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Post by rgs2001uk on Dec 5, 2016 23:27:24 GMT 7
Inspired by previous posts eleswhere, where do live?
2 week millionaires, the lower suk enclave will met your needs, for those of us non tourists who live in the suburbs, please tell me why I should relocate to the ghetto?
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Post by thatguy on Dec 6, 2016 0:59:36 GMT 7
Somewhere in between.
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Post by smokie36 on Dec 6, 2016 2:29:54 GMT 7
I'm a comforable few mins from the ghetto....I can dip in to the one or two places worth visiting from time to time or out to Thonglor just as easily.
Five mins I am at Asoke and easy travel anywhere in Bangkok.
Fifteen mins by boat and I can be seated next to rgs in the burbs sipping the finest whisky Bangkok has to offer.
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Post by smokie36 on Dec 6, 2016 2:32:22 GMT 7
Of course we also have the country pad complete with 25m swimming pool and fabulous streetside dining a short walk away.
Its good to have options.
Also love having the best OJ stand across the road there....60 Baht OJ....but worth every satang.
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Post by buhi on Dec 6, 2016 8:01:54 GMT 7
My ghetto days are over.
The one problem I always had was not getting there; easy, pick up the sky train at Udom Suk; but getting home, when a little inebriated and annoyed at all those sharks pretending to be taxis and the boys in brown assisting them.
My solution was to wait at the lights on Asoke junction, when red, walk the queue and ask metre on? Takes a few minutes.
I always gave a big tip to the good guys who got me home, also gave them the choice of crawling along Suk to Udom Suk or go across the lights., the long , but easy way; pick up the expressway to Bang Na and home fast.
The expense was not a concern, safety was. The sharks are dangerous and bad drivers.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 8:47:41 GMT 7
I'm a comforable few mins from the ghetto....I can dip in to the one or two places worth visiting from time to time or out to Thonglor just as easily. Five mins I am at Asoke and easy travel anywhere in Bangkok. Fifteen mins by boat and I can be seated next to rgs in the burbs sipping the finest whisky Whiskey Bangkok has to offer. Oh for frecks sake Smokes, learn to spell. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 9:43:52 GMT 7
I have been to Bangkok so many times over the years but only for short spells, and could not imagine living there. Maybe if I was 30 years younger, maybe. My wife and I lived in a condo in CM city, just behind the Night Bazaar Road, for about 5 years before we built a house out of town. We are still only 15 minutes from Chang Klang but it feels like we are way further out. Nice drive along the river road to get into town with no traffic lights, yet. We went from this - i63.tinypic.com/2z686rp.jpgto this - i66.tinypic.com/fx6lnm.jpg |
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Post by thatguy on Dec 7, 2016 9:58:53 GMT 7
I can't imagine living somewhere that dull. I guess it takes all sorts.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 10:10:52 GMT 7
You would not have lasted long where I was living and working in the Great Sandy Desert doing oil and gas exploration seismic work. Where I live now is rather exciting compared to that.  |
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Post by rgs2001uk on Dec 7, 2016 11:17:00 GMT 7
My ghetto days are over. The one problem I always had was not getting there; easy, pick up the sky train at Udom Suk; but getting home, when a little inebriated and annoyed at all those sharks pretending to be taxis and the boys in brown assisting them. My solution was to wait at the lights on Asoke junction, when red, walk the queue and ask metre on? Takes a few minutes. I always gave a big tip to the good guys who got me home, also gave them the choice of crawling along Suk to Udom Suk or go across the lights., the long , but easy way; pick up the expressway to Bang Na and home fast. The expense was not a concern, safety was. The sharks are dangerous and bad drivers. Correct about the taxis. Not mentioned, ladyboy pickpockets, tailors touts, massage parlour touts, the hawkers and peddlars and other assorted riff raff I had to fight my way through just to get to a bar. On arrival it was surly DGAF service and pestered for lady drinks. I must be getting nostalgic, I remember the days you would be met with a wai and a sawadee ka, escorted to a table be given a cold face cloth and asked what you wanted to drink. The sanook has long gone, its all money these days. Up where I am, no problem getting a taxi, no no meter nonsense. Sitting surrounded by office workers, sales girls, nurses, students etc etc, heck there are times when they are buying me drinks, natural laughter as Face Ache posts are translated, not a hint of violence in the air. Up my way I can go for a night out for 500 baht, money isnt the problem, I just want a hassle free night out. The Ghetto, no thanks, nothing to offer, best left to the two week millionaires. |
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Post by thatguy on Dec 7, 2016 11:31:19 GMT 7
There's more to Suk than the shitty end, though...
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Post by me on Dec 7, 2016 11:38:54 GMT 7
You would not have lasted long where I was living and working in the Great Sandy Desert doing oil and gas exploration seismic work. Where I live now is rather exciting compared to that. Where I was the roo and donkey shooters used to shoot up (with rifles)all around the caravan whenever they came for a visit....started from about half a mile away and they were always drunk.....only got one bullet hole in the van. I guess I lived in an exciting neighbourhood with their camp only 10 miles away. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 12:05:42 GMT 7
The only good thing I remember of Suk were both food related - the little kebab shop on Soi Nana just off Suk, and Tony Ramonas. The rest of it that I saw when I walked it on many occasions, sucked ! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 12:26:34 GMT 7
My ghetto days are over. The one problem I always had was not getting there; easy, pick up the sky train at Udom Suk; but getting home, when a little inebriated and annoyed at all those sharks pretending to be taxis and the boys in brown assisting them. My solution was to wait at the lights on Asoke junction, when red, walk the queue and ask metre on? Takes a few minutes. I always gave a big tip to the good guys who got me home, also gave them the choice of crawling along Suk to Udom Suk or go across the lights., the long , but easy way; pick up the expressway to Bang Na and home fast. The expense was not a concern, safety was. The sharks are dangerous and bad drivers. Correct about the taxis. Not mentioned, ladyboy pickpockets, tailors touts, massage parlour touts, the hawkers and peddlars and other assorted riff raff I had to fight my way through just to get to a bar. On arrival it was surly DGAF service and pestered for lady drinks. I must be getting nostalgic, I remember the days you would be met with a wai and a sawadee ka, escorted to a table be given a cold face cloth and asked what you wanted to drink. The sanook has long gone, its all money these days. Up where I am, no problem getting a taxi, no no meter nonsense. Sitting surrounded by office workers, sales girls, nurses, students etc etc, heck there are times when they are buying me drinks, natural laughter as Face Ache posts are translated, not a hint of violence in the air. Up my way I can go for a night out for 500 baht, money isnt the problem, I just want a hassle free night out. The Ghetto, no thanks, nothing to offer, best left to the two week millionaires. Well said rg, your description of a night out in that part of town and what is involved is just how I remember it. Amazing how many drongos lap it up, get ripped off and harassed every night and go home saying they have just experienced the "real Thailand". Not my cup of tea, but it does take "all sorts".  ( The thing that literally gets up my nose these days is the auto exhaust fumes. Maybe I should not have given up smoking because I didn't notice it back in the day. The traffic noise is another thing I don't seem to handle anymore. It is so quiet here where we are now, took me a while to get the hang of not going to sleep to the sound of boy-racers tearing up and down the sois around us or the tuk-tuks bringing the drunks home at all hours ) |
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Post by thatguy on Dec 7, 2016 13:20:51 GMT 7
The only good thing I remember of Suk were both food related - the little kebab shop on Soi Nana just off Suk, and Tony Ramonas. The rest of it that I saw when I walked it on many occasions, sucked ! How far down it did you walk? |
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