Thread: How to live in the LoS for about $600./mo.

Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen

Any other "useful" suggestions,...por favor?

Don't fart in the shower ...

Originally Posted by Switch

After paying for house and bike/car rent credit, health cover, plus utilities, one can live comfortably on 30k a week anywhere in the kingdom.

FTFY

Originally Posted by David48atTD

FTFY

I know in Serbia you can live like a king and shag gypsy women for $600 a month. I'm doing it right now.

Originally Posted by YourDaddy

I know in Serbia you can live like a king and shag gypsy women for $600 a month. I'm doing it right now.

#jealous

Eastern European women rock

Dont be David, YD is sponging off his wife who is Thai not at all like your photo... You know the one with the wire...

David, as I said comfortably. I am single so I don’t have a family or a partner to support. My needs are modest and I dontquaff wine and eat steak every night, otherwise I would be as big as butterfly’s ego.
Thirty k a week. Have some restraint man ffs.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

#jealous

Eastern European women rock

.once she’s once she’s trapped you, all that underarm and leg hair will reappear. Over 30 and that body will turn into jelly.

You have been warned.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

Eastern European women rock

I was in Serbia and Slovenia last summer.
Didn't see any women that looked anywhere close to those 2 above^

Talk about living cheaply: I spent 10 days in Sumatra back in September.
The rupiah had dropped by 45% the week before I went.
The ATM would only give out 1,500,000 rupiah.
I called my debit card bank to ask them to let me have more as that is only $90 US (for a week of traveling around the island?)
So, they allowed me to get another million and a half rupiah.
Guess what? I didn't need it all
And I stayed in nice places, although I did camp out in the jungle on my guided trek.

Didn't see any farangs there but I would think if you wanted to live cheaply, that would be about as cheap as Nepal or Bangladesh.
People were very friendly everywhere I went. saw more churches than mosques although I believe that was just the area I was in (central Sumatra, and lake Toba areas)

Originally Posted by pseudolus

https://www.ddproperty.com/en/proper...=ls%7C%7C4%7C1

pseudolus: I agree with what you're saying. There are a bunch of "economical" rental properties that are available on the web, however, Caveat Emptor.

From my personal experience circa '16/17 web search for suitable properties that met my specifications/druthers. Found approximately 30+ properties that passed my checklist. Sorted/selected/weeded out and got my list down to about 20 possibles. Telephone calls = only about 10 are still available.

Arranged visits for reviews. First one - what a disaster, termites, broken windows, doors off hinges, two minutes and out. Second one, next door to a motorcycle repair shop. No noise at the inspection, but, tomorrow?, wife vetoed, didn't like exterior. Next up, next door to roosters, loud volume crowing every 3-5 minutes - no way, number four, sewage smell "temporary?" didn't bother to find out, number five close to Islamic mosque, "call to prayers" five times a day - sorry, no. Number six - transportation, ain't no way I'm driving my car around the potholes in the access road - bound to break the suspension. Anyway, for all the pretty pictures and nice write-ups I found on the web - "dogs".

Finally selected a 3 bed, 2 bath "overpriced" house that was clean. Landlord was, and probably still is, an asshole - so be it, water under the bridge.

Anyway - point I'm trying to make is "what is advertised - well, ain't what it seems. You do get what you pay for. A cheap property that is available may well have fleas...

Originally Posted by bowie

Anyway - point I'm trying to make is "what is advertised - well, ain't what it seems. You do get what you pay for. A cheap property that is available may well have fleas...

Indeed but that was one of about 15,000 properties. Outside of the big cities, its easy to get an "acceptable" place to live on that sort of budget.

Originally Posted by bowie

next door to a motorcycle repair shop. No noise at the inspection, but, tomorrow?, wife vetoed, didn't like exterior. Next up, next door to roosters, loud volume crowing every 3-5 minutes - no way,

There's a rooster hold in the middle of a Thai suburb that I often exercise/walk around. Thai style townhouses crammed in together all around it. Must be around 100 of the fookers in there, the sort of 4am cacophony they create isn't worth thinking about. How the 1000 or so Thais living within 200 meters of them haven't firebombed the place I don't know.


There's a poster on here that was thinking of buying a house in Hua Hin. Rented it for 1 year first with the rent fully paid up at the start. 6 months in the neighbour opened up a fookin' pig farm going around the side and rear of the property.

He had to ditch it with 6 months left of the rent already paid.


Wouldn't buy a house here anyway, certainly not one with a fokload of land between the abode and the local Thais.

Originally Posted by Luigi

Wouldn't buy a house here anyway, certainly not one with a fokload of land between the abode and the local Thais.

This. My coworker - house, kid, wife - was going bonkers over the noisy neighbors. Most miserable guy I met in Thailand, could tell he just wanted to do a runner ASAP.

I get 3 months off in summer, I'd be willing to give this a crack for one month.

does the 600 a month include visa/health insurance ?

^I think they said in the original video it did not. The lack of health insurance would really bother me, currently, my plan through work covers me worldwide apart from the USA. I think it would be foolish to be without good cover- one hospital stay could land you in a world of debt.

Yeah, health insurance is the deal-breaker for low budgets, and then there are visa & travel expenses.

superdude could get by on $570 a month if he gave up the internet

Surely we could help him out with a collection in that case?

Originally Posted by Switch

After paying for house and bike/car rent credit, health cover, plus utilities, one can live comfortably on 30k a month anywhere in the kingdom.

After paying for house and bike/car rent credit, health cover, plus utilities, food, beer, hookers, internet, phone, computer, tablet, cable TV, some tourism, a trip back home twice a year, gifts to the beggars, buffalo vet bills, a trip to the cinema once per week, taxi fares, clothing, one can live comfortably on 30k a month anywhere in the kingdom.

Originally Posted by TizMe

I can live comfortably on USD $30k a month anywhere in the kingdom.

hmm... FTFM

Originally Posted by TizMe

After paying for house and bike/car rent credit, health cover, plus utilities, food, beer, hookers, internet, phone, computer, tablet, cable TV, some tourism, a trip back home twice a year, gifts to the beggars, buffalo vet bills, a trip to the cinema once per week, taxi fares, clothing, one can live comfortably on 30k a month anywhere in the kingdom.

I have no buffalo, and sat tv and internet were included in the rent. Apart from that, fill yer boots.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

If you get a chance, visit Odessa, Ukraine. August is a good month.

Stunning. If a super model hasn't walked by in 5 mins, wait a little longer and two will wander past.

No Chinese tour groups, very few Westerners, just local Lassies and Ruskie tourists.

Kiev is OK, Lviv over near Poland is pretty, but it's Odessa for the Hotties

You might want to check the latest news, or even FCO advice before travel to Ukraine. Just saying