@Henrik ****

spot on!

For clarification, that's 400 baht per day

(13 dollars)

@Catherine **********

been here 20 years, never have seen a double sink or an oven, nor have I ever seen what Americans consider a regular sized refrigerator. It's different here than Iowa, maybe you should visit first before believing your preconceptions...and real estate agents are not known for honesty.

Thai people are very capable of cooking without a kitchen and doing laundry for a family without machines while also holding down a job. The problem you will encounter is that unless you can cook Thai food, the ingredients for all your dishes will be expensive or unavailable. Just think about not having an oven and only 1 burner...but you will have a rice cooker and a hot water kettle.

Good luck and don't try to overthink it, you will love the food and people who are quite ingenious when it comes to being self sufficient (wait till you see a full kitchen on a motorcycle selling delicious food, lol)

😉

Yes, our home is built with the wood from 2 old houses and mixed with new eucalyptus poles and posts. No problem in 9 years. The hard wood from old buildings is super heavy and tight grained (if it hasn't been eaten by termites in 50 years you got good wood) termite proof and beautiful. The new wood that is available is not the same.

The downside is time and energy pulling nails, cutting split ends and figuring out the best use of each board.

You are a racist as well as an idiot.

35 is pretty good.

Don't forget the cavity search,

ask for a guy nicknamed 'Knuckles'...

I got held up and questioned 2 years ago for about an hour and they not only wanted to know where my wife was, but had me call her so they could question her.

Each airline has its own mask policy, so you may want to bring some for the flight.

I just came over on Korea air and they require masks during boarding and flight.

@Kool ******

I went to first grade in Holland without speaking the language and was fine.

What was traumatic is that I wore American underwear and my classmates wore Dutch underwear and they made fun of that a bit.

The teacher calmed them down and would help if I didn't understand something.

Most all Thai teachers I have met can speak a little English also.

Chiang Rai has halal food as well.