Thread: Cost of living a decent life in 'the sticks'

25'000 per month we own home car motorbike only utilities to pay, we also grow some veg herbs, and have own chickens, soon we will be getting own pigs for fattening and ducks, have fish on farm so reckon will come in at around 20k
Don't have the luxury of bars around us.

That's $600 a week AUD for top end living all in.

Back home I rent my gaff out for $400 so compared to what you get in an Australia for $600 per week you're doing quite OK considering you are paying for a car, health insurance and Family.

Your Internet is expensive though, I pay 680 baht here in Bangkok for high speed.

Might come up one day and get on the piss by the way.

1000 Baht every six weeks for 50 Kilo bag of rice
Rent free at GFs house
100 baht a day for food from market
Free internet from friends Wifi
50 Baht a day ion white whisky

Originally Posted by terry57

Your Internet is expensive though, I pay 680 baht here in Bangkok for high speed.

Yeah, I need top quality internet, it's defo worth it for me to pay the extra 1,000 or so for optic fibre and snap torrent downloads. I also do other stuff on the net (no, not pawn) that needs a solid connection. This internet is better than anything available in Australia. I live near a bunch of Jap and Korean owned factories so lucky to have the cable line run by.

Originally Posted by terry57

Might come up one day and get on the piss by the way.

Sure mate. The local bamboo bars are a cracker, and there's a big population of itinerant factory workers that work hard and play hard. Pretty vibrant for the sticks actually.

Originally Posted by Yasojack

Don't have the luxury of bars around us.

Ha, that could be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it. It's pretty amazing how such a small place supports so friggin many little bars. They're everywhere around here.

9999 thanks for the thread,interesting to Me non the less even though I am not intending to move to Thailand permanently. My friend from the U.k living in Suratani (south) has a UK State pension to live on and is struggling,he does not drink or smoke or party. One factor that is not taken into account is "pride" nothing wrong with that,Thais call it loosing face. Plus reading some of the posters on here who are a small band of nasty works,they would not respect an honest poster saying that the UK state pension is subsistence living. So who can blame them for not exposing themselves to the small band of nasty works.

Wasabi

so true about the nasties on here, your friend if struggles here, would be in big shit back in UK, i was watching a doc the other night, showing how many nowadays either have the choice to eat or heat there home in the winter months, its a very pitiful place the UK these days.

For a single UK pensioner, Thailand would defo provide a better life style than in dreary old UK that's for sure.

To be honest i'm happy there's none around here, keeps me away from the farangs

Originally Posted by 9999

Originally Posted by Yasojack

Don't have the luxury of bars around us.

Ha, that could be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it. It's pretty amazing how such a small place supports so friggin many little bars. They're everywhere around here.

People say that living in the city is much more expensive than up country so lets compare.

Rent = 10000

Electric = 1400 A/C going 12 hours a day.

Internet = 750

Building maintenance = 1600.

Don't drink every day , eat local, No car repayments, no fuel, health insurance sorted back home.

BTS = 3000 ?????

Stay in a hotel sometimes = 1500

Lady friend stays two weeks out of four. We eat local mostly so piss cheap, movies and banging around the place = not much.

A few big nights out with the boys = 1000 baht a night. once a week.

lets say 30000 per month for me around that.

On top of that I must do visa runs, in January I'll go to India for 5 weeks as I make trips out of my visa runs at the moment.

What ever way I look at it I'm miles ahead than living in Australia paying stupid prices and receiving piss all in return.

My wife pulled me up a couple of years ago about are spending she noted most was spent on my luxuries, beer farang foods etc, a compromise was made i eat thai now, but still have my beer.

Originally Posted by poorfalang

land and house done years ago
today total out is

12 satang worth of papaya for the missus and kids ( food for the day)
20 satang or sticky rice for the missus and kids ( food for the day)
100 baht for my alcohol
20baht for the evening massage at the neighbor ( 4 hand) mother and daughter)
= about 120.32 baht,

its cheap, in issarn yall should move here

Originally Posted by Yasojack

To be honest i'm happy there's none around here, keeps me away from the farangs

It's rare I run into falangs around here, but there's a few kicking about.

The down side is that I have to speak Thai, and if pissing on with Thai blokes they always slip into the local dialect, so I'm probably picking up bad language habits but who gives a fok eh, it's not like I intend to ever be a translator or diplomat.

Originally Posted by terry57

lets say 30000 per month for me around that.

That's pretty nutted down mate especially for the city with 10K rent. I think a few things are missing there though, daily food, misc, like clothes, shoes etc, or do you get around like an abo in bare feed, an old pair of footy shirts and a VB singlet?

Originally Posted by Yasojack

My wife pulled me up a couple of years ago about are spending she noted most was spent on my luxuries, beer farang foods etc

Mine did that too, and I reminded her that I put her in business and all our income is from me, and we still spend a lot less than we (I) earn.

Originally Posted by 9999

Yeah, I need top quality internet, it's defo worth it for me to pay the extra .

This internet is better than anything available in Australia.

Regards the Internet. I must have a good Internet connection so I see why you pay the premium but its still top value compared to Australia which is shit compared to here.

In Perth I payed 900 per month for 2 gig only, also slower than here.

Here I pay 750 for super fast unlimited WI-FI. ???????

Don't ask about Electricity prices and other utilities in Perth as the other readers could possibly die laughing.

When I actually break it down it was costing me more to stay working in Perth than to actually retire and live here.

Something seriously wrong with our system.

God help the pensioners and people struggling along on low incomes.

I did tell you the fools are charging $47 for a powered sight in the local caravan Park.

For the uninformed that's providing your own van , not using there's.

If i said what you said she'd tell me your my husband its your job to take care of family

Originally Posted by 9999

Originally Posted by Yasojack

My wife pulled me up a couple of years ago about are spending she noted most was spent on my luxuries, beer farang foods etc

Mine did that too, and I reminded her that I put her in business and all our income is from me, and we still spend a lot less than we (I) earn.

Originally Posted by terry57

When I actually break it down it was costing me more to stay working in Perth than to actually retire and live here.

Something seriously wrong with our system.

Yeah, I like the life style here. Pity the education system is so fokd over here so I'll have to return to Aus in the next 5 years and get arse raped again.

Originally Posted by 9999

That's pretty nutted down mate especially for the city with 10K rent. I think a few things are missing there though, daily food, misc, like clothes, shoes etc, or do you get around like an abo in bare feed, an old pair of footy shirts and a VB singlet?

Na, hate VB its a shit beer innit. Goats piss really.

Got a heap of clothes and shoes so no spending there.

Never eat in Farang restaurants, always go local as I love the Thai food, sometimes bang down a Subway which they do an all day special for 49 Baht.

Downstairs is a massive local market so I'm in there with the locals, hardly ever see a farang where I live thank fuk.

If I'm out in a mall its always off to the local food hall.

Suppose if I spend 200 a day on food I'm going hard. Eat really healthy lots of salads and stuff, our market sells everything. Usually only locals so all local prices.

Sometimes I'll get a taste for a Guinness so will go up the road to the Irish pub and pay 290 baht a pint.

3 of those and I'm done so there's a K.

Na, cost me piss all mate.

Originally Posted by 9999

Yeah, I like the life style here.

Pity the education system is so fokd over here so I'll have to return to Aus in the next 5 years and get arse raped again.

Everyone I know here who has kids is in the same boat, most will bail back to the West to educate there children but it must be frigging hard to go back if they actually enjoy living here.

Not to mention the fact of reestablish ones self again in a society where it cost a fortune just to leave ones house. Especially hard for the wife who losses the family contact.

By the way, our public schools are good in certain areas but top private schools in Perth have just topped out at 26 K per year.

Originally Posted by terry57

Na, hate VB its a shit beer innit. Goats piss really.

Dunno what happened there. I leave for 5 years, VB was all the go. Now I come back and branded a bogan. In Aus now staying with the old man, bought home a case of VB and he nearly brained me!

Originally Posted by terry57

Never eat in Farang restaurants, always go local as I love the Thai food

I can't do it, much as I love good Thai tucker, and there's no falang food around here apart from pizza co and KFC. A big part of the reason we go to Chiang Mai every week, have some decent Italian tucker or something.

I probably rave over falang food in town that is crap, places the 'The Dukes' ... the longer you been here the better shitty falang food tastes I reckon. One thing about being in Australia, yeah they sting you for $30 a meal, but they don't skimp and it's usually pretty dam good.

Originally Posted by Yasojack

25'000 per month we own home car motorbike only utilities to pay, we also grow some veg herbs, and have own chickens, soon we will be getting own pigs for fattening and ducks, have fish on farm so reckon will come in at around 20k
Don't have the luxury of bars around us.

About the same. Once you have big things out of the way like a house and car 25,000 for two should cover most things except unpredictable medical emergencies.

Originally Posted by Yasojack

Wasabi

so true about the nasties on here, your friend if struggles here, would be in big shit back in UK, i was watching a doc the other night, showing how many nowadays either have the choice to eat or heat there home in the winter months, its a very pitiful place the UK these days.

In the UK he would not have to pay rent every month.