Living here is a fraction of China's living city prices. I just subscribed I'll be looking out for your videos. I've been looking into Chiang Mai as the next location. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Thanks for posting these videos. Really helps me gauge what I want and what I can get for what price, without a lot of walking around on my own. Super useful mate. Cheers. :)
Nice walkthrough thanks, looking to come to Chiang Mai within the next month, scoping out if i could move there semi-permanently once saving up some money back home
What about driving licence? I have 50cc (and car as well) permit for my country which is also available in the rest of European Union, but would that be available there? Also, would it be possible to rent a scooter for a longer period, like one month? Thank you!
Do you have any idea how long it takes them to install the high speed internet connection to your room? I am hoping to move in here and need to have a fast connection asap. Is their wifi fast enough for skype/Google Hangouts?
How do I find a place? I see places like Phuket villas but they want $700 usd per night. I’m wondering why the huge gap in price? Anyway. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Great Video Brett. I'm moving to Chiang Mai in a couple weeks and video's like this are perfect. I'll def check this place out. Just need to consider if the price difference for any places closer to the city are worth it. Any chance you are going to upload the video on your cheap scooter rental contact soon? Some info on costs and rules for any damage would be great as I have heard it might be a better option to just buy one and sell it when leaving.- Would be great to get your input. Cheers mate!
That's my umbrella and hammock on the 6th floor balcony ;) I had one of the big balconies looking at the mountain, was a nice place. They make you pay 100 batht to swim in your own pool though, which is why there's hardly ever anyone in it :/
Aahh.. This reminds me how straightforward it is to just move in to a place in Thailand! What are you doing regarding visas at the moment now they've changed the rules? You don't look old enough to be on a retirement visa! xx
Hey Brett great video. I don't know if you remember or not but I met you at lucky bar on 20th Jan in Chiang mai. I am planning to re-visit chiang mai and would like to stay for few months. Just wondering if the rents and deposits are same? Or have they increased???
Thanks for another valuable video. Some questions: 1) Can you rent out bicycles for cheaper than a motorbike? I don't mind the pedaling and it helps get your exercise in for the day without a separate gym workout. 2) I've heard lots of places explicitly say "no actual cooking inside the units." Is that the case w/this one? Is cooking in your "no cooking allowed" apartment kind of a don't-ask-don't-tell thing there? 3) Are there produce markets for cheap healthy fresh fruits and veg withing walking distance? I'm not joining any cults, but been going more raw lately and it seems to work for me.
Yep you can get a bicycle cheaper, but you'll have a much greater chance of getting knocked off it than you would a moped. I'm not sure about the cooking rules, most of those rules apply to having a huge propane tank in your room. A small gas stove is the way to go, you can buy them for about 500 baht. Or even an electric one. 90% of Thai people cook in their rooms. The area has great community food markets, in a coming video I show you around the local food market here, would take about 5/10 mins to walk there from here.
Are there any decent gyms near here? Not your typical hotel style treadmills/few machines but a proper gym with dumbells, barbells and a squat rack etc?
Thanks a lot for the video. I'm planning to move to Chiang Mai in the near future. Do you have any comments about owning a car or bike, and their respective costs? Also, is the shower water heated?
Great video look at some reasonable priced condos, another person was showing me their condo at $850 a month, give me a break. Yes, it was nice, but for the money you save you could kit your condo out with the best of everything. I guess if you were going to Chiang Mai for 3 months max. maybe, but still in Pattaya you could do better and the ocean is your play ground. Not that I stay in Pat, but just outside the city.
Thanks for the great video, really helpful. I love the apartment you recommended, especially the swimming pool. I‘ll head to Chiang Mai this month, is there any apartment like this one in the video for rent short term? like a month?
Hi Haley, this one is for 3 months minimum. If your coming for a month I'd recommend checking Airbnb. A lot of people own condos like this and rent them out on Airbnb. Use this link and you can get a discount as well - www.airbnb.com/c/brettg880
Is very nice there good weather not like in. U, K, very wet or wildly and good food and cheap I love it there if you don,t wast money on the woman you be alright thank you for sharing best of luck. Bless you .
Hi I wish I could stay here - nice little kitchen area and spacious balcony. But you do need a motorbike, correct? I'm hoping to find an apartment from where it is easy to catch a songthaew since I am a little chicken about driving.
Are elevators common? I am flying my Mom over to visit after my first year. I was wondering if elevators were used or just stairs. I know in South Korea and building over 6 floors has to HAVE an elevator in it.
Great place but bummer about the pool. Just read a comment it's 100 baht a day to use it. That's almost a deal breaker for me. Brett do you know if there is a gym nearby? If so are they pay as you go too? Thanks... oh and just subbed to your channel looking forward to seeing your other vids.
I've been looking on RU-vid for awhile on apartment... and this place is the best that I liked because it's not far from the tourist location. Good price. I'm a light sleeper. I hear everything when I sleep. Are there noise at night? Is it possible to make a video on the $9000 BHT rooms on this location?
Have you being in Ayuttya? Tempel and history city (just north of Bangkok).. Can people ex. Farang rent a place there? proce, location, who it loooks.. Ps. I realy love your info about Thailand. But Prices can you make them in Euro or bath insted (dont think Swedish is intressting for your weiwer) but more easy to translate cost with Euro or bath.
+Waffle Stomp if your coming from your home country get a multi entry tourist visa. I've done another video about this on my channel. That'll give you 6-9 months. Should you want to stay longer during that time you can arrange another visa. Education, work visa. Whatever you end up doing.
Btw have you visit Ayuttaya sometime (maby done a video from there).. Ask Thai people what this is for kind of city (geuss the hug you - when you show intresst of it).. ;)
about the pool, do people use it at night. I was very disappointed at an apartment building in the USA because you couldn't swim at night and kids had it in the daytime. I prefer night swimming myself.
When I was there no one really used it at all. I used it twice I think... I remember people down there at night as well, yes. I'd say you'd be fine day or night. If not, there is an Olympic sized outdoor swimming pool about 30 seconds down the road, outside of the condo.
Thai people and foreigners live in these condos. Some have kids, some don't. You should probably remember, for the most part, Thai people and Thai children aren't the same as screaming, rude westerners and their kids.
this place was good for ppl who working in home not go out often coz i so far away from the City , not easy to get food , you need car or motobike if you think you going to live here , swimming pool i never see ppl go swimming there , 100 bath for swiming one time .
Brett Dev Nice one Brett. I think with the pound plunging everyone is concerned about the cost of their winter trip to LoS. I'm hoping to go for three months, shortly, and the exchange rate is making things tight. I'll probably have to stay in Pattaya and Chang Mai to stay within budget.
Hi Paul, if you want to rent for a month or more Chloe is your best bet - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aAo9BlBr3HE.html Otherwise, a local shop will rent to you for about 200-300 baht a day.
Hello, I am 74 yo so I am not into the motorbike option. Would Uber and/or tuk-tuks be available to and from the condo? Even better on the tuk-tuks, could I find regular driver I could call to and from the condo. Even maybe better, does anybody rent tuk-tuks by the month? Thanks, Tom, San Roque de Grecia, Alajuela, Costa Rica
sometimes in the mid-day and afternoons it slows down some.. everything, i'm told, must go through bangkok and it can overload the connection a bit... but not too bad.
The fiber: Do they allow you to have your own router? Put theirs in a bridge mode? Do they allow you to port forward stuff? Pretty important info missing.
Jesus christ you can't expect the dude to start talking about the viability of port forwarding... 95% of people will not even have the faintest idea of what port forwarding is...
You must get some amazing requests from people... Personally, I'm just pissed off you didn't tell me what encryption your router natively uses, you're supposed to be a web dev! (Keep well Brett, you help a lot of people!)
I am talking about his English not his Thai pronunciation! Maybe he doesn't even realize he are not using the "TH" diagraph in English which would tend to mean that it is his English dialect because if he alone in hi area were mispronouncing it as he does surely people would have corrected him! Is my meaning clearer to you now?
