Comments on: Bangkok Found: Reflections on the City http://womenlearnthai.com/index.php/bangkok-found-reflections-on-the-city/ Expat making her way through the Thai language and culture Thu, 17 May 2012 02:38:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Catherine Wentworth http://womenlearnthai.com/index.php/bangkok-found-reflections-on-the-city/#comment-3643 Catherine Wentworth Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:51:45 +0000 http://womenlearnthai.com/?p=9625#comment-3643 Living away from the noise and dust while still being in BKK is the best of both worlds. I just read about Suk (it's awful). So I'm doubly pleased about living in a quite soi instead. When the subject of BKK drowning started making the rounds, the man of the house had an interesting time mapping out just how much of the country would be under water (and where we could move to if it did). Even scientists (especially scientists) are undecided about what is going to happen. Or when. The world will end in 2012? Cannot, lah. I need to make my investment back off this condo before then ;-) Living away from the noise and dust while still being in BKK is the best of both worlds. I just read about Suk (it’s awful). So I’m doubly pleased about living in a quite soi instead.

When the subject of BKK drowning started making the rounds, the man of the house had an interesting time mapping out just how much of the country would be under water (and where we could move to if it did). Even scientists (especially scientists) are undecided about what is going to happen. Or when.

The world will end in 2012? Cannot, lah. I need to make my investment back off this condo before then ;-)

]]> By: jo http://womenlearnthai.com/index.php/bangkok-found-reflections-on-the-city/#comment-3640 jo Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:10:22 +0000 http://womenlearnthai.com/?p=9625#comment-3640 I found out living in the outskirts is the best for me too. It's more relaxed and you can have Bangkok on demand. I just hope we can live here for some more time and don't need boats to get around... <a href="http://www.rsunews.net/en/Commentary/BangkokIsDrowning%281%29/BangkokIsDrowning%281%29.htm" rel="nofollow">Bangkok Is Drowning: Fact or Fiction</a> If Bangkok would really drown... I can't even imagine that. But then again for some people the world will end in 2012 (while I will enjoy the new Ikea store in Bang Na that should be open by then). .-= jo hopes you will read…<a href="http://learn-thai-podcast.com/blog/learn-thai-lessons/phrase-lesson-3-general-answers-audio/" rel="nofollow">Phrase Lesson 3: General answers (Audio)</a> =-. I found out living in the outskirts is the best for me too. It’s more relaxed and you can have Bangkok on demand. I just hope we can live here for some more time and don’t need boats to get around…

Bangkok Is Drowning: Fact or Fiction

If Bangkok would really drown… I can’t even imagine that. But then again for some people the world will end in 2012 (while I will enjoy the new Ikea store in Bang Na that should be open by then).
.-= jo hopes you will read…Phrase Lesson 3: General answers (Audio) =-.

]]> By: Catherine Wentworth http://womenlearnthai.com/index.php/bangkok-found-reflections-on-the-city/#comment-3638 Catherine Wentworth Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:43:11 +0000 http://womenlearnthai.com/?p=9625#comment-3638 Jo - 'the beauty in the chaos' is so apt. I too cannot take the busy downtown life of BKK, so choose to live in the quiet outskirts looking in. Jo – ‘the beauty in the chaos’ is so apt. I too cannot take the busy downtown life of BKK, so choose to live in the quiet outskirts looking in.

]]> By: jo http://womenlearnthai.com/index.php/bangkok-found-reflections-on-the-city/#comment-3636 jo Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:39:34 +0000 http://womenlearnthai.com/?p=9625#comment-3636 I lived in several provinces here in Thailand but there is just no other place that matches what Bangkok has to offer if like you said you like the vibrant city life. Even though I can not imagine still living downtown like I used to. Maybe I get old but the constant noise was at some point too much for me. I have heard from many people Bangkok is a love / hate affair. My theory is that Bangkok is very unlike other places so it takes a while to get used to it and discover its beauty (or the beauty in the chaos). .-= jo hopes you will read…<a href="http://learn-thai-podcast.com/blog/learn-thai-lessons/phrase-lesson-3-general-answers-audio/" rel="nofollow">Phrase Lesson 3: General answers (Audio)</a> =-. I lived in several provinces here in Thailand but there is just no other place that matches what Bangkok has to offer if like you said you like the vibrant city life.

Even though I can not imagine still living downtown like I used to. Maybe I get old but the constant noise was at some point too much for me.

I have heard from many people Bangkok is a love / hate affair. My theory is that Bangkok is very unlike other places so it takes a while to get used to it and discover its beauty (or the beauty in the chaos).
.-= jo hopes you will read…Phrase Lesson 3: General answers (Audio) =-.

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