Noise

[pbrane]

Hi everyone:

I'm looking for potential places to live/retire and am wondering about noise in Chiang Mai. Is it possible to find a place to live away from barking dogs, crowing chickens, fireworks, honking horns etc?

Any comments or experiences appreciated!

-pb

[BambinA]

Is it possible to find a place to live away from barking dogs, crowing chickens, fireworks, honking horns etc?

obviously .. in LOS we have soi dog ..u have to live with em

hard then ..even grave u still hear doggie , firework(chinese cheng meng)

well methinks ..somewhere apartment /condominium? (90% are not allowed to feed pet)

firework = cerebrate time (not everyday 4 sure)

[bino]

Hi pbrane...

I can't offer any advice to you, as I live on a noisy soi in Bangkok.

Just wanted to say that your nickname is hilarious! Love it!

[rishi]

I'm looking for potential places to live/retire and am wondering about noise in Chiang Mai. Is it possible to find a place to live away from barking dogs, crowing chickens, fireworks, honking horns etc?

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No!

[silverhawk_usa]

Hi everyone:

I'm looking for potential places to live/retire and am wondering about noise in Chiang Mai. Is it possible to find a place to live away from barking dogs, crowing chickens, fireworks, honking horns etc?

Any comments or experiences appreciated!

-pb

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I live in a mooban (Sririporn 2, Sansai) about 10k outside of Chiang Mai. I rent a very nice furnished home for about 12,000 bt a month. Sometimes it is so quiet here it is scary (except for some birds in the morning). You have to be selective/lucky as I used to live only a few kilometers from here and the roosters and soi dogs made me crazy.

[likite]

No, as the second biggest city in thailand there are no dogs, chickens, cars, fireworks. So you are going to have to find somewhere else!

Good post pbrane

[rishi]

I'm looking for potential places to live/retire and am wondering about noise in Chiang Mai. Is it possible to find a place to live away from barking dogs, crowing chickens, fireworks, honking horns etc?

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Well, now it's about 2.00 AM and owed to your post I sit listening. Very quit except for some occational car. No aninals making noise. Sorry, a dog just barked. No cocks around, though. Hey,! (sorry, two cars just went by) -- what I am trying to say, is that, you might be able to get some undi (oh, now the neighbor pulled up his screeking gate) sturbe (what was that car doing) d, rest here.

Don't come to Thailand, unless you're tolerant.

[lorilei.lee]

In Chiang Mai city, you most likely can't find a quiet place, but outside it you probably can. Some selective neighborhoods are springing up outside the city. I've been to one that's quite nice, and you'd never know the neighborhood was there if you were just driving by, as an orchard separates it from the road. There's also various rules on maintaining your house/property. I've also been through another area that is primarily farang & thai spouse owned that has lots of houses that are just rented out to other farangs, although I think they may be temporary residences. In any case, I'm sure there are other areas around CM city that have residence rules that would fit your noise criteria. I'm not an expert in real estate, but given that there's now a Mandarin Oriental hotel (or whatever it's called) it seems the area's developed enough to have some exclusive neighborhoods. Sorry, can't remember the names of any of the places I've been through.

[mumbojumbo]

What is this fetish thing you have against noise?? Noise is good. A barking dog tells you there is something in the area that shouldn't be there. Fireworks tells you there is a holiday in progress. If you want to live in "the City" you have to put up with it. If you can't handle it, don't live in the city. I suppose you could live on the 23rd floor of some condo and escape it, but what if you have bad niebors, they can be noisy too. Mie lue.

[Ajarn]

A barking dog tells you there is something in the area that shouldn't be there

Do you live in Thailand?

I'm so happy your neighborhood dogs bark when there's a good reason, but the dogs in my neighborhood bark just to stay in practice, I think, for that's the only reasoning I can come up with..

[acehealing]

Dont be put off by the sarcastic answers... There are definitely some properties that are quieter than others. Probably the worst noises are from traffic and you can find properties that are isolated from busy roads. Over in the western part of CM Airplane noise is an issue but only during the day.

The dog barking is not so bad because most Thai dogs are underfed and lazy and don't have the BTU's to bark much. If you look around you should be able to find a place on a dead end street that meets your needs. Another poster pointed out picking a place on the outskirts will be better for noise and I would agree.

[The Dan Sai Kid]

A barking dog tells you there is something in the area that shouldn't be there. 

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I used to live in a Moo Ban where the guy next door had 3 Chihuahuas! He would go away to Bangkok and leave them in the walled back garden for days at a time.

All they did was bark till he came back.

Unusually for Thailand, the guy got kicked out!

[jackr]

I'm in a really quiet moo bahn (north of town, not going to tell you), with tweeting birds and my son being the only noise makers. You could always install one of those sonic high-freq' noise generators to piss off the neighbours' mutts, or just shoot the noisy f*ckers

[kerryk]

Hi everyone:

I'm looking for potential places to live/retire and am wondering about noise in Chiang Mai. Is it possible to find a place to live away from barking dogs, crowing chickens, fireworks, honking horns etc?

Any comments or experiences appreciated!

-pb

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I live on a nice quiet soi next to the Chiang Mai Orchid and Lotus hotels. No soi dogs for three blocks. No chickens. Yesterday about 2:00 PM they started testing the sound system for a concert that was thrown up in a vacant lot next to the apartments. The concert started at 8:00 PM and it was helpful in cooking my dinner because I did not have to stir the wok. The sound vibrated the chicken around. At 7 this morning a car alarm went off and kept going till 8 and then again at 9 when I got up. The local contingent of the geriatric hells angles pulled in on their Harleys about 10 and the tuk tuk’s without mufflers club was close behind them. But there are no dogs barking. I think because of all the noise the dogs are afraid to bark. Then my girlfriend throws my empty beer cans (which I leave scattered around the apartment for her amusement) in the trash can like a basketball player and that goes clunk clunk for fifteen minutes. If things quiet down a bit I am going to try and take a nap later.

[vulgar]

No noise ? Rhetorical question, like : are there places in Thailand where there ain't good lookin' babes ?

[chanchao]

> are there places in Thailand where there ain't good lookin' babes ?

As much as I can't help myself but to anwer rhetorical questions, I now find I don't know the answer to this one.

Thai Airways office comes closest, I guess.

Cheers,

Chanchao

[vulgar]

As much as I can't help myself but to anwer rhetorical questions, I now find I don't know the answer to this one.  

Cheers,

Chanchao

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If you don't know the answer to a rhetorical question you should use an emoticon which expresses shame...