Thread: I've been offered a job in Bangkok

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Where in Bangkok would you recommend for a super easy commute to JUSMAG that has places for rent like what Dil described? From apartment to JUSMAG in 30 minutes or less.

Suan Plu - Ngam Duphli - Nang Lingchi is a great area and walking distance / short motorbike to north Sathorn. You have a lot of good resteraunt’s, bars and nice places to visit close by. Not the best connections to BTS but you can get to the MRT out the top.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

It's also pretty special if you're on a nice little executive package when you're a few years older.

Yep. Fun time. Do anything. Go anywhere. I just moved but was living there all expenses paid by company. Direct billing.

Same now down south. Nice little tax break too because direct billing isn't income. The mothership writes it off in the US.

Originally Posted by aging one

SK you are going to have to get a good map of both MRT and BTS, see where the closest stop is to Jusmag, then work your way out looking for places that appeal to you.

Never thought about living in Bangkok before. Have spent very little time there. Always just got in and got the fook out as quickly as possible. But older now and starting to think about health care. BNH seems to be the hospital for my needs. And thinking maybe volunteering at JUSMAG might give me something to do 4-5 days a week. And they have a gym might fat ass needs to get into. So basically any advice I could get from people with experience would give me a head start. Will probably post in the VFW Post 9951 group to fish for some info.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Where in Bangkok would you recommend for a super easy commute to JUSMAG that has places for rent like what Dil described? From apartment to JUSMAG in 30 minutes or less

That Sukhumvit Plus is at the end of Rama 4 and only a 15 minute bike ride away fro. JUSMAG.

Get yourself a scooter or a mocy taxi or grab bike for that journey and you're also close to the bts and tollway from there.

I see its only 18 mins in a car there but it is Saturday and coming back is the worst when all that traffic piles up where Rama 4 meets Sukhumvit.

I loved Phrakhanong, close to Phrom Pong for Emporium mall, Benjasiri Park for exercise, Ekamai and Thong Lor for good restaurants and bars, for slumming it there's the beer gardens opposite and in On Nut and theres also a bar right in front of that Condo run by a Brit. You wanna see what he can do with Thai steak.His burgers are the nuts too

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Will probably post in the VFW Post 9951 group to fish for some info.

Meets second Saturday of the month. 11 AM. MRT Blue Line Lumpini Station.

^^Trouble with going that far up the line is that taxis just don't want to know until it's way past peak periods and en route to their homes. Wasn't always the case but the intensive condo development foresting eastern Sukhumvit as far as Bangna has fucked road transport into and out of central areas, and the BTS has commensurately become ludicrously overloaded with every extension, particularly at peak times. That is why I mentioned Aree as a good alternative to the CBD/Silom/Lower Sukhumvit area given that the BTS is much less packed.

Best restrict yourself to within Ekkamai if lower Sukhumvit is your hunting ground.

It was very rare I used taxis, mainly just for coming back from soi 22, Cowboy and Patpong at 4am, for which that condo is greatly situated for taking either Rama 4 or Sukhumvit routes.the roads arr virtually empty after 11pm apart from the odd speeding ferrari dragging a copper underneath and why you should take mocy by day and taxi by night.
Although I have woke up on the side of the road near home before without wallet and phone and am quite sure the taxi driver dumped me out and looted me.

The extension of that bts now means its chocka at rush hour by the time you get on it which wasnt the case when the terminus was On Nut. Its good for off peak travel though.

Phrakanong will be a lot cheaper than Aree.
But then like everywhere in Bangkok you need to work out if the savings are worth the time you will lose.

But saying that I used to run out of work, speed home(in the UK) get home, showered and changed and then think what shall I do now

Originally Posted by armstrong

Motorcycle taxis are all well and good until rainy season.

Yep ... often overlooked

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

I lived at Onnut when it was the last station - sometimes I still couldn't get on the trains in the morning. It was bad even years ago... The MRT and BTS are better than standstill traffic, but they're still terrible anywhere near peak times. The only way I ever avoided Bangkok peaktime lunacy was: the river/klongs, drive to work at 6am and leave for home before 3pm (that was the same from Jaransanitwong or Bangmod to Sanam Luang - traffic is everywhere at peak times...), work from home...

back in 2007/2008 the BTS was still usable at peak times, it got worse since 2010

Onnut in the early - mid Noughties was easily accessible from central districts most times of the day/night by both road and BTS - I can remember the time when the fire brigade's training tower there was the tallest building before they built the Ideo Verve and getting a taxi was rarely a problem

Indeed, back in the day you could be drinking in Soi 23 area and then jump in a taxi at 2100 hrs to try out Lung Kee Mao near Bangna and it would take ten minutes, tops. Take you over an hour plus most nights now.

Aree is more expensive but it is the best bet for SBF.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

back in the day you could be drinking in Soi 23 area and then jump in a taxi at 2100 hrs to try out Lung Kee Mao near Bangna and it would take ten minutes

Yep...Its rush hour there at Suk at 9pm now with all those shop workers leaving the malls

It’s a personal thing of course, but I would never live around Sukhumvit unless I was working right next door.. great places to visit (mostly at night) but forget commuting in and out it will make you go spare

Bangkok - commuting - parking lot - twenty-five years and it has gotten better - matter of perspective. Mid 90's worked at one end of Silom and rented near Lumpini. Daily ride to work by Taxi motocy. Tipped so had drivers fight over me. Then one figured out if he waited at my door he'd get my business. Didn't even have to walk to the motocy stand. All before the skytrain. You could walk across Silom. Most of the day Silom was a parking lot. Only a motocy could move.

Enjoyed it but, had a schedule so my few years then were twelve plus hour days - most Sundays off. Wouldn't miss it for the world or change a thing - limited off time but, much time spent in "customer service", our visiting customers certainly enjoyed the service we provided them from Patpong. Escort our customers to our usual customer service bar. Mamasan would set them up with whatever it was they wanted. Good arrangement then. A long, long time ago. My single days - but, part of the job.

Wife is a Bangkok born city girl. So, she selected Nonthaburi - provides some reasonable geographic isolation from the family, not easy for them to "drop on by". And close enough to the northern branch of the MRT (1/2 hour by rout tua or taxi). Now retired, living the best of both worlds. Only really drive for shopping. MRT into Bangkok when desired.

But, Bangkok proper business district traffic and commute defines everything. You MUST select your living quarters based on your commute. You MUST minimize your commute to maintain your sanity. Other considerations, pollution: exhaust, noise, vermin, and odor. Choose carefully. Short term for a month or two, then longer term. Rent before buying.

Good luck, common sense and caveat emptor is the rule of the day.

Sound advice.

Hello Bitches.

I think it's time to break on down the BTS and MRT peak period issues. Yes it's totally fooked at those times but outside those times its fookin brilliant.

And the further ya travel down Sukumvit the emptier the coont gets. By the time you reach the end station heading South the fukers empty.

Retired punters can quiet fookin easily spend their spare time riding the coont and exploring Bangkok.

Myself is on da coont every fookin day and i still have not fookin covered it all.

Anyway, ya gota keep shit real and realise every coonting public transport in any major city is fookin rammed full at peak times.

Myself and a shit load of other fukos are quiet happy with the BTS and MRT.

Just saying eh slappers.

Cheers girls.

Originally Posted by terry57

Hello Bitches.

I think it's time to break on down the BTS and MRT peak period issues. Yes it's totally fooked at those times but outside those times its fookin brilliant.

And the further ya travel down Sukumvit the emptier the coont gets. By the time you reach the end station heading South the fukers empty.

Retired punters can quiet fookin easily spend their spare time riding the coont and exploring Bangkok.

Myself is on da coont every fookin day and i still have not fookin covered it all.

Anyway, ya gota keep shit real and realise every coonting public transport in any major city is fookin rammed full at peak times.

Myself and a shit load of other fukos are quiet happy with the BTS and MRT.

Just saying eh slappers.

Cheers girls.

u are wanted at the Boomer cvnt thread

Originally Posted by terry57

Anyway, ya gota keep shit real and realise every coonting public transport in any major city is fookin rammed full at peak times.

A sensible perspective at last.

Originally Posted by terry57

Anyway, ya gota keep shit real and realise every coonting public transport in any major city is fookin rammed full at peak times.

You're from Perth, ya indeed mental fucker, what would you know about major cities?

inbreed. Fcking authocorrect.

BTS, MRT @ peak times is a breeze compared to London underground.

Yer, thats innit eh Jackstar.

Fookin plebs jerkin their gurkin and cryin like fook about the BTS being full as fook at peak times. ????

What da fook do they reckon eh. Fookin tools.

BTS is still acceptable in peak times,

try that in the Metro with all the blacks, islamists and immigrants during peak time, it's not as much fun

When one travels on the underground in London, and presumably Paris/New York etc, regularly and frequently in the course of a day one's nostrils will become congested with detritus quite quickly leading to a very satisfying excavation later in the day, most of which is other people's dead skin that has flaked off and been blown about in the tunnels.

Always worth pondering.