Big_Brian

I don't actually, but I have to make sure that I can sustain a reasonable standard of living if it does. I DO NOT trust our politicians, if they and theirs benefit, they'll sell the country down the river. If I start a retirement where I HAVE to have at least 50 Baht to the pound then things could go badly wrong - unlike some, I won't have an easy way back to a job or a house if things don't work out. Hence this test trip.

Thanks Gabor, I do understand that, and I may well spend more when I actually move. This is a test trip and I'm planning for bad scenarios - like the self-serving UK government making the pound drop by 50% against the Baht. I need to know that I can live acceptably if that happens, hence my price range.

No, I think that particular hobby is still in in the lead.

Thanks Gabor, nice, but more that I want to pay. It isn't the cost, it's that I want to rent the sort of place I can afford to rent in retirement, otherwise this trip wouldn't be a real test. Yours are just too expensive for that. Sorry.

Yes, a hotel for a few days is my default if I can't sort it out in advance. Give me a break here, it hasn't been up for a day yet!

I'm looking for a condo for 2 full calendar months; October and November 2014. Perhaps someone on here has one for rent? This will be my “try living as an expat” trip. I'm hoping to move in late 2016 and want to see if I like living on a retirement budget, in the sort of place I'll be able to afford in retirement. I love Pattaya as a tourist, but that's in a hotel, with a lot of spending money, retirement will have be different. I'm going to be a bit specific about what I want, sorry, I know that makes this difficult. That's why I've posted this early, in the hope that someone will hav

German engineering. Very nice.

If anyone's still interested, there is STILL no sign of building behind it. Just more workers shacks. Actually "shacks" is probably the wrong word, some of them have satalite dishes! Poverty isn't what it was.

Yep, that's them. The woman outside with the sewing machine is good and cheap for the odd clothes repair if anyone needs that.

I get my hair cut at the barber opposite R-Con condos at the bend on Soi Bukhaow when I'm in town. They do an excellent job, but I won't let them near my beard again. Butchers!

If one bag gets stolen, it won't be yours though.

The room pictured in the OP looks a lot bigger than the 27sqm offered.

Even I couldn't do that.

In and around Pattaya there is so much junk, sand & gravel on the roads that you dare not accelerate fast in curves anyway.

Mercure will soon have building work behind it too.

There's a technology section?

Be aware that, if you're walking, you have to run the gamut of a lot of boy bars to get anywhere.

Lots of things there that I can't afford. And some of them are cars!

You are supposed to clean yourself with the bum gun. The tissue is only for drying, so it won't be smelly in the bin.

OK, heading down there this afternoon. I'll look out for these, thanks.

So, if you don't own the land, or the buildings, what exactly are you selling?

Cash, then pay into my Kasikorn account. As it happens, I've got the "wait and see" route and only changed some.

Just an update, am there now, in a room at the back. The area behind is still empty, no sign of construcuion yet.

I'm wondering which way its going to go from here. I get there Friday and would normally just change all my TCs on day 1, but this time I just don't know if that's the right choice.

Any chance of the same for May?