I'll be embarking on a new journey in life and will be moving to Thailand later this year. After exhaustive research into all the usual farang retirement destinations, I've decided I will start out in Bangkok and take things from there. I lived in BKK fo 5 months in 2004 so I'm quite familiar with BKK and all its trappings.

I'll rent at first unil when and if I find a city suitable to stay in permanently then perhaps buy a place.

Those of you here on this board living in a studio, do you find yourself comfortable in a studio room? They range in size from 32 to 46 sq/m seems most common. Seems to me that's pretty much like living in a hotel room. Got to believe those walls start closing in rather quickly.

Perusing all the rental websites for BKK, seems I'll need to plunk down about 20K baht for a real one bedroom 60+ sq/m or so place. Along the skytrain routes anyway. I can afford that no problem but would rather spend less on rent if I can.

Edited January 2, 200620 yr by Brian2056

its the low ceiling height that gets to you, thais dont need much headroom ,but farangs do