Living in Thailand - MY BANGKOK HOUSE TOUR | $601.69 Per Month in BKK + Cost of Living!

I hope you are having an amazing day at Smart Queens. I am in Bangkok, Thailand, and in this video I will give you a complete

tour

of the

house

that my family and I are renting in Bangkok, Thailand, and at the end of this video I will share with you all the details about how much we paid for the rent and some more details like that, but first I'll give you a full

tour

of our

house

, come on, walk in the door and Immediately, this is the well, it's the parking lot, but it's also the outdoor front patio area and of course, We park our car here and try to hang our clothes here too and one of the most interesting things about this house is the small garden. because mom loves growing vegetables and herbs, that's why we always have fresh vegetables growing there.

One thing I should quickly share with you so it all makes sense is that I live here with my wife Ying and our son Micah, and then he also lives with beings that the parents see, the parents live here, his mother, his father and his sister They also live in this house, so there are two, four, five adults and a baby. This is absolutely one of the best parts of the house, the outdoor garden right here and it's actually, I think before we moved into the house they were using this area as a pond, but Yang's mom is amazing at growing vegetables, so We filled it with soil and it has been growing all kinds of amazing things. just walk around here you can start eating things there is lemon basil there is holy basil there is sweet basil there is sawtooth herb there is cilantro we have some morning glory water I would love to come here and start eating herbs everything is fantastic and by the Next to the There's not much to see at home, but I want to show you our collection of holy basil, which happens to be one of my favorite herbs in the entire world.

You can come here and have a snack. There are also some plants. of sweet basil too, which is also delicious, but I love holy basil, so I think it's like that in most of Asia, where you leave your slippers or your shoes at the front of the door and you always walk into the house. barefoot and it's a little messy around here, but let's take off our shoes and come in, welcome to the house, this is the main entrance room, actually, this is an area of ​​the house that I don't really spend much time in, but La TV is here, there are some couches, you can see the mat and some of Micah's toys are here, but this is especially where Ying's parents hang out, watch TV and relax.

This is a huge entrance room to the house and I will tell you about it later. Well this is my coffee shop, which I'll show you soon, but the reason this house is so big is because this is this whole area, this whole street, this whole neighborhood, most of the places are duplexes, but there are some . houses where they bought two duplexes and connected them and this house is a double duplex that has been connected together, so the layout is a little strange and it has some giant open spaces like this, but it's actually kind of nice because yeah, very spacious and before I show you the rest of this room I heard that Mae, my mother-in-law is cooking something, so we better go, we better go walk around the kitchen real quick and Mae is cooking.

I wake up, oh, it turns out he's a vegetarian. festival in Thailand right now and she's cooking meatless stir-fried eggplant, all vegetarian and then we put all of our plates and all of our utensils here on this metal rack and let me quickly show you our gas set, our stoves. above these are the gas bottles and they are placed here and you can see that they are connected to hoses and then the hoses go to the stove here which are the burners and this is how we cook and of course you can't be

living

in Thailand or Cooking Thai food without a crook, which is a stone mortar used to grind curry paste or garlic and chili peppers.

All the good stuff goes into that right now in the sink. I see a fish. I think it's for my lunch today. Yes. one more room after the kitchen and this is a kind of pantry, cuts off the laundry room. I don't really come to this room very often, but we have some boxes stored back here, there are some tables and one more interesting thing to show you. We have a washing machine but dryers are not very common in Thailand so we wash our clothes here and then normally, as you saw in the front, they hang them in the sun to dry and one more thing I want to tell you about life in Thailand is that normally you don't want to drink the water from the sink at least in large quantities over time so for our house we have one of the reverse osmosis water filters and that's what we use connected to the water and that's how we drink fresh water you, this is the dining room table normally like here and then on this side which is cool it's the whole bar oh hi this was a built in that came with the house the built in bar and I'm actually in desperate need of a coffee , so let's take a break, let's have a cup of coffee, oh my boys, let's take a nap, okay, bye, friend, bye, friend, have a good nap, you know how tired I am not.

I know whether you know this about me or not, but I love coffee and probably drink too much. I have the Aeropress. This is great, but right now and for a while now I've been really addicted to a good light drip roast. coffee, that's my favorite and now that I have a cup of coffee in my hand I feel a lot better showing you my office, oh okay let me tell you a quick thing about

living

in Bangkok if you do anything that requires any kind of movement, like making a cup of coffee, you will, you will start sweating profusely.

Oh anyway, welcome to my office, this is where I hang out, have a seat, this is my desk, this is where I edit all the videos at least and I'm not traveling. Feel. here at the desk I drink coffee and I sit here and I don't talk to anyone for hours and I just edit videos non-stop. Right now I'm using a Dell laptop because it's faster and gives me smooth playback because I'm editing and filming in 4k so I've been using a still image and then jumping to this side of the office this is the t-shirt stock , so if someone orders a t-shirt, this is where we ship. the stock t-shirts are here and there's also another stock upstairs in another room and then this is where it is yeah, it's definitely pretty messy, but this is where I keep all the equipment, all the camera equipment, the lenses, everything that you need vlog is in this corner of these shelves and usually when we travel I just grab a backpack, put everything in the backpack and I'm ready to go, oh yeah, not forgetting the cold weather hats, there are some cold weather hats right there, I loves. grab a hat and then you won't have to worry about combing your hair or anything, and then this mat is because of the mica, like it came here to play and hang out and the couches.

You might be wondering about this guy, someone who watches our videos, who was in Bangkok on vacation when Micah was born, they bought this for Micah and then they dropped him off at the hotel for us to pick him up, so this is a gift for me when he was born, so that was very nice of him and that's why we have this. giant green teddy bear sitting here in the corner the coffee was fantastic let's continue with the tour of the house this is like a dead empty space there is a room on this side where father Yang's parents stay and then there is a bathroom here and then the staircase that goes up to all the rooms, let's go up to see all the rooms, now up there is a total of one, two, three, four, five rooms, let's start again on this side, the right side, and we call it the double room and We don't have twins, but there really is a twin room because there are two, maybe the people who lived here before us had twins.

There are two beds on each side. It is separated by a closet. This is the perfect room for twins, but us. Use it as an extra room to focus things and you can see there's a suitcase down here. This is the room where I can travel quite frequently, so we came back with our suitcase and this is the room where we threw the suitcase. Sometimes we don't even unpack, we just leave the suitcase there and we'll be here for like a week and we'll just live out of the suitcase and then we'll take the suitcase again and we'll leave and we'll travel again on this side is our room, come on, inside our room is quite nice and spacious, the bed, oh okay, I hit rock bottom and again there is an incredible amount of built-in cabinets and space for cables, much more than we used, these are all closets, these are all the cabinets and shelves there is a built in desk here is Micah's crib we don't have a bathroom in our room but the bathroom is here on the right side we go to the bathroom sink it's here the shower is here it actually normally has Thai style bathrooms are all wet but this one has a Built-in shower compartment, so you can close it and don't need a shower curtain.

The toilet is over here and, oh yeah, I guess, I guess I don't even do it. I even notice it or there's a mosquito I guess I don't even notice it anymore, but you might be noticing these mosaics of fish, it's one of those things I see all the time and then you forget, there are some nice fish. The tiles in this bathroom, the jeans sister's room is right over here and then she also has a bathroom inside her room, so there are three bathrooms in this house, yeah, three full bathrooms in this house and then there are two more bedrooms that I will also show you.

In the light, there we go, this is a practically empty room again, we should probably clean out all this random stuff, but we kept some extra t-shirts in here, some extra boxes, some extra baby items, but for the most part this is just a room empty and we never entered this room the last room is at the end of the hallway. I actually really like this room because of all the natural light, there are two windows in the corner and it's right at the front of the house, but this is the guest room, so when my parents come to visit, here it is where they stay when we have guests again, there's an incredible amount of closet space and look at this wall, it's full of shelves, like more shelves. than you could fill, let's take a quick look at the balcony, oh wow, that's a positive here, it's not really a great balcony to hang out on, but you can come out here and stand if you want, yeah, no.

Not really, I don't spend much time here. I mostly spend my time outside rather than on this balcony and that brings us to the end of this Bangkok house tour in Thailand. You can travel quite frequently, but I'm glad I finally had the chance to share with you where we actually live, this is our home base, this is the house we rented and I hope it gives you an idea about living in Thailand, so the most important thing you are probably wondering is how much does this house

cost

? How much do we rent this house for?

I am paying 20,000 baht per

month

. I'll check the conversion right now so I can tell you that 20,000 baht is six hundred one dollars and 69 cents US dollars, so there are five rooms, three bedrooms, so much space that we don't know what. What to do with all this space, it is a true blessing to have this house now with utilities and we pay Ying was telling me that we pay for electricity for power, we pay between 3,000 and 4,000 Thai baht per

month

. 3,000 baht is 90 dollars and 25 cents at this exact time and we normally don't use the air conditioning much during the day, their parents do sometimes, but then we have three rooms turned on at night for the air conditioning and that's probably the biggest I spend on electricity and then another utility that we have is water, but water in Thailand is very affordable, so I don't really know how much water we actually use, but our total bill is usually about two hundred and fifty, but two hundred and fifty baht It's seven dollars and fifty-two cents and that's for a whole family for all of us and last but not least, Internet and I had to go with a very good Internet plan that is very, very fast to load, so I can upload 4k videos and pay per month which is $36 and 10 cents and yet it is really very fast.

I think it's supposed to be like a 90 megabyte download and 50 megabyte upload. I don't understand those speeds, but it's not far away. Can. Can. upload about a gigabyte in about 4 to 5 minutes, which completes this tour of houses in Bangkok. I hope it gives you some ideas on how to live in Bangkok and there are houses there. Bangkok is having an incredible condo surge, so condos are very, very common and becoming more and more common. It's becoming more common and people are moving into condos, but I really prefer to be on the ground, not in a giant complex where we can eat fresh herbs and vegetables where we have room to at least get some outdoor exercise, so that this is truly a blessing and it is truly an amazing place we have to say we are so grateful to have it and thank you so much for watching this whole tour about house living in Bangkok andIf you have any questions leave me a comment below remember to click like. in this video and if you are not already subscribed, click subscribe now.

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