Perfect Location Between Chattuchak And Min Buri. Need Help!

[DismasX]

Hello,

we looking for rent a house in Bangkok from august this year. Our kids should visit the german international school in Min Buri. We must start work at 09.00 very near BTS Siam Square. One of our kids has a problem with smog, have a sick (asthma), so it's very important to live on more green place without smog.

Our idea is to find a location between Chattuchak near (BTS Mo Chit) and the school in Min Buri. So we can go with taxi to the next BTS-Station and the kids can go with taxi or schoolbus. It were perfekt, if the place is nearly half way between this points, that we can arrive the BTS in a time under one our and the kids don't need more than about 40 min to arrive the school. Anyone has a idea, what locations are good to provide all that? And we were very grateful, if you can say us the times we need for both ways from this location?

Thanks very much,

Stefan

[thaihome]

Drive out Ram Intra Road, there are many housing developments along the way.

TH

[asanee]

start with the obvious: look at a map.

the direct road Chatuchak-Minb goes via Lard prao-Bangkapi, then either sukpahiban 1 or 2; ALL are VERY much clogged up with traffic in the peak hours=when you want to go to work and school. bangkapi is just as traffic-jammed and clogged up as central BKK: but it has great shopping. Ch-chak-Minb, even in light traffic, can easily take over 1 hour by bus!

the Ram Inidra road also runs straight into Minb from the far west (starts at Pak Kred, crosses railway at bang Khen, but has other name there), and is often much quikcer (note that the BMA plans to use the central ways as a separate BUS rapid transit soon, so this may also lead to heavy traffic!), and as above says: has plenty of muu ban and other new housing (in all types, from low end thai flats to villa's) all along it, BUT getting to Ch-chak (or even the more close by subway) is very time-eating, again due to heavy traffic (route vi sena/bang Khen)

the newer alternative is the fairly new inner road between these 2, with also many new housing, it feeds into the Art narong expressway, hence to the EAST end of the BTS=skytrain at Onnnut=for a daily transit the better/quicker (not the cheaper!) way. have non idea if that schoolbus would also serve there=-youll have to ask them. Sorry, have no map at hand here, so cannot recall the name on maps for that.

[bkk_mike]

I believe the school you're thinking of is on Ramkamhaeng road.

If you want to take the Skytrain to Siam, then I'd say the expressway down to the Sukhumvit 50 exit (On Nut station) is infinitely preferable to trying to get to Mo Chit every day, although parking can be expensive. The expressway will be a lot faster than trying to go over surface roads.

(That expressway is actually being extended to the outer ring road at the moment.)

i.e. I'd think you have several options currently, with a couple others in the future.

i.e. somewhere like Nawamin road (the road asanee mentioned), esp. near Sukhapiban 1 or near the expressway itself. - Nawamin would be very easy to get to the expressway, and they;re building a new road from Sukhapiban 1 to the Ramindra road, just south of Fashion Island at the moment, so the kids could go along that, then double back to the junction with the outer ring road to get to Ramkamhaeng road. - or out to the Ram Indra road on the road beside the expressway, then south along Ram Indra to the outer ring road, as that stretch, heading in that direction, is pretty good in the mornings.

Alternatively, down near Sukhumvit 50 yourselves (pollutions not as bad as in the very centre) Although that would mean a fairly long trek for the kids (along On Nut road, then the Outer Ring Road)

If the expressway extension was to open by August - (think it's this year, not certain it will be August though), Sukhapiban 5 would work, or one of the moo bans near Safari World, as you could take the expressway in, while the kids go down the Outer ring road to Ramkamhaeng.

The most interesting might be to find out when the airport link is going to open though as there will be commuter stations on that line. That will have trains going in to join up with the Skytrain a couple of stops from Siam. And you'd have either the Outer ring road or Rom Klao road as ways to get to Ramkamhaeng from the area near the airport. This would even raise the possibility of living quite near the school, and you travelling to a station near the airport.

Edited March 28, 2008 by bkk_mike

[Spaniel]

Our son attends Ruamrudee International School which shares the same campus as the Swiss/German school in Minburi. Directly behind the school there is a very large housing estate, Perfect Place, where many parents of students and teachers from both RIS and the Swiss/German school live. These single houses are large and rent in the B25,000+ range. A cheaper alternative would be to rent a townhouse in the developement directly in front of the school. These can be rented for around B10,000 per month. I suggest this alternative, as then your kids could either walk or bike to the school, then you would only have your own problem of getting to work. You mentioned air quality being a concern. The school in in a very rural setting and the air quality if very good. Post again if you want more details or PM me.

[realmadrid25]

OP your kids will go to school in minburi, you work at siam square and you want to live near mochit? have you ever looked at a map of bkk or visited the place?

[ralfbkk]

Our son attends Ruamrudee International School which shares the same campus as the Swiss/German school in Minburi. Directly behind the school there is a very large housing estate, Perfect Place, where many parents of students and teachers from both RIS and the Swiss/German school live. These single houses are large and rent in the B25,000+ range. A cheaper alternative would be to rent a townhouse in the developement directly in front of the school. These can be rented for around B10,000 per month. I suggest this alternative, as then your kids could either walk or bike to the school, then you would only have your own problem of getting to work. You mentioned air quality being a concern. The school in in a very rural setting and the air quality if very good. Post again if you want more details or PM me.

I can only agree to this, as we live in Perfect Place and like it very much. Excellent enviroment with a large club house with pool etc., plus there is a lake and lots of greens and little parks here and there, some with play grounds too. Perfect Place is very secure and there are also no street vendors allowed nor do we have shops and restaurants here. In German you would probably say it is a bit like "Entenhausen" but it is definitaly a good place, with lots of good and nice neighbours, either educated wealthier Thai Chinese or Foreigners, mostly Europeans.

I work in upper Sukhumvit and drive the 20kms every morning, which sometimes takes me an 1 hour or so, but it is worth it, because Perfect Place has a lot of rewards.

PM me for further information's.

[khun_j]

entenhausen - i really had to smile reading that, ralf ))

one more thing: i don´t know how old your kids are, but they can safely (!) cycle to school from perfect place. there is a back gate directly from perfect to the school area. the german school starts 7.30, so if your kids leave home around 7 a.m., there is still more than enough time for you two to get to work.

[khun_j]

forgot this, i case you didn´t have it already lots of houses, i wish we would have had this kind of link when we moved here...

http://www.bangkokfinehome.com/

[Spaniel]

Our son attends Ruamrudee International School which shares the same campus as the Swiss/German school in Minburi. Directly behind the school there is a very large housing estate, Perfect Place, where many parents of students and teachers from both RIS and the Swiss/German school live. These single houses are large and rent in the B25,000+ range. A cheaper alternative would be to rent a townhouse in the developement directly in front of the school. These can be rented for around B10,000 per month. I suggest this alternative, as then your kids could either walk or bike to the school, then you would only have your own problem of getting to work. You mentioned air quality being a concern. The school in in a very rural setting and the air quality if very good. Post again if you want more details or PM me.

I can only agree to this, as we live in Perfect Place and like it very much. Excellent enviroment with a large club house with pool etc., plus there is a lake and lots of greens and little parks here and there, some with play grounds too. Perfect Place is very secure and there are also no street vendors allowed nor do we have shops and restaurants here. In German you would probably say it is a bit like "Entenhausen" but it is definitaly a good place, with lots of good and nice neighbours, either educated wealthier Thai Chinese or Foreigners, mostly Europeans.

I work in upper Sukhumvit and drive the 20kms every morning, which sometimes takes me an 1 hour or so, but it is worth it, because Perfect Place has a lot of rewards.

PM me for further information's.

OP: Their is your answer. Move into Perfect Place and drive with him to upper Sukuhmvit every morning. From upper Sukhumvit take the trtain to Siam Center.

[rgs2001uk]

forgot this, i case you didn´t have it already lots of houses, i wish we would have had this kind of link when we moved here...

http://www.bangkokfinehome.com/

any comment is of course a waste of time, but i suppose someone has to make a living.

pick up a thai language magazine, or drive round the areas you are interested in and you will get a much better deal.

i know 3 bedroom houses for rent in thai moobahns for 10,000 per month that are about 20 minutes drive to minburi by the way of sukapiban 2, and closer to the underground at lad praw.

[chatette]

Having lived nearby Ruam Rudee School for about 10 years and having undertaken the horror commute of driving too and from central Bangkok all that time, I'd recommend finding a housing estate nearby the airport skytrain link. Until it opens, you will have to either taxi or take one of the many commuter van services downtown. Once it does open, you will have a straight run. Somewhere with a skytrain stop nearby Rom Klao road or the outer ring road would mean you can travel easily and your children are not spending dreadful hours commuting too and fro, also.

Another option would be Perfect Place behind the school and taxi too and from the skytrain stop morning and night using Rom Klao Road