Is the rent in the south of Phuket a lot more expensive than Bangkok?

In the last few pages I have seen people quoting rent prices of under 10K TBH and even under 5K TBH per month.

I have been researching for ages and I havent found anything under 20K TBH that looks even remotely livable. Is it just that the ones advertised on the internet are twice the price or something?

Im not after a baller apartment, but then again Im not planning on travelling to the other side of the world to live in an apartment that that I wouldnt even consider living in if it were back home.

after a drunken out i went out and yes i did it bought a maccies. it was the most expensive meal I had in my whole trip.

@ITT666, im just open minded, there just the same as anyone else at the end of the day, just made up from atoms, oxygen, hydrogen etc. Our mind just adds these labels too them and we dig too much into it and see them as something hideous.

Dont get me wrong Im not gay, nor would i go out my way to hook up with a ladboy, but if i woke up in the morning and she was spooning me and I felt her b0ner up against my back, i would just laugh out loud at the whole situation






@stuzero, I have been told its best to go to Bangkok and walk around to find apartments for lower cheaper prices. the online sites are usually inflated prices for farang.I would guess the same applies to phuket.

I see your point. And I know it's been debated back in forth in this thread before, the costs of living in Thailand. I would just argue that some of the estimates of like 4k or something USD per month are based on a lifestyle that most people coming over here are not going to be living. Ya you will blast through a lot in your first month, everybody does. But I think once you settle down, find a place and start living here, unless you were ballin outta control back in your home country, you will probably revert to normal spending habits and you won't need anywhere near some of the amounts being listed in this thread.

Yeah I always figured that, but what I wasn't expecting was to find things inflated by a factor of 2-4. i,e, If I found an apartment online for say 20K then if I walked around then Id be looking to get something similar for 15-18K something in that region, but not as low as 5-10K.

http://www.stickmanbangkok.com/Stick...-shark-man.htm

Ya for sure. Definitely better than vendors on the street. Mostly where I eat too. I call them diners, idk haha. Get a 40 baht fried rice or 50-60 baht curry chicken soup with rice, I'm easily filled.

Here's the thing.

The Philippines has almost literally zero infrastructure, as in literally... ZERO. Like imagine what you would consider to be the bare minimum infrastructure a country would need to function, then divide that by 5, now you are starting to get an image of the Philippines.

Thailand, has, for a SE Asian 3rd world country, reasonable infrastructure. There is still corruption aplenty and Farangs often pay extra for things but it's still much better then Philippines in the areas you mentioned.

In the Philippines it's as if there is a jackpot prize for whoever can be the most lazy, ineffective and incompetent and they are all clamoring for it 24/7. And it's not their fault, it's completely the fault of their government, that ****s them in the ass day and night, and expects them to just bend over and take it, and somehow they do. Trust me, any government that wants to figure out how to give it's people less then the bare minimum while ****ing them in the ass 24/7 and expecting them to still have **** eating grins on their faces at the end of the day, should take lessons in this from the Filipino government, because some how they have it down perfectly.

When u get to suvarnabhumi airport ask the taxi driver to take you immediately to sukhummvit soi c. ur gonan luv it!

http://thaiapartment.com

Here is a good site. It's extensive for Bangkog, Pattaya and Chaing Mai, so all the places you mentioned.

It doesn't really have the Islands in the south, other then a bit of Phuket, but you don't seem interested in those, so that's fine.

However, for anyone with experience with this site, I am also interested in knowing the answer to the second part of K2D's question, are the prices reliable or will they try to pull the old bait and switch, and give vastly higher prices when you actually contact them?

Phils isn't that bad FFS.

http://pattayacondoguide.com/

If anyone wants a 1 bedroom condo in bkk rent starting 20th of september pm me.

it's on rama 9 road and the building is called PG rama 9. usual stuff. gym swimming pool. It's small but nice as the lady has fitted everything new. price would depend on length of stay.

I have a very good truemove internet connection there that i would like to keep going so obv any1 here that would be interested would need that and so that would be included in the rent.

a bit early yet but i see a few people thinking about coming to bkk so just putting it out there.

Eh... my first paragraph is actually pretty spot on.

My third paragraph may be a bit of a rant, I'll admit, still not total bs though. Obv there are advantages there, especially for us white foreigners. But let's not kid ourselves, alot of the advantages we have, exist for us exactly because of the conditions I mentioned. At the end of the day, to some extent, we are exploiting the poverty, and misfortunes of the Filipino people.

Bollocks, I was there a few months back and whilst its not great your still exaggerating.

The Thailand thread is hardly the place to get into discussion about this in length, but what is it you think I am exaggerating on?

I suppose it's always possible, we could have had different experiences, and therefor different opinions.

But from my personal experiences there, those are my personal opinions.

Despite all of that though, I do still have plenty of things I enjoy about the Philippines and I do have every intention of returning there.

Dont see how u can live off $700 a month when rent and bills for the condo is almost as much.

I have no clue wat clubs your reffering to that charges u 100baht admission and 200baht on weekends.

you can prob get away with half the price in CM, but no way u can live off $700 a month in BKK and expect to go out 4-7 nights a week unless your sneaking booze in the club under your socks and stayin in a rape room with no A/C

Where do you guys go out all the time that spend 40k baht/month and going out 2-3 times per week? Even beers in most decent places are at least 120b.

I already posted my previous experiences living in Bangkok, in which I lived off of just $350 a month (half of $700,) and still went out a few times a week, and still got laid often. And my apartment not only had AC, but I was the very first person ever to stay in it, it was totally new and completely clean when I started renting it.

However I agree that most people would be very unhappy living that cheaply and don't recommend it to anyone.

If you can afford almost 1k a month however, i do think you could be quite happy in Bangkok, and certainly much happier then you might have been in some dead end life in the west.

@OTL

12 times a month is only 3.5k per night out, do that without thinking.

yeah i should have said in my post that 40k a month is going out once a week.

But i am now thinking i have got that wrong and it would be 50k a month with 1 night out a week. then 3-5k per extra night out on top of that. Can get pricey if ur a degen

I meant the guys that posted 40k as their total life budget. If I'm going to a few different bars and a club or two later its pretty damn hard to spend less than 3-4k baht.

You guys saying you need 40k a month just to go out, an honest question.

What do you spend most of that on?

If it's hookers or drugs i can understand, anything else and I just don't see where it is that you are spending so much more then I did when I was there.

haha hookers and drugs not all inclusive. add extra 2k/night per hooker, or 500baht if you go to hookers row which pretty good chance they have stds. as for drugs, depends how much u do, it gets pricey

If I go out on the p1ss, its 2k minimum before girls even even enter the equation.