mnc@admin.u.nu (Miguel Cruz) wrote in message news:...
> XOR wrote:
> > mnc@admin.u.nu (Miguel Cruz) wrote:
> >> suebo wrote:
> >>> We lived in BKK for 8 months and I wouldn't go back. But that is my
> >>> preference. I know people who love it.
> >>
> >> Out of curiosity, why wouldn't you go back?
> >
> > Not the OP but I have similar sentiments after living there for 5
> > months.
> >
> > For me- it's just typical city stuff - too busy, too crowded, too
> > polluted (I also would't live in NYC)
>
> Ah, for me the big problem with NYC is that it's got too much of that
> "small-town feel" and not enough crowds and bustle. So perhaps Bangkok's
> just the ticket! My major concern, I think, would be the air pollution.
Actually, IMO, Bangkok's one advantage is that it has neighborhoods
which give it that "small town feel" - not unlike Chicago. I knew all
the vendors on my Soi and there abouts, and I loved that aspect. I
didn't like having to walk thru 100s of people just to get to the sky
train. I found the many short cuts to get to where I needed to go to
avoid the crowds :)
Pollution is not so nice.... if you have to blow your nose, it comes
out black (sorry, TMI?). I had the worst migraines ever since I lived
in LA (which was before real emissions standards kicked in). The hot
season (and you know I like the heat ;-)) got particularly ugly whilst
walking down a street of baking concrete with buses belching fumes in
your face. taking a motorbike taxi required a shower afterwards to
wash all the black soot from your face. It was a fun city, but weird -
a big metropolis, and it does have quite a bit of culture, but far too
much seems western influenced and fabricated. The neighborhoods have a
Thai feel, but the city as a whole, often feels like a big city
anywhere.
Stick me in the jungle on the Thai-Burmese border and I am happy :).
After a few days motorbiking up the border, coming back to Mae Sot
(the amphoe, I think official pop estimates are ~30,000 people....add
in illegal of course and it doubles) seemed crowded. |