expatsally

Sure is like Disneyland.... a roller coaster ride!

Anyway, it is a forum and at least we all have one to check in with and splash our comments on to feel some sort of fun or relief. Have a good one and enjoy your time here, as the time sure flies now we aregetting older. To me it is still the best place and like a Disneyland. 

15 years later I’m really starting to believe the Thai government is bipolar. ????

Wow a wee bit of sarcasm there.......

Op, don't listen to the rabble, CM is a horrible place to live: pollution can come any time and is worse than Hong Kong/Beijing/Delhi, it always floods - the Night Bazaar was under 15 feet of water last week - temperatures are sub-zero Dec-Jan DURING THE DAY, it takes 5 hours just to do a 90-day report, the seafood's always off and prohibitively expensive, all the locals are non-smiling Chinese, and the elephants shower everyone with rat-infested klong water during Songkran. Are you sure you'd want to trade peaceful HH for all that!

Thanks everyone for your responses, will definitely come back again and look around with different eyes.

I'm a Northern California gal and have never lived farther than 20 min. from the beach in my 46 years, but am willing to try.

Would be nice to go to a place with actual movie theaters without dubbing in Thai, and it seems you have a variety of ethnic restaurants, something surely lacking here, although slowly starting to happen.

I see that you have several outdoor Thai mkts. It is something we have here that is really great for us as we do most cooking at home. Are most Thai mkts. outside the city? Farther in the countryside or scattered around.....

Thanks for all your help guys,

Hi,

Thanks for the reply s. Map Guy, why did you move from H.H.? If you miss it so much why don't you move back? Sounds like you have more change in temps there, are there good places to rent up in the hills out side town?

Seesip, we have no flooding issues what so ever here, in fact, it hardly ever rains here. We keep waiting for monsoon season to start but yesterday was sunny and about 85F/30 C. Today we finally see a little drizzle and overcast skies, but most of the time, this time of year, we get sun until about 3 and then we see some clouds come in and sometimes it even rains! It is the driest part of Thailand. The beaches here are crap tho, better to get to one of the islands near Choumpon about 3 hrs away.

Still unsure about the move up North.........

Hi there,

We've been living in Hua Hin for 5 yrs. now and thinking about making a move.

We have visited, as tourists, C.M. about 4 times over the past 17 years. I think the last time was in 2006. We always loved it there but thought we needed to live closer to Bkk to receive family from the West.

I'm sure all of you Chiang Mai folks are sick of hearing people ask about the air quality, but here it goes....is it really that bad? All our visits there , I can't remember 1 time even noticing it and we have been in Dec. Jan. Feb. I guess it's a hot season thing March/ April thing? Stay inside with the a/c those months or get the hell out of Thailand?

Also the seafood in H.H. is fabulous because we are right on the sea. Any fresh mkts. there with it or only at the big chain stores, expensive?

I would appreciate any info, rents here are about 15,000 bt. a month for 3bd/2ba and we are lucky enough to have one in a pool village w/security. I would love to exchange any info about H.H. as well....

Thanks a lot....