Where To Live Or Not To Live In Bkk

[intumult]

A friend is coming to Thailand next month and has asked me where would be a good place to live in BKK. He wants to stay for 6 months or so but has a limit of 10k baht a month or less for rent.

So I said I would ask those with more experience of living in BKK.

I see from the classifieds here on TV plenty of places but do not know if the areas are 'undesirable' or not.

Where would you live / not live in BKK on a budget of 10k baht or under? And why?

[allane]

Bangkok does not have zoning laws as we know them in the west, so it is hard to classify vast areas as "desireable" or "undesireable" based on property values and the types of people associated with various qualities of properties. You will find mansions next to slums in all areas of the city.

Housing prices are corelated with incomes. With a few exceptions (depending on distance from city centre), you will find two price levels: 5000 - 10,000/month, and over 25,000 per month. There is not much between 10,000 and 25,000.(I presume here that your friend is looking to rent an aparetment, not a house).

What Thai people refer to as an apartment is what we in the west would call a studio apartment or hotel room - a single room with attached bath and no kitchen facilities. This is what you typically get for 5 - 10,000/month.

Apartments with one bedroom are aimed mainly at the foreign market, and generally located in the central area, which I would define here as within walking distance of the BTS Skytrain or MRTA Subway.

[jaiyenyen]

I have a 3 bedroomed house for rent between Saphan Mai and Don Meuang. It's in a small Moo Baan with security. Plenty of public transport, and Skytrain at Mo Chit is about 30mins away. 9000 baht per month.

PM me if you are interested.

Regards

Jaiyenyen

[Super Hans]

http://www.mrroomfinder.com/

http://www.click4apartment.com/

http://www.thaiapartment.com/ or http://www.acuterealty.com/

http://www.easyhorpak.com/

http://9apartment.com/

Nicked from a rival site. Why on earth isn't this sort of basic information pinned? It's an absolute disgrace. The mods prefer fascism to helpful information.

Shame on them.

[Super Hans]

There's also a publication that lists all rooms under about 30k/month. It's available in Bookazines and is excellent. I wish I'd have found it when I first came here.

The information this forum provides on Bangkok is pretty poor.

[surface]

There's also a publication that lists all rooms under about 30k/month. It's available in Bookazines and is excellent. I wish I'd have found it when I first came here.

The information this forum provides on Bangkok is pretty poor.

A publication? Just go to an area you like and walk around if you want to find a room.

Most Thai style rooms I've seen are between 2k - 5k. The 5k - 10k apartments and condos are more focused towards the English teachers and higher paid office workers.

Back to the OP, ideal areas are anything along the Skytrain and MRT lines if your friend wants to be able to get around easily and avoid the insane traffic as much as possible. It's easy to find studios apartments (which often times are advertised as 1 bedrooms), harder to find true 1 bedroom or 2 bedroom apartments, unless your looking at renting a condo. In that price range he can likely find a 1 bedroom in a condo towards the ends of the Sukhumvit skytrain line, or along Ratchada (MRT), or a 1 room studio anywhere along the lines, though it's much harder in the very central business and toursit areas.

[RAZZELL]

http://www.mrroomfinder.com/

http://www.click4apartment.com/

http://www.thaiapartment.com/ or http://www.acuterealty.com/

http://www.easyhorpak.com/

http://9apartment.com/

Nicked from a rival site. Why on earth isn't this sort of basic information pinned? It's an absolute disgrace. The mods prefer fascism to helpful information.

Shame on them.

I think if you bothered to look in the Real Estate forum you'd find it is

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/FAQ-Links-Ac...ing-t84765.html

Which leads to this...a rather longer list than yours :D

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Rental-Websites-t34228.html

RAZZ

Edited July 25, 2008 by RAZZELL

[intumult]

Thanks for the replies and I'll follow the links to see what is what