Kanchanaburi... A Fantastic Place to live?
Kanchanaburi.
We have a house, (and mainly) a business and study base in BKK, but I’m thinking of renting out a country house as a means of splitting my time 60/40 or 70/30 with most of the time spent in the country residence.
Kanchanaburi seems like a perfect place to live.
Just cross one of the bridges from the main town and you’re instantly in gorgeous countryside with a jungle mountain backdrop. Probably get a decent house in there for a low five figure amount.
Not 5 km away are a plethora of farang restaurants, bars and bookshops due to the tourism trade. The town is also well maintained and kept clean due to this.
The people are friendly and respectful, reminds me of living in Isaan, money is taken and given with two hands in shops etc. People aren’t as jaded as BKK.
Endless mountain air, scenery and National Parks.
Endless amazing motorbike rides in all directions.
An array of fantastic spots to head to – caves, waterfalls, hot-springs, mountains.
Lots of history and a cultural mixing-pot of Thai and Mon-Burmese.
Great jungle waterways. Pick up a nice little wooden speedboat, maybe have one of the waterways at the end of your back garden…
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sounds good. :)
Adventure sports such as ATV and off-road scrambling at your backdoor.
Bangkok is only 120km or so away.
Compared to other country spots the beach isn’t far away for a 2 or 3 days beach break.... Cha-Am and Hua Hin are probably the same distance than from BKK.
Negatives:
I’ve gone on a few bike rides in the hot season and there seems to be a lot of harvesting and transportation by lorry. It seems to make the air very dry and dusty. This might be just along the main transport roads though. I don’t know. Maybe they’ve also taken up the recent national past-time of crop burning that seems to have gripped the Thais over the past few years.
What’s it like living there in the hot season? I imagine cooler than a lot of places due to the mountains.
Western shopping.
I don’t know where the closest expat aimed supermarket is. Foodland, Villa etc. so probably just Tesco-Lotat and Big C except for a drive to BKK to stock up. Wouldn’t be an issue early on, but if I make the move almost fulltime it could be as a minor negative. Not that a twice monthly drive to BKK outskirts to stock up on goodies would be much of a burden.
I think that’s all the negatives I can think of.
Would you consider Kan as a possible great place to live?