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Originally Posted by EddyTheDog
What income would you need to have a nice relaxed lifestyle - Nothing flash, just a clean place to live and go out when you want?
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If you can make $2000 a month, you can live fine in Thailand.
More if you drink a lot, eat western food every day, and fuck whores every night.
You can get a clean studio room for $250 - $500.
You may have to pay utilities, $30 - $100.
The rest is eating and having fun money.
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Originally Posted by mafia_man
Thailand is bad for traffic, food is expensive if you don't like Thai/Chinese, safety is appalling and the shopping is shit.
It's good for the rest though.
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I find shopping shitty for the most part too unless you're looking for handmade items for your house.
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Originally Posted by Slappin Fish
Safety isn't about muggings
. it's about the electric water heater in the shower having an earth wire, or even the swimming pool lights (deaths last year in Phuket believe it not), it's about Somchai getting behing the wheel of his Hilux pick up after finishing his third bottle of Johnny walker,...
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Spot on.
You forgot to mention that Somchai is a high ranking police officer who drives drunk often and is a hired killer on the side and a drug dealer. Then when he has an accident because he is shit faced and kills people on the road, it's covered up.
Thailand is incredibly unsafe. Most people don't notice it though until they have been here a while. Tourists always have the "Thailand was amazing, the people are so great and everything was wonderful" view. I did too for a few years. But that wears off once the honeymoon is over and you get a chance to see things as they really are here.
All that said, I'd still rather live here than where I was born. It's the freedom that is hard to walk away from. As dangerous as it may be, you can just about do
anything you want. I like that.