room tour of my Luxury Thailand Apartment [eyZKOrABuZE]

Okay, so I'll start the room tour.

Be very stable. That's my sofa

that we never sit on. We always sit here.

I put my cushion there. I've got my blue

cushion, I put it there, and we have

dinner here and watch Netflix on the TV.

And we used to sit on the sofa after we

finished eating, but recently we just sit

on the floor. And that's the Christmas

tree. Still didn't put the Christmas tree

away from Christmas. That's my monitor,

gonna sell that, and my gaming controller.

And that's the bathtub that she bought and

used once. It cost like 3,000 baht.

I never used it. It's like a portable

bathtub. You bring it over to the shower

room, fill it up with hot water, and then

you drain it after you finish. But the

problem is the hot water here is not hot

enough for me. I like really hot baths,

so it's kind of not good for me. And,

um, it's too hot in Thailand to have a

bath anyway, so I don't really want a

bath. I want to see what the chat's

saying. Where's your girlfriend?

She's at work right now.

Okay, no one's saying anything. Okay, so

I've got the entrance here,

um, my TV, and then

that's the bedroom. I'll show you outside

the window and the balcony.

My bedroom,

and this is where I do my exercise.

Dumbbells. My dumbbell is there. That's my

window. Okay, so you want to see my view?

That's my view. Got a really big busy

main road there, motorway. It's pretty

interesting to watch it sometimes, look at

the traffic jams and stuff. And you've got

a swimming pool, got a swimming pool down

there. Sometimes I go swimming.

Maybe I open the window, stick you out the

window. Why did she lock the window?

Spider-Man's gonna come up.

I'm gonna

Got a nice swimming pool. That's me.

What are the comments saying?

You're pretty high up. Yeah, it's like

25th floor.

Did you see the swimming pool?

The swimming pool is really nice. Might go

swimming tomorrow, one last swim.

Um, that's the fridge, bathroom,

shower,

toilet. Why is the toilet blue?

Washing machine, fridge.

And then we got a balcony for

laundry.

I did the laundry today.

My view. I'm gonna miss this place.

So nice here.

I don't know why. But there's a house

there and there's like 10 cars parked

in the drive.

I can count about 10 cars and it looks

like it's just one house, a really

big house. How many people live there?

There's a Tesla down there, you probably

can't see it, and there's a tennis

court over there with parked on it. Kind

Very scary.

I don't know if, if this is even

streaming. Let me check. Is it streaming?

I guess the connection's fine even if I

stand over there. Did you see it?

Oh yeah, you can see it. Wow,

connection's pretty good.

I can go onto the balcony and it's still

sending footage.

Yep, really great view. Looks such a happy

place to live. Yeah, way better than

Manchester.

Show us more of your bedroom. Yeah, I'm

gonna miss this place. It's really nice

here. Lived here for a year and a half

nearly. The bedroom— she's

got her suitcases and stuff. She's gonna

start packing, I guess. Oh, that's my

school textbook. I went to AAA Language

beginner Thai course. I just drew loads of

anime girls in it. Look,

anime girls,

anime girls.

I was so bored, I just sat there doodling

all day.

I like drawing noses and lips.

Where's a good one?

I just started drawing noses and then eyes

and then shading it in.

I like this one.

My textbook. Got my bag. I might

actually take my old bag instead of the

new one. Can't see the chat.

Um, lad's eye

has dropped. What?

My women I draw always end up looking the

same. Don't know why.

Yeah, I can't believe I'm living very kind

of central to Bangkok in this place and

it costs $250 a month. Insane. Look at the

view. This is not facing central

Bangkok, this is facing north of Bangkok.

Central Bangkok is facing the other way,

so I'm facing north. I think you

have to look the other way, so we don't

get a view of the central Bangkok swimming

pool. Do you think I'd survive if I dived

into it from here?

No, it's not even deep. I mean, you stand

in the deepest part of the pool and the

water goes up to your stomach, so it's not

deep.

The city of Bangkok.

They're doing stuff in that tennis court.

I don't know what they're doing, like

dismantling poles, lampposts.

Ah, so nice and warm with the breeze

blowing to cool you down a bit.

That's my view.

There's some kind of warehouse there.

Wait, I'll show you how I went to school

every day.

If you did a belly flop, you would

survive. What if I dived like, uh,

hands, hands together in front of me?

Probably break all my arms.

I don't have a school uniform.

You're in the inner suburbs close to

outer. Yeah, I'm not in central

Bangkok, but I'm not on the very

outskirts. I'm like in between. It takes—

it takes like 40 minutes by train

or 30 minutes by car to get to Central

Park. So to go to school— wait,

look, my trousers used to be black and now

they're brown-purple.

I can't open this. So to go to school I

walk out the entrance and I walk down here

and there's a little gate there.

I'd exit the gate and then I'd walk down

this road like that and then I'd turn

right and then I'd walk up here and I'd go

there. That's where the train station

building is and then you climb up the

stairs— I mean the escalator— then you go

here, you buy a ticket and then you go up

again to the top level, and then you wait

there for the train. And the view from the

platform whilst you're waiting for the

train is so nice because look how high it

is. That train station there is like 4

stories up. So you got the ground level

doesn't exist because it's above the main

road. So you got the ground entrance, it

goes up to the second level Wait, 1,

2, 3. I think it's 3 stories.

There's a second level where the tickets

are, and then you buy a ticket and you go

up another level to where the platform is,

and then you're on the platform there,

and then you've got this great view

looking out this way, and it looks

amazing. I remember every morning I'd get

the train to go to school and I'd be

standing on the platform thinking Damn,

this is nice! Why don't we have this in

the UK? Building the train tracks above

the roads with this really high-up

platform is so cool. I really like the MRT

and the BTS trains here.

So, the train track, you can see, goes up

there, so the trains come round.

No trains at the moment. And then got this

big highway. We go on that highway

to go out of Bangkok. So we would drive

out of the car park this way to the exit,

turn left, and turn left again, and then

drive along this bit. And there's a ramp

that goes up into the motorway, and that's

the highway. And then just drive up that

way to go north into Ayutthaya.

And then keep driving to go up into

Thailand, northern Thailand.

Not so many tall buildings around there,

but if you look on the other side,

there's loads of tall buildings because

that's where central Bangkok is. My view

is facing out towards the outskirts, so

not many high buildings. Well, my

building's the highest one, so In

comparison, everything looks small to my

Show us the corridor. No, I'm scared.

How much would a Westerner without Thai

contacts pay for that?

So I nearly lived in an apartment near

Jatsujak Park. When I first met my

girlfriend, and I was

trying to get the apartment rented in my

name, and they were making me pay 20,000

baht a month. They said that was the best

they could give me, and I'm paying 10,000

here. So they were going to charge me

double for a place that was around

the same size. It was a bit smaller

actually. It was a more modern looking

building, but the room was smaller, and it

was near Jat Chai Park, which is like 15

minutes away by train. So maybe you'd pay

like double if you

didn't have a girlfriend.

I don't know if you had a visa,

because when I— at the time I didn't have

a visa, I was just kind of country

hopping.

So they probably gave me a short-term

contract, but if you had a visa, they

might just give you normal prices. So I'm

not sure, but if you

don't have a visa, they're not gonna rent

you an apartment like anywhere. Or they

might just give you a deal like 3 months,

but it's gonna be expensive like in

Rotterdam. This is such a nice view,

especially on New Year's Day. New Year's

Day, New Year's night, when all the

fireworks went up, the entire city erupted

in fireworks. It looks so cool everywhere,

just fireworks going off all around like a

war zone, kind of like bombs going off.

And then outside you've got like

a little garden. Look, there's like

garden, grass, walkway,

and garden area, grass, play area,

more grass, benches, and swimming pool,

and some more grass over there. So you

could go out and sit on the grass if you

It's pretty nice,

pretty nice, but I won't be here anymore.

Well, I enjoyed it for a year and a half.

I can't really say— I can't really

complain about that, can I?

I tried to enjoy it the best I could.

How'd you search for apartments? I don't

know, my girlfriend did.

Yeah, I'm really gonna miss this place.

I'm now gonna have to live in some stupid

guest house in Japan for nearly

double the price. Yeah, my guest house in

Japan cost $1,000 for 2 months. This place

is only about $300 a month, I think.

How are you gonna get rid of all that

stuff? I have no idea. Most of it can go

in the bin. Boxes, art stuff,

paper.

I'm gonna miss this place. I don't want to

go. I don't want to go to stupid Japan.

It's just full of grumpy, stressed-out

people, cold weather,

tiny shoebox apartment,

stupid guest house full of weirdo gaijins.

It's gonna suck. If I only had a

Japanese person who could rent me an

apartment, but it wouldn't make any sense

because I can't be there for a year. I can

only be there for 3 months. Why would you

sign up for an apartment for a year rent

and you're only going to be there for 3

Even if someone got me an apartment in

Japan for like $200 a month and

I gotta pay for 1 year, that would be

what, $2,000, $3,000 maybe?

There's no such thing as an apartment for

$200 in Japan, even in the countryside or

in a smaller city. You're not going to get

an apartment for $200. You'll be paying

maybe ¥40,000, which is like,

I don't know, $500, $600. Yeah, you could

get a $200 apartment in Japan, but it's

going to suck. It's going to be like a

tiny little shoebox apartment in an old

horrible building. It's not going

to look like this, is it?

Life is so luxury in Thailand.

Yeah,

it's gonna suck downgrading

from this to a guest house room. The guest

house room is going to be like half the

size of this room. I've seen the pictures

of the guest house. So imagine the wall

comes from there, from the edge of that

door, because I've seen the picture with

the single bed in. You can only put 2

single beds side by side. So the, the

guest house bedroom is literally going to

be like this.

Bed there, little table here. I'll just— I

mean, 90% of the time when I'm at home.

I'm just sitting here anyway, so it

doesn't really matter. Uh, actually it

does matter, because imagine you're

sitting here and you've got the bed there,

and then you've just got a wall. You feel

so claustrophobic. Here I can just look

around. I've got this big space. I can

pace around like this and go into the

kitchen, make some food,

make some food, do some washing.

Do some laundry, have a piss,

jump on the bed, do some exercise over

there. I'm not just confined to this area,

which I will be in the guest house, so

it's going to be like moving into a jail

Why don't you go home first and then to

Japan? Because then I gotta fly all the

way home and fly all the way back. Which

would cost money. It would cost more money

to fly back than fly— it would cost more

money to fly home than back to Japan and

home again than it would— then I'd be able

to save up extra money. Yeah, I'd be able

to save up more money, but then I've got

to waste all that money by flying here and

flying there. And,

um, I don't want to go back to the

UK straight away.

So yeah, guess how life is gonna But it's

the best I can do with my money. I'm not

spending £2,000 a month to stay in a hotel

apartment.