We live in Isaan and I am considering moving permanently after this burning season.

 

The area I will be looking to move too should be smoke free or has minimal burning.

 

Shopping centres, schools and colleges should all be within a 25 kilometre radius, and it must be a coast area as I do enjoy the beaches for walks.

 

I am thinking Hua Hin, and am also open to any other suggestions.

 

Also thinking 20,000 to 30,000 rent per month should find me something decent for a family of 6 ?

Hua hin  it is...

Jomtien

Hua Hin Or bordering that to the south, Pranburi.

Rayong, Hat Mae Rampung beach

 

Chanthaburi? Plus beaches!

California!

Oh, wait a minute.....

I would say South Carolina.   Lol

Bang Saphan.

 

Mate, pay a few bucks more and live on the coast of the Andaman Sea. The polluted waters of the shi+bowl of SE Asia (aka the Gulf) is not safe for you or your kids. 

11 minutes ago, Nemises said:

Mate, pay a few bucks more and live on the coast of the Andaman Sea. The polluted waters of the shi+bowl of SE Asia (aka the Gulf) is not safe for you or your kids. 

I have to agree. The Andaman coast is the best. 

1 hour ago, Guderian said:

California!

Oh, wait a minute.....

For 20 to 30 k a month he could probably get a tent on skid row.

2 hours ago, Guderian said:

California!

Oh, wait a minute.....

Pattaya is already the Miami of Asia. 

OP,

I've lived in Hua Hin for almost 6 years now (only place I've lived in LOS since retiring in 2013).  For the most part I like Hua Hin though traveling by air from here can be a bit of a pain.  There is an airport but, as far as I know, the only commercial flights are Air Asia to Kuala Lampur.

 

On the other hand, there are 2 western style shopping malls (Market Village & Bluport) on Petchkasem Rd., 2 or 3 universities in the general area, the beach is relatively clean (by Thai standards anyway) but you can't swim in it unless you walk a good distance out from shore and the air is fairly clean as well (no significant burning any time of the year).  There's also a good private hospital in town but I don't have anything good to say about the gov't hospital here.

 

HH is a tourist town to some degree so, in my opinion anyway, rents are not cheap.  I'm paying 30,000B per month now for a small 3 bedroom/2 bath house not far from downtown in one of the nicest looking gated communities I've seen here.  Of course, if you have a car and are willing to live a few km further out you should get more value for your money with respect to living accommodations.

I've been watching for a while using http://aqicn.org/map/thailand/. The best area seems to be anything from Ranong to further south but they still get smog occasionally coming from Indonesia. 

 

I prefer Cha Am to Hua Hin if you are thinking going in that area. Cha Am is more like Thailand and cheaper. Hua Hin feels more like an European city to me and price are 3X.

Pratumnak

15 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

For 20 to 30 k a month he could probably get a tent on skid row.

I take it you would know ????

17 hours ago, Emeraldisle said:

I have to agree. The Andaman coast is the best. 

But 8 months monsoon a year

I've visited a friend who lives in Prachuap Khiri Khan and it's pretty nice.  Very nice beaches, Uncrowded, not overrun by tourist even in hi season, a good variety of restaurants, a few bars and very reasonable rents.

He rented a nice 3 bedroom, 120 sm house for about 20K/mo.

Here you go - Jomtien - I started a thread on this last year.

 

 

On 11/5/2019 at 5:54 PM, bkk6060 said:

For 20 to 30 k a month he could probably get a tent on skid row.

And he also will get free homeless people on the Street, needless and poop/urine everywhere. The state is literally the dump of America, state with most homeless people living on the street but also those damn <deleted> Hollywood <deleted> start living in expensive mansions, looks like a dump there, results when a state is runned by socialist who think they are experts just like most losers on this forum.

Pattaya. A little known family resort at the moment but the government

promotes it as a vice free resort unlike that den of inequity known as Hua Hin.

 

 

Krabi area.