Briton Cuts Living Costs With Move to Chiang Mai

2 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

yes that true and that's because the high level of development and housing projects everywhere. More expats and tourists than ever now too. What am I missing? CM in 2026 is obviously more popular than 2001 right???

The entire house parking bubble is about to burst to begin with, all real estate in thailand is capital parking of the elite. And they lose on it too, they even are bad in what they try to do at the cost of everyone else. Chinese already bought what they wanted too. Its done.

Bangkok bank clearly even agrees with me as they published a dozens pages paper a few weeks ago, saying the same on all ends. Including education.

14 minutes ago, Spider5511 said:

Yeah anyone can live in a studio room for 3000 baht and eat only Thai priced street food a few years, but then reality kicks in. If the guy made the same Thai food in UK and rented a student room, the budget would not be that different.

If only few of them had the brains to realize that, they could work a few years like that, and save up a ton (which destroys the entire Gen Z argument of 'i can not save up to buy a house' too.

The truth is they are sheep people, they can only follow a herd, hence it works for them in Thailand but not in UK, as standards are simply higher, and they want to be on page 1 from day 1.

In Thailand living that same lifestyle, their ego can still survive, as of seeing most locals do the same.

It's interesting that cooking at home in the UK gets compared to eating out in Thailand. Normally eating out in the UK would cost 20-40 quid a go.

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

It's interesting that cooking at home in the UK gets compared to eating out in Thailand. Normally eating out in the UK would cost 20-40 quid a go.

Eating out? Stir frying 5 minutes in 10th time recycled unhealthy cooking oil with extra MSG. You really fool yourself for too many years. That is like saying you like Thailand more because the staff in 7/11 turns the microwave on. And you even cook at home here lol, how contradicting you are.

3 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Why can't he travel? Hua Hin has 8000 baht monthly rooms with large pool and gym. Fan trains cost 24 baht per hour of travel. Massaman curry is 50 baht beach front at Ban Krut. Daily gym is 50 baht. If he rents by the month he could travel the entire country on that budget.

If hes going to travel. then he wont be getting a monthly room rate .

Would be about 500 Baht a night in a hotel .

I know these videos are inspiring people to move to Chiang Mai. A whole house for $77/month in Lamphun or a $120/month box in the Chiang Mai suburbs. Both of these houses are intended for students and the working poor but we have YouTubers on DTV's competing for them now. Madness.

2 minutes ago, Spider5511 said:

Eating out? Stir frying 5 minutes in 10th time recycled unhealthy cooking oil with extra MSG. You really fool yourself for too many years. That is like saying you like Thailand more because the staff in 7/11 turns the microwave on. And you even cook at home here lol, how contradicting you are.

You have been brainwashed by the media. Buffett is 95yo and drinks coke and eats junk food daily.

1 minute ago, Spider5511 said:

Eating out? Stir frying 5 minutes in 10th time recycled unhealthy cooking oil with extra MSG. You really fool yourself for too many years.

Sorry,

I don't eat out, I don't eat Thai food, prefer to cook British food at home.

When you can cook, no need to pay premium prices, it's cheaper than Thai street food.

2 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

If hes going to travel. then he wont be getting a monthly room rate .

Would be about 500 Baht a night in a hotel .

Why can't he stay 1 month in each city?

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

Sorry,

I don't eat out, I don't eat Thai food, prefer to cook British food at home.

When you can cook, no need to pay premium prices, it's cheaper than Thai street food.

It is just as cheap to cook at home in most of europe, if not all. Thai rice even costs the same as it costs in Tesco Thailand, in my country. In fact the best thai food i ever had was in thai restaurants in europe due to ingredients, is what the chefs say at least.

4 minutes ago, Spider5511 said:

The entire house parking bubble is about to burst to begin with, all real estate in thailand is capital parking of the elite. And they lose on it too, they even are bad in what they try to do at the cost of everyone else. Chinese already bought what they wanted too. Its done.

I hope so, I hate those things but I still see them going up and people appear to be moving in. Population collapse is happening now too but people may still be moving into Chiang Mai from depopulating villages and increasing the population in the city.

2 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

What's his annual income tax

How is that anyone's business but his? Do you disclose your tax situation to anonymous strangers?

1 minute ago, NorthernRyland said:

I hope so, I hate those things but I still see them going up and people appear to be moving in. Population collapse is happening now too but people may still be moving into Chiang Mai from depopulating villages and increasing the population in the city.

They control the land banks, they control 80% of property and 80% of formal economy and any large business. Nothing ever changes, when that happens, coups happen. Compared to other countries in Singapore they not got more wealthy of this additude either, they got poorer.

It could be fixed only, for real only, and they will stay behind regardless, if they changed right now, that means this year, no a month later. In reality they are 10 years too late, they knew the same things back then already too. They talked the same too. It is a 1:1 repeat entirely, same with visa crackdowns, farangs.

The irony is that the elite not realized that their own profits rely on foreigners buying into the same properties and land lol. Same for business, they can't grow them because lacking skilled people.

That's why they temporary thought to have found a fix with 'infinite money from chinese buyers'. This is the reason they not care to rent the places out too, it is literally parked money where balance sheets are ignored.

They literally wasted 30 years of time being ahead. Anyway, that is why visa crackdowns never last long.

2 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Sorry,

I don't eat out, I don't eat Thai food, prefer to cook British food at home.

When you can cook, no need to pay premium prices, it's cheaper than Thai street food.

Agreed.

Though we do frequently eat out.

We choose restaurants on the basis that the food has to be at least as good as home cooked, at least as good means ‘as healthy’.

This precludes all street food and almost all Thai restaurants.

The good restaurants that remain don’t have to be expensive, but you need to choose wisely.

Spider5511’s remarks on quality of ingredients are far too commonly true.

4 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

he now lives comfortably in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on just GBP800 a month, compared with more than GBP3,000 a month previously.

If his income covered 3000 a month before maybe he is now saving 2200 a month now and only spends 800 cause he does not need luxury. So he can afford health insurance plus travel.

Or did he quit a job to be a vlogger like Wayne?

7 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Why can't he stay 1 month in each city?

Many long term rentals have a 1 year minimum contract.

1 hour ago, VincentRJ said:

As an Ausralian pensioner, there are two main issues that prevent me from retiring in Thailand. First, I have completely free medical care in Australia, and second, because I'm concerned with my health and want to live as long as possible, it doesn't make sense to live in a country that gets an unhealthy haze due to burn-off every year.

Meanwhile polution levels are higher today/this week in sydney than CM.

2 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Agreed.

Though we do frequently eat out.

We choose restaurants on the basis that the food has to be at least as good as home cooked, at least as good means ‘as healthy’.

This precludes all street food and almost all Thai restaurants.

The good restaurants that remain don’t have to be expensive, but you need to choose wisely.

Spider5511’s remarks on quality of ingredients are far too commonly true.

Why do you have to choose wisely? If you research health you will find fasting is better for you than food in general. If you eat one meal a day and it's pad thai with chicken you will be more healthy and likely live longer (according to science) than a 3 meal a day western food eater.

I fast most days and eat whatever at night and I'm more healthy than a woman who eats salad 3 times a day. I tried to educate her but women don't listen to science.

5 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Many long term rentals have a 1 year minimum contract.

Every Thai city has hotels with 5 to 10k monthly deals. I can stay beachfront in Ban Krut for 10k with pool and free water, coffee and biscuits. Motorbike is 5,000 a month. Food is cheap there. Gym is 50 baht. Beach is great.

Room 10,000

Gym 600

Bike 5000

Food 6000

Other 5000

26,600 baht a month.

That leaves room for heath care.

3 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Why do you have to choose wisely? If you research health you will find fasting is better for you than food in general. If you eat one meal a day and it's pad thai with chicken you will be more healthy and likely live longer (according to science) than a 3 meal a day western food eater.

I fast most days and eat whatever at night and I'm more healthy than a woman who eats salad 3 times a day. I tried to educate her but women don't listen to science.

Everything in that post tells me your ‘research’ is nothing of the sort.

‘3 meals a day western food’ is an assumption on your part.

6 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Everything in that post tells me your ‘research’ is nothing of the sort.

‘3 meals a day western food’ is an assumption on your part.

We are waiting for longer human studies but animal studies show this

• Lifespan Extensions: Studies on C. elegans (microscopic worms) and mice show that intermittent fasting or periodic fasting-mimicking diets can extend average lifespans by anywhere from 30% to over 40%.

5 year DTV and after that retirement visa? Can't blame Bob for trying to live a life worthwhile.

Lived in Chiang Mai on and off for years. After I got in my mid 60's I could not handle the pollution. After that I was miserable. To this day I say go when young and enjoy, then find a good retirement destination.

35.000 is not an amount to live a life on is just to survive. No matteer house or car is paid for. Only run A/C when its over 30 is that comfortable ? You never make any renovation to the house ? Health insurance included ? for my health insurance in a Brittish company I pay Sterling Pound 6000 a year.

Really terrible life on a 35K budget. Feel sorry for you and especially your wife

1 hour ago, jippytum said:

No mention of medical expenses. I suppose he will appeal to his followers for fund me cash in a medical emergency.

Why should he mention medical expenses, no-one else's business.

I am in the US right now and I can tell you that inflation is out of control. Those ridiculous inflation and CPI numbers that the government is throwing around has nothing to do with the day-to-day reality of the vast majority of the population. They are pure BS.

Unless you own a nice home free and clear in America and Europe right now or you're quite wealthy it's difficult to live a high quality of life.

By comparison I live very well in Thailand (in a smaller town admittedly) on a relatively modest income. The difference in the cost of living is astonishing, especially if you take into account things like labor cost of home repairs vehicle repairs and things of that nature.

3 hours ago, Packer said:

Wrong location. 🙂

Jealous? He looks great and is healthy. You on the other hand seem petty and mentally confused.

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I am in the US right now and I can tell you that inflation is out of control. Those ridiculous inflation and CPI numbers that the government is throwing around has nothing to do with the day-to-day reality of the vast majority of the population. They are pure BS.

Unless you own a nice home free and clear in America and Europe right now or you're quite wealthy it's difficult to live a high quality of life.

By comparison I live very well in Thailand (in a smaller town admittedly) on a relatively modest income. The difference in the cost of living is astonishing, especially if you take into account things like labor cost of home repairs vehicle repairs and things of that nature.

Funny how our memory is distorted when we live in Thailand for many years without going home. My trip last year forced me to adjust to reality. America is outrageously expensive! The supermarket prices were the biggest shocker. I met a friend out for "a" beer and we had chicken wings and the bill $40.

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24 minutes ago, kathuboy said:

35.000 is not an amount to live a life on is just to survive. No matteer house or car is paid for. Only run A/C when its over 30 is that comfortable ? You never make any renovation to the house ? Health insurance included ? for my health insurance in a Brittish company I pay Sterling Pound 6000 a year.

Really terrible life on a 35K budget. Feel sorry for you and especially your wife

His budget might be 50,000 but he lives on 35,000 and saves the rest. You can live well in CM on 35,000 if you are not a drinker.

34 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

We are waiting for longer human studies but animal studies show this

• Lifespan Extensions: Studies on C. elegans (microscopic worms) and mice show that intermittent fasting or periodic fasting-mimicking diets can extend average lifespans by anywhere from 30% to over 40%.

I don’t take my dietary advice from mice, let alone worms.

Nor should I add, the latest Internet gimmick diet.