RoyJones Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 (edited) So, how would you describe your life living in Bangkok? Edited November 2, 2008 by RoyJones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
girlx Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 alcoholic! no seriously... as far as cities go i think bangkok is kind of pathetic. besides gazillions of shopping malls and bar girls (if you are of that persuasion), bangkok doesn't have much to offer. the nightlife is all centered around drinking, and cultural events are rare. traffic is a nightmare. a lot of the expats here are losers. i am still here for now because it's cheap, but i will be happy to eventually get back to a real city like NY, if i am going to stay in a city. living outside of bangkok was a nice overall experience though. much better quality of life than i could get back home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thithi Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
londonthai Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 stay in the suburbs for the best of the city (supermarkets, schools, cultural and sports activities and events) and still experience the almost rural style of living in a small, detached from the city life, communities by the klong sides Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott123 Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 one sentence: There is always something to do, never a dull moment in BKK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayfarer108 Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 I've lived in NY, Paris, San Francisco, Kuala Lumpur, Mexico City and Bangkok. The latter remains my favorite by a relatively wide margin. As the French say, chacun a son gôut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyb789 Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 It's a love-hate relationship. Stay away from the tourist areas. Your sanity will last longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotcom Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 May not be heaven on Earth but it's pretty dam.n close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkkjames Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Two lines? ok here goes A frustratingly addictive place that brings out the best and worst in me. When I am not screaming my head off, I am laughing it off - mostly at the greed, generiousity, beauty, ugliness, kindness and thoughtlessness ,but funny thing about it, despite its obvious faults, it is home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuang Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 So, how would you describe your life living in Bangkok? Demonstrations, more demonstrations and more demonstrations.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotime Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Two lines? ok here goesA frustratingly addictive place that brings out the best and worst in me. When I am not screaming my head off, I am laughing it off - mostly at the greed, generiousity, beauty, ugliness, kindness and thoughtlessness ,but funny thing about it, despite its obvious faults, it is home. Me too. I've lived in big cities all my life. I'm a city rat. Bangkok has all that and a bag of barbecue potato chips. Never bored here. I stay out of the bar areas except for once in awhile just to remind myself what a fantasy land this city is. I'm just glad I didn't discover this place when I was younger or I would have had a very short life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrtingtong Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 I'm just glad I didn't discover this place when I was younger or I would have had a very short life. My thoughts exactly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RakJungTorlae Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 So, how would you describe your life living in Bangkok? Not to bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icebkk Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 hmm im only here for schooling and i was born here but hmm its so annoying all the traffic and crazy people about when your trying to drive about and so many rude people here!! but i am never bored here all my good friends are here and many places to eat 7 11 just everywhere!! haha just wish there was not so many girl who love themselves so much buh if u dont like it get da hel_l out muahahaha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB84 Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 BKK is pretty grey and dull. No, really. As well, many expats here are of a different breed than in other Asian cities/countries where I have been expatriated. But I guess they are a byproduct of girls & booze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkkjames Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 hmmim only here for schooling and i was born here but hmm its so annoying all the traffic and crazy people about when your trying to drive about and so many rude people here!! but i am never bored here all my good friends are here and many places to eat 7 11 just everywhere!! haha just wish there was not so many girl who love themselves so much buh if u dont like it get da hel_l out muahahaha! Ok RJT, thanks for your creative input as usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkkjames Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 BKK is pretty grey and dull. No, really. As well, many expats here are of a different breed than in other Asian cities/countries where I have been expatriated. But I guess they are a byproduct of girls & booze. You must be referring to the Singapore Expat. Heaven knows that that group of tea toddling, stand me up at a bar on Orchard Road with my latest Jamie Oliver haircut to impress the Chinese gals kind of guys, should be something we all aspire too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swain Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Hot, Sweaty, stinky, loud, dangerous, sexy, fun, horrific, fun to visit but I wouldn't live there again. So many other places in Thailand that are pleasant and if you dont have to live there for work, DONT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OxfordWill Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Mainly it's the bars/parties coupled with cheap living costs that keeps me here. Devoid of hormones and ADD, I would probably live somewhere very very different! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiang mai Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 If you think it's bad now you should have seen the place ten and fifteen years ago. Less of the good things such as western supermarkets, restaurants, cinema's etc but lots more of the bad things such as working girls, bars and go-go's. Funny, I think it was better back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderman2 Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 BKK is pretty grey and dull. No, really. As well, many expats here are of a different breed than in other Asian cities/countries where I have been expatriated. But I guess they are a byproduct of girls & booze. You must be referring to the Singapore Expat. Heaven knows that that group of tea toddling, stand me up at a bar on Orchard Road with my latest Jamie Oliver haircut to impress the Chinese gals kind of guys, should be something we all aspire too. I like the way you see the bad in everything it reminds me of myself, i refer to this kind of haircut that my brother sports as a "Londonboy haircut". To describe Bangkok in one sentence would be, its the only city other then my own where i get a tingle in my stomach when arriving at the airport and driving to my hotel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RakJungTorlae Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 (edited) hmmim only here for schooling and i was born here but hmm its so annoying all the traffic and crazy people about when your trying to drive about and so many rude people here!! but i am never bored here all my good friends are here and many places to eat 7 11 just everywhere!! haha just wish there was not so many girl who love themselves so much buh if u dont like it get da hel_l out muahahaha! Ok RJT, thanks for your creative input as usual. You think everyone's me. And i don't go to school. I hate school. I figured out who the OP is thou. Back from the dead, now he's learnt a snap punch. Edited November 5, 2008 by RakJungTorlae Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetroGirl Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 I don't love it. I just like it........sort of... SO SO...for me, sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasRanger Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Bit of a shat hole really, but it is home, for now............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popshirt Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 The farther one lives from street level (at least ten floors up) the better life in Bangkok is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swanky Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 It's a love-hate relationship. You love to hate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundman Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 I don't live in Bkk, however I stay there for days to week durations on many occasions per year. The thing I find really frustrating is that in the "suburbs" you can't just go for a stroll down the street, you have to take transport even to go and buy a beer or ciggies from 7 even if its only 500 metres from your house, never any parking available in front of the shops, even for motorbikes on most occasions. You find that unless you actually make a plan to go and do something, you end up stuck in your house all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swanky Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 You find that unless you actually make a plan to go and do something, you end up stuck in your house all the time. As in posting on TV? Can't be that bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmushr00m Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Could be better but I have lived in India so I know it could be ALOT WORSE. Paradise compared to Delhi and Mumbai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swanky Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 I'm lucky I can divide my time between Bangkok and somewhere else or this place would make me more nutters than I already am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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