up and over the road...apartment was cooler, internet was disgusting, i winged and complianed so often nothing much changed, it was changeable, they gave me a modem, then after a 6 weeks that didnt work anymore suprisingly then the apartment wifi kicked in with various annoyances...

The new apartment block cleaner had no idea, hardly ever saw cleaning, spit on SS panels in lift stayed there for months, ho yes the electric bill went up, first month it was fine then it doubled i did a song and dance about that and it never reached those lofty heights again and mind you i slept with fan only AC only came on for no more than 3or 4 hrs a day in total.

I also added 15 min walk to a 10 min walk to a MRT...didnt seem like a big deal at first since i like to walk...in the end it was so dam hot i had to give up walking when possible catching dirty bus to the MRT, waiting in awful sticky conditions for it and of course most of the buses didnt just go down 3 ks to the station, often 3 buses came same time other times waiting 15 min...i use to think i could have walked...standing there was just as uncomfortable as walking.

I didnt go cheap cheap last place cost me 8,000 plus 500 for worthless internet, was a 1 bedroom apartment mainly freqented but middle income thais but there were a few aussies in there...2 i think and in the lad phrao area.

Getting a taxi home often proved an adventure, obviously new teacher hasnt experianced taxi culture in thailand, they actualy say no to you and often when you tell them where you wanna go, often useing traffic jam as reason, yes main road towards my apartmen often had traffic jams up untill 11 am at night starting from around 4.30 pm.

So young man and i assume you are a young man seems like a great adventure to live in the sticks in BKK and if its short term you might survive but im pretty sure after 6 mths a down town residence at 3 times the cost is gonna look pretty good in comparison

What did i learn after 1 year living there? closer the better to MRT or BTS, live downtown is best, you get what you pay for and with thai internet there is a lot of hit and miss, they expect you to accept what ever they give you, no such thing as customer service and will see you as a cranky farang, there for i would pay for mobile internet for my iphone and use it to conect my laptop as long as you dont need to download any big files more likely to be less stressful.

What a load of garbage and maybe you are mr insideout, as they say like attracts like...

who knows whys shes with me? darling as disected my fanancials and scolded me, she's younger im older and the sex is awsum.

once they get close to 30 they think there over the hill, if your going to get with an asian girl you should look into the culture its not uncomon for them to hook up with a much older guy, of course money has something to do with it, i wouldnt get with a village girl so why should she get with a looser.

ahhh sounds like someone i know except shes not voilent but ho so jealouse and un trusting, i no longer respond to her stupid talk that often is enough to quiten her down if not i will throw a wobblie on yes theres a fight but i dont say things like its over i just get moody and quite half is an act but seems to work with her, over time she has gotten better but still has a sharp tounge.

I have made my TGF (and the fact she is 29 has been inportant becasue she is still open and baggage free to a point) see that her her talk is causing friction and trouble, its not perfect but it is better when were actualy togther than apart.

If shes such a looney i would be worried and the first think i would do is see a councilor, then get her to come with you and see one on her own, pretty basic stuff really.

Most of the major department stores sports sections and obviously the nike and addidis stores carry a limited range, as for being an aussie there way cheaper there than here for us dont know about GB or europe.

B as for Baht mt cowboy being smart? dont belive it possible?

Accountant TGF tells me there is a glut of condos, she has lots of friends in banking and finance in BKK, shes no expert but shes been known to buy into a new development then onsell before completion and make a nice little tidy sum from time to time and she wasnt entertaining the idea when i rasied it recently.

Getting back to cost of living, i lived in BKK for 9 mths last year, im not a big drinker but when im in the mood i will have a few, i dated inbettween gfs lived in a nice but modest apartment, etc etc, ate out often (buying your own and cooking worked out more expensive but i prefered to cook more often than not) contributed regularly to cab fair home for the fair ones, used the BTS or MRT often and used taxis with fair ones, i shopped often but was rather choosey as i had lots of time up my sleeve, i kept a summery of my expenses and they came to average 33,000B a mth.

What wasnt included were my trips outside of the country which was 4 times in that 9 mths, i pretty much lived as i would have had i been home.

Thai girls arnt so expensive to date all the ones ive known prefer to eat there own food even if they dont mind western food, decent thai restaurants dinner for 2 and drinks well under 1000, ( and im not talking about places like sizzlers) most of my dates didnt drink booze and were more than happy on shopping trips to eat at thai food courts, in fact many a time i would recive a frown if they thought i was spending to much.

One of the keys to a cheaper exsistance is to change your style of eating, for me it wasnt hard i was full vegitarian within 3 mths due to the heat turning me off anything flesh.