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On the 100$ Thailand thing that a lot of people have been asking here: It will be hard to live off that little. I know for some Thai people this is their salary, but they live there, have families that support them, speak the local language, have built their own hut, are connected in the village, etc. Even 500$ isn't that much for a tourist, but it's doable. It is not unusual for them to charge 2, 5 or even 10 times the price for a foreigner, compared to what a local Thai person pays for any given good or service. Your only way around this is either learn Thai yourself, or have a friendly local help you get some deals. My best bet would be find someone on Couchsurfing.org willing to help you. I once met a swiss girl while travelling through South East Asia, she was working in the north of Thailand in some project, teaching children English. She said to me that they were also in need of a IT teacher. That's several years ago now and I haven't been keeping track what she's up to. The point is, she told me that in the time living and working there, she hardly spent ANY money at all, being a lot with locals, living with the school, learning Thai, starting to get fair deals on food and such, etc. If that's something you want to contemplate, the organization she is part of is: http://www.baandoi.org |