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Many expats live in Thailand on less than 45,000 baht a month


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1 minute ago, kannot said:

cheapest insurance I could find and reasonably effective

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very hard but there are some companies but its big money around 2500 pounds per year   some no need to answer health questions  

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9 minutes ago, Cheops said:

You really don't know anything about Thais and what they earn, do you?

Come on then, don't be a man of mystery! I know a number of Thai, from various walks of life, well enough to have a fair guess at what they earn. I don't think any of them are on over B35000 a month. 

I very much doubt if a 7/11 assistant pulls in as much as 10k.

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3 hours ago, Tradewind777 said:

You can rent a room in BKK for 3000baht and if you cannot live on 1000baht a day you need lessons in money management or pull your head in and live more modestly.

You can rent a room for 2000 baht if you care to look around. I know, since I rent out several rooms for 2k per month. And no, these are not very small either. They are 28 square meters, with bathroom and balcony. Sure, the apartment building doesn't look new, but all apartment buildings after 10 years look the same here. These rooms are within 1 minute walk of a main road.

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45k as spending money is a great amount. I spend nowhere near that in one month and I play golf regularly, go out boozing most Fridays, pay a car on finance and eat out every weekend. 

 

When you factor in rent, bills, saving for holidays etc then 45k in total really isn't much of a life here IMO. 

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Living on 45,000 baht a problem for expats? Expect it would be a challenge if you`re living near central Bangkok and have to pay half your salary on rent. For those with high maintenance girlfriends or who insist on eating in pricier western food restaurants, it could be hard. But if most Thai people can manage on that kind of salary, it should not be too hard for foreigners outside of those pricy areas of Bangkok to do so.

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19 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

Too many "I"s

 

The culture of Western narcissism (associated with chronic materialism and very little else)is broad and deep and much commented upon since the 1980's.

 

Enjoy your swimming pool.

Thanks!  It provides great exercise and quality time with my kids. 

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7 minutes ago, JAG said:

Come on then, don't be a man of mystery! I know a number of Thai, from various walks of life, well enough to have a fair guess at what they earn. I don't think any of them are on over B35000 a month. 

I very much doubt if a 7/11 assistant pulls in as much as 10k.

In that case you either don't know much Thai people or know only the low earners. At my work there are hunderds of Thai who make much more than 35k. Many Thais that I know make 80k up in engineering jobs. Several Thai that I know make 300k up for higher positions.

 

Anyway, the OP wrote: "They were trying to survive on less than 25,000 baht - about what a recently graduated twenty something Thai person might try to scrape by on in Bangkok."

And that is correct. 25k is about the starting rate for recent gradudated twenty something Thai people in the company that I work.

 

Of course uneducated work pulls in the minimum wage, which is about 9 to 10k per month. Most people working in a 7-11 are still studying. Just a job to get some extra money, same as I did when I was studying in my home country. Of course there is a big part of the Thai people who are uneducated and work on a minimum wage, but as said, there are also plenty of Thai who earn enough money. Several Thai engineers at our place who drive Benz or BMW.

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36 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

 

The definition of poor is very relative. If I was living in the US on $1,400 a month, I would be very poor, and would be pinching every penny. Here, it is possible to live ok on 45,000 baht. I would not enjoy having to do it, but I would not describe a foreigner who is living here on that amount poor, by any stretch. They are rich by Thai standards. And as long as they are not living in Pattaya or Bangkok, Samui or Phuket, I would imagine one can live a fairly decent lifestyle on that. Granted it does not allow much room for partying, traveling, etc. But it is a decent sum for many. This article is quite poor. 

 

Having said all that, inflation is on the rise worldwide, despite what the charlatans tell us. I see it everywhere around me. Here, and back in the states. Prices are climbing daily. So, maintaining a decent standard on a fixed income like that is going to become more of a challenge, as time goes on. 

I guess it is relative, but I do not fully agree.

An example would be if you took a person with a very low IQ and put them in a house with retarded people, would they then suddenly be smart?

I think you have to evaluate it as where they came from.

If someone is in their 60's and making $1400 a month, that is $17,000 a year which is poor in my opinion. Transferring them to a different situation does not suddenly make them rich. Just better off for that environment.

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1 hour ago, TechnikaIII said:

Comfortably alone on 7,000 Bhat, 3,000 of which is rent for a secure, 2-story, 200 sq.m. shop style building, tiled throughout. There's plenty for the weekly 4-hour SRT trip to Bangkok and a day's buzzing around with BTS and MRT, and even a night in a hotel wherever. Locally I cycle. (Considering a Royal Enfield as an inter-provincial tourer on secondary roads. But I don't consider that purchase as part of my monthly expenses, except for the minimal cost of fuel, if I get it)

Food? In my town, I eat out a few times a week otherwise cooking at home works well. 

Booze? ... no thanks. A few bottles of beer a year and no more.                                                                                                                                                             

However, it all goes through the roof once a girlfriend is added to the equation.   ?                                    

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So after you pay your rent you have Bt 4,000 per month to spend of entertainment, food, staying in a hotel a few nights P/M, 4 trips to BKK P/M  (total 16 hrs), buying a few cooked meals as well.   Are you sure you didn't leave an extra zero off the Bt 4,000...like Bt 40,000?......Hmmmm?  I suppose it could be done?

Posted
4 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

3BB DSL and a 55" UHD monitor/tv,

You know DSL is ancient tech, do you? And a 55" UHD TV can be had for less than 15k THB now...

Posted
1 minute ago, Cheops said:

 And a 55" UHD TV can be had for less than 15k THB now...

I paid 15k7 from Lazada last month, the Bluetooth is useful for headphones, but the voice command remote is still in the box.

It makes a great computer monitor.

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5 minutes ago, Cheops said:

You know DSL is ancient tech, do you? And a 55" UHD TV can be had for less than 15k THB now...

You do not realize that not everywhere fiber is available ….. low remark I find , I would have in my Pattaya condo fiber but 3BB can only deliver vdsl , and must admit I get 30 mb speed almost all the time , more than enough for my needs, so probably also for him .

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9 minutes ago, david555 said:

You do not realize that not everywhere fiber is available ….. low remark I find , I would have in my Pattaya condo fiber but 3BB can only deliver vdsl , and must admit I get 30 mb speed almost all the time , more than enough for my needs, so probably also for him .

? yeah, I know, sorry. But I think his 4G mobile speed would be faster than his DSL. Indeed I'm on fiber in BKK, although still low speed (50Mb). I'm thinking of upgrading to the newly offered 1GB for 3k THB per month which includes also TV and mobile internet, but I will wait a bit first, since the price will come down in a couple months I guess.

(btw, 50Mb for standard internet is more than enough, even 1Mb would be sufficient for most, except I want fast speeds for my PS4 and 4k movies on Netflix etc.)

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if you look at how many live off 25k or less, before the giveaways to abledodied Thais, the picture changes a lot.  And I would say less than 10% of recent 4 year graduates are making more than 20K....Fluffy, sensationalized garbage......

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That is £1000 a month. Sounds a sensible amount to me considering how much cheaper most things can be here. If you live as you would in the UK and things cheaper why the surprise - it's normal living. If you are on holiday it is totally different. 

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There are not that many 'ordinary Thais' living on that much a month. 45,000B would be considerd a high wage (perhaps not in Bangkok) in most areas.

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45,000 is easy as you like.

you dont need anything like this.

Here is an example of how you can live in Chiang Mai, in a great location, brilliant accomodation, cleaner once a month, etc, etc:

OUTGOINGS IN THAILAND     CHAING MAI
HOUSE      6,000
ELECTRIC      500
FOOD AT 300 PER DAY     9,000
GYM     900
PETROL     1,000
PULSE TV     1,000
INTERNET AND PHONE     210
MASSAGES ETC AT 2,500 PER WEEK     10,000
TOTAL OUT PER MONTH IN THAILAND     28,610

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