 Over at Ajarn.com (a website for teachers), there’s an interesting live survey being conducted on the Cost of Living in Thailand. So far about 20 volunteers have taken part, but this number is growing daily.
Although everyone lives according to their situation, this survey should give a good idea on the basic living costs for those wanting to move out here, and particularly those on a lean budget. So far the questionnaire has been taken by singles and those in family situations, and at the time of writing, only one woman has taken part out of 20 participants.
It’s interesting to see how some folks manage on so little while others earning considerably more find it difficult to save. It’s all relative I guess to how you want to live, where you chose to live, your social habits, transportation cost, and general lifestyles, ad infinitum.
I met a young British fella (mid 20’s) at the Thai Burmese border last year, and he was quite happily living on just 8,000 THB/Mo. in the north of the country. Personally, I couldn’t, I wouldn’t, live on such a tight budget, but it just shows how cheaply someone can ’survive’ out here if their wants are few!
Anyway, here are the questions that Phil W is asking his visitors:
- How much do you earn from teaching per month?
- How much of that can you realistically save per month?
- How much do you pay for your accommodation and what do you live in exactly (house, apartment, condo)?
- What do you spend a month on the following things?
a) Transportation
b) Utility bills
c) Food - both restaurants and supermarket shopping
d) Nightlife and drinking
e) Books, computers
- How would you summarize your standard of living in one sentence?
- What do you consider to be a real ‘bargain’ here?
- In your opinion, how much money does a foreign teacher need to earn here in order to survive?
Click the link to Read: The Cost Of Living in Thailand
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August 28th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Hi Aitch: There must be a lot of people thinking the same thing recently… costs just seem to be going up exponentially this year. Yet Thailand can still be a pretty inexpensive place to hang out. Just coincidentally I wrote a blog article about the minimum cost of living in Thailand after receiving a reader inquiry.