Home in Chiang MaiIt's hardly roughing it in Asia.
If you are staying a couple of months an apartment is the best way to go.
Living in Chiang Mai (ramblings) posted March 10, 2008: Minimum daily wage in Thailand is 144 Baht ($5) per day, about 4,320 Baht ($150) per month. Some families only have one wage earner. (In India 40 per cent of the population earn about $1 a day. In Burma urban professionals earn about $1 per day. BKK Post Feb 27/08) Of course, meals and accommodations are priced proportionally. If a foreigner can't live in Asia on what you have from home, you're doing something wrong. Even though elephants have been outlawed from entering the cities they still do. Their mahouts, owners, target
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