Originally Posted by
sonatine
Im glad Im here mind you, make no mistake, but the heat, the traffic, the allergies, the spotty net access, the fact that its not really *that* cheap, and on top of it all I have to work from midnight to 9am BKK time 5 nights a week, which makes it almost impossible to re-orient myself post-jetlag. In short, Im a bit of a mess I suppose.
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Standard culture shock. If you're not hating yourself initially, that means you will LOVE it eventually. I hated myself initially - then I found FoodByPhone.com and my life became...tolerable.
The prices are rising so fast. In the year I was there, I saw inner city CPI rise easily 20% - across the board. Unless that's what CPI means. Which I think it does. I either was telling you this or arguing with Steerpike about it. My little apartment on Soi 8 last yr was 60,000b/m - that's 2k usd, it was nice but nothing baller - and FoodbyPhone is expensive obv, but so is all restaurants [at least ones where food poisoning is not likely]. Shit is getting expensive in Bangkok - lots of money here, some of the shopping centres are too pristine / upper-class for me. Prices there are > US / Aust / UK
But anyway, my buddy who is in the know about stuff says True have launched 16mbps net - 2200b/m which is god. I was paying ToT 8000b/m for 2mbps faggotry.
But in classic Thai WTF fashion, they've launched it only in rural cities and not in the...um...the fucking CBD / Sukhumvit / capital.
http://www.trueonline.com/en/package.aspx
Launched in Pattaya, Chiang Mai, Phuket, and a bunch of other NON-bangkok places. what a joke
but that leads me to perhaps advice
to you on my part - do you absolutely have to be in Bangkok? I have friends who absolutely love Chiang Mai [they say it's like a chilled out Bangkok - university city] - everything cheaper obv