Originally Posted by
Diplomatico
You're getting some misleading advice in this thread. You can live quite comfortably in N/NE Thailand for $1500-2000/month (many do so for less), including lodging, and no, you won't have to walk everywhere.
The problem is that the OP hasn't told us much about himself. For all we know he might have never been to SE Asia before.
I don't think the advice is misleading, it's just specific to a certain situation.
We're all just throwing out random ideas. $1500-2000/month is doable on probably 90% of the planet.