Not really as standard of living is not proportional. Like Singapore with highest standard of living but a Honda civic is well over $100k USD, doesn't make it very affordable.Nothing more than adjustment for the local currency.
It's all relative. The cost of living to you and me in terms of USD or euro is expensive but not to the locals, who enjoy the benefits of the government's campaign to stimulate the economy by artificially inflating the bhat, thus serving to flood the sovereign economy with currencies like the above.Not really as standard of living is not proportional. Like Singapore with highest standard of living but a Honda civic is well over $100k USD, doesn't make it very affordable.
Don't know about Thailand but in Singapore they tack on a hefty vehicle tax to prevent too many cars from being on the road. I believe the Civic would cost $25k while you pay $75k to the government.Not really as standard of living is not proportional. Like Singapore with highest standard of living but a Honda civic is well over $100k USD, doesn't make it very affordable.
Right, huge duties to control car population (in Singapore) or importation also in Singapore a huge fee for right to register a car even on a motorcycle this can be a $50k fee and goes up from there.Don't know about Thailand but in Singapore they tack on a hefty vehicle tax to prevent too many cars from being on the road. I believe the Civic would cost $25k while you pay $75k to the government.
They called that "right" the Certificate of Entitlement.Right, huge duties to control car population (in Singapore) or importation also in Singapore a huge fee for right to register a car even on a motorcycle this can be a $50k fee and goes up from there.
All that is changing in SG. Std of living is getting higher and yet salary isn't improving much. It's overpopulated. I reckon in the next 5 years, pple will start migrating out of the country.Here we have a different economic structure with a middle class. They have, HAVES and HAVE Nothings. The scale is completely polar where ours is more of a bell curve. Same in China, Indonesia, Malay etc. too. Even Singapore is polar, just less so.
Hefty tax to prevent too many cars from being on the road? Not true in Thailand. Government just finished a new-car-buyer program that put about 700,000 new cars on the road -- in the heart of Bangkok (i.e., in a place where traffic sucked already even without those added cars).Don't know about Thailand but in Singapore they tack on a hefty vehicle tax to prevent too many cars from being on the road. I believe the Civic would cost $25k while you pay $75k to the government.
Already started, some people commute from MY to SG every day.All that is changing in SG. Std of living is getting higher and yet salary isn't improving much. It's overpopulated. I reckon in the next 5 years, pple will start migrating out of the country.
That price is through taxes and stuff? Can't you import one from an EU country where prices are better like Germany or from UK?The Evora S SR is $213'000 in Norway, and insurance is in the $3000 region. Denmark is even more expensive.
I can only speak for Austria: Cars are much cheaper in Germany due to lower taxes. However it's illegal for someone living in Austria to drive with German plates for more than one month. (And it's up to the driver to evidence that the car is *not* driven in Austria most).That price is through taxes and stuff? Can't you import one from an EU country where prices are better like Germany or from UK?