How much money do you need per month to live comfortably in Thailand?
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Comfortable or comfortably is a relative term. Probably a good sized apartment or condo runs from about 8,000 baht to 50,000 baht per month with Aircon. You can find apartments or rooms for as little as 2,000 baht per month. Electricity can cost from 200 baht per month to 6,000 baht or more per monthe depending on your living arrangements. Water can 100 to 500 baht per month, again depending on your usage. Food can cost from 1,500 baht to 30,000 baht per month depending on your eating habits. Street vendors food can cost 20 to 100 baht per meal depending on your appetite. Cooking for yourself may cost up to 10,000 baht per month. Eating out at western style restaurants can blow the budget out the roof. The site below is the source: http://www.thailandguru.com/tips-living-cheaply.html Cell phones can cost from 600 to 6,000, if you already have a GSM phone that works in Asia. You don't need a new one. A starter sim card costs 200 baht and they will sell it to you in 50, 100, 200, 500 baht increments to recharge your phone. The numbers they sell the farangs or foreigners are only good for 6 months. Ask someone there to buy you a "regular" cell service. This will be good indefinitely. If you have a lot of friends in Thailand, might cost around 200-300 baht per week or more. Internet service: Internet cafes can cost from 10 baht to 90 baht per hour. The below link will give more detail idea of the cost of things in Thailand. http://bangkoktonite.com/tips/cost_in_bangkok.shtml So for the basics, listed above around 5,000 baht. Bare bones basic life. Beyond that clothing, entertainment, etc. Add it up from there. This is basically for Bangkok. Things are a bit cheaper in the smaller cities and towns. This is why many people including myself retire part-time or live in Thailand. Good luck
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we do not know your level of comfort, or how long you comfort stop in thailand will be. if your living there on a work contract, the setting will be the most expensive cost, but day to to living is very cheap
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I guess it depends on your definition of comfortably. To me at least 50,000 baht a month is more then enough. I can survive very well on that amount including a least one long weekend beach visit a month and usually put the rest into savings.
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Living in Thailand costs me no less than 20,000 baht a week. So I would say 80,000 baht for a month would be okay.. Sometimes it is more and sometimes less. Some people can do it for far less but me being a westerner with a son and wife find it very difficult on 10,000-20,000 baht a month.
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The question is very relative...but seeing as you asked...How much do you need.... I need THB 150,000 a month to live on, if didnt have a good job here, could live on about THB 60,000 - THB 80,000 month
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As you can see from the answers above your question is almost impossible to answer. There will be a very wide range in the figures quoted. However, when I stay in Thailand I live pretty comfortably on around 70,000 Baht a month - I would consider that the minimum spend to have the facilities I want. Having said that things have gotten more expensive in Thailand recently, so I can see that figure rising to around 80,000. At the same time I know people living very comfortably in the less central areas of Bangkok for 20,000 Baht per month. They have basic but wholly adequate accommodation, far better than you'd find in the West for much less money. The average teachers salary in Bangkok is around 35,000 Baht and they manage to survive - so you could use that as a benchmark. It also depends on which part of Thailand you are going to live in as Bangkok is generally more expensive that more rural parts of the country. Have a search back over some previous Yahoo Answers. I know I for one have answered this question before. You may pick up some more useful hints.
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min 10,000 THB/month
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Actually some of the answers here amaze me, but then i do not drink or party and I live very simply, ( and happily ) and away from the beach/touristy area's, and my monthly is little more than 30,000 Baht per Month on worst months, of course you want to have fall back in case of emergency, you know emergency exit back home, or the wife's cow gets sick, Something drastic like that
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