On 7/21/2022 at 2:20 AM, Lacessit said:

I average 55,000 baht per month, that's living as I want to. I could probably pull it back to 30-35K a month without a GF. She's not a big spender, but it all adds up.

The Australian pension is about 48,000 /month on current exchange rates, I don't have much slack to pick up with investment income.

IMO life would a lot more expensive in Pattaya and Bangok, Chiang Rai is cheaper on a number of fronts.

Whats Chiang Rai now compared to 10 years ago?

1 minute ago, Sparktrader said:

Whats Chiang Rai now compared to 10 years ago?

Much better now they have a by-pass .

Cars can bypass the town and go straight to CM without clogging up CR town roads

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If tanker and mining stocks are such a sure dividend play, why do institutions and pensions never buy them?

 

Unfortunately I invested in travel stocks just before Covid 

Flight Centre,Webjet etc ????????

I live on that up here in issan no problem depends on your life style we have a beautiful house 2 motorbikes and a new car what else do you want if you are happy    I'll have beer when I want and cook our own grown food and buy farang food couldn't do that in Australia on the pension and we travel around Thailand resorts are cheap if your wife negotiates a price stayed at Chiang khan and it was 500bht a night in a new resort you couldn't get that in Australia

6 hours ago, ozz1 said:

I live on that up here in issan no problem depends on your life style we have a beautiful house 2 motorbikes and a new car what else do you want if you are happy    I'll have beer when I want and cook our own grown food and buy farang food couldn't do that in Australia on the pension and we travel around Thailand resorts are cheap if your wife negotiates a price stayed at Chiang khan and it was 500bht a night in a new resort you couldn't get that in Australia

Hotels are 5x higher in oz

23 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Their share price has nearly halved in the last  four months 

7% up today

Living somewhere is not the same as being on holiday. There is a different mentality. Know one goes to bars everyday back home. Maybe 1-2 times a week at best!  Going to googo bars would be like an occasional strip club at home. I don’t do that more than once every couple of months. 

 

Inflation is everywhere. It is why local people to a country are looking to move to a cheaper country to stretch out their dollars (partly driving up prices where they land).

 

So yes, 50k is doable unless you are a local living on a local salary in which case, you would be looking to move to a cheaper country than your own.

 

Most expats (with foreign income stream) should be fine with the weak baht offsetting some of the inflation.