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2025年12月3日
In-depth Guide to Wealthy People Gathering Cities and Regional Division in Thailand
Focusing on Thailand's two core cities—Bangkok and Pattaya, starting from the practical division of wealthy areas, commercial areas, and common people areas, systematically sorting out the housing prices, safety, infrastructure, lifestyle, and foreigner concentration in each region, and combining real estate investment and tourism scenarios to help foreign investors and tourists quickly understand Thailand's urban layout and local customs.
Question
In Thailand, which cities have a higher concentration of wealthy and high-net-worth individuals? Why does this research focus on Bangkok and Pattaya?
AIAIGAnswer
From a national wealth distribution perspective:
- The capital Bangkok is Thailand's absolute political, economic, and financial center, concentrating the most high-net-worth individuals, multinational corporate headquarters, and high-quality education and healthcare resources, with the highest density of luxury homes, apartments, and Grade A office buildings nationwide.
- Chonburi Province (where Pattaya is located) is a key part of Thailand's Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), combining a long-standing coastal resort tradition with industrial parks, high-end manufacturing, and port economies, attracting a large number of foreign investors and middle-to-high-income local families to purchase property or vacation long-term.
- Additionally, cities like Phuket and Chiang Mai also have a significant proportion of affluent classes and foreign buyers, but in terms of national influence, population, and transaction scale, they still lag behind Bangkok and Pattaya.
Therefore, this research chooses to:
- Use a "national perspective as background" to explain the positions of Bangkok and Pattaya in Thailand's wealth map;
- Then focus on in-depth exploration of Bangkok and Pattaya within these two cities:
- Affluent areas (where high-net-worth local/foreign families congregate)
- Commercial areas (CBD, shopping, offices, nightlife)
- Working-class areas (where middle-to-low-income, local wage-earners gather)
The goal is not simply to give "where to buy the most expensive properties," but to help investors and tourists understand the relationship between: city structure + regional character + investment/tourism scenarios.
- The capital Bangkok is Thailand's absolute political, economic, and financial center, concentrating the most high-net-worth individuals, multinational corporate headquarters, and high-quality education and healthcare resources, with the highest density of luxury homes, apartments, and Grade A office buildings nationwide.
- Chonburi Province (where Pattaya is located) is a key part of Thailand's Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), combining a long-standing coastal resort tradition with industrial parks, high-end manufacturing, and port economies, attracting a large number of foreign investors and middle-to-high-income local families to purchase property or vacation long-term.
- Additionally, cities like Phuket and Chiang Mai also have a significant proportion of affluent classes and foreign buyers, but in terms of national influence, population, and transaction scale, they still lag behind Bangkok and Pattaya.
Therefore, this research chooses to:
- Use a "national perspective as background" to explain the positions of Bangkok and Pattaya in Thailand's wealth map;
- Then focus on in-depth exploration of Bangkok and Pattaya within these two cities:
- Affluent areas (where high-net-worth local/foreign families congregate)
- Commercial areas (CBD, shopping, offices, nightlife)
- Working-class areas (where middle-to-low-income, local wage-earners gather)
The goal is not simply to give "where to buy the most expensive properties," but to help investors and tourists understand the relationship between: city structure + regional character + investment/tourism scenarios.
