Tens of thousands of westerners live in Thailand on less than 30,000 baht a month.
The Majority of Thais live on half that much.
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yes you can get 3 meals at a restaurant for 350baht but can you do that for a month?
I'm not really even sure what this means. Do you get tired of eating after a month?
Or can you not live without eating at a 5-star restaurant twice a week?
I've been to Thailand 6 times and I don't remember ever paying more than 200 baht for a meal, usually it's more like 60 baht.
The advice given out in this thread vastly overestimates the cost of living in Thailand. The guys who are living in Bangkok and paying 45,000 baht a month each just for rent are not people who should be giving out any advice about anything imo.
As I said before, if you come to Thailand and live a lifestyle similar to what you live at home, then it will be much, much cheaper.
Obviously though if you are coming to Thailand with the intention of living in a mansion, going to hostess clubs three times a week, and eating in 5-star restaurants every night, then it will cost more than $1000 usd per month.
But if you don't do that in your home country, then it's not really a valid comparison, is it?
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you don't need anything else? you don't rent motorbike? you get gasoline/other transportation for free?
No, I don't rent a motorbike.
Only an idiot would pay 4000 baht per month/200 baht per day for a motorbike that you can
buy outright for 10,000 baht. I own my motorbike. Gas costs about 100 baht a week.
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seriously, putting the basic needs on a paper does not mean same things as budget for living.
It pretty much does actually. Once you have tallied up your costs for accommodation, utilities, food, and transport, that is what you call a living budget.
An approxiamate average cost for a westerner in Thailand who lives in a normal manner and wants a good internet connection is something like this:
Accommodation: 6-10,000 baht.
Utilities - 2-3000 baht.
Food - 10-15,000 baht.
Transport - 500-1000 baht.
All up you are looking at about 25,000 baht, and that's the high end of things. That's less than $700 usd.
Obviously your entertainment budget is going to be additional to that, but there's no point trying to estimate that because it could be anywhere from zero to million baht per month, depending on what you do. Better to just post the cost of drinks/girls etc and let people work it out for themselves.
Last edited by PokerSpiv; 06-27-2009 at 02:45 AM.