How wealthy is the average person in Bangkok?

So I recently started watching BLs, and I was surprised to see how wealthy the setting of these shows looks, since I knew beforehand that in terms of GDP per capita Thailand is actually on par with China & Mexico.

Then I looked up what the GDP per capita in Bangkok is & I was like “wow, ok, now that makes sense”, since it turns out that Bangkok’s GDP per capita is at around 65.000 dollars, much higher than my own wealthy, highly developed, Western European home country Spain’s GDP per capita, which is at around 49.000 dollars (granted, we have the second lowest GDP per capita in Western Europe after our neighbouring country Portugal, but still), and on par with some of the wealthiest countries in Western Europe such as Belgium & Sweden, whose GDPs per capita are also at around 65.000 dollars.

So is the average person in Bangkok as wealthy as they’re depicted in BLs, like, as wealthy as the average person in countries such as Belgium & Sweden, as Bangkok’s GDP per capita also indicates, or is the truth actually uglier than these TV series & these figures show?

I’m also curious about this vast difference in terms of GDP per capita between Bangkok & the provinces that surround it on the one hand & the rest of the country’s provinces on the other. Here in Spain we’re always bemoaning how unfair it is that Madrid is much wealthier than the rest of the country, but Thailand truly takes this wealth disparity between the capital & the rest of the country to a whole other level than we do.

Also, here in Spain, in political terms, what this disparity is translated into is in Madrid being the main stronghold of the conservative, monarchist right in the country, since Madrilenians clearly benefit from the privileges that our unfair economic system affords them & they vote accordingly, whereas in Thailand from what I see it’s the exact opposite: in your recent election the left swept through Bangkok with an astounding victory, taking all 65 seats except for 6, whereas in the rest of the country the results were far worse for the left, which I also find interesting.

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