LOS a bargain for international students

[reader]

NOTE -- The panoramic photo below features a scene familiar to most readers (Saphan Taskin BTS stop just before Silom line crosses above the Chao Phraya and environs). Question that comes to mind: what was the photographer's vantage point?

 

From South China Morning Post

 

 

 

Chinese parents buy education and properties in Thailand as international school fees at home rise

 

International school fees and properties in Bangkok are a fraction of those in China

 

 

Chinese parents keen to enrol their children in international schools but reluctant to pay the exorbitant tuition fees in the mainland are turning to Thailand as an option, a trend that has bolstered the local property market.

 

Peggy Wang, a mother of a 10-year old girl and six-year old boy, is one such parent who opted to move to the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, where annual tuition fees at less than 60,000 yuan (US$8,732) are a quarter of the 240,000 yuan her children’s Beijing bilingual school had charged.

 

“The teachers in the Beijing school change frequently, but in Thailand, teachers have families there, so the faculty is stable,” Wang said. “In Beijing, my children have to take extra English classes after school in the absence of an English-speaking environment outside class, but not in Thailand.”

 

She plans to send her children to international schools in Bangkok when they get older, where fees will rise to about 100,000 yuan a year. To prepare for that, she has bought a 31 square metre flat in Bangkok for 650,000 yuan, in addition to the Chiang Mai villa she lives in and a flat in Pattaya.

 

 

Continues at

https://www.scmp.com/property/hong-kong-china/article/2159400/mainland-chinese-parents-buy-education-and-properties

[vinapu]

NOTE -- The panoramic photo below features a scene familiar to most readers (Saphan Taskin BTS stop just before Silom line crosses above the Chao Phraya and environs). Question that comes to mind: what was the photographer's vantage point?

 

Either drone or top of Sathorn Unique - empty shell of unfinished building beside Saphan Taksin BTS, now inaccessible after Swede was found hanged there at and of 2014 if I recall.

 

Another tittle of fame for that building is being place where Christian PFC was bitten by wasps  on his way to the top with completely different motive than Swede.

[ChristianPFC]

Sathorn Unique. I was there.