Originally Posted by
Texpat
You can look at the plan (first pic) it's about 200 sq/m (2,000 sqf), 3bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. My wife (of 6 years) and I saw this plan in a design book shortly after we got married. We swapped the entire upstairs to put the MBR on the east side of the house -- cooler. And turned a poxy little sitting room into a walk-in closet. Hard to say how much it was, actually. We bought the land in 2001 and shifted our savings to LOS every year since then. (In '01, $1 was about 42B, today it's 33B) Cost averaging is a good idea. House and land was slightly less than 4m. Include alcohol required to survive the experience, significaltly more.
No swimming pool in plans -- that's what neighbors are for. Convince them to build/maintain one, then go to their place with a bottle of Red. You'll gain/Walk in the long run.
Plan: storage shed for bicycles, lawn mower, tools, shovels, rakes, gf.
If it's too antiseptic for you, to each his own. This is my retirement house. It ain't a palace, but I'm comfortable here. I'm 43 and have no job so I can putz around all day in the garden -- or not.
PS: Never invest more in Thailand than you can afford to lose.