Originally Posted by
9999
So after the approx 40K bt for living a decent life, the extras = 29,600 bt pm.
So lets call it about 70K baht per month, to support a family and live a good life style, travel regularly and get on the piss pretty often.
I don't keep a real tight track and have overshot in this thread, but that's pretty much about what we spend.
sorry to break it to you but that sounds very expensive for a provincial lifestyle in a third world shit hole,
you could live comfortably in provincial France for that much money, with access to great wines, beer and food for half of what you pay for here in Thailand. Even housing in provincial France is cheap. And school with a real education would be free in that package.
Sounds like you are getting the worst value ever,
Even in Bangkok, you could live decently with as little as 80,000 pm, even though you would need a minimum of 200k pm to have a comfortable expat lifestyle.