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Someone was telling me its much more to live in BKK. Like 700-1kusd/month for a small 55 sq m 1 bdrm and 160usd/month for electricity/internet. Like 2k/month total including food and 3-4k/month if you go out 3-4 nights/week.
This is way off IMO.
I understand that there are guys that feel they need to spend this much to have fun, but I suspect they've also never tried living cheaper.
I used to live in Bangkok off just $350-$400 a month, for all my costs total. I still went out once or twice a week, and had a decent apartment in a good location in the city. Now granted my apartment was just one room and a bathroom, so I suppose a studio, but room was medium sized, in a good location in the city, and only ran me about $150 a month.
Now I don't recommend living that cheaply, but honestly I still enjoyed my life over all, still ate plenty of good food, drank plenty of good drink, had some good times, and still got laid fairly often.
When I go back there I expect to live off of about 1k USD a month, and I am sure that will be solid.
Probably something like $400-$500 for accommodation costs (including all utilities and internet,) $200 for food + phone + transportation (not including food/transportation for nights out in this figure,) and $300-$400 for going out, which probably is enough for 2 - 3 solid nights out a week (I'm a young, reasonably attractive guy, I expect that taking a girl out/buying her some drinks at the club or what not will be plenty for getting laid, shouldn't need to hire the services of professionals.)
Sounds like a good, solid, balanced enjoyable life to me.