If you are between 5'7" and 5"10 and less than 180 lbs you are below average in size, since the average height for white men in most countries is 5"10 and the average weight around 180 lbs.

That's all I'm saying really.

You get cheats ...

I run 2 AC in night , and 1 AC most of the day ... Also cooking home food and keep outside light open all night ... i pay on average 4 000 - 5 000 bath montly ..

this thread was getting a bit too serious

dont expect thai lady to look like this in thailand ...

How many aircon units do you have in the house?

It is entirely possible that your landlord has tampered with the meter, or someone has tapped into your electricity supply and is stealing it.

I have paid as much as 4500 baht @6b/unit) for a month of electricity use in a studio a few years back, but I was literally running my AC on the coldest setting 24 hours a day to achieve that.

It's not hard to see how a house with multiple aircon units could use 1500 units in a month, but if you say you are not using aircon that often then I'd get your meter checked out.

A good way to save money on Drinking and party ...

Bring your bottle to the club or bar ... Will cost you 200-400 bath of fee Or Give few drink to the manager + staff and have frendly time

Usualy the wine is 3 x the prize and wisky 2 - 2.5 x the prize

i'll take the 2 on the right pls ty

this in bkk?

can you bring bottles to clubs in bkk, ha just would feel so cheap if i did that, being a farang n all. But if there no taboo, ill get a few grey goose n belivere from duty free

peoples,

where are those muy thai gyms that you have mentioned? what kind of prices do they offer?

they aint really been talked about i mentioned a few. Your looking @ 400 bhat per lesson for a top gym. Some do were yo buy 10 lessons ticket at once for 300bhat. if you get a month contract it works out cheaper

im not on my laptop but ask me later tonight or tomorrow and i can send you some links to the gym.

I think 50k baht u can live very good in Thailand.
We pay 20k bth for house 2bed+1small bed, swiming pol so its 10k per person, utilities is 2k per person, i eat mostly out, average 100 baht per meal so its about 10-13k, groceries 3-5k, visa 2-3k.
So u have about 20k left for party, gym, cinema whatever.
I live in Phuket.

http://bangkokfightclub.com/1/index....mid=18&lang=en

225 baht/lesson if you go 20 times/month

no one would even look twice if they saw you doing that. pretty standard.

Ok so you mentioned a 2+2 night out before. Why don't you organise one for end of August? I presume you are in bkk by then?

Not a gclub as they can get very expensive and tht may put soe ppl off.

They are everywhere in Thailand, all with different quality of training/english ability but in general have a pretty high standard of training as you would expect, at least from my experience. Standard rates seem to be 8k-10k/month.

I'd prefer the two on the right aswell, but if it's for free I suppose I could suffice with the two on the left if I had to You never know, those two might look worse, but give better BJ's.



Have a few nitpicks to add to the guy that responded to my post in detail a page or two back.

First, I used to eat at a place every day that gave an entire meal for around 80 cents. More then enough to fill any of us here for at least a few hours. Also you refer to $1 portions, and then say people need to eat 3 of them to fill up. I disagree with that, but even if I did agree with it you then did the math of

100bahtx3. 100baht isn't $1, it's more like $3. So the whole day might be 300 baht, for 3 full meals a day, but not for each meal individually.

As for clubs, you listed a cover charge of 400 baht, the clubs I used to go to were just 100 baht a night cover, and 200 baht on the weekends. It's possible they have doubled in price in the 2 1/2 years since I was last there, but I doubt it.

I suppose that's mostly all small details though.

I'd say the main thing to people considering coming to Thailand for the first time is this.

If you can afford at least $700-$1000 a month or thereabouts, and don't really enjoy life wherever it is that you are currently, then come to Thailand, you will still have enough money to have a pretty solid time, and should definitely be happier over all then wherever it is you are coming from.

If you can afford even more then that, and would prefer to party 4-7 nights a week, and go a bit wild with the spending, then expect to spend more then that.

All I am saying, is that depending on your needs/wants and your preferences, it is totally possible to be happy in Bangkok/Thailand on as little as say $700 a month or so, depending on what kind of person you are.

You guys that feel you personally need 3-4k USD a month, to be happy in Thailand, that's great for you.

I'm just trying to make sure potential new comers don't get discouraged when they see those numbers, and that they realize they can be happy here on a budget.

yeah thats good value for everything but the thai boxing unless your a beginner in it imo. I asked my trainer at the gym, he said that you should pay the extra and get taught at gyms were the pad men were exp stadium champions. Not doubting the guy who trains at the link you sent credentials, but there better people to train from. It all comes down too how much your willing to spend.

I might go and ask if I can watch a lesson at that place, see what it look, i could be wrong, i hope I am

yeah that is what ive seen across the board. cheapest with jittis gym @300 bhat per lesson.
im here in 2weeks, we could do one end of july if we can get enough numbers. 27th or 28th. ill bring some printed HH to go over, and download pokerstove app on my iphone

Aug is fine too tho

aye wel if u get one sorted 4 end of july then just have another end of august. from a selfish pov i am back in bkk on around the 20th August.

You will need an adams apple spotter with you though.....

in my 2 bedroom apt/penthouse in phuket, we were extremely careful, running it only at night closing all the doors, cooling only the rooms in which we were, spending most of the time at the office and still ran a 5k baht electricity bill.

Well if they miss that, I'm pretty sure when they get naked in the bedroom they'll figure it out at that point at least

Pretty sure 175lb is pretty average for a dude haha, you said its 180 yourself, I'm all of 5 pounds below then. Dunno, street food works for me, not stuffed or anything but enough. Guess if you are a bigger guy you may need more.

August prob better for me too
lol why do we need a adams apple spotter, if your caring about that chit you ob not been drinking enough!!!!!

And what qualifies Americans as the standard?


As far as I’m concerned, I get a soup and a complete meal in small restaurants on the side of the road for 40baht. 50 baht is the large size. Get two of them for 100 baht and you’ll be full. I’m not talking about shietty food stands or dirty restaurant. An actual clean establishment with decent food. Pricier (lol) places serve these plates for 60-80 baht.

Sets are expensive on relative basis. If you pick out things on the value meal you can get like 5 burgers and fries for the price of a set. Beef in thailand tends to be real iffy tho.

@ PeoplesElbow

Sir, I think you just became every Thai Ladyboys new favorite farang.

Congratz on that honor

hi everyone, when i resigned my lease in october i set it up to end on july 15th in case i wanted to leave vegas to go play online, by november my mind was made up that i was gonna go and had decided on the philippines for a variety of reasons

well now the time is basically here and my bankroll is not where i hoped it would be, but it is at an amount i am comfortable giving it a go on (mainly because i cant take another day of live poker)

anyways i need to live as cheaply as possible and the apartments in the $200-$300 a month range in PI dont look anywhere near as nice as the same priced condos in pataya and im assuming (just making this decision tonight havent had a chance to check them out yet) that you can get some pretty nice places in chiang mei in that range

ive read the entire PI thread 1.5 times (read all the post black friday posts twice) and have spent tons of other hours researching PI, but that may have all been for nothing, so i need to get as much info on thailand as possible in the next 2 weeks

if anyone has any suggestions on how to go about this please let me know, i dont want to bog this thread down with all the questions that have been asked so many times before (on a side note i think it would be great if someone made like a master post with all those answers that we could refer people to, i dont know enough to be that someone however) particularly posts about the immigration (got that link already by asking earlier) and the banks/pokerstars/no neteller/moneybookers or whatever situation looks like a pain in the ass to figure out as well

what are some other thailand forums so i can go there and annoy them with questions instead of you guys?

and what are some of the main differences between thai culture and philippino culture? for instance i keep reading about how in PI no one is ever on time, simple tasks take 4 times longer than they should, expect to wait in long lines for everything..... is it the same in thailand?

i need to learn as much stuff as possible as quick as possible so please try and point me in the right direction, thanks

o and for PI there is a site sulit.ph for apartment searches, what is that site for thailand? and is it even worth looking at or do they quote wrong prices and put up fake photos like people say they do in the PI thread?

thanks again, i apologize in advance for when u start to get annoyed by my questions