Just signed the rent contract for my new house!

Whoaa, 5 months ago I moved from Holland to live in Thailand, after having slept in hotels for about 2 months I moved to a guest house for another month and after that I decided to rent a condo.

Quick cost break down of different rentals here in Pattaya, just to give an idea and make it a tiny bit educational:

- Decent 3-4 star hotels around 25 euro/night = 750 euro/month
- Decent guest house with a bit more space 550 euro/month
- 2 Room Appartment (condo) 375 euro/month + 125/month electricity+water

As you see each time it got bigger and each time cheaper as well as the service level lowers of course, no more cleaning services which is valued at about 200 baht/day or 150 euro/month.

While staying in the condo I actually got a little less happy, sure I have more space and more privacy in some way but it's also more boring, especially when you have to work quite a lot and a tiny balcony with the sun right at it all day long, way too hot so you end up sitting inside with the airconditioning on and the view isn't that great either. I can see the ocean when I really do my best but that's it.

So I went to look around for a house, preferably with a private swimming pool and in a good tourist area. Those are often priced at around 1000-1250 euro/month. Still damn cheap when you compare it to the US or European countries.

After having visited a couple of houses the street wasn't the way I liked it, or the swimming pool ate up the whole garden space so it wasn't the perfect fit really. It turns out that the perfect place for me would come down to around 2k euro/month, and I just refuse to pay so much for just a place to live. You do get a real dynasty place for that though tempting but no, what the heck i need 5 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms for for example.

Then I went to a different real estate broker and he had a nice house, not too big, 3 small bedrooms (I only need one but well), 2 bathrooms, pretty easy when having a guest, and instead of a private swimming pool a communal pool.

The house is at the most perfect location between Jomtien and Pattaya Center so another big plus.

It's kind of a complex divided from the rest of the world with a 2 meter high fence and you find 8 houses within that, the houses are kind of build in a bungalow style and the houses are build in a circle, with a garden styled swimming pool in the middle of it.

Right now it's low season and no one lives in any of the houses lol so it's still a private swimming pool and only 850 euro/month.

I'm feeling the king to rich

Soon when I move I'll make some photo's of it and upload it here, I get the keys the 1st of May.