Thread: Living in an ideal Thai 'moo baan'

Originally Posted by Perota

^ In Bangkok the term "moo ban" is also used for a gated communities that fit the description of what Hillbilly customers' are looking for.

You're missing the connection.....most do.

Originally Posted by Iceman123

I find the idea of a group of Merkins wanting to set up camp in phitsanulok kind of absurd - why would they FFS

Where does it say Americans want to do it mate?

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Post #1 and #13 seem to point to the market not many Thais buying American design a homes in an American designed village for 10 mill.

^ Yet that seems to be who wants them. Next to the new Central Department Complex. Not sure but we seem to be reading it two different ways that is for sure.

Western style is quite popular with Thai. I have noticed it's mostly foreigners who build and decorate their house in traditional Thai style.

I agree that 120 t.w. is too small for a Merkin style house and yard, i.e. you'll have no yard left to speak of. Some things you can do to make it seem more pleasant and less like Army base housing that so many Thai moo bans have (including Land and Houses, etc.) is to make the roads curvy and make the house setbacks vary. Even if all the houses are the same design, you can reverse the design every other house, and mandate different colors and/or finishes. You can also vary the landscape design a bit for each house. Will there be nothing separating these houses? Perhaps a low fence with those flowering hedges would be nice. And if you really want to get "cute Merkin" , a white picket fence; something I have seen a lot in Thai house advertisements, but never in real life.

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Your thoughts?

Get the money up front from the suckers. Thailand ain't amerka.

Go for pre-fab building, as it's easy and cheap.

Similar to these beautiful Russian made ones.

^ While OP's customers probably expect something like that ....

If you want a farang area set the rules of buying first. EXamples; noise/guest's/ect

Will Thai be forbidden from any sort of occupation? If it is to be solely farang what will be the policy on the wife's family visiting. If there is to be a communal area will this be the shitting ground for all the dogs that will undoubtedly proliferate? Creating a gated community for civilised folk within some ghastly Isaan dystopia sounds weird to me. I mean, just what the fuck for? The wife would prefer to live in her "big face house " in her own village and most normal farang chaps usually give up the rural life style after their temporary madness recedes and return to Bkk, Pattaya etc.

Rural farang are all a little odd, to say the least.