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I think that's still a bit steep, our condo was close to everything and was 45 sq meters, really modern, 11000 per month. Just over the other side of the river is a good bet, no tourists but still easy access to the old and new town.

I'll use whatever currency I see fit to explain my post, thanks for your concern.

You don't need to pay 60k+ to avoid short times and bad shirts. 😃 That would be expensive even in the UK which is about 8-10 times more expensive than Thailand. What you pay £2000 p/m for in the UK would be on average £200 in Thailand. From my experience anyway. Of course there are areas that are more expensive. BKK is actually relatively cheap, I was paying 11000 baht per month for a 1 bedroom condo (separate large fitted kitchen/bedroom/living room) balcony, washing machine, gym, pool, sauna, key card entry. Nice and modern, quiet and no short stay, seemed to all be long term normal residents. Next to BTS and MRT. Definitely would pay upwards of £2500 p/m for the same place in most UK cities, prob more like £4000 in London. So you can get a decent modern 1 bed with good extras for around £250 per month. Electricity and bills were about 2000 baht per month extra..... But do you want to live in BKK? It's really polluted, we moved out after the earthquake and have not regretted it at all. Now paying even less for a slightly smaller place down south in the islands.

97.6% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Another short sighted comment tarnishing the whole of Thailand with your narrow minded brush. Do you live under a rock?

Correct. Gotfrid seems like a nasty person full stop. I'm sick of reading his horrible posts.

I would not trust that for sh*t dude. Is it worth the risk is what you should be asking yourself.

Chuck a bit of caulk in the gaps mate, nothing to see here! 🙂

OK great, I'll move me and my family back in tomorrow.

Any chance of a link or source? Be nice to show my landlord, to make them realise how bad it is to try to get us to move back in. She knows she won't be able to rent it to anyone else and is denying any accountability and insisting that we must honour our contract and pay full rent, or loose the deposit etc.. Because apparently it is 'safe'. I asked her if she would live in there and she didn't reply 😅 No way we are living back in there.

Yes. The ones that are not showing obvious damage are almost more worrying because people are just carrying on as normal. Who knows what kind of damage has been done to the structures. We were on 27th floor in Bang Wa, it was swaying 3 meters left to right with a horrible groaning sound and cracks appearing everywhere. It was like being on a train when I looked out of the window before we fled down the fire escape.. No way are we living in there. I'll never forget that noise. They declared it safe according to 'structural engineers' within 24 hours of the quake. No thanks.

Yeah.... Let's NOT see from inside on the 27th floor if it comes down in another quake.... That's my plan. Another thing that makes me feel uneasy is the speed that all the damage is declared 'superficial'. Within 24 hours my 33 story building was declared 'safe'. How can they assess ever part of the structural integrity so quickly? I would have thought they needed some serious investigation to make that claim, but everyone is just carrying on as if nothing happened. It doesn't sit right with me. We are in a hotel until we find somewhere else to live.

Yes indeed. Many reports saying that it was a bit of a freak occurrence because of the shallow depth of the quake creating a resonance which synchronised with the dimensions of many high rise buildings, causing severe swaying, amplified further by the swampy muddy soil that Bangkok is built on. In any case, I agree that many will reassess the high rise condo life in Bangkok as an unnecessary risk. Whatever anyone says, the buildings are not designed to sway like that and the cracking is a sign of this, 'superficial' or not. I dread to think what might happen to these compromised buildings if another similar quake hits. All the structural engineers in the world couldn't convince me there is not a risk of one or more of these buildings coming down in a further event. I for one am moving out of Bangkok. Loose my deposit and a total b*llache, but I'm not prepared to put my family at risk unnecessarily. I know many will say 'you have more chance of dying crossing a road in Thailand' blah blah... This may be true, but.... at the end of the day I have to cross roads, I don't have to live on the 27th floor of a condo in BKK. I'm really gonna miss my sauna and swimming pool 🥲😅

Sorry, I worded that slightly badly. Huge cracks and possible condemned buildings, not train infrastructure. There are huge cracks in many condo's, mine for example, which is very near to the MRT which is on concrete stilts, so for very obvious reasons they decided to suspend the trains until they checked it out, which as you say they have now done and are running again. As for the condo's mine like many others are being inspected by external companies next week to see if they are safe to live in. I'm moving out regardless, couldn't stand to live in there again after that experience.

Why are you so salty? Miserable posts from you throughout. I live here and took multiple taxis last night in the aftermath, at the usual price. And what has that got to do with the Thai government emergency response anyway? The government hasn't stranded anyone, it was an earthquake. You want the government to magically fix the cracked MRT and make government busses and taxis appear? Ridiculous comment. And by the way I am in no way a fan of the government here, but what do you expect them to do?