Buying a Condo in Bangkok
Its nice to finally see a positive article on buying a condo in Thailand – as well as one that is focused on buying one to live in rather than just as income property. Apparently the huge majority of people who buy condos in Thailand are just buying them as an investment and not to live in. Of course, the way I see it I don’t really have any other choice but to buy. Anyway, in the past I’ve always rented when living in Thailand but when I retire there in a few years I am planning to buy a condo. Most of the stuff I’ve read has been pretty negative and it is always geared towards investors.
I guess they figure that the kinds of people who want to live near the beach are just not very discerning or sophisticated people. Also I don’t really trust the developers to finish the project the way it looks in the renderings, or to finish it at all for that matter. Unfortunately the units in my price range are way too small in these building though (I need at least 60 sq. meters). Well actually you can find some nicely designed places in some of the new condos that are currently under construction in these areas. Its sounds like you had very good luck with your developer though.
This is because I have calculated that over a 30-year period (assuming I live that long) I would pay at least twice as much in rent as it would cost me to buy a similar condo and I simply don’t have that extra money. I don’t know why there are so many well designed ultra-modern looking condos in Bangkok – navigate here – that I would be happy to live in but then when you go someplace like Pattaya, or even Phuket, you have places with such ugly interiors that it actually makes me nauseous. So if I were to rent a place I figure I would either have to die 15 years sooner than expected or I would have to pay much less in rent, which means living like the average Thai person does.
Lee fully supported the US involvement in the Vietnam War. Even as the war began to lose its popularity in the United States, Lee made his first official visit to the United States in October 1967, and declared to President Lyndon B. Johnson that his support for the war in Vietnam was “unequivocal”. In 1967 Nixon, who was running for president in 1968, visited Singapore and met with Lee, who advised that the United States had much to gain by engaging with China, culminating in Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China. Lee saw the war as necessary for states in Southeast Asia like Singapore to buy time for stabilizing their governments and economies.
