Is This A Good Cost Of Living Figure?

[stanny]

Hi all,

I am coming to Malaysia on a very tight budget to stay for a month and was wondering are my figures roughly correct?

Rent: 7000

Internet: 750

Utilities: They write 18 BHT per unit for water and 6 BHT per unit for electricity. Not sure how much is this but I figure around 1000 per month.

Food: I plan to eat cheaply. Say 5000 enough?

Entertainment: Don't plan too much on this as I mainly came here to work. Probaly 10000.

Other costs, travel, etc: 2000

So roughly around 25k BHT a month. Is that a good ballpark figure?

[bino]

I am coming to Malaysia

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[stanny]

Ops sorry, what I meant was from Malaysia. Going to Bangkok.

[sgunn65]

there are numerous threads on here (some raging as we speak) that will give you chapter and verse on this subject. Obviously you will have to skirt around the "unless you are immensely wealthy like me don't come here" brigade and pick through the thousands of answers that will tell you why your figure is too low/high but ignoring all the "I couldn't live on less than..." threads you will find out a reasonably good guide to what things cost.

When I was working out what I needed i went through loads of threads with a pen and paper at my side and at the end of it had a pretty accurate estimation of my needs (which, incidentally, came out at 60K for comfortable living) but bear in mind I am not you.

The bottom line is you can get by on 25K but....................................

[observer21]

Hi all,

I am coming to Malaysia on a very tight budget to stay for a month and was wondering are my figures roughly correct?

Rent: 7000

Internet: 750

Utilities: They write 18 BHT per unit for water and 6 BHT per unit for electricity. Not sure how much is this but I figure around 1000 per month.

Food: I plan to eat cheaply. Say 5000 enough?

Entertainment: Don't plan too much on this as I mainly came here to work. Probaly 10000.

Other costs, travel, etc: 2000

So roughly around 25k BHT a month. Is that a good ballpark figure?

I dont know how you will get accommodation for only 7000 baht if you are only staying 1 month.

[meom]

Rent looks a bit cheap. I know you can rent for this amount but usually the figure applies to longterm , 6months and up and not for one month only.

[bino]

I think that the utilities look too low... especially if you will be using aircon and hot water. I'd figure on 2500 to 3000 for this, especially at the high rate of 6 baht per unit.

1000 would be ample if you aren't using A/C and hot water though.

[blizzard]

5$ a day room right off of thaniya road in silom. you get what you pay for though.................lol.