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i tell you what guys
i am living the good life i have been
here for a week
and a half now i have ever so kindly
been taken
in by my friends alex and yulia whose
apartment
that i'm staying at and i do have to say
that this style of living is
a world away from the living conditions
that i had
in my studio apartment in downtown
toronto
and even just the last trips you know
that i have done
because i have tried to be super budget
friendly and you know stretch my
dollar as far as it'll go um
this has been nice so in today's video i
wanted to give you guys a little bit
of insight of what the rents are
here in bangkok if you want to live in
one of the nicest
most luxurious condos so let's begin
with a little tour of
the apartment and then i will take you
guys all throughout the property
to show you how amazing this building
really is
so this is the lovely guest bedroom that
i
am staying in and it's funny because
alex and yulia both being in the youtube
game actually host
quite a few youtubers so we basically
have named this
the youtuber crib and it is just a
lovely
um little room that actually has its own
washroom super spacious
but the best part is definitely
the view
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y'all know how much i love balconies and
this has just
proven to me that when i get my own
apartment i
a million and one times percent
need to have a balcony because it is
just so nice
to be able to sit out here have your
morning coffee or we have like evening
drinks out here
and it is just it's just amazing
so just to give you guys a little tour
of the rest of the
apartment it is absolutely stunning
like it is a two-bedroom apartment
but the living area is absolutely
huge the kitchen is super
modern has everything you need and i
really
like the living room where instead of a
tv
alex actually got a projector
that projects onto this white wall
and we have movie nights it's actually
really good quality
and over here is actually another
entrance
to the balcony which we were just
at and once again these beautiful
floor to ceiling windows with a
spectacular
view over here alex actually has
his office which is tucked behind here
he has his whole big setup for youtube
it can actually be morphed into a studio
which is super cool
and yeah this whole apartment is just
complete
apartment goals so let's begin with a
tour of the 40th
floor the building is actually higher
than that i think it's 70 floors
but on the 40th floor they have an
absolutely amazing
pool deck where you get a phenomenal
view
of the city they have sun beds they have
some work
tables they have a gorgeous infinity
pool that is actually quite deep you
could definitely do
laps in this pool they even have a
little
gym up here but since there were people
in there i didn't you know
want to film them but it's one of two
gyms and they also have
saunas in the washrooms up here on the
40th floor so it's a great time
to just go in the sauna jump in the pool
relax with a phenomenal view
and then if we go down to the fifth
floor you guys will get to see probably
my favorite part of the building
which can most easily be described as a
tropical paradise
this area really makes a person feel
like they're living in an
actual resort you don't even need to go
on a vacation
you can just go down the elevator and
feel like you've been transported
to a five-star resort
alex was actually telling me that
between the north and south
tower of the river condo complex there's
almost
a hundred people that work on the staff
of this apartment building just to keep
everything in tip-top
shape
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also on the fifth floor they have a lot
of seating areas
it's where the main gym is and this gym
basically has a mix of
cardio machines as well as strength
training machines
some free weights basically everything
you could need
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and just on the other side of the gym
there is a half
basketball court so there's that as well
so that is just a taste that is just a
taste of this exquisite
condo complex and i'm actually going to
interview alex
right after this and ask him some
questions about
the proper paperwork and visas to
actually live in thailand long term and
questions about real estate and all that
kind of stuff but i did just want to
mention
that he has a second unit in this
building which is a one bedroom
that he rents out for twelve hundred
dollars
a month that's canadian dollars
and when i think about that and the fact
that i paid almost a thousand
in toronto for a studio
apartment and i come to this incredible
paradise
and learn that i could live in a one
bedroom
that's probably two to three times the
size of my studio
have all these amazing amenities
have everything be new and an amazing
condition
like of course at the end of the day the
difference is that the average thai
citizen
is not making nearly as much a month as
the average canadian citizen
but if you are someone who can work from
anywhere that can get their papers
to stay long-term in thailand like my
god
why why would you ever pay
three or four times the price in canada
for the same standard of living all
right
so we are chilling out here on the patio
with
alex reporter five media on youtube
alex now that i've showed the people
just how spectacular
your condo is thank you thank you i
wanted to get your take
of what is it like to move to bangkok
you know what are some of the procedures
that
a person has to go through if they're
thinking of doing that and kind of just
your own personal experience if you have
any recommendations for people
right i mean it depends on if you're
coming here long term if you plan to
move here
yeah you plan to just come here for
three months i mean there's
a variety of visas that's the first
thing that you always have to
find out is visas if you're over 50 they
have what it's called a retirement visa
and the government asks for a block of
money you can spend it though
uh but they tied up until they issue the
visa i think that's a bit of protection
so that they know you're not coming here
and just might rely on the state
eventually
then they have an education visa if you
want to arrive and learn thai
no problem to get that as well that's
pretty much for any age then they have
what it's called like a
long-term visa they brought in a special
one during the pandemic
to help people that wanted to stay
longer but it's usually
two months with one month extended and
then you have to leave the country
the other visa is what is called a thai
elite visa
now this is about 500 000 baht
it's about 20 000 canadian it's for
people that
want to come and go as they please it
has a lot of perks to it
it's uh unlimited that means that you
don't have to leave the country at any
time
but there's no hassle there's no running
the immigration every 60 days 90 days or
one year renewing it it's pretty much
done for you if a person was able to get
a hold of one of those
visas when it comes to renting in
bangkok
if a person uh wanted a one bedroom
let's say it would be like an
entry-level price here
so location location depends what you
like i would say
entry for a decent nice probably
relatively new building
studios to one bedrooms go for four to
six hundred
wow and then as you go higher levels
like depending on what grade buildings
great four grade five building top
buildings
uh you'll pay for probably a luxury
50 60 meters which is about 500 to 600
square feet probably
anywhere from 1000 to 1200 canadian so
expenses
pretty much all these apartments include
a parking spot
whether you need it or not for your
scooter or car if you can rent a car
it's thrown in there no additional kind
of 100 or 200
a month things like that that does not
happen internet packages
uh they're very high speed they have
fiber optics here as well
traditional package 300 megabit download
speed and 100 megabit upload speed
with the television and that's usually
sometimes included with rents
so those packages start anywhere from
15 to 20 dollars a month up to about 40
or 50
which they also throw in a free mobile
contract
as well water they charge you water
which comes
i think our water bill has never gone
over ten dollars canadian
electricity can be about depending on a
small apartment probably about forty
dollars
and that's running your aircon quite a
bit yeah so if let's say somebody was
able to secure a long-term sort of visa
and they actually want to invest
in real estate how does that work do
people have to pay
the entire amount up front or is it
possible to get mortgages here for
people
or does it depend that's really evolved
here over the last couple of years
uh now there are mortgage lenders here
for sure okay
a lot of foreigners do come they do
mortgage their property
uh off plan seems to be working quite
safe
i mean i haven't seen any problems and
you can pretty much buy a condo put
10 deposit down for the next three or
four years pay another 15 percent
and upon that time then you can
structure if you need a mortgage or you
can sell it
yeah yeah i would say you could probably
buy a decent condo purchased
outright for
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about 85 to 100 000 canadians
and that's going to be a brand new build
i'm not even going to say that's entry
level
because the entry level here is is
pretty decent
yeah but that's probably a building that
might have a smaller pool maybe one gym
not as beautiful entrance but comparable
to
markets like toronto and vancouver these
buildings by far some of them are by far
superior i'm serious
okay and then ballpark figure for like a
luxury condo
one bedroom top end luxe condo
uh 300 000 maybe
350 at top yeah yeah but that is you're
getting
you're getting probably one or two
parking stalls with that included
you're getting top finishing marble
floors uh
fully fitted kitchens uh and most of
these when they sell them to they sell
you that with the appliances
so the refrigerators washer dryers and
everything is included
and a pretty smart home or the lighting
system is smart as well so
yeah for that price there's no there's
no corner cutting for sure
well for anyone who's able to be mobile
and you know
be full-time in bangkok i think you get
so much
quality for the money so thank you so
much for giving people a little insight
into what they could maybe expect
one good website i'll recommend and i
think you've probably already
recommended it in some of your videos or
will in the future is something called
hip flat it's called hit flat and that
is everything pretty much in thailand
in every city in every condo market rent
uh for sale and it also gives you a
going graph on
what each condo has been selling its
units at over the years so
very detailed i would follow that and
all the agents and
developers are all listed there yeah
that's awesome thank you so much
alex pleasure appreciate it all right
thanks guys so that is it my friends i
hope you enjoyed this video and it gave
you some insight of what
it's like to live in a luxury condo here
in bangkok i know this is definitely
going to be one of the top places that i
will be considering
uh getting residents in moving forward
it has really impressed me
once again a big thank you to alex for
uh talking us through
the process of moving here and all the
stuff that comes with it
i'm gonna have his channel details in
the description and as always thank you
guys so much for tuning in
i really appreciate it i would love to
know in the comments how
the real estate prices here compare to
wherever you live
thank you guys so much for tuning in i
hope you're having a fantastic day
and keep being your own kind of
beautiful bye guys
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