What a wonderful start in life you’ve given your daughter, she’s already got a huge advantage over her compatriots speaking, reading & writing fluently in English. Great condo for a student.
Another great Vlog James, the condo and university looked great and you are both excited brilliant stuff, I’m sure your daughter will do well and be very happy
I loved your delightful interest in everything your daughter was about to be emerged in. The quiet trepidation of a parent. I totally relate. Beautiful video.
Perfect place for a student. A great time of my life was college...its great to be young, even though you don't appreciate it until you're older looking back On a side note...at the beginning of the video you showed scooter drivers driving the wrong way on a one way street. When I was out there in April and rented a scooter, I couldn't believe how common it was to see that constantly and at night there were more scooters with no lights than those with....I was on full alert driving...pure adrenaline.
Another fantastic vblog James. Anna looks great in blonde, she is very lucky to be looked after so well by you & ur mrs.. branston pickle! I found a jar a few months ago but couldn’t remember where! So Tops! I’m on the lookout .. thank you
Thanks for this video, my niece enrolled at bkk university and we ended up putting her up in the plum as well. Nice place especially compared to the other near by condos. Cheers! 🙏
Great vlog. Really impressed with the Uni and the Condo. She has a lovely set up and surroundings for the next 4 years. Give it a year and she will be sharing in the Kave Condo, mark my words. Look forward to seeing her progression, you must be a very proud Dad.
Really enjoyed that one James. Great value for the Condo as so well equipped for student life etc. Annie will do there I'm sure. Not sure about you in a Borat style Mankini at the pool, that will cause the student to run for cover ! Thanks for the education pricing details, Yisa and I will be funding our Neices and Nephews who choose uni through the process. Best from us both. Nick & Yisa.
Thank you for this video. I don't know about you but for me this is a huge transition. Just like yours, my daughter starts her freshman year in August. Moving out for the first time; I think I am more concerned than she is. BTW, my daughter is also majoring in Communication, Digital Marketing. I will look forward to more snippets of her university studies from a Dad's perspective.
Well done James and Annie the excitement of starting out on life. The local University up here Mae Fa lung has also beautiful gardens I often drive in there and am envious of the young people and the opportunity's they have now. Looking at the condo my bedsit days sprung to mind we had some great parties thats the ones i can remember 😌.Good luck to Annie and her new life.
Congratulations to your lovely daughter. Even though it was a thousand years ago, I can remember my time in college...what fun! I'm like you James. I was on campus often, but didnt do much studying! lol All the best to Annie on her start of school!
@@jamesabroad8589 you must be proud of her ..next chapter of your family coming up. Really enjoy your no bs content..must be a good way to interact with English speaking people.. I don't know whether you have any farang mates over there but, I can imagine it's nice to converse with various people... keep up the good work, cheers
Thank you for this. I would like to see other videos on this with costs, lessons learn and what you are glad you did please. Planning on sending my wife's two grandchildren to University and videos like this are very helpful!
I don't know about beans on toast, but y'all have me wanting some tuna on toast with hot sauce! I may have to run wild in Tops Market soon! Thanks for another video full of great information, James! Good luck to your daughter's new academic year!
Lovely daughter. Bangkok has plenty of ready made food around, but as a back up for a quick breakfast or late night snack/meal , you can hard boil and peel a dozen eggs at a time and keep them in your fridge in a sandwich bag. Take one out and sprinkle salt and pepper and add an apple or fruit, and you have one meal done. For a late night snack or meal, mash one or two boiled eggs to some rice and add some pork floss and a sprinkle of Maggi and you have a filling meal. Eggs are a better alternative to any cereal which is basically sugar.
it's an exciting time for your daughter. Reminds me of the day I visited the Halls for the first time. Great to see well-adjusted people in a world going mad. You are both really lucky!
Pretty sure she will do well at uni. She certainly knows her way around. Cudos for looking after her like this. These condo complexes are enormous. AFAICR, i did not have a swimming pool downstairs :-)
I hope Annie settles into uni life quickly, sure she will - god I miss those days, best 3yrs of my life in many ways 😆 The room is perfectly sufficient isn’t it and plenty of malls & everything on the doorstep 👍🏻👍🏻 We start the uni hunt next month for our daughter ready for Sept/Oct 2023 … I can’t see the accommodation and surroundings being anywhere as good as that, and the cost will probably be mental 😆😝😫 Great vid mate, take care 👍🏻😎🙏
Cheers Simo. Been pretty stressful here so glad it was okay and Annie seems happy and well set up. I know I'm getting off light compared to the US and UK lol. All the best mate.👍
@@Ccoleworld3 my niece is doing a degree in uk now...yes costing a fortune today with fees around 10k...I did mine 33 years ago now and I got paid about 5k to do it...if I can remember rightly. No fees. The cash paid for my accommodation and food too.
Spare a thought for me! Earning Australian dollars, and paying US college tuition and accommodation which are the the worst in the world, and it’s looking like my daughter may want to do post graduate studies which are freaking developing nation GDP amounts!
Thank you great insight for me as my step daughter is at Rangsit, year 2. She has just moved closer to the campus so I wonder if it is the same condo. Can't believe that I am probably paying for a gym and swimming pool too, I hope she does not discover Topps! Cheers from a jubilee London
The university campus is beautiful! The condo is very nice too. I wish I could have afforded a condo like that when I was in college. I had to share an apartment with 3 other boys, sleeping on bunk beds. I wish your daughter the very best! In a year, I need to send off my son to college too (but it will be in the US).
You would never believe you’re in Bangkok very nice complex great pool gym good price . I’ve got to go back to the UK next year I’ve been looking at the prices of a hotel totally ridiculous in Or around london , so it looks like a blow up bed around the old man’s . That’s life . Cheers thanks for the uploads.
This was nice to see. Just found out that your daughter study really close to me (I used to study at Bangkok University but moved out to another university close by that have the faculty that I really want to study) probably the same age as well😂
Been doing the uni open days in the uk these past few weeks and it made me think of this video. Uni halls are now £200 per week if en-suite - Annie’s condo trumps them easily even if you forget the cost 😝😎👍🏻
Crazy I feel like I’ve watched your daughter grow up!! My daughter just finished her first year in college and dorm. Just spent a fortune on her apartment she moves to in August. I wish we lived in Thailand and paid $175 a month lol
So glad to see your video... I brought a condo " Plum Condo Fresh", through a Hong Kong Agent. I brought a two-bedroom version. I plan to live there next month... plan to set up a digital media studio there. Can offer your daughter a part-time job if she needs one. Have many photo/video gears with me, and love to meet you if you are nearby... I have a B.F.A from York university in Canada, and was an associate professor at China Academy of Art. Love to meet new friends in the same area... I do not speak Thai....
Future park reminds me of when the wife worked at WorkPoint entertainment, I used to walk her to work in the morning, then walk to the mall, her friends used to say, "we just see your husband, walking to mall" couldn't believe I'd wouldn't take a motor bike taxi 😂🤣 Love Annie's accent, sounds very British at times. Good luck little lady & another good video James, keep up the good work 👏
I rent out a condo in Plum Condo too it is a large facility so it is always better to get one of the condos nearer the front of estate otherwise your daughter will be getting motorcycle taxis to her condo. It the construction site is for an old folks home so will not be high rise. There is a Novotel Hotel nearby and Future Park Mall
Yes like it, good security and generally happy with it. It's about a 5 minute walk to the main road. We actually walked to the university, but that slaughter house/knackers yard nearly made us throw up. Everyone was running lol.👍🍺
Very cost effective for a clean and modern way of living there. I’m in Thailand in a month, and spoilt for choice as to where I will base myself lol. Thanks for the vid..
Good that your daughter is OK with taking the Songthew I must admit I would just get a taxi or use the car. Suggestions for future videos are the Talad Thai large market where all the food from up north comes from to large wholesale market, ideal even for a group of 5 university students to order. Thammasat University where the Asian games were held and also lots of bars (just like your student union days). Thai Summer Palace a place that not many tourists go but it is steeped in history. Dream World the Thai equivalent of Disneyland.
Lived just up the road from Future Park at Klong 4 with my Bangkok wife from 1998 to recently, having worked in 9 different countries in the Middle and Far East. However, we have moved back to Sunny South Wales, i'm originally from Cardiff since retirement. Rangsit is o.k. but as you get older the heat and pollution gets to you.
That couch looks exactly like one I had. The biggest PoS I've ever seen in my life. Get ready to pay for replacing it at the end of the year. If it's the same one I'd replace it now.
Good choice of a degree, with lots of future opportunities. All, or most, aspects of work life is conducted online nowadays, and marketing especially so with the current emphasis on websites, social media and so on. Communication departments are very digital, as well. Personally I love Uni. Studying can be a very benefical and productive experience.
Great start for your daughter and wish her all the best. She is an expert in both languages. Unfortunately, after we moved to Australia from Thailand my kids can't speak Thai well (they were 4 and 2 when we move from there). They can understand some. That tuition fee is $8.6K for a semester or for a year? Anyway, all the best for her tertiary education and your support of her.
Bangkok University is a private university my daughter and a few of her friends did a degree there, the English Portion of the syllabus is ok. It is Ranked 17 in Thailand which is one of the highest private universities.
It’s Bangkok! Of course you’ve got motorcycles coming the wrong way! 😂🤣😂🤣 while my wife and I were over a couple of weeks ago, and had crazy amounts of houses and meetings to get to, so I rented a bike for week 2. I’ve been riding bikes for a bit over 50 years and done awful close to 500,000 km in a whole lot of different parts of the world. Bangkok, and not long after, Saigon, were the two cities that gave me pause to ride in. No, that’s not really true. They scared the shit out of me, frankly! But, now I’ve conquered Krung Thep Maha Nakhon…nahhh. Who am I kidding, I’m never going to bother trying to ride on 2 wheels in Ho Chi Minh city!
I am in HCMC now... brought the same apartment, "Plum Condo Fresh" and two bedrooms in the same area by the same developer... I brought it in Hong Kong and went there three weeks ago to see it for the first time, and want to live there... and I do not know anybody there, want to set up a digital media studio there... I plan to leave HCMC because I can not picture myself driving in HCMC...
Hope Annie settles in quick and I am sure Annie will do well you will have to get her a rice 🍚 cooker and I love that pasta tuna sweet corn branston pickle with cheese in a French stick 🥖
@@jamesabroad8589 thanks for your fast reply... how come you chose BU? nice video as my daughter will study there next year... so the bad smell slaughterhouse, nice warning to not go rent nearby... would love to find out if there is some moo baan with townhouse or single house for rent...
Nice place but we couldn't handle the smell it gets really bad there we choose pinehurst golf cheap and not as nice. Tell your daughter to keep the sliding door closed and it will be ok.
@@LD-yq7cl pinehurst is a shit hole but is cheap and doesn't get the smell. There is zoom condos and some houses around there. We have just moved out of pinehurst after 10 year. We had a cafe there and delivered food to plum waiting by the security gates the smell was so bad the smell there is not bad now but when they start getting pre covid orders it gets bad.
I was triple vaccinated and haven’t gone a moment without masks, etc. etc. Nat, my wife and both came down with Covid19 three days after flying Thail Airways back from Thailand. Don’t get complacent, it’s still around, and it’s not just a bad flu.
All the latest data reveals the vaccine does not stop you from getting or spreading the virus. And masks do not block virus particles, but become so drenched and concentrated in virus after 20 minutes of wearing them that it turns the mask into an infection vector.
