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"Hi, my name is Sean Graham on behalf of Expert Village, sponsored by goturnkey.com. In this segment, we're going to show you my home. We paid 5,000 baht for this. It's a two storey townhouse. Pretty much all the same outside. They all look the same. So all we're going to do now is we'll go inside and I'll show you what you get for your 5,000 baht. Which is very cheap? Here we have our living room, as you can see. It's a large room. Okay. Take you through into our kitchen. Typically in Thailand, kitchens are not very well equipped. And that's basically because most people find it cheaper to actually eat outside. Okay, in the kitchen, we actually have a toilet and a shower also. Well, we actually have a nice view outside. We have a park area out there. Okay. Let's take you upstairs. This is a three bedroom house. Okay, so we just go up the stairs. Now first of all, at the top of the stairs, there's another toilet and shower. See there. Hi. We have two small rooms. This one's empty at the moment. Another one here. My wife uses. It's a bit of a makeup-cum-office. Okay, there are two small rooms. Now we go into the large bedroom here. Large bedroom. And with that... The large bedroom here. Large bedroom. And with that, in this room, we actually have an en suite. Does not come with air conditioning, so it can be a little warm. But we use a fan. But air con, a lot of houses come with air con, and they're usually a little bit more expensive. And the air con bill itself will probably come to about 4,000 baht per month."
eHow Article: How to Find Housing & Lodging in Thailand