New room versus old room
Now, after living in my new room for two months, I can draw
some comparisons.
New room rent 8000 Baht per month compared to 3500, but
location much better. Before I had to walk 15 min to the nearest bus stop, now
it’s only 5 minutes to bus stop and 10 minutes to MRT.
New room is on 3rd floor (ground floor=1st floor), old room was on 5th floor.
New room is on 3rd floor (ground floor=1st floor), old room was on 5th floor.
Old room had balcony with kitchen. Very useful for eating
toast for breakfast and fruit, you keep the breadcrumbs and the food waste on
the balcony, out of your room. Now I have everything in my room.
Electricity was 4 Baht per kWh, now it’s 7, combined with
higher consumption I now pay 1500 Baht per month, compared to 500 before.
In my old room I had internet 631 Baht per month contract
for one year, during the entire time no problems. In my new room, internet is
included in the rent. However, there are many problems: it disconnects about
once per hour (leaving me a few minutes without internet), much worse when I
download films (500 MB to 1 GB), this interruption sometimes stops the download
and I have to start again. Already twice in one month, I was without internet on
my computer an entire day (but my mobile phone could connect to WiFi).
Altogether, I spend several hours per months fiddling with internet problems.
Old room had two shelves in the bathroom, new room has none.
I have to store my stuff on the wash basin and on the cover of water reservoir of
toilet.
My bathroom is connected to my room via a door. When I
switch on the light in the bathroom, the fan goes on and sucks air out of the
bathroom. You can feel it when you open the door. This means cold air (aircon)
from my room is sucked out of my room and replaced by hot air from somewhere. A
waste of energy!
My old room had only cold water, no water heater. That means
every stay in a hotel had the added luxury of hot water for showering. My new
room has a water heater, but the shower head has a wide opening angle, which
means when I just want to wash my body I get water on my head as well. But for
my legs, the water is spread over such wide an area that I have to take the
shower head to rinse them manually.
My old room was in an area with no thorough traffic, very
quiet. Now I live near Sri Bam Pen, which has a lot of traffic and there is no
sidewalk! Sometimes when I lie in bed or sit in front of my computer, I have
the impression the building is shaking from cars driving past.
My old place had public washing machines for 7, 9 and 11 kg
(20, 30, 40 Baht). My new place has only one for 9 kg (30 Baht), but I don’t
have that much laundry, I have to collect 2 weeks to fill (to get my money’s
worth), which means I am on my last shirt when I do laundry.
Update 26.08.2014
Old room was on top floor, temperature in Summer about 32 C when I came home after work. New room is 2nd of 3 floors, temperature about 29 C when I come home (both cases no aircon during day).
Update 26.08.2014
Old room was on top floor, temperature in Summer about 32 C when I came home after work. New room is 2nd of 3 floors, temperature about 29 C when I come home (both cases no aircon during day).
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